A lot of the sudden scene shift are a case of changing the lighting under the floor so the floor appears to have changed, and at the same time they drop in or drop away walls that suddenly cause the entire surrounding to change. You don't go anywhere, but everything you see moves. And they shuttle you between multiple sets while they reset the previous ones, that's why you're never in one place for too long. The lights of course go out in the brief interval where the walls are dropping.
But if you're not expecting it, it's very involving. You don't have time to question what you're seeing, which makes it so much more realistic.
The canned video conversations between picard etc and the on-set actors was fairly well done but still looked a little artificial imho.
The only part I didn't care for were the klingons trying to make idle chat with me. I know they were just doing their acting jobs but it seemed a bit corny.
If you need more bandwidth then you just need to subscribe to the higher rate plans. It probably works this way in most places... pay more, get more. I am on the highest tier plan for my service here. For cable, pay twice as much, get ten times as much. Seems quite reasonable.
My DSL line is provisioned 956/1536 (kbps), and I get a consistent 110/165. (kB/sec) Base DSL service here is 128k/384k.
My cable line is provisioned 2/20 (mbps), and I get a consistent 230/2.5. (kB,mB/sec) Base cable service here is 256k/2m.
Divide your provisioned kbps by 9 to get a pretty on-the-mark number for kBps. Anyway, you get what you pay for. If you're getting more than what you pay for, enjoy the free lunch but don't be surprised when it comes time to pay the piper like the rest of us already do. Think of it like a low introductory rate for your credit card. Don't expect it to last forever, and don't scream fraud when it finally does go up to a more reasonable number later.
Fortunately they don't have monthly bandwidth quotas, not that I know of anyway. Seeing as I am on business lines I am not expecting there to be any quotas. That may also be the issue here, trying for unlimited monthly on the consumer plan.
as I understand it, the bank IS responsible. So if the bank can foot the 250k loss, he gets it. Probably will have to take them to court even though they are patently guilty. The insurance only covers what the bank can't cover due to insolvency. I doubt this bank can't handle a 250k payoff.
It's like getting into an injury accident where the other driver is at fault and doesn't have insurance. It's ok if he's wealthy, lawsuit and you get your bills paid out of his hide.
I think the main point of the insurance is in case a bank goes bankrupt. In such a case, the amount owed to all the customers would certainly exceed the assets of the bank, and the insurance covers to its limit for each customer. It's really not relevant with fraud on an individual's account.
The annoying part here is TFA says he's got a lot of transactions already going on the account. Whoever is doing this uses the account number + routing number to do the withdrawl. (and not much else) So do some of the 1,000 bills he pays a month. So to change the account requires changing account info on how many hundreds of automatic withdrawls? That inconvenience will also be good for some more lawsuit....
Since they seem to have identified the leeching withdrawls, I don't see why they can't just track them. ("follow the money") Not necessarily to prosecute, but at least to put a stop to the withdrawls. But I don't know if that would even help - they'd still have his acct # and routing # and could just start siphoning to a different account somewhere else I suppose. Poor guy, probably going to have to bite the bullet and change accounts.
Looks like someone forgot to read the first addition to The Constitution...
I very much hope to see someone very publicly hauled in front of a judge over this. Even if they were all let go, breaking up this assembly was itself a violation of the First Amendment.
Trampling on and interpreting laws nowadays isn't too hard to get away with, but direct violations of amendments are still a good deal more difficult to slither out of.
I have a regular visa and mastercard that I rarely use. I also have a visa debit card from my bank, I have cheques, and I have a payal account.
Most of my utilities are auto pay. They are either bound to my visa debit card or to my checking account. Things like the monthly power bill, internet service, and local phone bill. They used to mail me a statement but I've gotten most of them to emailing me my statements now since my mailbox mysteriously loses mail occasionally. Failure to receive bills in the mail was the primary reason I tried to get everything to electronic.
