Actually I heard it was Starbucks who sold the water to paramedics. Out of a big enough sample there will always be afew people like this thats just how it goes.. In a nuclear holocaust allot of people would initially be fighting for their own survival, I always figured that if a nuke went off in my city (and I was far away enough to survive) The first thing I would do is go on to my street and nick a car and knock out the owner - sick I know, but when the choice is you and your family spending the next 6 weeks dieing in the most insane agony you can imagine or letting someone else die, your body makes the choice for you in about 3 seconds and morals fly out the window only to return later when you can't sleep anymore from the guilt OH OH the guilt! why? why? er um.. i mean.. er.. look over there - an eagle! THWACK!
Not true, if someone knows of a grassroots organisation and they know its legit then they will donate to that instead of someones random email. But knowing small charities means someone usually has to tell you about them, i.e they spread through word of mouth which can be better or worse than conventional advertising depending how its done. Basically what it boils down to is that if you know a grassroots organisation then you would have donated to them anyway, this FBI warning isnt going to put you off, because that organisation was around before the tsunami so chances are its not one of the fakes..
Wait, how do you know its going to marines helping in the tsunami relief or marines doing other things that marines do? can you specify in the donation? if not then just remember that your donation is effectively split across all marines, some of who might be doing things you don't support (e.g. raping prisoners, killing babies etc. etc.). Im sure they do good things too like re-building hospitals in Iraq, just saying.
They're conspiring to keep the prices high. If I had any chance of starting my own telco I would probably have to go through another carrier (most mobile networks are really just fake networks running off someone elses towers and network) and I certainly wouldnt be able to get away with 'price gouging' the market. But most obviously... if i started my own telco WTF would I want to give people a fair price!?! Id be ripping the fuckers off just as much! Doesnt mean i cant complain about it
Nice troll.. We get ripped of in the UK more than most of the world, you hear people in the US complain about '$2 gas prices' - I wish in my wildest dreams that petrol cost $2 per gallon, try $2 per litre!
No, taking that into account still gives them insane profit margins. I don't think calls should be free but SMS messages should be, they're so small how on earth can you charge that sort of money for them??
I was too pissed off to spell check. Yeah you can get IM clients, my phone is to crappy though and that means the other person needs a phone with a client to and also finding a network that will actually charge you a decent data rate for net access?? I havn't seen an unlimited SMS plan that wasn't still a rip-off, theres only so many you can really send a month and they'll make you have a contract so its just not worth it.
"Hello, im John Smith head of the ACME network. Do you know how much we in the mobile phone industry like to rip you off? our profit margins go as high as %100,000 and we all work together to keep it that way. But at ACME we've decided to rebel, starting today we're embarking on a vicious price war with our competitors, we'll give you a no-contract pay-as-you-go network with absolutely free SMS messages any time and any place, no matter where you go in the world they'll still be free and unlimited and right now our competitors are all having heart attacks. How do we do this and still charge your calls at reasonable prices? simple, it costs us almost nothing to route your messages and we figured we would steal 95% of our competitors customers in just one week. So fuck you Orange, T-Mobile, O2, Vodaphone, Virgin, 3, and all the others, we're just about to screw your cash cow in the arse" (does hand gesture) "SUCK IT"
I send quite a few and the whole thing is the biggest fucking rip-off scam. Mobile phone companies are conspiring to keep these costs up, they know full well people will pay for them. It costs your network a fraction of a penny to route a message their profit on it is way over 1000% i don't think any other industry rips you off as much as SMS, this is 2005 and people are getting used to the idea of being always connected, internet anywhere, flat-rate broadband. Phone companies havn't changed their text prices for years, they're on average asking you to pay them 10p to route less than 256 BYTES! for fucks sake miss-calling someone probably uses more network resources. Then they try and bate you with special 'deals' - oh thank you Orange 200 messages a month free? you're too kind really! Then theres roaming charages... oh jesus fucking christ if you think its bad normally, last year I went to egypt, i rang up an £80 bill in 2 weeks from mostly texting (ah women..) at 50p a fucking go. I could get high on some pretty decent shit for the sort of prices they charge and theres no alternative! I try and get whatever plan I can to give me cheap messages but they still cost the earth, its just insulting. I was wondering if there was a way to beat the system using cleaver phone software - you could use compression at both ends or send simple messages with a well timed series of missed-calls? Infact the SMS industry is partially to blame for a whole generation of kids with english problems. oh fck i cnt ft wht im tryn2sy in this stpidly smal amnt of spc i hav - etc.. trying to have any sort of conversation when one of you can't talk on the phone at that time is like trying to instant message in a 160 character text box with a faulty keyboard and bad latency, plus you get to pay for it. Seriously no other product could be so fucking CRAP and still make so much money, I long for the day when a network comes out and says fuck you to all the others and just gives you a pay-as-you-go phone and unlimited free messages - they would steal half the customer base of every other network in one week. Ahhh the whole thing just pisses me off so much, why do we pay these prices for something that costs so little - imagine all bottles of water suddenly cost £10?? ok thats not to hard to imagine:\ no imagine they're all full of tap water..
