Electromagnetic radiation may be a long, long way from the surface of this planet before it becomes heat. (This does not invalidate your point, just modifies it a little.)
And thank you to the brilliant mod who rated this "overrated" before anyone else modded it. It's nice to know you guys are out there trying to have an honest discussion. Thankfully, I have plenty of karma to burn.
Well, it sort-of makes sense - BC is pretty dry, and pretty mountainous, no? So they stand to lose ski resorts without the compensation that Alberta and Saskatchewan have - that they'll be able to sell their energy resources and expand their arable land.
Besides, everyone in BC is stoned, so their stuff doesn't have to make sense.
This is like finding out that Canada or Russia supports a carbon tax - MN is one of the places on earth for which there is no downside at all to climatic warming.
That might be true of Taliban types and the low-level AQ-Iraq grunts, but the guys who do the damage in the west are overwhelmingly from middle-class or better backgrounds.
The SD card cannot be accessed by both computer and phone at the same time. The extra step of mounting the drive over USB means that you can choose to plug your phone in to charge but not switch the SD card over to the computer's control.
The DROID has Google's logo on the back of it. Every ad ends with the twin logos of Verizon and Google. It's a Google Experience phone, as are the G1, the MyTouch 3G, and the Nexus One. Verizon gave a lot of ground to Google on this.
True, except that most people use reserved IP blocks for their private network - so where does it forward the port? A packet addressed to a private IP range *should* have been dropped at the ISP level.
Now, having tried to devil's advocate every one of your positions, I do have to thank you for pointing out that the features we see in consumer NAT devices don't have any necessary connection to one another.
10-digit dialing didn't require anyone to change any equipment. You can still do rotary 10-digit dialing with a 60-year-old telephone, and it works. IPv6, not so much.
And - let's face it - neither can most of/.'s users. I remember setting up an OpenBSD firewall back in the late 90s, and I did most of my firewall rules configuration by copying someone else's rules. I tweaked them for my specific needs, but there's no way I'd have come up with them on my own. Unless you are a real network admin, you are unlikely to be able to set this up properly.
I ditched them years ago for Vonage, but when I had a landline last it was about $25/mo for service with $5 in fees and taxes. With no optional services whatsoever. Add in caller ID and call waiting, and I was paying $45/mo. Without long distance.
People don't trust a pilot who isn't wearing a uniform.
Especially if he's under 40. A guy I went through residency with was rather baby-faced; at 30 he looked like he was 25 at best. (Great in most ways, but a bit of a hindrance in medicine.) He switched from contacts to glasses and grew a goatee, because he was tired of getting asked if he was a real doctor or just a student.
Half joking? It is a third-world country with highways provided by the USA.
Proof?
Corrupt local governments? Check.
Abysmal income and education among the populace? Check.
Tiny crust of upper-middle-class professionals engaged primarily in making as much money as possible, since there's no other reason to live there? Check.
Q.E.D. And I've lived in Jackson my whole life (except college).
a sad irony that Japan, a tiny country with little land mass has the world's fastest trains, while the US and its huge land mass seemingly has the world's slowest.
Well, looking at it on the GIS mapper for the city (http://map.richmondgov.com/parcel/), it looks like the parking lot is in the city, while the store is in the county, so file under "partially true". The point in question is at the northwest edge of the city, corner of Three Chopt and Patterson.
But check out the intersection of Williamsburg Ave and Hatcher St on the east side of the river - the line runs pretty clearly through some warehouses.
When I was in college, a friend of mine worked at a nearby Little Caesar's. The cash register was in the back of the store. Why? Because the back of the store was outside the city limits, allowing them to avoid an extra 2% restaurant tax on food. Can you imagine trying to identify precisely where every building is located?
The buyer is already committing tax fraud by not voluntarily submitting use tax on all purchased items to the appropriate tax agencies. And, as others note, some taxes span multiple counties; sometimes places with the same postal (ZIP) code have different taxes.
All the B&M companies only have to figure it out once per store. I'm pretty sure Amazon can afford to do this per customer, but there are a lot of small companies that can't.
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Electromagnetic radiation may be a long, long way from the surface of this planet before it becomes heat. (This does not invalidate your point, just modifies it a little.)
And thank you to the brilliant mod who rated this "overrated" before anyone else modded it. It's nice to know you guys are out there trying to have an honest discussion. Thankfully, I have plenty of karma to burn.
