Seriously, though, I've had all my numbers registered with the FCC for years, and I still get at least 5 telemarketing calls every day. I've filed complaints with the FCC over the more persistent ones, not that it matters since they usually don't bother following up, and when they do, ask for information you can't get unless you actually engage with the telemarketers.
When I get a telemarketing call, I'll usually Google the number, and most of the time I'll get a hit on whocalled.us or one of the other similar sites -- the info there is sometimes useful, especially when preparing a complaint.
I always order my chicken basil Thai hot -- it's about the only Thai dish I like, as I'm not a fan of curries. One day the waitress brought me one of the peppers they use in their hottest dishes; they grew them on a small bush they kept just outside the front door. It was a very tiny red thing smaller than a rice grain, and it was the hottest thing I've ever eaten.
Here's some interesting evidence. Note that Nacchio's testimony refers to events before 9/11/2001. Specifically, on 2/27/01, he met with NSA to discuss several projects, including at least one that Nacchio considered to be illegal and thus refused.
Gary Shandling -- was an EE before going into comedy Cindy Crawford -- valedictorian of her high school class, received ChemE scholarship to Northwestern Teri Hatcher -- math major
Many operators do offer clear QAM for local HD channels. IIRC, there's a FCC rule that requires operators that carry local HD channels to carry them in the clear.
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If you really want recycling efforts, then you need to make it easy for people, convenient, and ideally provide some incentive to them doing so. Just like some states offer deposits with refunds for recycling cans/bottles, why not have a scale in the curb-side pickup of recycled materials, and give people a credit on their garbage bill.
The city I live does something like that. Any trash to be picked up must be placed in specially labelled bags (costing roughly $1.30 for a 32-gallon bag); recyclables are placed in bins provided free by the city and are picked up as part of the regular weekly trash collection. This directly encourages citizens to reduce the volume of landfill-bound trash generated -- either by recycling more of what they use, or by using less.
"Mimsy were the Bogroves" or something like that, where two kids discover 4-dimensional toys from the future, then read "Jabberwocky" and figure out how to move in time.
Sounds like the recent film The Last Mimzy, whose only redeeming feature was the Roger Waters soundtrack.
Route 66 is one of the nicer nav programs out there -- I've used it with my HTC Wizard & Kaiser phones. In fact, I just received a 6GB micro SDHC chip, which should hold all the maps for North America (the 4GB is about 200 MB too small, IIRC). With the Wizard, I used a SirfIII-based BT GPS -- the Kaiser has a GPS receiver built-in.
BTW, Route 66 uses Navteq maps, at least in North America.
I saw a story on the news a while back about a river rafting outfit in the American west that used pigeons for exactly that purpose. The birds would carry memory cards from digital cameras ahead to the office so that the rafters could have printed photos ready at the end of the trip.
I've got one on the bezel of my watch (Citizen Skyhawk), and used to have a keychain E6-B when I was a kid. Dad used to have a small plane, and he let me do all the calculations & navigation.
back in the third grade (roughly 1971-72). I was in my local Target when I saw a cheap plastic slide rule on the shelf -- we were just starting to learn multiplication, and the package said that it could do that, so I figured what the hell, and bought it.
As promised, the slide rule was quite useful for multiplication and division. On the back of the slide, there were sine, log, and tangent scales -- that led me to look those things up in Dad's copy of Machinery's Handbook, which got me into trig and pre-calculus.
Later on, I upgraded to a bamboo K&E which I used well into college (mid-80s). Unfortunately it was stolen from my car shortly after I graduated, along with my HP41CV.
Many already do, at least for local channels. IIRC, the FCC requires cable operators that support HD to provide unencrypted feeds for the local HD channels they carry. Note that there is no HD must-carry provision yet so there can be local channels that an operator carries only in SD.
They're still in business -- I've been with them for 4-5 years now (ever since Telocity left the biz). However, Speakeasy's prices are a bit higher than these guys are promising.
Back in the late 60s/early 70s when I was in grade school, they split the classes by ability. I was initially placed in the "dumb kids" 1st grade class because I didn't talk much. After about a week in that class, the teacher noticed that I was reading a book rated for 4th graders. The next day I was re-assigned to the smart kids class.
My mom has had MS for about 15 years now -- for the last 10 or so years, she's been taking daily injections of Copaxone, which seems to have stopped the disease in its tracks. Fortunately, dad has good insurance -- the Copaxone runs about $2000 per month.
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If this object exists in 248 dimensions, shouldn't we call it F8?
