Or perhaps a better idea would be if this was some sort of Bluetooth HUD, as someone up the discussion suggested. Overlay a topographic map of the run on the lenses and indicate when there's a tree waiting in a bend on the other side of a hill you're about to fly over. Maybe you'd zig where you'd otherwise zag and not fataly tenderize yourself against it.
Great. So now I can go from being the dork with the tiny Jabra headset who appears to be talking to himself, to being the scary sunglasses-all-the-time Matrix agent who appears to be talking to himself.
I know that. I don't run my own mail for any lofty privacy reasons so much as for wanting to be able to make as many mailboxes for myself and a few of my friends/family, make aliases/mailboxes with my domain rather than an @comcast.net suffix, and so I can use IMAP (which I much prefer to POP).
And since I'll never send out millions of spam messages, my approach is actually doing Comcast a small favor by not taking up space on their POP servers.
On the contrary; it's plenty good enough for hosting your own IMAP server too. Being able to make and destroy as many mailboxes or aliases as you want, at will, is damned handy.
If you've got the means and the wherewithall to access your server remotely, you can literally do this from anywhere you can get a port 22 connection.
This is nice when you want to give some corporate sales slug an e-mail address but you don't quite know if you trust them. I've given out addresses that didn't exist on my domain to people like that, then quick made it so on my server after our meatspace conversation ended. Voila! I get their marketing crap for a while, then if they become annoying or I'm simply not interested in their stuff, I just remove the alias I gave them and... Bubye.
That approach has proven a lot easier than having to say, "gee, I don't think I'm interested," and then having to live through their hard sell.
My job requires that I travel all over the US, in part to set up temporary workspace with all the means necessary for my people to phone home and do things on our network as much like they would in our office as possible. I've had to work with literally dozens of ISPs to contract for data services. Of all of them, Comcast has been (by far) the best in terms of low latency, high speed, uptime, and support. I can't find anything to criticize.
Maybe I've just been lucky -- the law of large numbers may bear that out eventually -- but considering my aggregate experience in this regard, I don't think so.
Mine's pretty stable too, actually. I originally set this up when I had Verizon DSL (suxors), and the address changed daily. I just redirected it when I switched.
It's still useful if you want to map your domain to the IP. My Mom couldn't grock typing http://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd into a browser. If it isn't www.something.com, something's just not right for her. It's admittedly mostly aesthetic at this point, but their is something to be said for pretty.
Ah. I never heard anyone explain it quite that way before, which actually makes some sense. It's obvious you're just bouncing everything off their port 25, just not so obvious why they'd put something in place that's so easy to get around and calling it good enough.
Mine too. It's only an annoyance when it does finally get released and renewed and you can't phyically get to the box to find out what the address is.
It's worth the $10, or whatever it was, for a lifetime subscription for one domain to a dynamic DNS service. If for no other reason than never having to even think about it again.
IIRC, I seem to remember Earthlink pulling the same move too.
Seems like a pretty dumbassed approach to stopping spam when all it takes is one line to a config file, maybe two minutes of googling to find the solution and the rest only dependent on how many words per minute you type.
I think the problem the grandparent post is referring to is really more of a DNS question than anything else. Unless you're paying extra for business class service, Comcast issues a DHCP IP to your modem.
Really, it sounds more like a question about a change to their TOS, actually.
This is easily solved by services like DynDNS. But it's still in violation of the TOS.
I've been using it for sometime and never had a problem with them, however. But then, all I have is a crappy webpage I rarely update. Other than that, it's primarily so I can map my domain over to my DHCP addy and get to my mailserver (I don't use their mail services -- rather host my own thanks), move stuff around with scp or admin things with ssh remotely.
Seriously, is a show controlled by the masses through voting a really good idea?
No. It will just be one more painful reminder that the vast majority of us want cookie cutter, mind numbing dreck, all just mediocre and unoriginal at best.... In large quantities.
That exactly what I thought when I saw the article.
Tell us, Sims publishers, will one of the objects on the Sims show be a dead horse? Will the audience be able to direct mobs of Sims over to beat it for several hours?
I'd have to chemically alter my own reality in new and extreme ways to be able to watch this reality show.
