In my memory, the "alternate" registrar was.nu They advertised their domains as cheaper and "new" (a play on.nu) That was two decades ago, so maybe my memory is not exact.
I have mod points, but there is no option for INFORMATIVE, INSIGHTFUL, and THIS SYSTEM SHOULD DIE. Customer service agents should do their job, and if the customers are too stupid, just abandon those customers. Let them get their stuff locally. Or at all.
"The long and slender design..." Probably means fewer passengers and a really crappy fuel economy per passenger compared with the wider and slower jets in service.
I know what game the government would like. Your game character stands by a virtual assembly line, putting iPhones together. That's all. And it doesn't stop until your character jumps out a window.
For something like the flu, I don't think there's much that can be done. A huge chunk of the population gets it every single year and you can't really vaccinate against it effectively, so if it's a particularly deadly strain it's going to kill a lot of people.
I disagree with the first and agree with your second. After my first decade of life, I started getting serious lung infections and they came every two to four years. Usually it was some form of pneumonia and as a secondary infection from a simple cold or flu. It became a recurring fact of life. I would get sick several times a year, and sometimes it would bloom out into a lung infection. I used the stupid simple antibiotics (eg, amoxicillin) and even the "advanced" ones (azithromycin) but not much changed.
Leaving out detail here, I gave up sugar. And then I went low carb. And I do not get the flu or cold ever. EVER! I do take aspirin and/or small doses of prednisone for back pain, but that is all I take. And I never get sick any more. This is just one data point; use it any way you wish.
More than two decades ago, I spent time in Radio Shack. The advertising expense to sales as seven percent. Assuming this is a valid number for retail, that implies that the Google advertisers got 770 billions of sales from their 54 billion in advertising expenses. Did these sellers really get almost a trillion dollars of sales from that expense?! Just wondering.
I agree. There was an electronics store that had a security guy at the exit demanding... something. I just told him to piss off. But for some reason, I put up with Sam's club exit checkers. Is this hypocritical?
Who are your "Government Customers" and why are they using Tor?
They are probably the NSA and CIA. The NSA wants ways to access and extract information from anything and everything. The CIA wants that, plus, they want secure and anonymous communications for their operatives doing "fun and games", ie. killing people, running drugs, asserting force on governments, and collecting the profits.
What else have you disclosed but not told anyone? Or would that cut into your nice profits selling snake oil?
This might be their "advertising campaign" to get more awareness to their company.
"Where is my bobblehead?" "Sir, tonight you are getting a special token to a digital bobblehead." "So I go to some web site where I can see my bobblehead?" "Well, no. First you need an Etherium wallet." "Where do I get this wallet, then?" "You have to download the wallet software and run it on your computer." "Then I can see my non-existent bobblehead?" "Well, sort of. It's in your wallet, and you know it's there." "F' that. Give me a real bobblehead."
I remember that pretty much anything electronic from Radio Shack had a schematic at the back of the user manual. Nice to have if you want to fix it years later (and still have the manual.)
I have a Radio Shack clock radio with a huge LED time display. Have had it for maybe twenty years, and it recently decided to show random LED segments instead of the time. Yesterday, I opened it up to look for any obvious smoked transistors or leaky capacitors. No, looks fine. Playing the odds, I replaced the largest (power supply) capacitor, and now it works again. I saved the cost of a new one and saved the landfill from one more piece of e-garbage.
Seriously. The last time video games were interesting was before and a couple of years after the Nintendo 64 was released.
I enjoyed Doom and Doom2 two and a half decades ago. Skipped Quake. Then got into Diablo2 a decade later. That lasted a couple years. In between, I played Civilization, Sims, and other popular games. I don't play now, but I would say all of those games are decent. And there must be many other great games I don't know about. It would be improper to condemn them because of shallow emotions or just lack of knowledge.
Instead of negotiating for tax breaks in shitty cities, just pick a place that already has decent taxes and cost of living. I suggest any nice town in any decent state. Amazon has already set up a warehouse in Fernley, NV. That's a nice city, so what's wrong with that for HQ? Dunno, so let's go down Highway 80 and Elko looks good. There is plenty of cheap land, but still a real city core. I am sure Elko would be glad to add a company that was not about gambling.
To me, a Triumph is a car that is almost certainly a sports car that failed in some way. Firstly, the "TR" references the fact that Triumph started out using tractor engines. The TR120 and TR140 were interesting, for those who like different designs or imported cars. The Spitfire was... I don't know. I think it competed with the MGB, but both were low in horsepower. The TR6 might be the best of the line. It had a great look, and apparently it did not fall apart like the offerings from Fiat. I have to admit that I did LUST (yes!) after the TR7 design. But comparing the TR7 to the Fiat X19 is probably not going to give useful service life information. And to finish off the story, Triumph got a 215 V8 in the TR7 and called it the TR8. Good idea (I think), but it didn't save them.
