A French press is indeed the best for numerous reasons. The entire batch of coffee brews for the same duration, unlike drip. The filter allows juuuuuuuuust enough particulates through to impart a body to the coffee that you don't get when it's filtered to within an inch of its life--it does make a difference. It's a breeze to clean once you get the hang of it.
If you want a good cup of coffee a French press can't be beat.
QSL - acknowledgement; "QSL, W4NUA Fairfax, standing bye and monitoring" QSO - conversation QRT - STFU!! also used as "I am signing out and leaving the air"
I even had a Callbook with *Z-signals* listed. Things like ZUE - affirmative, roger, 10-4 ZDG - Accuracy of following message(s) (or message...) is doubtful. Correction or confirmation will be forthcoming. (Particularly applicable in the US these days!)
The crazy thing is that text messages are still a more universal platform, allowing any person with a mobile phone to message anyone else using a different service provider.
It wasn't always so. At first you could only send text messages to customers on your carrier. Then they started to realize that a network that can't connect to any other networks holds little value and started to work toward interoperability, but it was haphazard.
It's a service delivered over the RF spectrum, so it is subject to the same vagaries as your cell phone. Interference, multipath reflection fading, overloaded hubs/sites all await. If it's this "5G" (whatever that is) or nothing that might be a viable choice, but it won't stand up well against any wired network, even Comcast's disaster of a network.
Google doesn't seem to have the same insidious nature as FB and indeed has alternatives.
But FB enjoys the network effect that no other platform can duplicate; if you're not on FB you are "missing out". I could start another FB replacement tomorrow, but nobody would be on it, therefore it would provide no value and would therefore attract no users.
FB is like those creatures left behind by The Shadows on Babylon 5 that would infiltrate your nervous system, watching and controlling everything you do. They become so deeply entwined in the body that they are impossible to remove. That's the way FB is to the body of society.
They pulled that crap with me a few months back, so I dutifully fabricated one of the accepted documents for proof displaying my pseudonym and they reactivated my account. I would've let them keep it suspended forever if I weren't required to stay in touch with a group that had the bad sense to plop its home down on FB instead of some other host that is less imposing.
When a buddy created his FB account years ago he called me up and was raving about how REALLY NEAT it was that it presented a metric crapload of his friends without him having to lift a finger. After I picked my jaw up off the floor I explained how this was not neat, but rather creepy and scary. He couldn't understand what I meant.
So, yes, one of your "friends" is complicit with FB in gathering intel on The Resistance. I choose my irl friends carefully and on those rare occasions when I'm not acting the hermit I make sure to avoid getting in camera range of the inevitable group photo. FB can go fuck themselves with a hot poker.
More likely: AT&T or Comcast will repair their own junk, then send the repair bill to Google. If Google refuses or is slow to pay I'm sure their fiber might suffer some "accidental" damage at key utility poles.
But since they all would have been in it together, sharing the same utility poles, it's in everybody's best interest not to mess up their competitor's stuff and just work on their own. Comcast shares poles around here with old AT&T copper telephone lines and that's the way they treat them.
Never ascribe to malice that which can readily be attributed to stupidity. They'll break more stuff by mistake than any other cause.
Florida imposed a moratorium against new mobile home parks (and probably new placements of mobile homes as well) after the hurricanes in 2004 and 2005. I'm not even sure you can find a place for your mobile home even if you were to buy one.
But they are built to crumble quickly so you'd be lucky to get 5 good years out of one anyway.
I was amused to learn a while back that some people simply are incapable of typing a domain name into a browser's URL field. They only know how to search for everything via Google.
I was at a friend's house one day talking about going to a baseball game. I told him to go to nationals.com to see where good seats remained. He dutifully opened up google.com and typed "nationals.com" into the search bar. No, I am not kidding.
So this kind of restriction actually has much greater impact than it first might seem.
That's not the point. I'm running Win7 and I guess it doesn't do such a great job at memory management either, so between Firefox being a pig and Windows not knowing how to allocate more than about 2GB of the 16GB I have in this 64-bit desktop machine it's pretty worthless to me. Firefox just up and crashes when it consumes much more than about 2.5GB or so. And I only have NoScript and uBlock Origin installed, nothing else and I avoid heavy sites when I can.
