"Your point?" What a ridiculous statement. I made my point. You making a counter-point--better or worse--doesn't reduce my argument to a non-statement.
What has always bothered my about that is we need lawyers just to make sense of our laws. How do I, as a soldier, know if some action is illegal? What if I refuse orders on the grounds I believe them to be illegal and they are not? Could I not then be court martialed? I think it is a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation.
Truecrypt hidden volumes have two passwords. One that decrypt the "real" volume, and one that decrypt another. When forced, you give the other password. There is no way to know that that is not the real one.
I once had to call my cable support because my modem got fried by lightning. I went through five different people, all of whom thought they could fix it by futzing with my network settings.
Support guy: what's the problem?
Me: My cable modem got struck by lightning. I need it replaced.
Support guy: So you can't get to the Internet?
Me: No, as I said...
Support guy: OK, click on Start, Control Panel...
Me: Sigh
Finally, I talked with someone who was able to schedule a time for someone to come and replace it.
I think you hit the nail on the head! And it's not just the corporations. Has anyone seen the new purposed copyright law that is getting bipartisan support in congress, that is being pushed by the RIAA/MPAA lobbyist?
I remember when I could go to Radio Shack and the guy would know the most obscure part off the top of his head. Last time I was there, I asked the kid behind the counter for a simple stereo splitter. He looked at me and said, "I have no idea what you are talking about."
I agree with everyone that these gadgets are mostly crap, but am I the only one that thought the Raon Everun was kind of neat? I've been wanting something small and portable (but with a good sized display) for reading PDFs. I didn't like any of the "eBook" devices that can and went, and I think a tablet pc is too much to pay for a simple use like this. I've been drooling over e-paper is a big way. I can't wait for them to perfect it and make devices from it. I liked that device that Sony came out with except for the lack of color and back lighting.
Well, I really don't care if you choose not the believe me. As I said, I timed it on several occasions. Just because it was aired one way for you, doesn't mean it was the same for he or me. Downloading an episode does not help if it commercial free. DVDs always have more content that is cut out to make room for the commercials. And depending on when they air, you can get more or less show. There is an episode of Buffy that runs long. They choose to let it run long the first time they aired it, but subsequent times, it was cut back.
The current trend that really annoys me is the channels now air advertisement WHILE the show is running (at the bottom of the screen--and it seems to get bigger all the time). I am already watching their channel. Do they really need to advertise their other shows on top of the one I can currently watching? Worse, these ads will cover any captions at the bottom (when someone is speaking a foreign language) and some even have there own sound effects! And I thought the "bugs" where annoying!
Thank you for proving my point for me. If he were right, programs would be 30 minutes or less after commercials are removed. But that isn't the case, as you yourself pointed out.
The "44 minutes" was in reference to contemporary shows that DO NOT go to commercial every 5 minutes, which does nothing to prove your point. I do not know the actual program length of the shows with more frequency commercial breaks (as I stated in my previous post), because I did not time how long they showed the commercials.
Where do you live? Maybe it is different or different part of the world. Where I live, Lost went to commercial EVERY five minutes. It was when I first noticed the trend (and I watched every episode). I've noticed Bionic Woman doing the same thing (though I do not know if it has been since the start). Other shows, like SG-1, did not.
No he is correct. I have timed it several times when I first noticed it. It may not be every program and every channel. I know that they did that when Lost aired. Every five minutes, like clockwork. It gets worse all the time. Ever watch a DVD of an old 70s show? 50 to 55 minutes of program. Compare that to contemporary shows in which you get only 44 minutes. I am not sure how many minutes you get for the ones that go to commercial every 5 minutes.
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You didn't mention whether or not he washed his hands.
"Your point?" What a ridiculous statement. I made my point. You making a counter-point--better or worse--doesn't reduce my argument to a non-statement.
I am not asked to make the complex, life-or-death decisions that soldiers are.
What has always bothered my about that is we need lawyers just to make sense of our laws. How do I, as a soldier, know if some action is illegal? What if I refuse orders on the grounds I believe them to be illegal and they are not? Could I not then be court martialed? I think it is a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation.
