Are you with NTL? I had this problem for about 10 months, only sometimes it would go off for 8-12 hours at a time, several times a week. They offered me no compensation or apologies and said that I'd received a good enough level of service. I am now with BT on ADSL. The NTL cable was about 40% faster (600kbps) than the BT ADSL (512kbps but with more protocol overhead) but the BT has been up for nearly a year with one outage of a few hours on a Saturday.
So you've been living under a rock for the last four years?
Re:In the land of empty tanks
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In many areas, the sensors in the road don't even detect cyclists and the signals won't change. You have to get off your bike to hit the pedestrian button to get the light to change.
Interesting. This is a design flaw that needs fixing.
As for turning on the curb lane of traffic. How did the motorists get ahead of the cyclist? Passing in the same lane? Was it done safely? Was it necessary?
I try to drive very carefully, although I have had one accident that was my fault: going to fast on an icy road when late for work that resulted in my ending up in a ditch taking out a small tree in the process. Instead of being 5 minutes late from being stuck behind a slow-coach I was 3 and a half hours late and nearly killed someone...
I have had a cylcist come up to me specifically to compliment me for the manner in which I regularly and safely overtook him and his cycling friends on the way to and from work.
Have you ever waited behind a bicycle and waitied for them to go before turning?
Yes, I have. That's how I was taught to drive, and more importantly I was also taught formally how to ride a bicycle.
Cyclists: If I've had the courtesy, decency and patience to pass you safely please also do me the courtesy of taking up your space properly in the traffic like you're supposed to and don't sneak up an my inside at the traffic lights. Signal before changing lane, and look over your shoulder.
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Cyclists are gods.
Well, by the way some of them cycle, they probably think they're immortal.
One day when you're cycling up the pavement and you pull out on my car (legally using the road at or below the speed limit) without looking, causing me to emergency brake, and when the road is wet and I skid and hit you, we'll soon find out who's immortal.
Oh, and cyclists, one-way signs apply to you to, as do traffic lights.
And don't try to go up the inside of queues of traffic waiting to turn left at traffic lights. One day the car in front will not see you squeezing up the 15" gap between the kerb and the traffic and you will be squashed like a fly.
Just as well you are Gods, because human beings wouldn't live long enough to reproduce if they behaved like this.
Maths, as we call it here, is many peoples' worst nightmare of a subject. They're scared of it for many reasons. Maybe because at first the kind of thinking behind it is mysterious, the notation is alien or they have prejudices built up from hearing other people saying, "I hate maths," or "It's hard."
You imply that your problem with mathematics stems from your illness. Is this so?
I'm not particularly bright, but I had supportive parents, and my dad in particular introduced me to some of the more interesting things in mathematics when I was very young. This helped a lot. He also helped explain things when I got stuck. I went on to do a Physics degree.
After Uni, I did some maths and physics tuition for some family friends. Apart from being financially lucrative, it was very personally rewarding. I got both the boy and girl up a grade (to A and B from B and C) in both subjects with just a few hours work.
I think I managed to convey some of my enthusiasm for the subjects to them, which they picked up, and helped to explain things properly but in uncomplicated ways, something that class teachers often aren't very good at (because they have to be very general for the whole class, and because they haven't time to teach each person as an individual.)
So, what I'm trying to say, is, have you thought about getting personal tuition from an enthusiastic teacher i.e. someone who genuilinely likes the subject and likes to take time to explain things? I often used to go well over the hour (50%) becuse we were having such fun.
In my day I charged about the UK equivalent of $20/hour. That was nearly 10 years ago. You may find that someone who is genuinely interested in the subject will do it for much less, or for having their lawn mowed or something.
Microsoft sells this for money? It wants us all to be using this? How is this a useful feature? Why is it designed this way? Why does an OS put obstacles like this in front of its users?
I am sure that one needs to burn a lot of fuels just to go to the grocery 3 kms away.
Try a bicycle or Shanks's Pony.
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Credible aerospace engineers say that, unless Moller's invented a radically new, ultra-compact engine, there's no way you can move enough air mass to actually lift the thing.
It's called a Wankel engine and is conventiently ignored by the majority of engineers because they remember the engine sealing problems with the early NSU Ro80 in the late 60's that almost bankrupted them.