This outfit has an Android tablet physically attached to each bicycle.
That's a lot of money there. How about an ESP8266 module and two AA cells? For less than $3, it has CPU, memory, and wifi. Mount it under the seat or wherever convenient. (The ESP12 is small!)
The device could wake up every so often and listen for an open hot spot. Associate with the hot spot and "phone home" with the MAC address of the hot spot. That might be close enough to locate the bike without GPS.
Meanwhile, volunteers could go war-biking with similar devices WITH GPS to make a database linking the MAC addresses to locations.
Is it possible to have a debit card without pin? What for? Just to avoid having to press 4 to 8 buttons and confirm?
I have a debit/atm card from my bank. The ATM requires the PIN, but I just used it with a merchant and they did not take a PIN, but a signature on a receipt. So your answer is "yes", at least for merchants.
I must have missed an important tech advancement in tunnel boring. I thought his machines were the traditional super long cylinders with a massive grinding head at the front. The result is probably some kind of slurry that is piped out to the surface.
But if he is getting solid blocks, he must have something more advanced that I had assumed. Maybe something that cuts the sides like a mega chainsaw? Or some variation of a wire cutter? In any event, getting large blocks out instead of grinding everything to a powder must be a great advance, and I am curious about that.
Huh? "Spotify says" (subject verb) intro "2 million users" (subject) "hacked apps" (verb direct object) So 2 million people hacked the Spotify app? Really? Or some other app? Please give more info on those two million hackers or admit to lying.
Is Elon Musk's vision for the future really one where there are proprietary fueling stations which only work on certain vehicles?
Ha! Now I can respond to a car story with a Linux analogy!
The Linux kernel is free and open source software. There are no patents to prevent others from making their own competitors. But the Linux crew has no moral obligation to help Microsoft develop and sell a competing product.
And that is what this post is suggesting, that Tesla already allows their competitors to use their IP, but that is not enough. Tesla should spend extra money to accommodate their competition.
Or did I miss something? I don't really care either way.
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Do superpowers make them "more" than Jesus is (given He can't fly, no super strength, no laser vision, etc).
Give Jesus the special power of knocking over tables with a wave of his hand and give him a magic bull-whip that glows when a banker is near.
In my memory, the "alternate" registrar was .nu They advertised their domains as cheaper and "new" (a play on .nu) That was two decades ago, so maybe my memory is not exact.
I have mod points, but there is no option for INFORMATIVE, INSIGHTFUL, and THIS SYSTEM SHOULD DIE. Customer service agents should do their job, and if the customers are too stupid, just abandon those customers. Let them get their stuff locally. Or at all.
"The long and slender design..."
Probably means fewer passengers and a really crappy fuel economy per passenger compared with the wider and slower jets in service.
I know what game the government would like. Your game character stands by a virtual assembly line, putting iPhones together. That's all. And it doesn't stop until your character jumps out a window.
For something like the flu, I don't think there's much that can be done. A huge chunk of the population gets it every single year and you can't really vaccinate against it effectively, so if it's a particularly deadly strain it's going to kill a lot of people.
I disagree with the first and agree with your second. After my first decade of life, I started getting serious lung infections and they came every two to four years. Usually it was some form of pneumonia and as a secondary infection from a simple cold or flu. It became a recurring fact of life. I would get sick several times a year, and sometimes it would bloom out into a lung infection. I used the stupid simple antibiotics (eg, amoxicillin) and even the "advanced" ones (azithromycin) but not much changed.
Leaving out detail here, I gave up sugar. And then I went low carb. And I do not get the flu or cold ever. EVER! I do take aspirin and/or small doses of prednisone for back pain, but that is all I take. And I never get sick any more. This is just one data point; use it any way you wish.
More than two decades ago, I spent time in Radio Shack. The advertising expense to sales as seven percent. Assuming this is a valid number for retail, that implies that the Google advertisers got 770 billions of sales from their 54 billion in advertising expenses. Did these sellers really get almost a trillion dollars of sales from that expense?! Just wondering.
I agree. There was an electronics store that had a security guy at the exit demanding... something. I just told him to piss off. But for some reason, I put up with Sam's club exit checkers. Is this hypocritical?
Who are your "Government Customers" and why are they using Tor?
They are probably the NSA and CIA. The NSA wants ways to access and extract information from anything and everything. The CIA wants that, plus, they want secure and anonymous communications for their operatives doing "fun and games", ie. killing people, running drugs, asserting force on governments, and collecting the profits.
What else have you disclosed but not told anyone? Or would that cut into your nice profits selling snake oil?
This might be their "advertising campaign" to get more awareness to their company.
"Where is my bobblehead?"
"Sir, tonight you are getting a special token to a digital bobblehead."
"So I go to some web site where I can see my bobblehead?"
"Well, no. First you need an Etherium wallet."
"Where do I get this wallet, then?"
"You have to download the wallet software and run it on your computer."
