If it's done correctly, this should let you zero yourself out every April. So either you don't owe on April 15th, or your net paycheck gets larger, since you're not giving the government an interest-free loan for the year, by overpaying your withholding.
Of course, after they *badly* botched the rollover in my area, (including a more than one week internet outage in my case,) I dropped them and went with an alternative. Screw Frontier; I'm guessing they won't patch those old Verizon routers anytime soon.
I don't buy music from major labels anymore. Not that they sell anything worth listening to, anyway. If it can't be found on Bandcamp, or an indie label, it's probably not even worth listening to these days.
Yes, Amazon sells music downloads on their site. But unlike in the past, where you bought the music and got a downloadable file, now you have to download into an Amazon application on your computer. They want you to keep that file there, and play it in their app, and stay nicely within the Amazon ecosystem.
This is completely incorrect. I regularly buy music from Amazon, and when you go to download it, yes, they do want you to download it into the Amazon Music app, but they also give you the option to download (DRM-free,) MP3s. I always take the second option.
I did that right after deleting all of my photos and personal info and before disabling my account. My 30 days should be up soon and my account will be gone. Good riddance to that, Instagram, and Twitter.
Not that I'm not in the same place as you, (waiting for my 30 days now,) but if you believe your account, or anything you deleted from Facebook, is gone; I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
It's the principle of the thing; exactly the same as music, movies, etc.
If I pay for something, I expect to be able to access it in perpetuity. How is it fair to shut down a game a year after release, and leave everyone hanging?
Now, if a game is subscription only, (as in, you don't pay an initial fee to buy a "copy" of the game,) then one could argue that's different.
You can also argue, as you did, the wisdom of buying anything that you don't have complete control over, (games, music, movies, etc.)
Not just EA. Take Tabula Rasa as an example. I had a large group of friends with whom I liked to play. Then NCSoft decided it wasn't profitable and shut it down. No more Tabula Rasa.
If it was like the old days the OP was talking about, we could've set up a server, and continued on playing happily. We weren't in it for the PvP, anyway.
The "Starship Troopers" system basically says that, to vote, you must have some skin in the game.
Well, guess what? I already do. I pay taxes to my city, (sales tax,) county, (property tax,) and the national government, (income tax.)
If you're going to disenfranchise me, then you better damned well not expect me to pay any taxes. That would be "taxation without representation." Our ancestors fought a war over it, supposedly.
I earn my right to vote every year between February and April.
I know that streaming is the shit right now, and that guys like me who still buy audio and video discs and run their own home media servers are viewed as retrogrades.
I just finished setting up a NAS/DLNA server for my home. Spent close to two months ripping my entire CD and DVD collections, and "acquiring" everything else that I had bought on digital or have on VHS/vinyl, (which isn't so hard in the case of music, which is downloadable DRM-free from Apple and Amazon, where I bought a fair amount of stuff. The movies, well, that was different.)
Going forward, I'm planning on either buying physical CDs, or more likely, DRM-free downloadables for music, and the "Disc+Digital" packages from the store for movies, (Ultraviolet content shows up in my Vudu account, which is very convenient, even compared to the DLNA server in my opinion, but I'll still rip the Blu-Ray to the server as a backup.)
I downloaded and installed Whitecap, just because I had never heard of it, (I usually use the old Geiss 4.29.)
Nice plugin, and the installer prompted me for which media players I wanted to add it to; but, unfortunately, you're right, no Audacious support. Long list of other players, tho.
Weird. I sold a pair of tickets to Ozzy in Dallas, (something came up, I won't be able to go,:() for under retail, (by $11/ticket,) using their mobile app, just last week.
I loved my last job. Great management, solid coworkers, and decent clients.
I only left because I was topped out on what they were willing to pay me, (it's a small business,) and I was tired of driving around DFW constantly, never knowing when I had to leave in the morning or when I'd get home in the evening, (this was intrinsic to my position.)
So no complaints, my last company was great; I just wanted to make more money and drive less.
Go to a hamfest or electronics flea market, and look around. All we have are old white guys.
My experience isn't the same as yours. I run a net in DFW, 14 sessions a week, every week. Almost half the net controls are women. I know women in positions of "authority," within the ARRL, (as much as said authority means anything in the real world,) our most recent ex-Section Manager here was a woman. If you go to Hamcom in Plano or Cowtown Hamfest in Fort Worth, you'll see plenty of women.
I'm not going to argue about more men than women being amateurs, but to say it's all "old white guys," is silly. The bigger problem is that amateur radio is a dying art form in general; young people aren't generally interested in it.
As another poster commented further upthread, that's not what the GP is talking about.
Since Cataclysm, there are parts of the original game that are literally no longer playable. The entirety of the Barrens and Thousand Needles zones have been completely revamped, for example. Most capital cities have evolved. There's a lot of content that's no longer in the game.
Now, I don't think that makes a case to call that content "abandoned," and it's damned obvious that Blizzard is doing this now because they are indeed planning on releasing a "Classic" version of WoW; so I see this as a good thing. I'd rather play on a server maintained by Blizz, rather than some no name that could be doing God-knows-what.