Some of my bills such as long distance and insurance do not offer direct payment, and half of them mail me a bill, the other half email me a notice to go to their web page to view my month's statement. For those I use my bank's "billpay" feature. I login to my bank web page and tell the bank who and how much to cut checks for. They keep the payee lists so I don't have to hunt down addresses or account numbers ever, and because I have opted for electronic statements instead of mailing me mine, my billpay service is totally free. I was expecting to occasionally have problems with a creditor losing a payment since it's not 100% the way they are expecting the checks to come in, or to have someone auto pay the wrong ammount, but in the last five years not a single problem has come up. Also, some of my bank's billpay are actually electronic transfers, because my bank participates in some sort of electronic payment network and has a lot of the big ones in the list. In either case, I don't even pay for a stamp.
Online purchases I do with my visa/debit card (as visa) or paypal. I avoid paypal unless necessary because the deductions on the statement say paypal and don't tell which vendor that payment went to, and I have a notoriously short memory on these things. Paypal is linked to my bank account and immediately directly deducts for purchases.
I try to use cash as sparingly as possible, and it's taken me a couple years to get proficient at it. I used to take out $20-60 every payday. Now I actually occasionally deposit cash and almost never withdraw it. And by this I mean I also don't just run to the ATM every time I need cash for a purchase. People that are always saying "I need to run to the ATM quick" need to get with the program. I use my visa/debit card for everything. I track my spending with a spreadsheet that contains my bank register back to 1995. Each entry is marked into one of a dozen categories, and allows me to see exactly where my money is going. There's a summary sheet that keeps track of stats. Entertainment, transportation, utility, home improvement, etc. I can tell you to the dollar how much I spent on gas or groceries this year or how much my heating bill went up over last year, etc. All possible because I don't use cash and have all those visa/debit receipts.
I've never been auto billed wrong, but I have had my visa/debit card hit twice by accident on half a dozen occasions. UPS, quickstar (gas), and mcdonalds several times, which is the only hassel I've had to deal with as a result of being cashless. UPS was the only one that requires me to take my printed statement into them to credit for the double charge, all the others merely required a phonecall. Looking at it from the other side of the fence, how many times have you been shorted on change when paying for cash? Do you really count it each time? I'm sure you've been shorted several times and you'll never know it. I know no one's gotten away with cheating me. So I think cashless is actually the safer way to go.
And I use on average a dozen checks a year. My bank is a credit union, has free everything, and pays me dividends on my balance in checking and savings. I don't see why anyone uses regular (non credit union) banks.
seeing as how the most popular method of government control has always been to make the people afraid of something so they'll do whatever you want them to, I'd say calling the government the terrorists is extremely insightful. They're the ones inciting and magnifying the terror.
That being said, there'd be a lot less terror if we could take back control of the government. Now if only the sheep would realize this...
The complaint isn't about the amount, it's the advertising. If your public utility advertised an unlimited power plan and you subscribed to it, and later got a new heat pump to replace your gas furnace, and was notified by the util that your electric heat pump was now breaking the "reasonable limit", and they wanted you to shell out some more money or start capping your power (brownout) wouldn't you be upset? What happened to unlimited?
It's like going to an all you can eat buffet and being asked to leave after you walk back to the bar for your fourth plate. If you don't MEAN unlimited, don't SAY unlimited. And more importantly, don't change your mind after I've started eating.
you have to have some perspective, it's relative to availability. If you're used to a 3gb cap, and I'm used to a 400gb cap, and they say they want to lower my cap to 200, don't look at it like 200. Do the math, (200/400*3) That's like your new cap being 1.5. I be you'd make a whole lot of noise if they threatened to do that.
One would assume that the manufacturer's motivations remain where they "should" be, to insure profit. If you lose or break a charger, or if it just plain fails, you can either order another one from the manufacturer for some unreasonable amount, or you can buy a whole new unit. I've had to buy a whole new unit on several occasions.