"Then I can see my non-existent bobblehead?"
"Well, sort of. It's in your wallet, and you know it's there."
"F' that. Give me a real bobblehead."
I remember that pretty much anything electronic from Radio Shack had a schematic at the back of the user manual. Nice to have if you want to fix it years later (and still have the manual.)
I have a Radio Shack clock radio with a huge LED time display. Have had it for maybe twenty years, and it recently decided to show random LED segments instead of the time. Yesterday, I opened it up to look for any obvious smoked transistors or leaky capacitors. No, looks fine. Playing the odds, I replaced the largest (power supply) capacitor, and now it works again. I saved the cost of a new one and saved the landfill from one more piece of e-garbage.
Seriously. The last time video games were interesting was before and a couple of years after the Nintendo 64 was released.
I enjoyed Doom and Doom2 two and a half decades ago. Skipped Quake. Then got into Diablo2 a decade later. That lasted a couple years. In between, I played Civilization, Sims, and other popular games. I don't play now, but I would say all of those games are decent. And there must be many other great games I don't know about. It would be improper to condemn them because of shallow emotions or just lack of knowledge.
Instead of negotiating for tax breaks in shitty cities, just pick a place that already has decent taxes and cost of living. I suggest any nice town in any decent state. Amazon has already set up a warehouse in Fernley, NV. That's a nice city, so what's wrong with that for HQ? Dunno, so let's go down Highway 80 and Elko looks good. There is plenty of cheap land, but still a real city core. I am sure Elko would be glad to add a company that was not about gambling.
To me, a Triumph is a car that is almost certainly a sports car that failed in some way. Firstly, the "TR" references the fact that Triumph started out using tractor engines. The TR120 and TR140 were interesting, for those who like different designs or imported cars. The Spitfire was... I don't know. I think it competed with the MGB, but both were low in horsepower. The TR6 might be the best of the line. It had a great look, and apparently it did not fall apart like the offerings from Fiat. I have to admit that I did LUST (yes!) after the TR7 design. But comparing the TR7 to the Fiat X19 is probably not going to give useful service life information. And to finish off the story, Triumph got a 215 V8 in the TR7 and called it the TR8. Good idea (I think), but it didn't save them.
Exactly! eg. USENET:
alt.barny.die.die.die
When I saw the headline about Office365 being rewritten in Javascript, I thought that was hilarious, the funniest joke/prank in a long time.
But Facebook selling subscriptions to groups?! THIS is hilarious!
Now I will keep my eyes open for the story about Stallman rewriting HURD in Rust...
This outfit has an Android tablet physically attached to each bicycle.
That's a lot of money there. How about an ESP8266 module and two AA cells? For less than $3, it has CPU, memory, and wifi. Mount it under the seat or wherever convenient. (The ESP12 is small!)
The device could wake up every so often and listen for an open hot spot. Associate with the hot spot and "phone home" with the MAC address of the hot spot. That might be close enough to locate the bike without GPS.
Meanwhile, volunteers could go war-biking with similar devices WITH GPS to make a database linking the MAC addresses to locations.
Now lets see you do that in COBOL.
Of course! A PICTURE really should be a 3D picture, In EPCDIC of course.
Is it possible to have a debit card without pin? What for? Just to avoid having to press 4 to 8 buttons and confirm?
I have a debit/atm card from my bank. The ATM requires the PIN, but I just used it with a merchant and they did not take a PIN, but a signature on a receipt. So your answer is "yes", at least for merchants.
He's using 100% bog-standard drilling equipment he bought used.
Okay, thanks! I am reminded of the part in "Oath of Fealty" where they use a tunnelling machine...
I must have missed an important tech advancement in tunnel boring. I thought his machines were the traditional super long cylinders with a massive grinding head at the front. The result is probably some kind of slurry that is piped out to the surface.
But if he is getting solid blocks, he must have something more advanced that I had assumed. Maybe something that cuts the sides like a mega chainsaw? Or some variation of a wire cutter? In any event, getting large blocks out instead of grinding everything to a powder must be a great advance, and I am curious about that.
Huh?
"Spotify says" (subject verb) intro
"2 million users" (subject)
"hacked apps" (verb direct object)
So 2 million people hacked the Spotify app?
Really? Or some other app?
Please give more info on those two million hackers or admit to lying.
Is Elon Musk's vision for the future really one where there are proprietary fueling stations which only work on certain vehicles?
Ha! Now I can respond to a car story with a Linux analogy!
The Linux kernel is free and open source software. There are no patents to prevent others from making their own competitors. But the Linux crew has no moral obligation to help Microsoft develop and sell a competing product.
And that is what this post is suggesting, that Tesla already allows their competitors to use their IP, but that is not enough. Tesla should spend extra money to accommodate their competition.
Or did I miss something? I don't really care either way.
"Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. But looking back, I can see it was a bad idea giving guns to monkeys."
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