Yeah, at first I thought this was going to be another music service, which I thought would be a bad idea for Valve, but it turns out this is just a minor feature enhancement to the Big Picture mode, and I think it is perfect. Well, maybe not perfect, it needs to support Ogg at the very least, but it's still beta so I can't fault them for it yet.
I can understand how you might not like Garrison Keillor, he has a very Midwestern sensibility that doesn't try to appeal to everybody. It's harder for me to understand how you can hate Wait Wait Don't Tell Me though. That show is a gem.
Also, stop and go traffic is the absolute worst for snowy roads. It's the stopping and starting that are the most difficult, especially on a hill. Maintaining an slow even speed is what you want. People in the north know that if you stop while going uphill on a snowy road, you may not be able to start again.
The government doesn't care about a random $136, but if you really wanted to report it you would put it as gift income. If you started making real money with this then it would be an issue, but this is way down in the noise.
Quick question: Is it customary to setup autopay to pay for the account on the very second it comes due in EVE? Normally with any autopay type system I set it up to pay at least a week in advance, because you never know when it will fail for whatever reason and you want to have time to fix it manually if it does. You never know when a credit card processor will be down for maintenance or have spotty network connectivity or what have you and cause your autopay to fail.
At least not during this administration. Probably not during the next either, way too many entrenched political interests want to see him dead.
I can just see the return now.
Obama: Half of my cabinet wants to give you the Medal of Freedom, the other half wants you shot on the spot as a traitor. Maybe we should compromise and do both.
My situation was probably a little complicated by the fact that it was right after the housing bubble popped and so many flippers just walked away. Those owners were fucked up assholes anyway, installing tile floors and granite countertops, but apparently not fixing a leak in the basement that caused mold to take over (this was a townhouse and I was attached to it), plus they had a couple of yappy dogs they left outside to bark all night long. They also never cut their grass, even when they lived there. Naturally the window falling off happened roughly a week after I put my unit on the market. This is why I was so incredibly frustrated with the toothlessness of the HOA. I'm guessing those assholes cost me several thousand bucks in resale value, and the HOA president couldn't give a shit.
We had a new administrator for our HOA a couple of years before I left. His only act of note was to raise the dues as fast as the covenant allowed so he could start amassing a gigantic war chest for some unspecified reason. He claimed that it was "best practices" to have a huge pot of money ready for an emergency, but I was always suspicious of it.
My HOA had that power as well, but actually doing that requires legal action, which means paying a lawyer, and the HOA administrator figured that if they did that they would never get that money back. Worse, putting a lien against a property means it's even harder to sell, so it stays vacant and continues to deteriorate.
Theoretically the HOA in question had the power to sue the previous owners, but since the house was a foreclosure the HOA administrator didn't think it was worth the time.
I can see where he's coming from, but at the same time it made me realize how pointless the HOA was. It was utterly unable to deal with a serious problem, and could only hassle the good guys over petty crap.
There is no way in hell the majority of the other residents are going to agree to allow poles to be planted all over the neighborhood. Underground utilites are a feature--poles are considered ugly. Running poles for only one service would look pretty weird too. Added bonus: Your internet won't go out during bad storms.
From my time in a HOA, they're both insanely persnickety but ultimately powerless. They loved to send out threatening letters to people who installed vinyl windows instead of wood or repainted their fence in the wrong shade of tan, but when a house was foreclosed on and immediately started deteriorating at an alarming rate (shingles fell off of the roof, yard got rediculously overgrown, a window fell completely out--stupid wooden dormers) they were absoultely powerless to do anything about it. When I moved I made a point of finding a place without a HOA, since I'd rather not be forced to pay monthly dues to a useless and capricious organization.
The guy railing against "feminists that want to kill all men" doesn't know any feminists, he's made one up in his mind. Said feminist probably exists somewhere (they certainly did at one point, but the ones I know about are all dead), but the guy in question couldn't name them.
Give someone who has never seen one a vague description of a Rhinoceros and they may form a mental image that is quite different from reality. If they know about horses they may imagine a unicorn. That's how something may be imaginary despite being real.
Target's security is especially lax, but part of the problem here is the POS terminals that are apparently stuck running old unpatched versions of Java. That's an industry wide problem. You can limit the exposure with proper network security, but it means if anybody does breach your security they will have no trouble escalating that into full blown card disclosure.
Yeah, but it's layered on top of several other free credit monitoring services I apparently have now from breakins at various companies. I'll never have to pay for credit monitoring ever. As usual Target didn't tell me WHO is doing the monitoring, or how they might contact me if something suspicious happens in my name. I expect this to be just as useful as all of the other credit monitoring services I apparently have.