The packs are almost always marked for voltage and polarity, but the hardware rarely is. (the packs are probably required by UL to be marked) So if you lose the pack you have no idea what the requirements are to replace it yourself. Experimenting is very likely to lead to smoking the equipment. (see first point, I'm sure they're very satisfied with this possibility)
Most larger airports have a shop that sells a variety of fixed packs and universal packs for travelers that have forgotten to pack the cord to their gadget, cordless razors in particular. I'd be interested to see some input from one of those employees.
USB only supplies 5vDC nominal, and not at terribly high current, so I don't think that would make a good universal standard. Firewire would be a better choice for current and voltage, but it can vary between what, +12 and +24 or something like that, and isn't nearly as popular to begin with so that's probably also out.
Many of my toys are 12vDC, of the round pin variety. Polarity is totally random, as is size of the center pin, but many are compatible. If they're going to standardize, this is probably where to go.
According to the EULA, the retail boxed copies of OS X are meant as upgrades to prior versions of OS X
You can buy a retail OS X and install it onto a computer that has never had OS X on it. (ok, prior versions of OS X I mean, 10.2 and 10.3 for example, would work on a late os 9 shipped mac)
The actual wording says you can only install it on a macintosh computer. that's the catch.
Apple has never sold an upgrade for their os X. They've put out significant updates that required the prior version... 8.1, 8.5, 8.6, and 10.1 for example. But all the retail you buy now are full installers that will work fine on a blank HD.
They HAVE stuffed upgrade-only os disks into new mac boxes that were manufactured just before a new OS was released, but they only did that for 10.3 when it was first released. Those were free, not sold.
That's what I've always heard called those 1x1 transparent gif files they use to count hits and track users with. I'm surprised that's not what they're calling them here.
I thought the whole point was to have an "authority" (like verisign etc) sign your certificate. So MitM can't just swap in their own cert because to change it would break the signature?
Or are they just shooting for a free alternative? signed SSL certs are more expensive than some smaller places want to bother with.
Considering the vast variety of conditions where life exists on earth I would consider it likely that there is life elsewhere too.
The catch is that although life can exist in extreme conditions as we observe here on earth in places, the likelyhood of genesis in such conditions is much lower than the odds of genesis in more gentle environments. So it makes sense to look for either existing conditions, or previously existing conditions, that are "gentle" and are statistically much more likely to experience genesis. If there is only a hostile environment presently, it's more likely that conditions were more favorable in the past, and life evolved to survive in the more hostile present conditions. That's why they not only look for signs of water, but for past signs of water.
I was wondering about that, a few of the shots of boxes surrounded by bushes made me wonder how much of that they'd tear out of they needed to open those doors.
I be the firemen are a little grumpy not being able to clearly identify the fire hydrants. Sure it doesn't add a lot of time to things but I could easily see them not noticing another hydrant in the area after hooking up to one and thinking there was no more water available nearby.
They don't like to bury them for several reasons. I've seen an underground telephone "splice" get flooded and knock out a large chunk of businesses before they could get it pumped out and fixed.
In many towns you see small green boxes jut out of the lawn near the curb, those are also splices.
Also for the larger equipment where it's more than just a splice, it's a bigger deal if it gets wet, and you have to be able to get at it for maintenance. A proper vault in the ground for such a thing would add a lot to the cost.
In my area there are two cell towers that 99% of the populace have no idea are cell towers.
One is at the base of a Welcome to CityName sign by the highway into town, with an inconspicuous small building right by it, hidden with landscaping. There's a giant flagpole with a flag on it, lit 24/7. The pole is wider than you'd expect, (maybe 10-12"?) which is the only giveaway. The pole itself is a cell tower, and the building nearby is the mechanical room for it. The pole has no aerials sticking out, the antennas are entirely contained within the pole.
At the other end of town there's a church by another highway, with a giant white cross in the back of its property, very visible from the highway. The cross is made of the same white pole as the flag of course. I don't know if they're taking advantage of the horizontals or if they're just hollow, guessing hollow.
