So where do I buy one? I mean, straight-up buy one? I don't fly for business so I can't rack up 1M+ miles to qualify through an airline or anything, but I'm willing to pay good money for convenience. I don't fly economy, it's first/business all the way, and if I can't afford to fly first/biz I'll take my vacation somewhere I can drive to.
At the right airport, on the right day, it's absolutely worth it for that alone. I flew out of LAX on 23 December; got to the airport almost 3 hours before flight left and barely made first-class boarding for the flight.
Just wait a year or so. Prices do come down, you know. And if you're playing single-player games like Skyrim, e.g., it won't even matter except that you won't understand all the jokes about taking an arrow in the knee.
I'm in a small-to-medium city, depending on how you view these things - metro area 400k. Even being half a mile off the highway can matter quite a bit if there's a large building or a hill in an inconvenient place. I've seen this effect all over. If you stay close to the highway, you're fine. If you start exploring, even around fairly large towns / small cities, you can be in a very developed area and have no service. (There's a little cell service divot three blocks from me that is basically in a very small depression just big enough to cause dropouts. Travel one block in any direction and you'll have service again.)
I also had a lot of data trouble in LA when I was up high - e.g. at Griffith Observatory or the Getty Museum. Both are basically on the ridge line and should have great reception, but didn't.
The regional carriers are just that - regional carriers. C-Spire owns their towers and has reciprocity with Verizon. I imagine that Cincy Bell, US Cellular, and the other regionals are similar, although some of those are GSM and some are CDMA carriers. You're thinking of MVNO's, which only resell service.
When you're actually on the major highways, there's no difference. In and around towns? Huge, huge difference. At my last workplace there was no signal for T-Mo or AT&T, but 3G on Verizon. When we went to Disney World? Verizon was 1-2 bars of 1xRTT in the parks, AT&T was 4 bars of 3G.
Yes, if you're dumb enough to talk about it. Don't mention it. And when you get to the vote, vote not guilty and refuse to elaborate beyond "I just don't think he's guilty". You'll sound dumb, but so what?
Traffic tickets are usually not criminal offenses - a simple speeding ticket is not even a misdemeanor in most states, just an administrative infraction. And even where they are, states often exempt traffic courts from the right to a jury trial. And they charge enough in "court costs" that it costs you more to defend yourself than to pay the ticket up front.
It's a court, with a judge. IANAL but I imagine that the judge can garnish the contents of any bank account you may own in order to pay for an attorney that the court appoints.
You really don't go to work until 9 AM for a regular job? Because almost every one I've ever seen starts at 8 AM for an office job or 10 AM for retail.
The doctor who certifies brain death is not a transplant surgeon. So he's going to risk his license and jail time (for murder!) for someone else's profit? No.
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Maybe a less rigorous doctor doesn't even take it that far
Actually, the criteria for brain death are widely published and understood. And the doctor who declares brain death is not the one who gets the organs - it's a neurologist or neurosurgeon, not the transplant guy.
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That would be the spinal cord, which can be alive when the brain is dead. And to prevent it from going haywire, we actually do administer anesthesia to dead people. I certainly spent enough late nights on call during residency doing organ harvests to know that.
Heh, I remember using a system one summer that didn't have anything for transferring files from it to my home computer - no kermit, sz/rz, xmodem, anything like that. I would uuencode to tty, save the buffer from my terminal program, and uudecode on the PC. God, that was painful.
Small carriers will usually drop you if more than half your usage is outside their primary service area. They can't afford to pay the roaming fees forever.
What idiotic employers say this crap? I'm in an at-will state too, but you don't fire people for those kind of things - you fire them for no reason at all.
The Latin plural would be vira (according to Wikipedia; other possibilities would be viri if interpreted as a second-declension masculine noun, or virus if a fourth-declension masculine, or virua if fourth-declension neuter) or (running through the same possibilities as above) Pria, Prii (two i's only), Prius, Priua. Priii is never right.
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The 360 also had Xbox Live, which wipes the floor with PSN. The 360 is an okay console, but Live is a terrific service.
So where do I buy one? I mean, straight-up buy one? I don't fly for business so I can't rack up 1M+ miles to qualify through an airline or anything, but I'm willing to pay good money for convenience. I don't fly economy, it's first/business all the way, and if I can't afford to fly first/biz I'll take my vacation somewhere I can drive to.