Sounds like my Verizon POTS experience. Though that was actually worse than a total outage. At first it took them three month to connect my service because they mispaced my initial check to get it. Then, it was mysteriously disconnected because they ended up having two accounts for me. This was done to get around their brainless accounting and billing practices with the original SNAFU. It was easier and quicker to start from scratch with a new attempt at an account than fix the mix up. Only problem is, once they sorted it out, they disconnected service for the wrong account.
Then I started having problems with random dropped calls. They sent several techs out to examine the lines, the switches, everything they could. It was partially their problem, partially my landlord's. Turned out the switch in the closet serving my unit was old, partially damaged by water and not functioning optimally. The end game (for Verizon and my landlord) was to keep pointing fingers at each other as the source of the problem and neither of them fixing it.
I fixed it myself by giving them both the finger (dropping the phone service and moving).
After another billing fiasco which resulted in the Verizon DSL farkers turning me over to collections for a mistake they made (I always pay in full, on time), which was followed by a rather callous dismissal of my concerns after two or three months of effort to get it rectified, I just resolved to never give any division of Verizon another dime.
POTS is dying. It should be euthanized anyway. Cellular is the best option, IMHO, POTS or otherwise. Residential VoIP service might fill what gaps remain for me personally, if it's marketed and delivered to my needs and requirements.
What happens when you lose your telephone service because some idiot has launched a DOS attack on Vonage or the Verizon VoIP center?
If you really rely on it as your primary means of voice communication, that would be unacceptable.
For someone like me (see my earlier post in this discussion), the response would probably be a shrug and an 'oh well,' followed by moving on to another activity while it gets sorted out.
Depending on the age and condition of the copper in your phone lines, they may be more prone to outages and other problems than the Internet, as was my experience in one of the apartments I had about 7 years ago (and to some extent, in my home now).
I already long ago dumped traditional phone service in place of cell-only telecomm at my crib.
However, I might consider getting a VoIP replacement at home through Comcast (are you listening Comcast guys??) when they offer it for two reasons, assuming they include call plans I want and it's cost effective.
1) Clarity on the cells in my brick/plaster walled townhome are often kinda crappy. The cheaper, multiuse, single number for everything, unfettered nature of cell phones has far outweighed my desire for a better quality phone experience, however.
2) Getting international calling plans for the cell phones would be more expensive than I'm willing to fork over. I've tried to use prepaid calling card services with the cell but found them too cumbersome. If I could get a plan that offered international service to Western Europe (I have several friends from the days I attended the University of Sussex I like to keep in touch with and it's just not the same when I can't hear their voice), for say, a flat rate of $10 a month or some reasonable per minute charge of, say 5 cents or less per minute) I'd consider getting one.
That would have to be weighed carefully with the risk of inviting telemarketers back into my life however. It's been so nice without them for the last 3 years. And no, I don't trust the National Do Not Call list to do what it advertizes.
(To the tune of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine")
Do Bud and Miller have too little taste for you?
Does Coors taste too commercialized and spare?
Are all the microbreweries too much for you?
Do trips down the beer aisle lead to despair?
Well there's no need to complain.
We'll eliminate your pain.
We can lupulize your brain, you'll feel just FINE!
Buy a BSD... Brewin' machine!
Does your own homebrew's quality just get you down?
Is life without some good hooch just a drag?
Did your wife just mention that you'd better check around?
Before you make another awful batch?
Is your fermentation stressed?
Is you technique just a mess?
Put our product to the test you'll do just FINE!
Uh, yes there was. They were disturbing the peace, plain and simple.
On McDonald's property, they could most certainly have you arrested if you were making a scene and you bothered them or their customers. That's what disturbing the peace boils down to basically. Now if your on the public sidewalk in front of McDonald, you'd probably be just fine. As would these guys, if they'd been outside rather than inside the courthouse.
Go ask a cop.
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Well, a lot of terms have been twisted to mean many different things in our current political climate. So this particular discussion could go on forever. If you're trying to "out" a Republican troll, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
Nope. I'm not. I'm just honestly curious.
I am an independent conservative who does not believe in party politics or groupthink. I tend to agree with Republicans more often than not, so I suppose you could take a few swipe with a wide brush and get some paint on me. I suppose I would be considered a strict constructionist by many. That's the best I can come up with.