Heading into the adjacent city, they make no attempt to hide the cell towers and they're poking up like giant dandelions all over the place, sometimes several right next to each other. But last year one of them was host to a nest of eagles, which attracted quite a lot of photographers.
Sorry there's no streetview in my area yet.
I hear a lot of churches are getting revenue from cell companies hiding antennas in their bell towers.
those murals look very nice. They probably would not be so welcome in a rural neighborhood of houses, but urban neighborhoods would love them. As long as you could keep the taggers at bay. I'm sure they already have enough fun with the flat tan/white ones.
I think in a more urban housing area you'd get by better with making it look like a bush, sort of like the vinyl wrap idea, but more customized like the mural, and try to take some of the cube look away from it if possible.
Might be mildly entertaining to watch the taggers get chased after attempting to tag a mural'd box. You'd think they would have more respect for that but always a bad banana in the bunch. Is there something you can spray over paint to make it easy to wash away spraypaint?
I agree with that, and think it may help in other areas too. I don't keep up very well with the local races and don't know what's going on with half the ballots. Being able to "vote straight ticket" is silly imho. There's no reason some retard should get voted in simply because he's with the party that's higher up that everyone knows about and is voting for.
This would make it more obvious and easy to vote only for the offices you were interested in voting on. If you don't know the name of the person running for a said office, and have to pick it from a list or worse yet try to figure out if "that one's a democrat" etc, you have no business voting in that office.
So instead of seeing the results on tv to see the close race for dogcatcher at 158,000 to 152,000, you'd see the more realistic 1,800 to 2,200 if even that. I bet we'd see a lot better elected officials, especially down the list a ways.
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A lot of the sudden scene shift are a case of changing the lighting under the floor so the floor appears to have changed, and at the same time they drop in or drop away walls that suddenly cause the entire surrounding to change. You don't go anywhere, but everything you see moves. And they shuttle you between multiple sets while they reset the previous ones, that's why you're never in one place for too long. The lights of course go out in the brief interval where the walls are dropping.
But if you're not expecting it, it's very involving. You don't have time to question what you're seeing, which makes it so much more realistic.
The canned video conversations between picard etc and the on-set actors was fairly well done but still looked a little artificial imho.
The only part I didn't care for were the klingons trying to make idle chat with me. I know they were just doing their acting jobs but it seemed a bit corny.
If you need more bandwidth then you just need to subscribe to the higher rate plans. It probably works this way in most places... pay more, get more. I am on the highest tier plan for my service here. For cable, pay twice as much, get ten times as much. Seems quite reasonable.
My DSL line is provisioned 956/1536 (kbps), and I get a consistent 110/165. (kB/sec) Base DSL service here is 128k/384k.
My cable line is provisioned 2/20 (mbps), and I get a consistent 230/2.5. (kB,mB/sec) Base cable service here is 256k/2m.
Divide your provisioned kbps by 9 to get a pretty on-the-mark number for kBps. Anyway, you get what you pay for. If you're getting more than what you pay for, enjoy the free lunch but don't be surprised when it comes time to pay the piper like the rest of us already do. Think of it like a low introductory rate for your credit card. Don't expect it to last forever, and don't scream fraud when it finally does go up to a more reasonable number later.
Fortunately they don't have monthly bandwidth quotas, not that I know of anyway. Seeing as I am on business lines I am not expecting there to be any quotas. That may also be the issue here, trying for unlimited monthly on the consumer plan.
as I understand it, the bank IS responsible. So if the bank can foot the 250k loss, he gets it. Probably will have to take them to court even though they are patently guilty. The insurance only covers what the bank can't cover due to insolvency. I doubt this bank can't handle a 250k payoff.
It's like getting into an injury accident where the other driver is at fault and doesn't have insurance. It's ok if he's wealthy, lawsuit and you get your bills paid out of his hide.