Yep, that's how they set the system up. You either play ball or languish in obscurity. That's why artists sign such horrible contracts that give the industry complete ownership of their work for basically nothing in return, because the alternative is to not be a rock star. Many artists have probably balked at those contracts and refused to sign, but nobody has ever heard of them.
A better solution would be an open supply chain, independent venues, independent radio, etc... Basically allow people to compete fairly in the marketplace. But that ship has already sailed. Clear Channel spent most of the 80s and 90s buying out every market in the country, unless the government is willing to break them up like Ma Bell (this Congress? Ha!), artists and the public are screwed.
Far too many "financial instruments" are just playing games with numbers to give the people who run them huge bonuses. They're not too different from Ponzi schemes, but we're way too invested in them now to go cold turkey, and you can't even unwind them without getting accused of destroying value. Plus, the people in charge have no incentive to stop their own gravy train. I think a global financial catastrophe is bordering on inevitable now, it's just a matter of how long the middle class can be squeezed to prop up the system.
So they're really angry at imaginary feminists in their mind? I'm not saying the "militant feminist" has never existed, but you will have to look long and far to find one.
From what I understand, for a lot of the proponents of Creationism it isn't so much that they think it's good science, but they believe that Evolution undermines religion and without religion the world would descend into hedonistic anarchy that would destroy all of civilization. Therefore the only moral thing to do is push Creationism at every turn to save the human race. They're literally doing God's work. That's why talk about the science is so ineffective, the science doesn't even matter to them, it's all about preserving life as they know it.
Lots of artists are (which is one reason the established artists hate streaming, because it opens up more competition), but without a label you have to accept that you won't get your record in most stores and you'll never tour at any medium to large venues because they're locked up by the industry. You won't get play on terrestrial radio (owned by the same people who own the venues), and you certainly won't get on MTV, even if they did play music. You'll be at best "internet famous" and get to play at bars/clubs. The whole industry is heavily weighted towards incumbents.
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Yeah, at first I thought this was going to be another music service, which I thought would be a bad idea for Valve, but it turns out this is just a minor feature enhancement to the Big Picture mode, and I think it is perfect. Well, maybe not perfect, it needs to support Ogg at the very least, but it's still beta so I can't fault them for it yet.
I can understand how you might not like Garrison Keillor, he has a very Midwestern sensibility that doesn't try to appeal to everybody. It's harder for me to understand how you can hate Wait Wait Don't Tell Me though. That show is a gem.
Also, stop and go traffic is the absolute worst for snowy roads. It's the stopping and starting that are the most difficult, especially on a hill. Maintaining an slow even speed is what you want. People in the north know that if you stop while going uphill on a snowy road, you may not be able to start again.
The government doesn't care about a random $136, but if you really wanted to report it you would put it as gift income. If you started making real money with this then it would be an issue, but this is way down in the noise.
Quick question: Is it customary to setup autopay to pay for the account on the very second it comes due in EVE? Normally with any autopay type system I set it up to pay at least a week in advance, because you never know when it will fail for whatever reason and you want to have time to fix it manually if it does. You never know when a credit card processor will be down for maintenance or have spotty network connectivity or what have you and cause your autopay to fail.
At least not during this administration. Probably not during the next either, way too many entrenched political interests want to see him dead.
I can just see the return now.
Obama: Half of my cabinet wants to give you the Medal of Freedom, the other half wants you shot on the spot as a traitor. Maybe we should compromise and do both.
My situation was probably a little complicated by the fact that it was right after the housing bubble popped and so many flippers just walked away. Those owners were fucked up assholes anyway, installing tile floors and granite countertops, but apparently not fixing a leak in the basement that caused mold to take over (this was a townhouse and I was attached to it), plus they had a couple of yappy dogs they left outside to bark all night long. They also never cut their grass, even when they lived there. Naturally the window falling off happened roughly a week after I put my unit on the market. This is why I was so incredibly frustrated with the toothlessness of the HOA. I'm guessing those assholes cost me several thousand bucks in resale value, and the HOA president couldn't give a shit.
But then the government will think you are at home! You don't want to deceive them, you need to act as suspiciously as possible.
We had a new administrator for our HOA a couple of years before I left. His only act of note was to raise the dues as fast as the covenant allowed so he could start amassing a gigantic war chest for some unspecified reason. He claimed that it was "best practices" to have a huge pot of money ready for an emergency, but I was always suspicious of it.
