In any of your scenarios, just leave the damn message. If I'm home and recognize your voice, I'll pick it up and give the appropriate response. Yes, I'm on the DNC list, but I still get quite a few calls from some charities that I was dumb enough to donate to in the 90s. It's no longer 12 calls a night, but it can still be bad enough to discourage me from answering the phone.
Palpatine? Isn't he that wrinkled old geezer who got thrown into the bottom of a "Death Star", just before said weapon was blown to bits by a bunch of "weak" rebels that were pushed too far? Yes, he killed a lot of people who dared to stand up to him, but at the end, the "Dark Side" did not prevail.
Unfortunately, the odds of Ron Paul winning are very slim. I think the best we can hope for is that enough people vote for him to scare the winner into at least pretending to be decent.
I'm a total phone n00b. Got my iPhone last weekend, and no prior experience with any "smart" phone. The posts I typed LOOKED okay, but I was constantly correcting my many errors. You CAN type decently, even if you're a crappy typist, but I have a bit more sympathy with bad typing over an iPhone than with a real keyboard.
If it's an important business e-mail, you should be proofreading it anyway. No interface is immune to typos, and even with a spell-check, you can still get the wrong word. Like "it's" and "its", "their" and "there", or "whole" and "hole".
Yup! One could get the wrong idea when a camper tells you about "bare in the woods".
Congress has the exclusive power to declare war. As the Commander-in-Chief, it's the President's job to decide how to handle the war, but he cannot unilaterally declare the war.
And just when DID Washington & Jefferson attack other nations on their own? My early American history is a bit rusty, but I don't remember any such cases.
Somebody, by whatever title, gets to be head of state. The trick is to limit their power so much that they are effectively a figurehead, regardless of their title. Here in Canada, that's the Queen, through her representative the Governor General who is officially Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. But if she decided on her own to use the military to 'liberate' her native Haiti or something, it wouldn't happen, even though she looks really cute with her Amazon Brigade.
Well, the President of the USA isn't supposed to be able to decide on his own to attack other nations. But Congress, in its infinite stupidity & wimpiness, has allowed the Prez to do just that! "Checks and Balances" only work if the other branches of government use them!
I never said it was acceptable. I said it wasn't JUST Bush & Republicans that did it. I agree that both parties need to clean up their acts badly. But to bash the Republicans and to ignore the Democrat's own abuses is a serious mistake, because it means we'll just replace one set of evil crooks with another.
Meh! The Clinton administration did plenty of shredding too. Not to mention how he let OBL go when he could have nabbed him.
Both major parties are controlled by the worst criminals, and anyone who thinks we can end all the problems currently blamed on Bush by electing Hilary will deserve what they'll get.
How many of their billion+ people can afford their stuff? Is the Chinese middle-class anywhere NEAR the American middle-class in buying power, even allowing for our huge debt problems (both national and personal)?
Just because you decide to use one doesn't mean they AREN'T flawed. Locking the phone to one crappy carrier is a flaw. From the consumer's POV, it would be better to have your choice of crappy carriers.
Is it that they don't care, or is it that they're willing to put up with a significant flaw to get the iPhone? If the later, then Apple could have told ATT to fsck themselves and might have sold even more iPhones.
Once, while I was taking a crap, I heard the guy in the next stall yakking on his cellphone. I just hope the guy he was talking to heard my flush when I was finished.:)
Perhaps you should just look at your phone on the way in to a new building? Is that so difficult? if you cant do without it, then plan ahead and let people know where they can reach you - you know, like in the pre-mobile phone days.
That would work fine if the "jamming" was caused by the building itself. However, if it's being actively jammed, it might be working when I check the phone, but then they turn on the jammers afterward. And I don't trust the @$$holes in charge of the theaters/restaraunts to inform me if I have an important call, assuming they even HAVE a phone line that's staffed by human beings instead of answering machines.
Windows and Gnome rename files on paste if there is a name conflict.
The only time I've seen XP rename on a paste is when I'm copying in the same directory. When I copy from one directory to another, it just asks if I really want to replace it. Vista does give you the option of renaming, and I think KDE does too.
Personally, I prefer merging, simply because there's less potential for data loss. It's easier to manually delete extra files than it is to restore missing ones. It might not be any more "intuitive" but it's safer.
Slower than what? The speed limit on the highway I take to work is 55. To me, that means that traffic going 45 or 50 should be in the right lane. It does NOT mean that left lane traffic should go 70+.
Did you fully read my post? I said I didn't mind jamming AS LONG AS THE BUSINESS SAYS THEY ARE DOING IT. That way, I can make an informed decision whether or not to enter their establishment. If they do it in secret, I might go in expecting to be reachable and get p*ssed off if my mom couldn't reach me in an emergency.