I think the main point of the insurance is in case a bank goes bankrupt. In such a case, the amount owed to all the customers would certainly exceed the assets of the bank, and the insurance covers to its limit for each customer. It's really not relevant with fraud on an individual's account.
The annoying part here is TFA says he's got a lot of transactions already going on the account. Whoever is doing this uses the account number + routing number to do the withdrawl. (and not much else) So do some of the 1,000 bills he pays a month. So to change the account requires changing account info on how many hundreds of automatic withdrawls? That inconvenience will also be good for some more lawsuit....
Since they seem to have identified the leeching withdrawls, I don't see why they can't just track them. ("follow the money") Not necessarily to prosecute, but at least to put a stop to the withdrawls. But I don't know if that would even help - they'd still have his acct # and routing # and could just start siphoning to a different account somewhere else I suppose. Poor guy, probably going to have to bite the bullet and change accounts.
Looks like someone forgot to read the first addition to The Constitution...
I very much hope to see someone very publicly hauled in front of a judge over this. Even if they were all let go, breaking up this assembly was itself a violation of the First Amendment.
Trampling on and interpreting laws nowadays isn't too hard to get away with, but direct violations of amendments are still a good deal more difficult to slither out of.
I think most modern leaders follow that. Very unfortunate, but true.
I have a regular visa and mastercard that I rarely use. I also have a visa debit card from my bank, I have cheques, and I have a payal account.
Most of my utilities are auto pay. They are either bound to my visa debit card or to my checking account. Things like the monthly power bill, internet service, and local phone bill. They used to mail me a statement but I've gotten most of them to emailing me my statements now since my mailbox mysteriously loses mail occasionally. Failure to receive bills in the mail was the primary reason I tried to get everything to electronic.
Some of my bills such as long distance and insurance do not offer direct payment, and half of them mail me a bill, the other half email me a notice to go to their web page to view my month's statement. For those I use my bank's "billpay" feature. I login to my bank web page and tell the bank who and how much to cut checks for. They keep the payee lists so I don't have to hunt down addresses or account numbers ever, and because I have opted for electronic statements instead of mailing me mine, my billpay service is totally free. I was expecting to occasionally have problems with a creditor losing a payment since it's not 100% the way they are expecting the checks to come in, or to have someone auto pay the wrong ammount, but in the last five years not a single problem has come up. Also, some of my bank's billpay are actually electronic transfers, because my bank participates in some sort of electronic payment network and has a lot of the big ones in the list. In either case, I don't even pay for a stamp.
Online purchases I do with my visa/debit card (as visa) or paypal. I avoid paypal unless necessary because the deductions on the statement say paypal and don't tell which vendor that payment went to, and I have a notoriously short memory on these things. Paypal is linked to my bank account and immediately directly deducts for purchases.
I try to use cash as sparingly as possible, and it's taken me a couple years to get proficient at it. I used to take out $20-60 every payday. Now I actually occasionally deposit cash and almost never withdraw it. And by this I mean I also don't just run to the ATM every time I need cash for a purchase. People that are always saying "I need to run to the ATM quick" need to get with the program. I use my visa/debit card for everything. I track my spending with a spreadsheet that contains my bank register back to 1995. Each entry is marked into one of a dozen categories, and allows me to see exactly where my money is going. There's a summary sheet that keeps track of stats. Entertainment, transportation, utility, home improvement, etc. I can tell you to the dollar how much I spent on gas or groceries this year or how much my heating bill went up over last year, etc. All possible because I don't use cash and have all those visa/debit receipts.
I've never been auto billed wrong, but I have had my visa/debit card hit twice by accident on half a dozen occasions. UPS, quickstar (gas), and mcdonalds several times, which is the only hassel I've had to deal with as a result of being cashless. UPS was the only one that requires me to take my printed statement into them to credit for the double charge, all the others merely required a phonecall. Looking at it from the other side of the fence, how many times have you been shorted on change when paying for cash? Do you really count it each time? I'm sure you've been shorted several times and you'll never know it. I know no one's gotten away with cheating me. So I think cashless is actually the safer way to go.