Talk to most people about the Wankel engine and the chances are they've never heard of it. Many engineers laugh when you mention it, because they remember 1967 and haven't heard of all the developments since then. My old (1983) Mazda RX7 did 127000+ miles before the engine wore out.
The spiffy model on the showroom floor is nothing more than a stage prop. It doesn't fly, it never did, and it probably never will.
Unless the man is a bare-faced lier, you can find out all sorts of things about it at moller.com.
Need I remind you that VTOL aeroplanes have been built before (albeit with jet engines).
No, according to the Bible, works ("living a good life" in your words) don't count, no matter how great and wonderful you think you're being. Faith, and only faith gets the job done. It's an incredibly simple requirement: profess your faith in Jesus as your savior, accept the gift of redemption offered by his death (and proven valid by his resurrection). That's it. Nothing else to it. It's in black and white in the Bible. You'd have to actually read it to know that, though.
So merely stating "I believe in Jesus" gets you eternal life at the Party in the Sky? Heck I can state that publically, but in my mind (heart for you old-fashioned ones) I don't really believe it.
So, by publically lying, I get eternal life at the universe's best party.
Oh come on now! The reason people post anonymously on discussions like this is that the moderators are notoriously pro-Christian/religious dogma and rational and controversial discussion provokes many -1 Troll, Flamebait and Overrated moderations. This can damage otherwise Excellen karma, Often people who post anonymously are held in high regard since they can't possibly be Karma-whoring. Now there's a little philosophical dilemma.
On slashdot, it's not politically-correct to challenge a Believer, no matter how valid your argument, or ridiculous theirs. It it not acceptable to poke fun at someone's beliefs, no matter how cranky. A society in which honest criticism and humour are suppressed is on a dangerous slippery slope into oblivion.
Now, I'm off to speak to the aliens. Please excuse me.
I'm afraid that the fundamental problem here is that those who imagine any kind of theodicy didn't have a grand enough vision of the scale of the universe: Christian theology (specifically the concept of the Incarnation) really wasn't designed to cope with a planet with separated hemispheres, let alone planetary systems separated by trillions of miles.
That's never stopped them (Christians) before, they simply add more "epicylces" to their "model".It just keeps on getting more baroque.
Rather than comparing moder Islamic fanaticism with Mordor from the Lord of the Rings, would it not be better to compare it to the "Christian Fundamentalism" of hundreds of years ago including the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, the burning of "witches" etc.?
He was talking to me as if I were stupid and rolled out the trusty old slashbot Photoshop vs. the Gimp argument, the proceeded to imply that we are all Free Software zealota. That's a Troll or maybe Flamebait.
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This intrigues me. Call me a lunatic if you like, but I find programming small computers fascinating. I just need to write me a palm disassembler ....
Are you with NTL? I had this problem for about 10 months, only sometimes it would go off for 8-12 hours at a time, several times a week. They offered me no compensation or apologies and said that I'd received a good enough level of service. I am now with BT on ADSL. The NTL cable was about 40% faster (600kbps) than the BT ADSL (512kbps but with more protocol overhead) but the BT has been up for nearly a year with one outage of a few hours on a Saturday.
...and are you a die-hard fan of Microsoft Windows too?
So you've been living under a rock for the last four years?
Interesting. This is a design flaw that needs fixing.
As for turning on the curb lane of traffic. How did the motorists get ahead of the cyclist? Passing in the same lane? Was it done safely? Was it necessary?
I try to drive very carefully, although I have had one accident that was my fault: going to fast on an icy road when late for work that resulted in my ending up in a ditch taking out a small tree in the process. Instead of being 5 minutes late from being stuck behind a slow-coach I was 3 and a half hours late and nearly killed someone...
I have had a cylcist come up to me specifically to compliment me for the manner in which I regularly and safely overtook him and his cycling friends on the way to and from work.
Have you ever waited behind a bicycle and waitied for them to go before turning?
Yes, I have. That's how I was taught to drive, and more importantly I was also taught formally how to ride a bicycle.
Cyclists: If I've had the courtesy, decency and patience to pass you safely please also do me the courtesy of taking up your space properly in the traffic like you're supposed to and don't sneak up an my inside at the traffic lights. Signal before changing lane, and look over your shoulder.
Well, by the way some of them cycle, they probably think they're immortal.