Yeah, that'd work.
Seriously, though, I've had all my numbers registered with the FCC for years, and I still get at least 5 telemarketing calls every day. I've filed complaints with the FCC over the more persistent ones, not that it matters since they usually don't bother following up, and when they do, ask for information you can't get unless you actually engage with the telemarketers.
When I get a telemarketing call, I'll usually Google the number, and most of the time I'll get a hit on whocalled.us or one of the other similar sites -- the info there is sometimes useful, especially when preparing a complaint.
Unless you're Valerie Plame Wilson.
Bill O'Reilly likes falafel too, so you should be safe.
I always order my chicken basil Thai hot -- it's about the only Thai dish I like, as I'm not a fan of curries. One day the waitress brought me one of the peppers they use in their hottest dishes; they grew them on a small bush they kept just outside the front door. It was a very tiny red thing smaller than a rice grain, and it was the hottest thing I've ever eaten.
Here's some interesting evidence. Note that Nacchio's testimony refers to events before 9/11/2001. Specifically, on 2/27/01, he met with NSA to discuss several projects, including at least one that Nacchio considered to be illegal and thus refused.
More missing entries:
Gary Shandling -- was an EE before going into comedy
Cindy Crawford -- valedictorian of her high school class, received ChemE scholarship to Northwestern
Teri Hatcher -- math major
Helped? It could have caused Katrina.
If the grass were really intelligent, it'd be a shade of blue, not green.
Many operators do offer clear QAM for local HD channels. IIRC, there's a FCC rule that requires operators that carry local HD channels to carry them in the clear.
That's because they're too busy mining gold in Mongolia.
"Mimsy were the Bogroves" or something like that, where two kids discover 4-dimensional toys from the future, then read "Jabberwocky" and figure out how to move in time.
Sounds like the recent film The Last Mimzy, whose only redeeming feature was the Roger Waters soundtrack.
Or, for that matter, George W. Bush?
Route 66 is one of the nicer nav programs out there -- I've used it with my HTC Wizard & Kaiser phones. In fact, I just received a 6GB micro SDHC chip, which should hold all the maps for North America (the 4GB is about 200 MB too small, IIRC). With the Wizard, I used a SirfIII-based BT GPS -- the Kaiser has a GPS receiver built-in.
BTW, Route 66 uses Navteq maps, at least in North America.
I saw a story on the news a while back about a river rafting outfit in the American west that used pigeons for exactly that purpose. The birds would carry memory cards from digital cameras ahead to the office so that the rafters could have printed photos ready at the end of the trip.
I've got one on the bezel of my watch (Citizen Skyhawk), and used to have a keychain E6-B when I was a kid. Dad used to have a small plane, and he let me do all the calculations & navigation.
back in the third grade (roughly 1971-72). I was in my local Target when I saw a cheap plastic slide rule on the shelf -- we were just starting to learn multiplication, and the package said that it could do that, so I figured what the hell, and bought it.
As promised, the slide rule was quite useful for multiplication and division. On the back of the slide, there were sine, log, and tangent scales -- that led me to look those things up in Dad's copy of Machinery's Handbook, which got me into trig and pre-calculus.
Later on, I upgraded to a bamboo K&E which I used well into college (mid-80s). Unfortunately it was stolen from my car shortly after I graduated, along with my HP41CV.
Jack Thompson whom is just a jackass lawyer ... and anti video game violence activist.
How does this differentiate him from your typical Republican presidential candidate?
As a former developer on the WordPro team, I'd have to agree with you.
Many already do, at least for local channels. IIRC, the FCC requires cable operators that support HD to provide unencrypted feeds for the local HD channels they carry. Note that there is no HD must-carry provision yet so there can be local channels that an operator carries only in SD.
You're half right; Andy is still Lana/Larry's brother.
They're still in business -- I've been with them for 4-5 years now (ever since Telocity left the biz). However, Speakeasy's prices are a bit higher than these guys are promising.
Back in the late 60s/early 70s when I was in grade school, they split the classes by ability. I was initially placed in the "dumb kids" 1st grade class because I didn't talk much. After about a week in that class, the teacher noticed that I was reading a book rated for 4th graders. The next day I was re-assigned to the smart kids class.
My mom has had MS for about 15 years now -- for the last 10 or so years, she's been taking daily injections of Copaxone, which seems to have stopped the disease in its tracks. Fortunately, dad has good insurance -- the Copaxone runs about $2000 per month.