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In any of your scenarios, just leave the damn message. If I'm home and recognize your voice, I'll pick it up and give the appropriate response. Yes, I'm on the DNC list, but I still get quite a few calls from some charities that I was dumb enough to donate to in the 90s. It's no longer 12 calls a night, but it can still be bad enough to discourage me from answering the phone.
If there is overlap, one of those "stupid idiotic laws" might make it legal to cut off fingers.
Palpatine? Isn't he that wrinkled old geezer who got thrown into the bottom of a "Death Star", just before said weapon was blown to bits by a bunch of "weak" rebels that were pushed too far? Yes, he killed a lot of people who dared to stand up to him, but at the end, the "Dark Side" did not prevail.
Unfortunately, the odds of Ron Paul winning are very slim. I think the best we can hope for is that enough people vote for him to scare the winner into at least pretending to be decent.
I'm a total phone n00b. Got my iPhone last weekend, and no prior experience with any "smart" phone. The posts I typed LOOKED okay, but I was constantly correcting my many errors. You CAN type decently, even if you're a crappy typist, but I have a bit more sympathy with bad typing over an iPhone than with a real keyboard.
Yup! One could get the wrong idea when a camper tells you about "bare in the woods".
Congress has the exclusive power to declare war. As the Commander-in-Chief, it's the President's job to decide how to handle the war, but he cannot unilaterally declare the war.
And just when DID Washington & Jefferson attack other nations on their own? My early American history is a bit rusty, but I don't remember any such cases.
Well, the President of the USA isn't supposed to be able to decide on his own to attack other nations. But Congress, in its infinite stupidity & wimpiness, has allowed the Prez to do just that! "Checks and Balances" only work if the other branches of government use them!
I never said it was acceptable. I said it wasn't JUST Bush & Republicans that did it. I agree that both parties need to clean up their acts badly. But to bash the Republicans and to ignore the Democrat's own abuses is a serious mistake, because it means we'll just replace one set of evil crooks with another.
Meh! The Clinton administration did plenty of shredding too. Not to mention how he let OBL go when he could have nabbed him.
Both major parties are controlled by the worst criminals, and anyone who thinks we can end all the problems currently blamed on Bush by electing Hilary will deserve what they'll get.
How many of their billion+ people can afford their stuff? Is the Chinese middle-class anywhere NEAR the American middle-class in buying power, even allowing for our huge debt problems (both national and personal)?
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
We're reaping what we sowed. We wanted cheap crap, we got it. Personally, I'd rather pay a little more for non-poisoned stuff, but that's just me.
Just because you decide to use one doesn't mean they AREN'T flawed. Locking the phone to one crappy carrier is a flaw. From the consumer's POV, it would be better to have your choice of crappy carriers.
Is it that they don't care, or is it that they're willing to put up with a significant flaw to get the iPhone? If the later, then Apple could have told ATT to fsck themselves and might have sold even more iPhones.
Once, while I was taking a crap, I heard the guy in the next stall yakking on his cellphone. I just hope the guy he was talking to heard my flush when I was finished. :)
That would work fine if the "jamming" was caused by the building itself. However, if it's being actively jammed, it might be working when I check the phone, but then they turn on the jammers afterward. And I don't trust the @$$holes in charge of the theaters/restaraunts to inform me if I have an important call, assuming they even HAVE a phone line that's staffed by human beings instead of answering machines.
99% of Mac users. But I agree that all GUI file managers suck, and Finder sucks, even compared to other GUIs.
The only time I've seen XP rename on a paste is when I'm copying in the same directory. When I copy from one directory to another, it just asks if I really want to replace it. Vista does give you the option of renaming, and I think KDE does too.
Personally, I prefer merging, simply because there's less potential for data loss. It's easier to manually delete extra files than it is to restore missing ones. It might not be any more "intuitive" but it's safer.
Slower than what? The speed limit on the highway I take to work is 55. To me, that means that traffic going 45 or 50 should be in the right lane. It does NOT mean that left lane traffic should go 70+.
Did you fully read my post? I said I didn't mind jamming AS LONG AS THE BUSINESS SAYS THEY ARE DOING IT. That way, I can make an informed decision whether or not to enter their establishment. If they do it in secret, I might go in expecting to be reachable and get p*ssed off if my mom couldn't reach me in an emergency.
So, does your cellphone run Wordpad? I don't use a spreadsheet, but I do use Quicken. I don't think even the newest iPhones run that yet.
Personally, I'd rather store my financial records on my own box.