I'd take that as an honest response. Thanks. The reason I asked was because you said you can't stand liberals to the point of hating them. I'm interested in why that is. I'm assuming you mean liberals in the current American political incarnation. Political discussions tend to run hot, so I wasn't particularly surprised by the level of passion in that comment. Based on other things you've said in this thread though, I reasoned that you have put some thought into why you think what you do. Being naturally inquisitive and mindful of the fact that I certainly don't have all the answers, I like to pry when I run across someone such conviction in what they think.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you don't hate liberals so much as dogmatism. I admire that (especially if I'm right in this instance) . In a country full of folk with such a self-conscious nature, it sure seems interesting to me that so many of our fellow citizens have everything figured out when it comes to political, economic and social belief.
Me, I voted for W in round one. Couldn't do it again after the first 4 years. I'd describe myself as something like a classical liberal or perhaps a libertarian without their extreme hands-off attitude to economics.
More importantly, I'm trying to live a less angry existance. I don't know if that makes sense, but there seems to be a shortage levity and patience in our world. It's damaging, and I think it stops one person at a time as we become mindful of what we think and how we behave toward each other. I'm a big hypocrite in this regard at times, but I'm trying to allow room for other people's ideas in my experience. I'm not into Zen or anything like that. I've just made a conscious decision to be more accepting of others and to simply be more happy. It's amazing what a little conscious effort toward a change in attitude can do. This has spilled over into my thoughts on politics, changing some of my previously held, unreasoned dogmatic beliefs.
And so, that's why I asked why. I think 'why' is the most important interrogative; it requires a lot of the person of whom it is asked to explain themselves. It requires as much of the person who asks it to listen and get something out of it. The rewards in both cases are often great if consideration is put into the question and the answer.
That's how I try to think and live. Thanks for listening to me wax philosophic. If you want to answer my original 'why,' that'd be cool.
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That gave me a good laugh. I've been in a downer mood thinking about these things for the last few days. Thanks.
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Well, what are you then? Conservative means many things. You sound like a Republican.
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Why are you a conservative?
Honestly? What draws you to it? Be careful how you answer. I used to consider myself one of you, so I know all the common conjecture and platitudes.
When it became apparent to me that it means so much more than fiscal responsibility, I had to stop. It's been argued that fiscal responsibility is the neocon loss leader argument anyway. There's evidence to support it on the Federal level in spades. It's been laid out better elsewhere already, so I won't bother here.
It's apparent to me that it is really about imposing will and morality on everyone around us, ourselves included, whether it is justified or not. If you think your party, and my former party, will allow you to exist without adopting the whole agenda lock stock and barrel, you'd better do some reflection.
The Republican Party is now controlled by the Right. There is no room for moderate thinking, or even thought, there anymore. It's population is centered in the most insular and isolated (isolationist) part of America.
Bob Erlich, Governor of Maryland, is an aberration, tollerated because he's managed to gain a foothold in what was formerly an unwinnable state for the GOP. The core will get rid of him and others like him once he's served his purpose.
No. We make every effort to ensure that others have the opportunity to choose the "American way of life" if they desire. There's a key difference between forcing someone to do something and empowering them to do something.
Indeed brother, we take it right to their door (Iraq, Afghanistan, ???, Profit). I'm not certain they have much of a choice in the matter however.
We haven't started killing dissenters in our own country yet, but we're working hard to make sure they will only have the 'correct' choices available to them through legislation. Think on these items for a moment if you will: constitutional amendments involving gay marriage, whacked drug policies, proliferation of prison cells and manditory minimum sentences; all these are GOP favorites.... I could go on, too.
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Or perhaps a better idea would be if this was some sort of Bluetooth HUD, as someone up the discussion suggested. Overlay a topographic map of the run on the lenses and indicate when there's a tree waiting in a bend on the other side of a hill you're about to fly over. Maybe you'd zig where you'd otherwise zag and not fataly tenderize yourself against it.
DAMN YOU bluetooth device people!
And since I'll never send out millions of spam messages, my approach is actually doing Comcast a small favor by not taking up space on their POP servers.
Everyone wins in this case.
Yes, I did. I'm a crap typist. Part of the motivation behind putting what I did in my sig. ;-)
If you've got the means and the wherewithall to access your server remotely, you can literally do this from anywhere you can get a port 22 connection.
This is nice when you want to give some corporate sales slug an e-mail address but you don't quite know if you trust them. I've given out addresses that didn't exist on my domain to people like that, then quick made it so on my server after our meatspace conversation ended. Voila! I get their marketing crap for a while, then if they become annoying or I'm simply not interested in their stuff, I just remove the alias I gave them and... Bubye.
