Wrong. War, by definition, is a state of armed conflict.
So if I were to get into a kife-fight with a street thug tonight, I would be at war? Maybe according to your dictionary definition, but in the US political sense a war is formally declared against a country and thus has a defined mission and can be ended. Our recent "wars" do not.
However, that doesn't stop all our politicians and the talking heads on the news from saying we are at war with several different things, such as drugs (inanimate objects), terrorism (acts of killing), or the one that grates on my nerve the most: "The War on Terror(tm)" Terror is a feeling, a state of mind...are they actually suggesting that they are going to fight a war against people being deathly afraid?
As far as I know, once the meat/fruits/veggies are in the USA, they are not subject to import and export restrictions from state to state. The controls come at the US border, not the state border. Therefore the banning of US chickens was a good idea, IMO.
We banned British beef, even though there are several counties in the UK.
I had to take an ethics in computing class my final semester in college. We learned about a few historical examples, Three Mile Island being the one that stuck wih me best. (Living in Harrisburg PA my whole life and being about 2 years old when it happened).
Apparently there was a valve that was supposed to open to allow water to cool the nuclear reactor. The software that monitored the the valve showed the position that it SHOULD have been in. But, as was the case in 1979, if the valve would get stuck the software would still indicate the valve was open/closed, even if it didn't happen. Yikes, could have made a lot of central PA uninhabitable....
Ok I'll try to look over the simplistic nature of your comment and explain why:
1. Ease of use - No more trying to track down songs and not being able to find them for months. If I see it on iTunes, I can have it right then. This is especially good for full albums.
2. Good quality - No more 56kbps mono files mixed with 192kbps stereo files. No more shitty rips with skips in them.
3. Uniform ID3 tags - Nothing pisses me off more than opening up an MP3 I just downloaded and seeing the album name or artist name is "++{Ripped by tHe eNfOrCeRz}++" or something equally lame.
4. Probably some other stuff that I can't be bothered to think of at this time.
You know, I don't care as much who comes out ahead in the online music store wars, just as long as they are seen as a viable alternative to purchasing shiny plastic discs at the mall.
I just got an iPod mini on Friday and was playing around with iTunes. I NEVER intended to pay for digital music, and always expected I would just get it from Kazaa, etc. But when I saw how easy Apple makes it to buy music, I was hooked. I spent about $35 on music, and this is someone who buys 1, maybe 2 cds a year. Things are only looking better from here.
I would like to know the same thing, because there is nothing more I would love than to get out of my ATT contract before November.
However, I am assuming that this merger will take longer to complete than any existing contracts that are out there now. And if not, there is probably some legalese in there that transfers existing contracts over, as long as they don't screw around with the features/prices you agreed to.
Sure you say "I can get 11GB more storage for only $50!!" But that is the geek inside of you, always wanting bigger, better, faster, more.
How many people don't even have enough MP3s to fill the 4GB mini? Answer: A LOT. They don't give a crap that they can have every MP3 in the world in their pocket. They want something easy to carry, and being cute pink helps too.
I have always admired the ipod for its design and interface, but even with as small as they made it it was too big for me so I have been through a few flash players. But come Feb 16, guess which new player I'm going to have....
Also, IMO, the ipod mini is going to pave the way for where the ipod is going. As the 1 inch hard drive capacities go up to the 10, 20, 30 GB range, I can forsee a time when the ipod is discontinued and the mini takes the center stage.
Back in the beginning of November my phone died and I went to the ATT store to try to buy a new one. I was told to come back the next day because the computer system was not working. I did, and the same thing happened for the next WEEK. That's right NO gsm phones were activated for a whole WEEK.
Once I did get a phone, I emailed their customer service and told them how badly they screwed up and wasted my time. This is the point where good companies realize they made a mistake and go out of their way to fix it, but instead ATT offered me a measly $5 credit. I found this insulting as a loyal customer for ~2 years who has just been given a huge runaround and inconvenience. So I replaied to the email saying so.
Now at the bottom of every email from ATT they append this:
" If you need to respond to this message, we suggest you reply directly to
this email for the best service. Please remember to leave all documents
attached for reference."
which I certainly did. So to follow the course of our correspondence, all you had to do was start at the bottom and read upwards (like any normal email thread). So about a week later I get this simple reply:
" Thank you for contacting AT&T Wireless regarding the e-mail you recently
sent us. Unfortunately, we are unable to determine the nature of your
request. If you would like to email us back with more detailed
information,
we would be more than happy to assist you further. We apologize for any
inconvenience this may cause."
So the point of this rant is that ATT is full of technically incompetant people, and this story does not surprise me one bit.