I pay extra almost for that alone
At the right airport, on the right day, it's absolutely worth it for that alone. I flew out of LAX on 23 December; got to the airport almost 3 hours before flight left and barely made first-class boarding for the flight.
Just wait a year or so. Prices do come down, you know. And if you're playing single-player games like Skyrim, e.g., it won't even matter except that you won't understand all the jokes about taking an arrow in the knee.
Osborne.
I'm in a small-to-medium city, depending on how you view these things - metro area 400k. Even being half a mile off the highway can matter quite a bit if there's a large building or a hill in an inconvenient place. I've seen this effect all over. If you stay close to the highway, you're fine. If you start exploring, even around fairly large towns / small cities, you can be in a very developed area and have no service. (There's a little cell service divot three blocks from me that is basically in a very small depression just big enough to cause dropouts. Travel one block in any direction and you'll have service again.)
I also had a lot of data trouble in LA when I was up high - e.g. at Griffith Observatory or the Getty Museum. Both are basically on the ridge line and should have great reception, but didn't.
You know, some family reunions are pretty cool about guns.
The regional carriers are just that - regional carriers. C-Spire owns their towers and has reciprocity with Verizon. I imagine that Cincy Bell, US Cellular, and the other regionals are similar, although some of those are GSM and some are CDMA carriers. You're thinking of MVNO's, which only resell service.
When you're actually on the major highways, there's no difference. In and around towns? Huge, huge difference. At my last workplace there was no signal for T-Mo or AT&T, but 3G on Verizon. When we went to Disney World? Verizon was 1-2 bars of 1xRTT in the parks, AT&T was 4 bars of 3G.
Yes, if you're dumb enough to talk about it. Don't mention it. And when you get to the vote, vote not guilty and refuse to elaborate beyond "I just don't think he's guilty". You'll sound dumb, but so what?
Traffic tickets are usually not criminal offenses - a simple speeding ticket is not even a misdemeanor in most states, just an administrative infraction. And even where they are, states often exempt traffic courts from the right to a jury trial. And they charge enough in "court costs" that it costs you more to defend yourself than to pay the ticket up front.
It's a court, with a judge. IANAL but I imagine that the judge can garnish the contents of any bank account you may own in order to pay for an attorney that the court appoints.
No, we actually gave them isoflurane. Like I said, it's to quiet the spinal cord.
Where do you live? I've heard these 9 AM jobs exist in NYC but have never heard of them elsewhere. I'm in flyover country and they don't exist here.
You really don't go to work until 9 AM for a regular job? Because almost every one I've ever seen starts at 8 AM for an office job or 10 AM for retail.
The doctor who certifies brain death is not a transplant surgeon. So he's going to risk his license and jail time (for murder!) for someone else's profit? No.
Maybe a less rigorous doctor doesn't even take it that far
Actually, the criteria for brain death are widely published and understood. And the doctor who declares brain death is not the one who gets the organs - it's a neurologist or neurosurgeon, not the transplant guy.
That would be the spinal cord, which can be alive when the brain is dead. And to prevent it from going haywire, we actually do administer anesthesia to dead people. I certainly spent enough late nights on call during residency doing organ harvests to know that.
Look south. The Central time zone extends to the GA/AL border, quite a bit east of you.
Heh, I remember using a system one summer that didn't have anything for transferring files from it to my home computer - no kermit, sz/rz, xmodem, anything like that. I would uuencode to tty, save the buffer from my terminal program, and uudecode on the PC. God, that was painful.
Small carriers will usually drop you if more than half your usage is outside their primary service area. They can't afford to pay the roaming fees forever.
The Canadians generally have it worse than we do.
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Yeah, in 1.0. IE4 vs Netscape 4? Did you ever use Communicator? Especially on a page with tables?
What idiotic employers say this crap? I'm in an at-will state too, but you don't fire people for those kind of things - you fire them for no reason at all.
The Latin plural would be vira (according to Wikipedia; other possibilities would be viri if interpreted as a second-declension masculine noun, or virus if a fourth-declension masculine, or virua if fourth-declension neuter) or (running through the same possibilities as above) Pria, Prii (two i's only), Prius, Priua. Priii is never right.