That approach has proven a lot easier than having to say, "gee, I don't think I'm interested," and then having to live through their hard sell.
My job requires that I travel all over the US, in part to set up temporary workspace with all the means necessary for my people to phone home and do things on our network as much like they would in our office as possible. I've had to work with literally dozens of ISPs to contract for data services. Of all of them, Comcast has been (by far) the best in terms of low latency, high speed, uptime, and support. I can't find anything to criticize.
Maybe I've just been lucky -- the law of large numbers may bear that out eventually -- but considering my aggregate experience in this regard, I don't think so.
It's still useful if you want to map your domain to the IP. My Mom couldn't grock typing http://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd into a browser. If it isn't www.something.com, something's just not right for her. It's admittedly mostly aesthetic at this point, but their is something to be said for pretty.
Thanks for the enlightenment, sensei. :^)
It's worth the $10, or whatever it was, for a lifetime subscription for one domain to a dynamic DNS service. If for no other reason than never having to even think about it again.
Seems like a pretty dumbassed approach to stopping spam when all it takes is one line to a config file, maybe two minutes of googling to find the solution and the rest only dependent on how many words per minute you type.
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSrelay:smtp.comcast.net
Really, it sounds more like a question about a change to their TOS, actually.
This is easily solved by services like DynDNS. But it's still in violation of the TOS.
I've been using it for sometime and never had a problem with them, however. But then, all I have is a crappy webpage I rarely update. Other than that, it's primarily so I can map my domain over to my DHCP addy and get to my mailserver (I don't use their mail services -- rather host my own thanks), move stuff around with scp or admin things with ssh remotely.
We already have American Idol to do that for us.
Can anyone tell me how you would say, "Jesus Christ! Enough, already!!" in Simlish?
Tell us, Sims publishers, will one of the objects on the Sims show be a dead horse? Will the audience be able to direct mobs of Sims over to beat it for several hours?
I'd have to chemically alter my own reality in new and extreme ways to be able to watch this reality show.
Then I started having problems with random dropped calls. They sent several techs out to examine the lines, the switches, everything they could. It was partially their problem, partially my landlord's. Turned out the switch in the closet serving my unit was old, partially damaged by water and not functioning optimally. The end game (for Verizon and my landlord) was to keep pointing fingers at each other as the source of the problem and neither of them fixing it.
I fixed it myself by giving them both the finger (dropping the phone service and moving).
After another billing fiasco which resulted in the Verizon DSL farkers turning me over to collections for a mistake they made (I always pay in full, on time), which was followed by a rather callous dismissal of my concerns after two or three months of effort to get it rectified, I just resolved to never give any division of Verizon another dime.
POTS is dying. It should be euthanized anyway. Cellular is the best option, IMHO, POTS or otherwise. Residential VoIP service might fill what gaps remain for me personally, if it's marketed and delivered to my needs and requirements.
For someone like me (see my earlier post in this discussion), the response would probably be a shrug and an 'oh well,' followed by moving on to another activity while it gets sorted out.
Depending on the age and condition of the copper in your phone lines, they may be more prone to outages and other problems than the Internet, as was my experience in one of the apartments I had about 7 years ago (and to some extent, in my home now).
However, I might consider getting a VoIP replacement at home through Comcast (are you listening Comcast guys??) when they offer it for two reasons, assuming they include call plans I want and it's cost effective.
1) Clarity on the cells in my brick/plaster walled townhome are often kinda crappy. The cheaper, multiuse, single number for everything, unfettered nature of cell phones has far outweighed my desire for a better quality phone experience, however. 2) Getting international calling plans for the cell phones would be more expensive than I'm willing to fork over. I've tried to use prepaid calling card services with the cell but found them too cumbersome. If I could get a plan that offered international service to Western Europe (I have several friends from the days I attended the University of Sussex I like to keep in touch with and it's just not the same when I can't hear their voice), for say, a flat rate of $10 a month or some reasonable per minute charge of, say 5 cents or less per minute) I'd consider getting one.
That would have to be weighed carefully with the risk of inviting telemarketers back into my life however. It's been so nice without them for the last 3 years. And no, I don't trust the National Do Not Call list to do what it advertizes.
It fits. It works with theme, and even preserves the character of the origninal S&G lyrics.
I'm done now.
Do Bud and Miller have too little taste for you?
Does Coors taste too commercialized and spare?