My HOA had that power as well, but actually doing that requires legal action, which means paying a lawyer, and the HOA administrator figured that if they did that they would never get that money back. Worse, putting a lien against a property means it's even harder to sell, so it stays vacant and continues to deteriorate.
Theoretically the HOA in question had the power to sue the previous owners, but since the house was a foreclosure the HOA administrator didn't think it was worth the time.
I can see where he's coming from, but at the same time it made me realize how pointless the HOA was. It was utterly unable to deal with a serious problem, and could only hassle the good guys over petty crap.
There is no way in hell the majority of the other residents are going to agree to allow poles to be planted all over the neighborhood. Underground utilites are a feature--poles are considered ugly. Running poles for only one service would look pretty weird too. Added bonus: Your internet won't go out during bad storms.
From my time in a HOA, they're both insanely persnickety but ultimately powerless. They loved to send out threatening letters to people who installed vinyl windows instead of wood or repainted their fence in the wrong shade of tan, but when a house was foreclosed on and immediately started deteriorating at an alarming rate (shingles fell off of the roof, yard got rediculously overgrown, a window fell completely out--stupid wooden dormers) they were absoultely powerless to do anything about it. When I moved I made a point of finding a place without a HOA, since I'd rather not be forced to pay monthly dues to a useless and capricious organization.
T1s are goddamn slow by todays standards.
The guy railing against "feminists that want to kill all men" doesn't know any feminists, he's made one up in his mind. Said feminist probably exists somewhere (they certainly did at one point, but the ones I know about are all dead), but the guy in question couldn't name them.
Give someone who has never seen one a vague description of a Rhinoceros and they may form a mental image that is quite different from reality. If they know about horses they may imagine a unicorn. That's how something may be imaginary despite being real.
Proxy servers exist. You've only delayed a Russian hacker maybe 5 minutes with this fix.
Target's security is especially lax, but part of the problem here is the POS terminals that are apparently stuck running old unpatched versions of Java. That's an industry wide problem. You can limit the exposure with proper network security, but it means if anybody does breach your security they will have no trouble escalating that into full blown card disclosure.
They spent months selling them already. The guys who did this have already made out like bandits.
Yeah, but it's layered on top of several other free credit monitoring services I apparently have now from breakins at various companies. I'll never have to pay for credit monitoring ever. As usual Target didn't tell me WHO is doing the monitoring, or how they might contact me if something suspicious happens in my name. I expect this to be just as useful as all of the other credit monitoring services I apparently have.
Yep, that's how they set the system up. You either play ball or languish in obscurity. That's why artists sign such horrible contracts that give the industry complete ownership of their work for basically nothing in return, because the alternative is to not be a rock star. Many artists have probably balked at those contracts and refused to sign, but nobody has ever heard of them.
A better solution would be an open supply chain, independent venues, independent radio, etc... Basically allow people to compete fairly in the marketplace. But that ship has already sailed. Clear Channel spent most of the 80s and 90s buying out every market in the country, unless the government is willing to break them up like Ma Bell (this Congress? Ha!), artists and the public are screwed.
Far too many "financial instruments" are just playing games with numbers to give the people who run them huge bonuses. They're not too different from Ponzi schemes, but we're way too invested in them now to go cold turkey, and you can't even unwind them without getting accused of destroying value. Plus, the people in charge have no incentive to stop their own gravy train. I think a global financial catastrophe is bordering on inevitable now, it's just a matter of how long the middle class can be squeezed to prop up the system.
So they're really angry at imaginary feminists in their mind? I'm not saying the "militant feminist" has never existed, but you will have to look long and far to find one.
From what I understand, for a lot of the proponents of Creationism it isn't so much that they think it's good science, but they believe that Evolution undermines religion and without religion the world would descend into hedonistic anarchy that would destroy all of civilization. Therefore the only moral thing to do is push Creationism at every turn to save the human race. They're literally doing God's work. That's why talk about the science is so ineffective, the science doesn't even matter to them, it's all about preserving life as they know it.
Lots of artists are (which is one reason the established artists hate streaming, because it opens up more competition), but without a label you have to accept that you won't get your record in most stores and you'll never tour at any medium to large venues because they're locked up by the industry. You won't get play on terrestrial radio (owned by the same people who own the venues), and you certainly won't get on MTV, even if they did play music. You'll be at best "internet famous" and get to play at bars/clubs. The whole industry is heavily weighted towards incumbents.
I think it's safe to say that the artists are getting screwed, just becuase that's always safe to say when the Record labels are involved.