And I use on average a dozen checks a year. My bank is a credit union, has free everything, and pays me dividends on my balance in checking and savings. I don't see why anyone uses regular (non credit union) banks.
seeing as how the most popular method of government control has always been to make the people afraid of something so they'll do whatever you want them to, I'd say calling the government the terrorists is extremely insightful. They're the ones inciting and magnifying the terror.
That being said, there'd be a lot less terror if we could take back control of the government. Now if only the sheep would realize this...
The complaint isn't about the amount, it's the advertising. If your public utility advertised an unlimited power plan and you subscribed to it, and later got a new heat pump to replace your gas furnace, and was notified by the util that your electric heat pump was now breaking the "reasonable limit", and they wanted you to shell out some more money or start capping your power (brownout) wouldn't you be upset? What happened to unlimited?
It's like going to an all you can eat buffet and being asked to leave after you walk back to the bar for your fourth plate. If you don't MEAN unlimited, don't SAY unlimited. And more importantly, don't change your mind after I've started eating.
you have to have some perspective, it's relative to availability. If you're used to a 3gb cap, and I'm used to a 400gb cap, and they say they want to lower my cap to 200, don't look at it like 200. Do the math, (200/400*3) That's like your new cap being 1.5. I be you'd make a whole lot of noise if they threatened to do that.
NASA has already tackled the problem of long-term access of unsupported storage
I'd love to know the history of who the brain was that decided an automatic, no prompt program launch on untrusted media insert was a good idea.
will definitely go to the first bot herder that manages to get a node on the ISS.
One would assume that the manufacturer's motivations remain where they "should" be, to insure profit. If you lose or break a charger, or if it just plain fails, you can either order another one from the manufacturer for some unreasonable amount, or you can buy a whole new unit. I've had to buy a whole new unit on several occasions.
The packs are almost always marked for voltage and polarity, but the hardware rarely is. (the packs are probably required by UL to be marked) So if you lose the pack you have no idea what the requirements are to replace it yourself. Experimenting is very likely to lead to smoking the equipment. (see first point, I'm sure they're very satisfied with this possibility)
Most larger airports have a shop that sells a variety of fixed packs and universal packs for travelers that have forgotten to pack the cord to their gadget, cordless razors in particular. I'd be interested to see some input from one of those employees.
USB only supplies 5vDC nominal, and not at terribly high current, so I don't think that would make a good universal standard. Firewire would be a better choice for current and voltage, but it can vary between what, +12 and +24 or something like that, and isn't nearly as popular to begin with so that's probably also out.
Many of my toys are 12vDC, of the round pin variety. Polarity is totally random, as is size of the center pin, but many are compatible. If they're going to standardize, this is probably where to go.
According to the EULA, the retail boxed copies of OS X are meant as upgrades to prior versions of OS X
You can buy a retail OS X and install it onto a computer that has never had OS X on it. (ok, prior versions of OS X I mean, 10.2 and 10.3 for example, would work on a late os 9 shipped mac)
The actual wording says you can only install it on a macintosh computer. that's the catch.
Apple has never sold an upgrade for their os X. They've put out significant updates that required the prior version... 8.1, 8.5, 8.6, and 10.1 for example. But all the retail you buy now are full installers that will work fine on a blank HD.
They HAVE stuffed upgrade-only os disks into new mac boxes that were manufactured just before a new OS was released, but they only did that for 10.3 when it was first released. Those were free, not sold.
That's what I've always heard called those 1x1 transparent gif files they use to count hits and track users with. I'm surprised that's not what they're calling them here.
They're also used to track email.
I thought the whole point was to have an "authority" (like verisign etc) sign your certificate. So MitM can't just swap in their own cert because to change it would break the signature?
Or are they just shooting for a free alternative? signed SSL certs are more expensive than some smaller places want to bother with.