The SMS industry is asking for someone to screw it over and ruin it overnight and I would love for someone to do that, Id love for them to loose all that revenue, bloody skanky cunts.
Solve both problems with some sort of magic super-heat conducting liquid that could coat the whole circuit board and dry solid like rubber, it would be non-conductive but would shield certain radio frequencies and optionally glow in the dark..
Dun-duh duh duh daa... "Tonight on HypeLine, Is Ashlee Simpson expecting twins?, Was Michael Jackson wearing OJs glove?, and the new terrorist weapon: millions of computers about to short circuit, what you don't know _COULD_ kill you!"
Cue scull and cross bones superimposed over burning computer.
dope, lower drinking ages, legal prostitution, gay marriage, data protection act? hell yeah, atleast it was more free until the US corps start sticking their little copyright noses in and screwing things up...
Firstly Dreamweaver's templating can hardly be described as powerful, its a pretty obvious and standard tool, and any web design application that doesn't have something like this is useless in any real world application. Obviously css is the standard to use for most continuity and all you have left is things like copyright notices and menus. PHP can handle the job easily but if you're not up to that then I have no idea, Nvu doesnt seem to do it, what can I say, that sucks.
The ATM was invented more than 25 years ago, well actually so was the cell phone, but now im just getting picky - do they mean 'when these became widespread and viable'? #1 is obviously the web or internet or whatever they're gonna call it. how you can put that before PCs i don't know? Do we have nano-technology??
You could just shrink the list and say the most important innovation has been the mass production leading to the reduction of cost the and evolution to miniturisation of all electronic components, making possible affordable personal computers and communication networks.
You retard, Iran doesnt have nuclear weapons, no-one has accused them of having nuclear weapons. The US is pissed off that they have 'dual-use' technology that could be used to produce _materials_ that could be used in nuclear weapons in the future. Plus we do know where they are, and inspectors are soon to be let in.
Thankfully everyone's favourite hidden cam gallery is still up (totally safe for work). Iran is having a few problems at the moment, the highly conservative part of the government is squashing the other half and most of what happens with the police is down to how much you bribe them with money or sex. Hey Khomeini, suck my dick.
Well the idea is that if robots can do absolutely everything, then we wouldnt need the concept of capitalism (yes i know someone has to built them all first bare with me). People would only need to sit in the sun - the robots would be able to make and distribute enough food for _everyone_ and make anything else that we wanted. Sure some people would want to do things like garden, paint or build but it would be in their own time and for their own pleasure. Who knows if this would ever happen and if it would actually turn out well and work properly, but this 95% scenario is just getting closer and closer, allot of people already live like that!
On the plus side this will put an end to cheap labour and bad working conditions. On the other hand eventually those millions of people who make your clothes and mp3 players for 50p will now starve to death and Topshop will still charge £80. Ok so this is nothing new, robots have been taking over jobs since the loom (spelling?) but its pretty obvious that the time will come when robots will be advanced enough to take over jobs that previously only a 12 year old could do. Im just interested to understand the new economics that will come into play here? Eventually computers are going to take most jobs, one by one going up the scale of complexity, physical labour and ingenuity and if true AI is ever created then humans won't need to do anything, robot slaves would serve everyone even producing our art and entertainment and we would melt into some sort of communist utopia? (assuming the tacky robots-tacking-over cliché never happens). But before that the very real scenario of millions more jobs vanishing will come, so what will happen?