I don't care how much memory it uses either, but it must use it in such a way that Firefox doesn't bog down and become useless, or worse, crash altogether.
When I have even just a couple complex sites open in Firefox tabs (Twitter, Facebook, Weather Underground) it gobbles up memory like it's nobody's business. Perhaps that's just crappy scripting on the part of the site developers, but since the web browser is now a de facto operating system it's up to the browser to manage that crap so it doesn't become a problem.
It used to be we had to reboot Windows daily to keep it usable, now I have to reboot just to clean out the heap space, swap area, and give Firefox a new lease on life so that it doesn't bog down like the pig that it is. I hope this brave new world works better, but I can't upgrade until NoScript is ready.
Except that I block google-analytics.com and its ilk from executing their scripts via NoScript.
Which was just fine and dandy until Firefox decided to hide the NoScript UI element as "legacy" until they click their heels and salute to the Firefox New Order of Add-Ons. Still works, though.
Are you speaking of cases where the user always Googles EVERYTHING and then clicks the resulting link?
Because in my desktop browser (and whenever possible on my Android) I click links in my Bookmarks or just type the URL into Firefox (not Chrome) and go direct to the site. How could Google intercept that?
I'm less worried about the interception of data in transit and more worried about the security of my data in many, many disparate databases at the far end. Nobody has yet addressed that to my satisfaction.
Let's see: we've gone from a single unified web browser that can run almost any application to a single app per site, multiplied by the number of sites desiring their own lock-in.
So in that world, making a currency that can only be spent on one vendor matches up perfectly. I guess I'll market a "wallet" to store each and every different currency for all the different vendors who mine their own.
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A French press is indeed the best for numerous reasons. The entire batch of coffee brews for the same duration, unlike drip. The filter allows juuuuuuuuust enough particulates through to impart a body to the coffee that you don't get when it's filtered to within an inch of its life--it does make a difference. It's a breeze to clean once you get the hang of it.
If you want a good cup of coffee a French press can't be beat.
Wul, don't forget about Q-signals thar, bud.
QSL - acknowledgement; "QSL, W4NUA Fairfax, standing bye and monitoring"
QSO - conversation
QRT - STFU!! also used as "I am signing out and leaving the air"
I even had a Callbook with *Z-signals* listed. Things like
ZUE - affirmative, roger, 10-4
ZDG - Accuracy of following message(s) (or message...) is doubtful. Correction or confirmation will be forthcoming. (Particularly applicable in the US these days!)
Sounds like an order wire to me. Which they could have provided themselves, as operator of the network.
The crazy thing is that text messages are still a more universal platform, allowing any person with a mobile phone to message anyone else using a different service provider.
It wasn't always so. At first you could only send text messages to customers on your carrier. Then they started to realize that a network that can't connect to any other networks holds little value and started to work toward interoperability, but it was haphazard.
that SMS made it all the way to the ripe old age of 25 without running its car into a bridge abutment while texting.
The closer it gets to light, the more it acts like light.
It's a service delivered over the RF spectrum, so it is subject to the same vagaries as your cell phone. Interference, multipath reflection fading, overloaded hubs/sites all await. If it's this "5G" (whatever that is) or nothing that might be a viable choice, but it won't stand up well against any wired network, even Comcast's disaster of a network.
Facebook, by far.
There are alternatives to Uber.
Google doesn't seem to have the same insidious nature as FB and indeed has alternatives.
But FB enjoys the network effect that no other platform can duplicate; if you're not on FB you are "missing out". I could start another FB replacement tomorrow, but nobody would be on it, therefore it would provide no value and would therefore attract no users.
FB is like those creatures left behind by The Shadows on Babylon 5 that would infiltrate your nervous system, watching and controlling everything you do. They become so deeply entwined in the body that they are impossible to remove. That's the way FB is to the body of society.
They pulled that crap with me a few months back, so I dutifully fabricated one of the accepted documents for proof displaying my pseudonym and they reactivated my account. I would've let them keep it suspended forever if I weren't required to stay in touch with a group that had the bad sense to plop its home down on FB instead of some other host that is less imposing.
