Great story. I do have a mobile hot spot with unlimited data that I use when I travel or in case of an outage. I can watch TV on any of my mobile devices, or connect them to the TV and watch whatever I want. It's not about me and what I have. The problem is a large "tech" company thinks it can shove all of their services for a large population into one building. They can do it if they want, but it will cost them customers. If they decided as a company that losing a bunch of customers is fine, then hey, we all win. They stay in business with a smaller customer base and I get a more dependable service provider.
Sadly I do have U-verse TV and internet. Seemed like a great deal for 1Gb internet service. Service at the house has been down since 10:30 this morning. They won't even attempt to provide an ETA on repairs or service restoration. What kind of tech company doesn't have a redundancy plan? Ohhhh, AT&T isn't a tech company. My bad.
Before you go spew useless "facts", start with the most important fact, no one in congress opposed this bill from either party (https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8475876/music-modernization-act-passes-senate-unanimous-support). The party of the current president, senate majority, or house majority made no difference. Every level of government failed on this one.
I'd never fall for one of those robocalls. I'll be back on the internet in a minute. I have to use my phone line to return a call to the IRS. If I don't call them, I'll risk being taken into custody by the local cops.
Yes, private ownership would be bad if applied to all roads. However, "privately" owned roads do sort of exist. Toll roads are often managed by companies in a somewhat private way. The roads are often cleaner and better maintained as well as having courtesy vehicles ready to help you with a breakdown, flat tire, or even a little free gas should you have been so silly as to run out. The premium you pay for these services is often insane. Here in Dallas (as well as other cities I have visited), we do actually have toll roads running in parallel to free roads. On parts of 635 you can pay for the toll lanes, or stay in the free lanes. Again, you'd have to be willing to pay the insane toll rates.
You have me confused with someone who paid nothing at all. I ended up paying an agreed upon amount of money (about 60% of the original bill(s) which included an emergency C-section). I have since had two more children. I've had insurance for those births, but the insurance was so laughably useless (especially compared to my high monthly premiums) that I paid more money for each of those births (neither of which were C-sections). Even with having insurance, I was able to set up a small (though larger than the first birth) monthly payment with 0 interest. I paid off my second child's birth within a year of his birth. My third (and thankfully final) child is almost paid off and he's turning one this month. Again, 0 interest. The secret is to not let the bills get to collections. Once it goes to collections, your ability to negotiate a favorable bill with no interest diminishes.
They shouldn't need to go into bankruptcy for medical bills. When my first child was born, my wife and I had no insurance and almost no money. We set up a payment plan where we paid $50 a month. I just finished paying off her birth last month when she turned 8 years old. Most people don't understand that with medical bills you (mostly) don't have to pay interest as long as you keep paying. There have been many more medical emergencies and procedures since then. When I've been unable to pay it at the time, I was able to work out the same types of deals where I pay no interest. Some doctors or hospitals will try to get you to use a medical credit program that will charge you interest, but they do that so they don't have to deal with the bookkeeping themselves.
I'm more interested in getting the atmosphere's O2 above 30% again. We'd get giant insects again. Who wouldn't want giant insects? Should be easier to keep them out of my house... I hope...
In your rush to be offended, you seem to have missed my point. You claim that rising CO2 and climate change are the exact same thing. There are plenty of other things that can lead to climate change.
If you wanted to create an accurate headline, you could say "Rising CO2 Could Lead To Nutrient Deficiency For Hundreds of Millions". That would accurately describe the research. I would find that to be an interesting enough headline to read the story. Instead, they try to entice more readers by using a click-bait type headline. In no way am I trying to say this is a story that does not deserve to be read.
Obviously this is a click-bait headline. Regardless of your views on climate change, this is not really an article about climate change. It says that increased CO2 has a negative effect on nutrients produced by these specified crops. I think they do a good job of making their point.
Now, if people want to debate the effect of human produced CO2, that's a different discussion.
Not sure about the Japanese steel company, but the company providing the wires for the Brooklyn bridge was sending faulty wires for construction: https://www.jamesmaherphotogra.... (search that page for faulty) Although I didn't see it listed in the article I provided, I believe the company providing the wires would send a spool of wire for inspection (that they had purchased from a company that made good wire). Once that spool passed, they would accept all the wire in that load for bridge construction. They'd then divert the spool of good wire and use it for inspection the next time they delivered a batch.
Seems like he put a lot of effort into copying other people. I don't think it would have required much more effort to just do the work in the first place. I guess foolish people are just... foolish.
Let's not skip over this nonsense from the article "In a survey of 271 neighbors that he organized recently, he said, 90 percent disliked the name." So a random fool who has only lived in the area for 14 years (not very long really) found a group of people who he hand selected, then conducted his "survey"... Was this the only guy home the day the reporter went out there for public comments?
Wait, the LHC? Isn't that where Mr. Higgs Boson invented the black hole? I don't want to go in for an x-ray and end up destroying the world with a black hole!!! Bad invention. way too dangerous!!
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No, you just need to put a humidifier right next to it!
Yep, I'm in Richardson not far from the building that had the issue. We were up and running again around midnight.
Great story. I do have a mobile hot spot with unlimited data that I use when I travel or in case of an outage. I can watch TV on any of my mobile devices, or connect them to the TV and watch whatever I want. It's not about me and what I have. The problem is a large "tech" company thinks it can shove all of their services for a large population into one building. They can do it if they want, but it will cost them customers. If they decided as a company that losing a bunch of customers is fine, then hey, we all win. They stay in business with a smaller customer base and I get a more dependable service provider.