Considering the vast variety of conditions where life exists on earth I would consider it likely that there is life elsewhere too.
The catch is that although life can exist in extreme conditions as we observe here on earth in places, the likelyhood of genesis in such conditions is much lower than the odds of genesis in more gentle environments. So it makes sense to look for either existing conditions, or previously existing conditions, that are "gentle" and are statistically much more likely to experience genesis. If there is only a hostile environment presently, it's more likely that conditions were more favorable in the past, and life evolved to survive in the more hostile present conditions. That's why they not only look for signs of water, but for past signs of water.
I was wondering about that, a few of the shots of boxes surrounded by bushes made me wonder how much of that they'd tear out of they needed to open those doors.
I rather doubt they would have any qualms whatsoever about blocking the majority of the internet 'for reasons of national interest'.
yes and they choose to let it flood anyway. We had our entire phone system down for a day because the manhole cover was about 6" underwater.
Fat lot of good THAT did.
I be the firemen are a little grumpy not being able to clearly identify the fire hydrants. Sure it doesn't add a lot of time to things but I could easily see them not noticing another hydrant in the area after hooking up to one and thinking there was no more water available nearby.
They don't like to bury them for several reasons. I've seen an underground telephone "splice" get flooded and knock out a large chunk of businesses before they could get it pumped out and fixed.
In many towns you see small green boxes jut out of the lawn near the curb, those are also splices.
Also for the larger equipment where it's more than just a splice, it's a bigger deal if it gets wet, and you have to be able to get at it for maintenance. A proper vault in the ground for such a thing would add a lot to the cost.
In my area there are two cell towers that 99% of the populace have no idea are cell towers.
One is at the base of a Welcome to CityName sign by the highway into town, with an inconspicuous small building right by it, hidden with landscaping. There's a giant flagpole with a flag on it, lit 24/7. The pole is wider than you'd expect, (maybe 10-12"?) which is the only giveaway. The pole itself is a cell tower, and the building nearby is the mechanical room for it. The pole has no aerials sticking out, the antennas are entirely contained within the pole.
At the other end of town there's a church by another highway, with a giant white cross in the back of its property, very visible from the highway. The cross is made of the same white pole as the flag of course. I don't know if they're taking advantage of the horizontals or if they're just hollow, guessing hollow.
Heading into the adjacent city, they make no attempt to hide the cell towers and they're poking up like giant dandelions all over the place, sometimes several right next to each other. But last year one of them was host to a nest of eagles, which attracted quite a lot of photographers.
Sorry there's no streetview in my area yet.
I hear a lot of churches are getting revenue from cell companies hiding antennas in their bell towers.
those murals look very nice. They probably would not be so welcome in a rural neighborhood of houses, but urban neighborhoods would love them. As long as you could keep the taggers at bay. I'm sure they already have enough fun with the flat tan/white ones.
I think in a more urban housing area you'd get by better with making it look like a bush, sort of like the vinyl wrap idea, but more customized like the mural, and try to take some of the cube look away from it if possible.
Might be mildly entertaining to watch the taggers get chased after attempting to tag a mural'd box. You'd think they would have more respect for that but always a bad banana in the bunch. Is there something you can spray over paint to make it easy to wash away spraypaint?
I agree with that, and think it may help in other areas too. I don't keep up very well with the local races and don't know what's going on with half the ballots. Being able to "vote straight ticket" is silly imho. There's no reason some retard should get voted in simply because he's with the party that's higher up that everyone knows about and is voting for.
This would make it more obvious and easy to vote only for the offices you were interested in voting on. If you don't know the name of the person running for a said office, and have to pick it from a list or worse yet try to figure out if "that one's a democrat" etc, you have no business voting in that office.
So instead of seeing the results on tv to see the close race for dogcatcher at 158,000 to 152,000, you'd see the more realistic 1,800 to 2,200 if even that. I bet we'd see a lot better elected officials, especially down the list a ways.