I live in the DFW area, (fourth largest metro in the US, LA is second,) and get 88, including subcarriers. A listing I was able to google shows that Kansas City MO has nearly a hundred. Even Rochester, (hardly a "major" city,) gets eight.
If you're in a major metro area and only get 20 channels, you either have some very odd topography in your surrounding area, or your antenna is broken.
Depending on where you live, you might not need anything overly fancy. I've got a simple omni-directional antenna mounted in my attic, and attached to two TVs, and I can pick up ~90 OTA channels.
Now admittedly, I live within 40 miles of all my area's broadcast towers, and most of those 90 channels are crap I won't watch, (either foreign languages I don't know, or religious nonsense,) but for a one-time investment of about $50, I can get the local broadcast news channels during severe weather or an emergency, and my wife can watch some of the goofy sub-channels she likes.
There's no such device, at least not in the US. Under FCC rules a radio for use on CB (11-meter band,) has to be type certified and channelized. Ham radios operate all across the amateur spectrum, (160-meters through 10-meters on HF, 6-meters through 2-meters on VHF, etc.) and require no type certification. Since a legal CB radio must only operate on CB channels, and a ham radio lacks type certification, the two services are mutually exclusive, as far as equipment is concerned. The one exception is that every HF ham radio I've seen can receive on the CB channels, but will in turn refuse to transmit, (so as to remain legal.)
I'd recommend getting your amateur license. The technician's, (or even general,) exam is easy, it's a lot of fun, and it gives you a chance to give back to the community in the form of supporting emergency communications, if that's of interest to you.
The morse requirement is long since gone. Testing costs something like $15, (sorry, I haven't gone to a testing session for a while.) A Chinese handheld capable of 2m and 70cm costs under $50 on eBay.
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In the real world it is a 3 digit code. 4 digits is only Mastercard or non-visa debit cards.
I think you're thinking of Amex. I have a couple Mastercard logo'd cards; they're 3-digit CVV2, just like the Visas.
Seriously though, why would this upset you?
If it's done correctly, this should let you zero yourself out every April. So either you don't owe on April 15th, or your net paycheck gets larger, since you're not giving the government an interest-free loan for the year, by overpaying your withholding.
I had been wondering the same thing.
Of course, after they *badly* botched the rollover in my area, (including a more than one week internet outage in my case,) I dropped them and went with an alternative. Screw Frontier; I'm guessing they won't patch those old Verizon routers anytime soon.
I don't buy music from major labels anymore. Not that they sell anything worth listening to, anyway. If it can't be found on Bandcamp, or an indie label, it's probably not even worth listening to these days.
Wanna know how I know you haven't heard most, (all?) of those albums?
Every one of them is going to have 60s, 70s, and 80s music on them, except for Twenty One Pilots, which is a recent thing.
Yes, Amazon sells music downloads on their site. But unlike in the past, where you bought the music and got a downloadable file, now you have to download into an Amazon application on your computer. They want you to keep that file there, and play it in their app, and stay nicely within the Amazon ecosystem.
This is completely incorrect. I regularly buy music from Amazon, and when you go to download it, yes, they do want you to download it into the Amazon Music app, but they also give you the option to download (DRM-free,) MP3s. I always take the second option.
Not the only one. Although they're not nearly as left-leaning, Dallas, (but NOT Fort Worth,) and San Antonio are both blue areas.
I did that right after deleting all of my photos and personal info and before disabling my account. My 30 days should be up soon and my account will be gone. Good riddance to that, Instagram, and Twitter.
Not that I'm not in the same place as you, (waiting for my 30 days now,) but if you believe your account, or anything you deleted from Facebook, is gone; I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
It's the principle of the thing; exactly the same as music, movies, etc.
If I pay for something, I expect to be able to access it in perpetuity. How is it fair to shut down a game a year after release, and leave everyone hanging?
Now, if a game is subscription only, (as in, you don't pay an initial fee to buy a "copy" of the game,) then one could argue that's different.
You can also argue, as you did, the wisdom of buying anything that you don't have complete control over, (games, music, movies, etc.)
Not just EA. Take Tabula Rasa as an example. I had a large group of friends with whom I liked to play. Then NCSoft decided it wasn't profitable and shut it down. No more Tabula Rasa.
If it was like the old days the OP was talking about, we could've set up a server, and continued on playing happily. We weren't in it for the PvP, anyway.
And no, none of the content I want is available via the streaming services that I could purchase.
You're not looking hard enough then. I found all three available for rent/purchase on Vudu in under 3 minutes:
https://www.vudu.com/content/m...
https://www.vudu.com/content/m...
https://www.vudu.com/content/m...
Not sure why you'd want to watch Johnny Mnemonic though; the short story is so much better, and can be finished in under 20 minutes.
Believe it or not, yesterday.
I'm not saying that's the norm, though.
The "Starship Troopers" system basically says that, to vote, you must have some skin in the game.