Well, it sort-of makes sense - BC is pretty dry, and pretty mountainous, no? So they stand to lose ski resorts without the compensation that Alberta and Saskatchewan have - that they'll be able to sell their energy resources and expand their arable land.
Besides, everyone in BC is stoned, so their stuff doesn't have to make sense.
This is like finding out that Canada or Russia supports a carbon tax - MN is one of the places on earth for which there is no downside at all to climatic warming.
That might be true of Taliban types and the low-level AQ-Iraq grunts, but the guys who do the damage in the west are overwhelmingly from middle-class or better backgrounds.
The SD card cannot be accessed by both computer and phone at the same time. The extra step of mounting the drive over USB means that you can choose to plug your phone in to charge but not switch the SD card over to the computer's control.
The DROID has Google's logo on the back of it. Every ad ends with the twin logos of Verizon and Google. It's a Google Experience phone, as are the G1, the MyTouch 3G, and the Nexus One. Verizon gave a lot of ground to Google on this.
True, except that most people use reserved IP blocks for their private network - so where does it forward the port? A packet addressed to a private IP range *should* have been dropped at the ISP level.
Now, having tried to devil's advocate every one of your positions, I do have to thank you for pointing out that the features we see in consumer NAT devices don't have any necessary connection to one another.
The actual packet filtering conceptually works exactly the same with or without NAT
Conceptually, you're entirely correct. Practically, NAT requires state awareness, and so it's a lot better than nothing.
Lots of us don't work in IT, although the point is well taken.
10-digit dialing didn't require anyone to change any equipment. You can still do rotary 10-digit dialing with a 60-year-old telephone, and it works. IPv6, not so much.
You can. I can. Aunt Myrtle can't.
And - let's face it - neither can most of /.'s users. I remember setting up an OpenBSD firewall back in the late 90s, and I did most of my firewall rules configuration by copying someone else's rules. I tweaked them for my specific needs, but there's no way I'd have come up with them on my own. Unless you are a real network admin, you are unlikely to be able to set this up properly.
I ditched them years ago for Vonage, but when I had a landline last it was about $25/mo for service with $5 in fees and taxes. With no optional services whatsoever. Add in caller ID and call waiting, and I was paying $45/mo. Without long distance.
My favorite sentence that has totally different meanings in US and UK English is "I was so pissed that I couldn't find a fag when I had that torch."
What's right-wing about dissing the French? English-speaking nations have been doing it since AT LEAST 1066.
What music app is that? I hate the stock Android music app, but don't have the time to sort through the pile.
People don't trust a pilot who isn't wearing a uniform.
Especially if he's under 40. A guy I went through residency with was rather baby-faced; at 30 he looked like he was 25 at best. (Great in most ways, but a bit of a hindrance in medicine.) He switched from contacts to glasses and grew a goatee, because he was tired of getting asked if he was a real doctor or just a student.
Proof?
Q.E.D. And I've lived in Jackson my whole life (except college).
a sad irony that Japan, a tiny country with little land mass has the world's fastest trains, while the US and its huge land mass seemingly has the world's slowest.
Think about what you just wrote. Carefully.
Well, looking at it on the GIS mapper for the city (http://map.richmondgov.com/parcel/), it looks like the parking lot is in the city, while the store is in the county, so file under "partially true". The point in question is at the northwest edge of the city, corner of Three Chopt and Patterson.
But check out the intersection of Williamsburg Ave and Hatcher St on the east side of the river - the line runs pretty clearly through some warehouses.
Did you just assert that free trade is bad for the economy?
Oh, and they would earn every penny of it.
When I was in college, a friend of mine worked at a nearby Little Caesar's. The cash register was in the back of the store. Why? Because the back of the store was outside the city limits, allowing them to avoid an extra 2% restaurant tax on food. Can you imagine trying to identify precisely where every building is located?
Thanks for the info. Any of those companies offer prepaid SIM cards that a tourist might pick up?
The buyer is already committing tax fraud by not voluntarily submitting use tax on all purchased items to the appropriate tax agencies. And, as others note, some taxes span multiple counties; sometimes places with the same postal (ZIP) code have different taxes.
All the B&M companies only have to figure it out once per store. I'm pretty sure Amazon can afford to do this per customer, but there are a lot of small companies that can't.