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Actually I heard it was Starbucks who sold the water to paramedics. Out of a big enough sample there will always be afew people like this thats just how it goes.. In a nuclear holocaust allot of people would initially be fighting for their own survival, I always figured that if a nuke went off in my city (and I was far away enough to survive) The first thing I would do is go on to my street and nick a car and knock out the owner - sick I know, but when the choice is you and your family spending the next 6 weeks dieing in the most insane agony you can imagine or letting someone else die, your body makes the choice for you in about 3 seconds and morals fly out the window only to return later when you can't sleep anymore from the guilt OH OH the guilt! why? why? er um.. i mean.. er.. look over there - an eagle! THWACK!
Not true, if someone knows of a grassroots organisation and they know its legit then they will donate to that instead of someones random email. But knowing small charities means someone usually has to tell you about them, i.e they spread through word of mouth which can be better or worse than conventional advertising depending how its done. Basically what it boils down to is that if you know a grassroots organisation then you would have donated to them anyway, this FBI warning isnt going to put you off, because that organisation was around before the tsunami so chances are its not one of the fakes..
Wait, how do you know its going to marines helping in the tsunami relief or marines doing other things that marines do? can you specify in the donation? if not then just remember that your donation is effectively split across all marines, some of who might be doing things you don't support (e.g. raping prisoners, killing babies etc. etc.). Im sure they do good things too like re-building hospitals in Iraq, just saying.
They're conspiring to keep the prices high. If I had any chance of starting my own telco I would probably have to go through another carrier (most mobile networks are really just fake networks running off someone elses towers and network) and I certainly wouldnt be able to get away with 'price gouging' the market. But most obviously... if i started my own telco WTF would I want to give people a fair price!?! Id be ripping the fuckers off just as much!
Doesnt mean i cant complain about it
Nice troll.. We get ripped of in the UK more than most of the world, you hear people in the US complain about '$2 gas prices' - I wish in my wildest dreams that petrol cost $2 per gallon, try $2 per litre!
No, taking that into account still gives them insane profit margins. I don't think calls should be free but SMS messages should be, they're so small how on earth can you charge that sort of money for them??
I was too pissed off to spell check. Yeah you can get IM clients, my phone is to crappy though and that means the other person needs a phone with a client to and also finding a network that will actually charge you a decent data rate for net access?? I havn't seen an unlimited SMS plan that wasn't still a rip-off, theres only so many you can really send a month and they'll make you have a contract so its just not worth it.
I dream to see an advert like this:
"Hello, im John Smith head of the ACME network. Do you know how much we in the mobile phone industry like to rip you off? our profit margins go as high as %100,000 and we all work together to keep it that way. But at ACME we've decided to rebel, starting today we're embarking on a vicious price war with our competitors, we'll give you a no-contract pay-as-you-go network with absolutely free SMS messages any time and any place, no matter where you go in the world they'll still be free and unlimited and right now our competitors are all having heart attacks. How do we do this and still charge your calls at reasonable prices? simple, it costs us almost nothing to route your messages and we figured we would steal 95% of our competitors customers in just one week. So fuck you Orange, T-Mobile, O2, Vodaphone, Virgin, 3, and all the others, we're just about to screw your cash cow in the arse" (does hand gesture) "SUCK IT"
Yes, most carriers charge you to receive SMS here in the U.S
Wow! I feel pretty lucky they havn't started that in the UK, shit its like they arn't even ripping us off properly, they only go half way.
I send quite a few and the whole thing is the biggest fucking rip-off scam. Mobile phone companies are conspiring to keep these costs up, they know full well people will pay for them. It costs your network a fraction of a penny to route a message their profit on it is way over 1000% i don't think any other industry rips you off as much as SMS, this is 2005 and people are getting used to the idea of being always connected, internet anywhere, flat-rate broadband. Phone companies havn't changed their text prices for years, they're on average asking you to pay them 10p to route less than 256 BYTES! for fucks sake miss-calling someone probably uses more network resources. Then they try and bate you with special 'deals' - oh thank you Orange 200 messages a month free? you're too kind really! Then theres roaming charages... oh jesus fucking christ if you think its bad normally, last year I went to egypt, i rang up an £80 bill in 2 weeks from mostly texting (ah women..) at 50p a fucking go. I could get high on some pretty decent shit for the sort of prices they charge and theres no alternative! I try and get whatever plan I can to give me cheap messages but they still cost the earth, its just insulting. I was wondering if there was a way to beat the system using cleaver phone software - you could use compression at both ends or send simple messages with a well timed series of missed-calls? Infact the SMS industry is partially to blame for a whole generation of kids with english problems. oh fck i cnt ft wht im tryn2sy in this stpidly smal amnt of spc i hav - etc.. trying to have any sort of conversation when one of you can't talk on the phone at that time is like trying to instant message in a 160 character text box with a faulty keyboard and bad latency, plus you get to pay for it. Seriously no other product could be so fucking CRAP and still make so much money, I long for the day when a network comes out and says fuck you to all the others and just gives you a pay-as-you-go phone and unlimited free messages - they would steal half the customer base of every other network in one week. Ahhh the whole thing just pisses me off so much, why do we pay these prices for something that costs so little - imagine all bottles of water suddenly cost £10?? ok thats not to hard to imagine :\ no imagine they're all full of tap water..