Sadly I do have U-verse TV and internet. Seemed like a great deal for 1Gb internet service. Service at the house has been down since 10:30 this morning. They won't even attempt to provide an ETA on repairs or service restoration. What kind of tech company doesn't have a redundancy plan? Ohhhh, AT&T isn't a tech company. My bad.
Before you go spew useless "facts", start with the most important fact, no one in congress opposed this bill from either party (https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8475876/music-modernization-act-passes-senate-unanimous-support). The party of the current president, senate majority, or house majority made no difference. Every level of government failed on this one.
This always happens when you forget to check for a full tank of gas before a long trip.
I was shocked to read that they consider Geoffrey the Giraffe an asset...
I'd never fall for one of those robocalls. I'll be back on the internet in a minute. I have to use my phone line to return a call to the IRS. If I don't call them, I'll risk being taken into custody by the local cops.
Yes, private ownership would be bad if applied to all roads. However, "privately" owned roads do sort of exist. Toll roads are often managed by companies in a somewhat private way. The roads are often cleaner and better maintained as well as having courtesy vehicles ready to help you with a breakdown, flat tire, or even a little free gas should you have been so silly as to run out. The premium you pay for these services is often insane. Here in Dallas (as well as other cities I have visited), we do actually have toll roads running in parallel to free roads. On parts of 635 you can pay for the toll lanes, or stay in the free lanes. Again, you'd have to be willing to pay the insane toll rates.
You have me confused with someone who paid nothing at all. I ended up paying an agreed upon amount of money (about 60% of the original bill(s) which included an emergency C-section). I have since had two more children. I've had insurance for those births, but the insurance was so laughably useless (especially compared to my high monthly premiums) that I paid more money for each of those births (neither of which were C-sections). Even with having insurance, I was able to set up a small (though larger than the first birth) monthly payment with 0 interest. I paid off my second child's birth within a year of his birth. My third (and thankfully final) child is almost paid off and he's turning one this month. Again, 0 interest. The secret is to not let the bills get to collections. Once it goes to collections, your ability to negotiate a favorable bill with no interest diminishes.
They shouldn't need to go into bankruptcy for medical bills. When my first child was born, my wife and I had no insurance and almost no money. We set up a payment plan where we paid $50 a month. I just finished paying off her birth last month when she turned 8 years old. Most people don't understand that with medical bills you (mostly) don't have to pay interest as long as you keep paying. There have been many more medical emergencies and procedures since then. When I've been unable to pay it at the time, I was able to work out the same types of deals where I pay no interest. Some doctors or hospitals will try to get you to use a medical credit program that will charge you interest, but they do that so they don't have to deal with the bookkeeping themselves.
Who wouldn't want videos to autoplay. Netflix added it and everyone loves it. I don't see how this could be at all irritating. /s
All those data breaches, and it never tarnished the reputation of Yahoo! Good for them! Oh, wait...
And think of how much tax payer $$ it cost them to come up with that as well!
I'm more interested in getting the atmosphere's O2 above 30% again. We'd get giant insects again. Who wouldn't want giant insects? Should be easier to keep them out of my house... I hope...
In your rush to be offended, you seem to have missed my point. You claim that rising CO2 and climate change are the exact same thing. There are plenty of other things that can lead to climate change. If you wanted to create an accurate headline, you could say "Rising CO2 Could Lead To Nutrient Deficiency For Hundreds of Millions". That would accurately describe the research. I would find that to be an interesting enough headline to read the story. Instead, they try to entice more readers by using a click-bait type headline. In no way am I trying to say this is a story that does not deserve to be read.
Obviously this is a click-bait headline. Regardless of your views on climate change, this is not really an article about climate change. It says that increased CO2 has a negative effect on nutrients produced by these specified crops. I think they do a good job of making their point. Now, if people want to debate the effect of human produced CO2, that's a different discussion.
Shouldn't it be simple to create a search engine for China? Do they have more than 5 or 6 approved websites?
I greatly enjoyed your reply
Not sure about the Japanese steel company, but the company providing the wires for the Brooklyn bridge was sending faulty wires for construction: https://www.jamesmaherphotogra.... (search that page for faulty) Although I didn't see it listed in the article I provided, I believe the company providing the wires would send a spool of wire for inspection (that they had purchased from a company that made good wire). Once that spool passed, they would accept all the wire in that load for bridge construction. They'd then divert the spool of good wire and use it for inspection the next time they delivered a batch.
heh, nice
Seems like he put a lot of effort into copying other people. I don't think it would have required much more effort to just do the work in the first place. I guess foolish people are just... foolish.
Let's not skip over this nonsense from the article "In a survey of 271 neighbors that he organized recently, he said, 90 percent disliked the name." So a random fool who has only lived in the area for 14 years (not very long really) found a group of people who he hand selected, then conducted his "survey"... Was this the only guy home the day the reporter went out there for public comments?
Wait, the LHC? Isn't that where Mr. Higgs Boson invented the black hole? I don't want to go in for an x-ray and end up destroying the world with a black hole!!! Bad invention. way too dangerous!!
Color was invented, you just hadn't dug deep enough yet.