One day when you're cycling up the pavement and you pull out on my car (legally using the road at or below the speed limit) without looking, causing me to emergency brake, and when the road is wet and I skid and hit you, we'll soon find out who's immortal.
Oh, and cyclists, one-way signs apply to you to, as do traffic lights.
And don't try to go up the inside of queues of traffic waiting to turn left at traffic lights. One day the car in front will not see you squeezing up the 15" gap between the kerb and the traffic and you will be squashed like a fly.
Just as well you are Gods, because human beings wouldn't live long enough to reproduce if they behaved like this.
You imply that your problem with mathematics stems from your illness. Is this so?
I'm not particularly bright, but I had supportive parents, and my dad in particular introduced me to some of the more interesting things in mathematics when I was very young. This helped a lot. He also helped explain things when I got stuck. I went on to do a Physics degree.
After Uni, I did some maths and physics tuition for some family friends. Apart from being financially lucrative, it was very personally rewarding. I got both the boy and girl up a grade (to A and B from B and C) in both subjects with just a few hours work.
I think I managed to convey some of my enthusiasm for the subjects to them, which they picked up, and helped to explain things properly but in uncomplicated ways, something that class teachers often aren't very good at (because they have to be very general for the whole class, and because they haven't time to teach each person as an individual.)
So, what I'm trying to say, is, have you thought about getting personal tuition from an enthusiastic teacher i.e. someone who genuilinely likes the subject and likes to take time to explain things? I often used to go well over the hour (50%) becuse we were having such fun.
In my day I charged about the UK equivalent of $20/hour. That was nearly 10 years ago. You may find that someone who is genuinely interested in the subject will do it for much less, or for having their lawn mowed or something.
Give it a try.
I am a gringo!
And who are we to argue?
Microsoft sells this for money? It wants us all to be using this? How is this a useful feature? Why is it designed this way? Why does an OS put obstacles like this in front of its users?
That's an insult to chimps! I hope you're ashamed.
Try a bicycle or Shanks's Pony.
It's called a Wankel engine and is conventiently ignored by the majority of engineers because they remember the engine sealing problems with the early NSU Ro80 in the late 60's that almost bankrupted them.
Talk to most people about the Wankel engine and the chances are they've never heard of it. Many engineers laugh when you mention it, because they remember 1967 and haven't heard of all the developments since then. My old (1983) Mazda RX7 did 127000+ miles before the engine wore out.
The spiffy model on the showroom floor is nothing more than a stage prop. It doesn't fly, it never did, and it probably never will.
Unless the man is a bare-faced lier, you can find out all sorts of things about it at moller.com.
Need I remind you that VTOL aeroplanes have been built before (albeit with jet engines).
Maybe so, but the aliens made me say it. They make me believe and I let them refuel their flying saucers with my fast reactor.
That makes two of us.
I'd rather not go back to Kindergarten. I hate painting.
So merely stating "I believe in Jesus" gets you eternal life at the Party in the Sky? Heck I can state that publically, but in my mind (heart for you old-fashioned ones) I don't really believe it.
So, by publically lying, I get eternal life at the universe's best party.
Nice one.
On slashdot, it's not politically-correct to challenge a Believer, no matter how valid your argument, or ridiculous theirs. It it not acceptable to poke fun at someone's beliefs, no matter how cranky. A society in which honest criticism and humour are suppressed is on a dangerous slippery slope into oblivion.
Now, I'm off to speak to the aliens. Please excuse me.
That's never stopped them (Christians) before, they simply add more "epicylces" to their "model".It just keeps on getting more baroque.
Maybe it's just the beer :-)
This is yet another amazing piece for broken reasoning from a god-botherer. You made me laugh. Thanks.
Rather than comparing moder Islamic fanaticism with Mordor from the Lord of the Rings, would it not be better to compare it to the "Christian Fundamentalism" of hundreds of years ago including the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, the burning of "witches" etc.?
Good on you mate! Now can you please explain to my wife why one can of beer just isn't enough?
Mybe it'll grow into a nice RFID tree and you can have many RFIDs all of your own :-)
He was talking to me as if I were stupid and rolled out the trusty old slashbot Photoshop vs. the Gimp argument, the proceeded to imply that we are all Free Software zealota. That's a Troll or maybe Flamebait.