Right now, I can walk into a drug store and buy a wide variety of products - cold medicines, pain killers, etc... - and be reasonbly sure that they're not going to kill me. The FDA does a pretty good job of keeping harmful stuff from getting onto the shelf.
Which reminds me....I need to pick up some of those Fen-Phen diet pills on the way home!
If you're carrying 20 pills without the bottle, then you kinda deserve to get in trouble...
I want to respond to this....but I'm just too dumbfounded at the poster's opinion to even know where to begin. Well, I'll try my best.
20 of your own prescriptions pills, and GOD FORBID you keep them in a container other than the original package!! I'm sure nobody would EVER want to descreetly keep their prescription meds in a plain container that doesn't have their name, diagnosis, and drug name/amount prescribed right on it for anyone to see, right?
This guy has been polluting Philadelphia Phillies message boards on mlb.com, espn.com and others. The admin of the board I follow (philliesphans.com) assisted the FBI in nailing this guy.
When I registered my domain in 1998 or so, register.com was awesome. They had real, knowledgable support staff that would respond within 3 hours. Any time, day or night. And they gave you a real response that actually answered your question.
Then around the time they started airing those mini infomericals about registering your own name as a dot com they really, really started to suck. It was as if they had an automated response based on the problem category you selected, and your actual support request was not even read. Once I detailed how their nameservers were not resolving my domain, and how I had noticed the problem on my own computer, and the computers of several other friends (on which I have shell accounts) around the country. Also, my webserver is on my home dsl connection.
Even after all that, they tried to blame my web hosting company (again, I host my own domain) and my ISP (hey I told you I tried it on several computers around the country). Hello? did you guys even read my email?
You civil liberties haven't been infringed? Good for you. Unfortunately, not everyone has been so lucky. Thanks for illustrating so nicely the short-sighetd ability of the right wing to care only about themselves.
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Wrong. War, by definition, is a state of armed conflict.
So if I were to get into a kife-fight with a street thug tonight, I would be at war? Maybe according to your dictionary definition, but in the US political sense a war is formally declared against a country and thus has a defined mission and can be ended. Our recent "wars" do not.
However, that doesn't stop all our politicians and the talking heads on the news from saying we are at war with several different things, such as drugs (inanimate objects), terrorism (acts of killing), or the one that grates on my nerve the most: "The War on Terror(tm)" Terror is a feeling, a state of mind...are they actually suggesting that they are going to fight a war against people being deathly afraid?
As far as I know, once the meat/fruits/veggies are in the USA, they are not subject to import and export restrictions from state to state. The controls come at the US border, not the state border. Therefore the banning of US chickens was a good idea, IMO.
We banned British beef, even though there are several counties in the UK.
I had to take an ethics in computing class my final semester in college. We learned about a few historical examples, Three Mile Island being the one that stuck wih me best. (Living in Harrisburg PA my whole life and being about 2 years old when it happened).
Apparently there was a valve that was supposed to open to allow water to cool the nuclear reactor. The software that monitored the the valve showed the position that it SHOULD have been in. But, as was the case in 1979, if the valve would get stuck the software would still indicate the valve was open/closed, even if it didn't happen. Yikes, could have made a lot of central PA uninhabitable....
You can also take apart the iPod mini for its hard drive.
That's gonna be pretty painful!
The "hood" (actually just a one-piece front end) can be removed by a Volvo mechanic.
I'm guessing that an engine fire would probably make the hood too hot to touch...
Ok I'll try to look over the simplistic nature of your comment and explain why:
1. Ease of use - No more trying to track down songs and not being able to find them for months. If I see it on iTunes, I can have it right then. This is especially good for full albums.
2. Good quality - No more 56kbps mono files mixed with 192kbps stereo files. No more shitty rips with skips in them.
3. Uniform ID3 tags - Nothing pisses me off more than opening up an MP3 I just downloaded and seeing the album name or artist name is "++{Ripped by tHe eNfOrCeRz}++" or something equally lame.
4. Probably some other stuff that I can't be bothered to think of at this time.
In the end, it's worth it to me.
You know, I don't care as much who comes out ahead in the online music store wars, just as long as they are seen as a viable alternative to purchasing shiny plastic discs at the mall.
I just got an iPod mini on Friday and was playing around with iTunes. I NEVER intended to pay for digital music, and always expected I would just get it from Kazaa, etc. But when I saw how easy Apple makes it to buy music, I was hooked. I spent about $35 on music, and this is someone who buys 1, maybe 2 cds a year. Things are only looking better from here.
Then when you lose.....
"a-o, o-a..try again"
I would like to know the same thing, because there is nothing more I would love than to get out of my ATT contract before November.
However, I am assuming that this merger will take longer to complete than any existing contracts that are out there now. And if not, there is probably some legalese in there that transfers existing contracts over, as long as they don't screw around with the features/prices you agreed to.