When a buddy created his FB account years ago he called me up and was raving about how REALLY NEAT it was that it presented a metric crapload of his friends without him having to lift a finger. After I picked my jaw up off the floor I explained how this was not neat, but rather creepy and scary. He couldn't understand what I meant.
So, yes, one of your "friends" is complicit with FB in gathering intel on The Resistance. I choose my irl friends carefully and on those rare occasions when I'm not acting the hermit I make sure to avoid getting in camera range of the inevitable group photo. FB can go fuck themselves with a hot poker.
<account name> is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Now I'm scared!! THANKS a LOT!!
More likely: AT&T or Comcast will repair their own junk, then send the repair bill to Google. If Google refuses or is slow to pay I'm sure their fiber might suffer some "accidental" damage at key utility poles.
But since they all would have been in it together, sharing the same utility poles, it's in everybody's best interest not to mess up their competitor's stuff and just work on their own. Comcast shares poles around here with old AT&T copper telephone lines and that's the way they treat them.
Never ascribe to malice that which can readily be attributed to stupidity. They'll break more stuff by mistake than any other cause.
but what is the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)? Maybe the batteries are ridiculously expensive to maintain?
Florida imposed a moratorium against new mobile home parks (and probably new placements of mobile homes as well) after the hurricanes in 2004 and 2005. I'm not even sure you can find a place for your mobile home even if you were to buy one.
But they are built to crumble quickly so you'd be lucky to get 5 good years out of one anyway.
Now they should do a proper double blind study of mary jane to prove what we already know about its effects.
I was amused to learn a while back that some people simply are incapable of typing a domain name into a browser's URL field. They only know how to search for everything via Google.
I was at a friend's house one day talking about going to a baseball game. I told him to go to nationals.com to see where good seats remained. He dutifully opened up google.com and typed "nationals.com" into the search bar. No, I am not kidding.
So this kind of restriction actually has much greater impact than it first might seem.
That's not the point. I'm running Win7 and I guess it doesn't do such a great job at memory management either, so between Firefox being a pig and Windows not knowing how to allocate more than about 2GB of the 16GB I have in this 64-bit desktop machine it's pretty worthless to me. Firefox just up and crashes when it consumes much more than about 2.5GB or so. And I only have NoScript and uBlock Origin installed, nothing else and I avoid heavy sites when I can.
I don't care how much memory it uses either, but it must use it in such a way that Firefox doesn't bog down and become useless, or worse, crash altogether.
When I have even just a couple complex sites open in Firefox tabs (Twitter, Facebook, Weather Underground) it gobbles up memory like it's nobody's business. Perhaps that's just crappy scripting on the part of the site developers, but since the web browser is now a de facto operating system it's up to the browser to manage that crap so it doesn't become a problem.
It used to be we had to reboot Windows daily to keep it usable, now I have to reboot just to clean out the heap space, swap area, and give Firefox a new lease on life so that it doesn't bog down like the pig that it is. I hope this brave new world works better, but I can't upgrade until NoScript is ready.
Not ready for prime time, maybe?
https://hackademix.net/2017/11/14/double-noscript/#comment-37398
We all saw what Matt Decker did to the Constellation: a wrecked ship and a dead crew.
Except that I block google-analytics.com and its ilk from executing their scripts via NoScript.
Which was just fine and dandy until Firefox decided to hide the NoScript UI element as "legacy" until they click their heels and salute to the Firefox New Order of Add-Ons. Still works, though.
Sounds a lot like Colossus: The Forbin Project to me.
Are you speaking of cases where the user always Googles EVERYTHING and then clicks the resulting link?
Because in my desktop browser (and whenever possible on my Android) I click links in my Bookmarks or just type the URL into Firefox (not Chrome) and go direct to the site. How could Google intercept that?
I'm less worried about the interception of data in transit and more worried about the security of my data in many, many disparate databases at the far end. Nobody has yet addressed that to my satisfaction.
Let's see: we've gone from a single unified web browser that can run almost any application to a single app per site, multiplied by the number of sites desiring their own lock-in.
So in that world, making a currency that can only be spent on one vendor matches up perfectly. I guess I'll market a "wallet" to store each and every different currency for all the different vendors who mine their own.