Well, guess what? I already do. I pay taxes to my city, (sales tax,) county, (property tax,) and the national government, (income tax.)
If you're going to disenfranchise me, then you better damned well not expect me to pay any taxes. That would be "taxation without representation." Our ancestors fought a war over it, supposedly.
I earn my right to vote every year between February and April.
I know that streaming is the shit right now, and that guys like me who still buy audio and video discs and run their own home media servers are viewed as retrogrades.
I just finished setting up a NAS/DLNA server for my home. Spent close to two months ripping my entire CD and DVD collections, and "acquiring" everything else that I had bought on digital or have on VHS/vinyl, (which isn't so hard in the case of music, which is downloadable DRM-free from Apple and Amazon, where I bought a fair amount of stuff. The movies, well, that was different.)
Going forward, I'm planning on either buying physical CDs, or more likely, DRM-free downloadables for music, and the "Disc+Digital" packages from the store for movies, (Ultraviolet content shows up in my Vudu account, which is very convenient, even compared to the DLNA server in my opinion, but I'll still rip the Blu-Ray to the server as a backup.)
I downloaded and installed Whitecap, just because I had never heard of it, (I usually use the old Geiss 4.29.)
Nice plugin, and the installer prompted me for which media players I wanted to add it to; but, unfortunately, you're right, no Audacious support. Long list of other players, tho.
AXS, Etix, Eventbrite, and especially Ticketfly. I rarely buy from Ticketmaster, (although, as mentioned above, I did recently buy tickets from them.)
Weird. I sold a pair of tickets to Ozzy in Dallas, (something came up, I won't be able to go, :() for under retail, (by $11/ticket,) using their mobile app, just last week.
I loved my last job. Great management, solid coworkers, and decent clients.
I only left because I was topped out on what they were willing to pay me, (it's a small business,) and I was tired of driving around DFW constantly, never knowing when I had to leave in the morning or when I'd get home in the evening, (this was intrinsic to my position.)
So no complaints, my last company was great; I just wanted to make more money and drive less.
Go to a hamfest or electronics flea market, and look around. All we have are old white guys.
My experience isn't the same as yours. I run a net in DFW, 14 sessions a week, every week. Almost half the net controls are women. I know women in positions of "authority," within the ARRL, (as much as said authority means anything in the real world,) our most recent ex-Section Manager here was a woman. If you go to Hamcom in Plano or Cowtown Hamfest in Fort Worth, you'll see plenty of women.
I'm not going to argue about more men than women being amateurs, but to say it's all "old white guys," is silly. The bigger problem is that amateur radio is a dying art form in general; young people aren't generally interested in it.
As another poster commented further upthread, that's not what the GP is talking about.
Since Cataclysm, there are parts of the original game that are literally no longer playable. The entirety of the Barrens and Thousand Needles zones have been completely revamped, for example. Most capital cities have evolved. There's a lot of content that's no longer in the game.
Now, I don't think that makes a case to call that content "abandoned," and it's damned obvious that Blizzard is doing this now because they are indeed planning on releasing a "Classic" version of WoW; so I see this as a good thing. I'd rather play on a server maintained by Blizz, rather than some no name that could be doing God-knows-what.
I live in the DFW area, (fourth largest metro in the US, LA is second,) and get 88, including subcarriers. A listing I was able to google shows that Kansas City MO has nearly a hundred. Even Rochester, (hardly a "major" city,) gets eight.
If you're in a major metro area and only get 20 channels, you either have some very odd topography in your surrounding area, or your antenna is broken.
Depending on where you live, you might not need anything overly fancy. I've got a simple omni-directional antenna mounted in my attic, and attached to two TVs, and I can pick up ~90 OTA channels.
Now admittedly, I live within 40 miles of all my area's broadcast towers, and most of those 90 channels are crap I won't watch, (either foreign languages I don't know, or religious nonsense,) but for a one-time investment of about $50, I can get the local broadcast news channels during severe weather or an emergency, and my wife can watch some of the goofy sub-channels she likes.
There's no such device, at least not in the US. Under FCC rules a radio for use on CB (11-meter band,) has to be type certified and channelized. Ham radios operate all across the amateur spectrum, (160-meters through 10-meters on HF, 6-meters through 2-meters on VHF, etc.) and require no type certification. Since a legal CB radio must only operate on CB channels, and a ham radio lacks type certification, the two services are mutually exclusive, as far as equipment is concerned. The one exception is that every HF ham radio I've seen can receive on the CB channels, but will in turn refuse to transmit, (so as to remain legal.)
I'd recommend getting your amateur license. The technician's, (or even general,) exam is easy, it's a lot of fun, and it gives you a chance to give back to the community in the form of supporting emergency communications, if that's of interest to you.
I'm guessing this is 9600 baud packet, which would require a PK-232 or similar TNC.
The morse requirement is long since gone. Testing costs something like $15, (sorry, I haven't gone to a testing session for a while.) A Chinese handheld capable of 2m and 70cm costs under $50 on eBay.
That's not what I call exclusivity.