Truecrypt hidden volumes have two passwords. One that decrypt the "real" volume, and one that decrypt another. When forced, you give the other password. There is no way to know that that is not the real one.
I once had to call my cable support because my modem got fried by lightning. I went through five different people, all of whom thought they could fix it by futzing with my network settings.
Support guy: what's the problem?
Me: My cable modem got struck by lightning. I need it replaced.
Support guy: So you can't get to the Internet?
Me: No, as I said...
Support guy: OK, click on Start, Control Panel...
Me: Sigh
Finally, I talked with someone who was able to schedule a time for someone to come and replace it.
The sony device is bigger, but the screens are exactly the same size.
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix
I think you hit the nail on the head! And it's not just the corporations. Has anyone seen the new purposed copyright law that is getting bipartisan support in congress, that is being pushed by the RIAA/MPAA lobbyist?
Just out of curiosity: why "My Sweet Lord"? I think I would have gone for something harder (no pun intended) like AC/DC's "Thunder Struck."
I remember when I could go to Radio Shack and the guy would know the most obscure part off the top of his head. Last time I was there, I asked the kid behind the counter for a simple stereo splitter. He looked at me and said, "I have no idea what you are talking about."
He doesn't need any proof. The burden of proof is on the one making the claim that dowsing works to prove it so.
Have you lived such a sheltered life that you think mental illness goes away with just some "correction" involving a few kind words?
"Hello, I'm Bob and I have freely available, online video content."
Hi, Bob!
That God didn't play dice with the universe! (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)
I agree with everyone that these gadgets are mostly crap, but am I the only one that thought the Raon Everun was kind of neat? I've been wanting something small and portable (but with a good sized display) for reading PDFs. I didn't like any of the "eBook" devices that can and went, and I think a tablet pc is too much to pay for a simple use like this. I've been drooling over e-paper is a big way. I can't wait for them to perfect it and make devices from it. I liked that device that Sony came out with except for the lack of color and back lighting.
Well, I really don't care if you choose not the believe me. As I said, I timed it on several occasions. Just because it was aired one way for you, doesn't mean it was the same for he or me. Downloading an episode does not help if it commercial free. DVDs always have more content that is cut out to make room for the commercials. And depending on when they air, you can get more or less show. There is an episode of Buffy that runs long. They choose to let it run long the first time they aired it, but subsequent times, it was cut back.
The current trend that really annoys me is the channels now air advertisement WHILE the show is running (at the bottom of the screen--and it seems to get bigger all the time). I am already watching their channel. Do they really need to advertise their other shows on top of the one I can currently watching? Worse, these ads will cover any captions at the bottom (when someone is speaking a foreign language) and some even have there own sound effects! And I thought the "bugs" where annoying!
Thank you for proving my point for me. If he were right, programs would be 30 minutes or less after commercials are removed. But that isn't the case, as you yourself pointed out.
The "44 minutes" was in reference to contemporary shows that DO NOT go to commercial every 5 minutes, which does nothing to prove your point. I do not know the actual program length of the shows with more frequency commercial breaks (as I stated in my previous post), because I did not time how long they showed the commercials.
Where do you live? Maybe it is different or different part of the world. Where I live, Lost went to commercial EVERY five minutes. It was when I first noticed the trend (and I watched every episode). I've noticed Bionic Woman doing the same thing (though I do not know if it has been since the start). Other shows, like SG-1, did not.
No he is correct. I have timed it several times when I first noticed it. It may not be every program and every channel. I know that they did that when Lost aired. Every five minutes, like clockwork. It gets worse all the time. Ever watch a DVD of an old 70s show? 50 to 55 minutes of program. Compare that to contemporary shows in which you get only 44 minutes. I am not sure how many minutes you get for the ones that go to commercial every 5 minutes.
Correct, not since 1976. But you still need to register if you wish to file a lawsuit.
I usually buy used CD, $4 baby! Can't beat it!
No, I've never bought into that argument either, but you cannot tell me that making copies of media I already own, for my own use, is stealing!
If you're going to troll, you need to be more subtle.
640GB? Why don't they translate that into something more usable, like Porn/Sec.