The SMS industry is asking for someone to screw it over and ruin it overnight and I would love for someone to do that, Id love for them to loose all that revenue, bloody skanky cunts.
Solve both problems with some sort of magic super-heat conducting liquid that could coat the whole circuit board and dry solid like rubber, it would be non-conductive but would shield certain radio frequencies and optionally glow in the dark..
Dun-duh duh duh daa...
"Tonight on HypeLine,
Is Ashlee Simpson expecting twins?,
Was Michael Jackson wearing OJs glove?,
and the new terrorist weapon: millions of computers about to short circuit, what you don't know _COULD_ kill you!"
Cue scull and cross bones superimposed over burning computer.
"they hate our freedom"
Oh no!! please mommy hold me..
In other news eating dog shit can make you ill..
Havn't the terrorists won yet??
dope, lower drinking ages, legal prostitution, gay marriage, data protection act? hell yeah, atleast it was more free until the US corps start sticking their little copyright noses in and screwing things up...
Firstly Dreamweaver's templating can hardly be described as powerful, its a pretty obvious and standard tool, and any web design application that doesn't have something like this is useless in any real world application. Obviously css is the standard to use for most continuity and all you have left is things like copyright notices and menus. PHP can handle the job easily but if you're not up to that then I have no idea, Nvu doesnt seem to do it, what can I say, that sucks.
The ATM was invented more than 25 years ago, well actually so was the cell phone, but now im just getting picky - do they mean 'when these became widespread and viable'? #1 is obviously the web or internet or whatever they're gonna call it. how you can put that before PCs i don't know? Do we have nano-technology??
You could just shrink the list and say the most important innovation has been the mass production leading to the reduction of cost the and evolution to miniturisation of all electronic components, making possible affordable personal computers and communication networks.
You retard, Iran doesnt have nuclear weapons, no-one has accused them of having nuclear weapons. The US is pissed off that they have 'dual-use' technology that could be used to produce _materials_ that could be used in nuclear weapons in the future. Plus we do know where they are, and inspectors are soon to be let in.
Thankfully everyone's favourite hidden cam gallery is still up (totally safe for work). Iran is having a few problems at the moment, the highly conservative part of the government is squashing the other half and most of what happens with the police is down to how much you bribe them with money or sex. Hey Khomeini, suck my dick.
Er real doll? well thats just the start of a line of sex-bots I guess.
Well the idea is that if robots can do absolutely everything, then we wouldnt need the concept of capitalism (yes i know someone has to built them all first bare with me). People would only need to sit in the sun - the robots would be able to make and distribute enough food for _everyone_ and make anything else that we wanted. Sure some people would want to do things like garden, paint or build but it would be in their own time and for their own pleasure. Who knows if this would ever happen and if it would actually turn out well and work properly, but this 95% scenario is just getting closer and closer, allot of people already live like that!
On the plus side this will put an end to cheap labour and bad working conditions. On the other hand eventually those millions of people who make your clothes and mp3 players for 50p will now starve to death and Topshop will still charge £80. Ok so this is nothing new, robots have been taking over jobs since the loom (spelling?) but its pretty obvious that the time will come when robots will be advanced enough to take over jobs that previously only a 12 year old could do. Im just interested to understand the new economics that will come into play here? Eventually computers are going to take most jobs, one by one going up the scale of complexity, physical labour and ingenuity and if true AI is ever created then humans won't need to do anything, robot slaves would serve everyone even producing our art and entertainment and we would melt into some sort of communist utopia? (assuming the tacky robots-tacking-over cliché never happens). But before that the very real scenario of millions more jobs vanishing will come, so what will happen?
No, they will still be asstastic, free but asstastic. Ring tones are soo last century, hell they were last century last century.
Ah was always taught local ment physical, sounds like a bit of a dodgy definition?