Are all the microbreweries too much for you?
Do trips down the beer aisle lead to despair?
Well there's no need to complain.
We'll eliminate your pain.
We can lupulize your brain, you'll feel just FINE!
Buy a BSD... Brewin' machine!
Does your own homebrew's quality just get you down?
Is life without some good hooch just a drag?
Did your wife just mention that you'd better check around?
Before you make another awful batch?
Is your fermentation stressed?
Is you technique just a mess?
Put our product to the test you'll do just FINE!
Build a BSD... Brewin' Machine! [fade out]
Uh, yes there was. They were disturbing the peace, plain and simple. On McDonald's property, they could most certainly have you arrested if you were making a scene and you bothered them or their customers. That's what disturbing the peace boils down to basically. Now if your on the public sidewalk in front of McDonald, you'd probably be just fine. As would these guys, if they'd been outside rather than inside the courthouse.
Go ask a cop.
Nope. I'm not. I'm just honestly curious.
I'd take that as an honest response. Thanks. The reason I asked was because you said you can't stand liberals to the point of hating them. I'm interested in why that is. I'm assuming you mean liberals in the current American political incarnation. Political discussions tend to run hot, so I wasn't particularly surprised by the level of passion in that comment. Based on other things you've said in this thread though, I reasoned that you have put some thought into why you think what you do. Being naturally inquisitive and mindful of the fact that I certainly don't have all the answers, I like to pry when I run across someone such conviction in what they think.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you don't hate liberals so much as dogmatism. I admire that (especially if I'm right in this instance) . In a country full of folk with such a self-conscious nature, it sure seems interesting to me that so many of our fellow citizens have everything figured out when it comes to political, economic and social belief.
Me, I voted for W in round one. Couldn't do it again after the first 4 years. I'd describe myself as something like a classical liberal or perhaps a libertarian without their extreme hands-off attitude to economics.
More importantly, I'm trying to live a less angry existance. I don't know if that makes sense, but there seems to be a shortage levity and patience in our world. It's damaging, and I think it stops one person at a time as we become mindful of what we think and how we behave toward each other. I'm a big hypocrite in this regard at times, but I'm trying to allow room for other people's ideas in my experience. I'm not into Zen or anything like that. I've just made a conscious decision to be more accepting of others and to simply be more happy. It's amazing what a little conscious effort toward a change in attitude can do. This has spilled over into my thoughts on politics, changing some of my previously held, unreasoned dogmatic beliefs.
And so, that's why I asked why. I think 'why' is the most important interrogative; it requires a lot of the person of whom it is asked to explain themselves. It requires as much of the person who asks it to listen and get something out of it. The rewards in both cases are often great if consideration is put into the question and the answer.
That's how I try to think and live. Thanks for listening to me wax philosophic. If you want to answer my original 'why,' that'd be cool.
That gave me a good laugh. I've been in a downer mood thinking about these things for the last few days. Thanks.
Well, what are you then? Conservative means many things. You sound like a Republican.
Honestly? What draws you to it? Be careful how you answer. I used to consider myself one of you, so I know all the common conjecture and platitudes.
When it became apparent to me that it means so much more than fiscal responsibility, I had to stop. It's been argued that fiscal responsibility is the neocon loss leader argument anyway. There's evidence to support it on the Federal level in spades. It's been laid out better elsewhere already, so I won't bother here.
It's apparent to me that it is really about imposing will and morality on everyone around us, ourselves included, whether it is justified or not. If you think your party, and my former party, will allow you to exist without adopting the whole agenda lock stock and barrel, you'd better do some reflection.
The Republican Party is now controlled by the Right. There is no room for moderate thinking, or even thought, there anymore. It's population is centered in the most insular and isolated (isolationist) part of America.
Bob Erlich, Governor of Maryland, is an aberration, tollerated because he's managed to gain a foothold in what was formerly an unwinnable state for the GOP. The core will get rid of him and others like him once he's served his purpose.
Indeed brother, we take it right to their door (Iraq, Afghanistan, ???, Profit). I'm not certain they have much of a choice in the matter however.We haven't started killing dissenters in our own country yet, but we're working hard to make sure they will only have the 'correct' choices available to them through legislation. Think on these items for a moment if you will: constitutional amendments involving gay marriage, whacked drug policies, proliferation of prison cells and manditory minimum sentences; all these are GOP favorites.... I could go on, too.