Of course, IANAL.
Sure you say "I can get 11GB more storage for only $50!!" But that is the geek inside of you, always wanting bigger, better, faster, more.
How many people don't even have enough MP3s to fill the 4GB mini? Answer: A LOT. They don't give a crap that they can have every MP3 in the world in their pocket. They want something easy to carry, and being cute pink helps too.
I have always admired the ipod for its design and interface, but even with as small as they made it it was too big for me so I have been through a few flash players. But come Feb 16, guess which new player I'm going to have....
Also, IMO, the ipod mini is going to pave the way for where the ipod is going. As the 1 inch hard drive capacities go up to the 10, 20, 30 GB range, I can forsee a time when the ipod is discontinued and the mini takes the center stage.
I bet one of those IPs on the latest RIAA lawsuit resolves to spirit.nasa.gov
Back in the beginning of November my phone died and I went to the ATT store to try to buy a new one. I was told to come back the next day because the computer system was not working. I did, and the same thing happened for the next WEEK. That's right NO gsm phones were activated for a whole WEEK.
Once I did get a phone, I emailed their customer service and told them how badly they screwed up and wasted my time. This is the point where good companies realize they made a mistake and go out of their way to fix it, but instead ATT offered me a measly $5 credit. I found this insulting as a loyal customer for ~2 years who has just been given a huge runaround and inconvenience. So I replaied to the email saying so.
Now at the bottom of every email from ATT they append this:
" If you need to respond to this message, we suggest you reply directly to this email for the best service. Please remember to leave all documents attached for reference."
which I certainly did. So to follow the course of our correspondence, all you had to do was start at the bottom and read upwards (like any normal email thread). So about a week later I get this simple reply:
" Thank you for contacting AT&T Wireless regarding the e-mail you recently sent us. Unfortunately, we are unable to determine the nature of your request. If you would like to email us back with more detailed information, we would be more than happy to assist you further. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."
So the point of this rant is that ATT is full of technically incompetant people, and this story does not surprise me one bit.
Looks like they might encounter the same problems
Too bad that is just as misleading.
How about "Apple claims ownership of Shareware App."
...is a way to keep DSL service w/o an old-fashioned land line.
Right now, I can walk into a drug store and buy a wide variety of products - cold medicines, pain killers, etc... - and be reasonbly sure that they're not going to kill me. The FDA does a pretty good job of keeping harmful stuff from getting onto the shelf.
Which reminds me....I need to pick up some of those Fen-Phen diet pills on the way home!
If you're carrying 20 pills without the bottle, then you kinda deserve to get in trouble...
I want to respond to this....but I'm just too dumbfounded at the poster's opinion to even know where to begin. Well, I'll try my best.
20 of your own prescriptions pills, and GOD FORBID you keep them in a container other than the original package!! I'm sure nobody would EVER want to descreetly keep their prescription meds in a plain container that doesn't have their name, diagnosis, and drug name/amount prescribed right on it for anyone to see, right?
Deserve to get in trouble? WTF???
Ummm...what exactly was so good about this response?
First, ctrl-c and ctrl-v are not the only ways to copy and paste. You can use the menu at the top of most programs or right click with the mouse.
Second, Windows Update most certainly does tell you which patches it wants to install, what they do, with the option of unselecting any of them.
If you want to add new programs to the windows taskbar panel, just drag and drop them!
If you want to see a calendar, just double click the clock in the lower right hand corner!
This guy has been polluting Philadelphia Phillies message boards on mlb.com, espn.com and others. The admin of the board I follow (philliesphans.com) assisted the FBI in nailing this guy.
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In short, this guy is a major prick. I do think the charges are excessive though.
My experience is that their spam filtering is less than stellar. YMMV though.
When I registered my domain in 1998 or so, register.com was awesome. They had real, knowledgable support staff that would respond within 3 hours. Any time, day or night. And they gave you a real response that actually answered your question.
Then around the time they started airing those mini infomericals about registering your own name as a dot com they really, really started to suck. It was as if they had an automated response based on the problem category you selected, and your actual support request was not even read. Once I detailed how their nameservers were not resolving my domain, and how I had noticed the problem on my own computer, and the computers of several other friends (on which I have shell accounts) around the country. Also, my webserver is on my home dsl connection.
Even after all that, they tried to blame my web hosting company (again, I host my own domain) and my ISP (hey I told you I tried it on several computers around the country). Hello? did you guys even read my email?
This is just one example. I can think of several.
You civil liberties haven't been infringed? Good for you. Unfortunately, not everyone has been so lucky. Thanks for illustrating so nicely the short-sighetd ability of the right wing to care only about themselves.