Not between 3 lines and paying nothing per month for each line. Look at the current stuff. Extra lines are $20 per month. The plan is $85. It comes to roughly $114 after taxes. So look around. What are you getting in the $80 range? About 1000 to 1400 minutes and $20 per month per extra line. So taxes are rape but that's my government.
I've managed to keep my account by turning a perceived disadvantage into an advantage...
The wonderful advantage agreement... follow me for a second.
Over time, the value of the termination fee diminishes. If you are using a service for three years, it's likely that you'll use it for four. I happen to have a kickass plan that my unnamed provider keeps trying to separate me from.
This particular provider allows you to change features on the condition that you agree to a one year extension. Most blind, rabid, tinfoil hat people would get really angry especially if it involves simply adding Night & Weekends or mobile to mobile minutes.
Well... if your plan rocks, you can keep the party going by adding/removing one stupid feature and then putting it back a few days later.
The providers are probably aware of this Achilles heel and, no doubt, my provider knows what I'm doing and why but the amount of people that can figure this exploit is too small to be worth closing.
Prices are going up, not down. Until they start providing *no contract* service that doesn't suck, I encourage everyone to check out this vulnerability with their provider. $150 is irrelevant after years of paying $120 per month. Screw the system.
The real problem with Wi-Fi is that the single mimics the mating songs of giant roaches. If our children are exposed to such frequencies they might use the school computers to download roach porn or other deviant roach activities. This is definitely a time to stand up for the children. According to our great president Dubya, the only question that schools are responsible for answering is this:
I heard this from an old engineer at the University of Florida...
In 1976, president Carter pledged to move our country to alternative energy. There's a HUGE field off of 20th Avenue where a tiny solar research center sits today. That was supposed to become the biggest solar research center in the world. Now, it's a cow pasture. When the University of Florida builds research Centers, they build gigantic research Centers but the solar building is forgotten and off the periphery of "the box" (13th, 34th, University and Archer avenues).
One of Reagan first acts was to dismantle all alternative energy initiatives begun by Carter. Most were just about to hit the ground running before Reagan pulled the ground out from under them.
These jobs you describe were once skilled/respectable labor and they still could be if industrialization didn't become so damn good at making individual lives irrelevant. For over 10 years, IT has programmed themselves into obsolescence. I'm not sure if it was orchestrated or not but harnessing millions of minds to happily write reusable code while giving it away is pretty f'n brilliant. Think about that turkey processing plant in Missouri... do you really believe that they are planning to turn *turkeys* into oil? Try surplus labor. (That last part was meant to be funny)
I don't think it's a resource problem. I think it's fear. People are afraid to step into the unknown or, as in Plato's Cave, step out to the unknown. Sure, it's scary at first because we've never seen our minds unbound. Our minds start fsckin with us for awhile while unemployed but then things settle and it's like being out in the warm light rather than a dark, stuffy cave.
Note to moderators: I'm minding my own business and chatting with other/. denizens. Go mod somebody else down and leave me the fuck alone. You'll get yours in Meta-moderation.
Agreed entirely. I'd take it one step further: why are we forced to work for a living? The mind has no limitations once it's free from the bonds of repetitive bullshit. I'll bet that your post represents at least a thousand people here. Our slave week boils down to nothing more than plotting for food making us no different from Cuba or any other "lesser" state. If we're busy plotting for food or we have artificial and impossible ideals f'n with our heads then we aren't focus on the system stacked against us. Everyone has to make a living but being a drone in a corporate machine is not necessary. What do we need out of this world? Not enough to warrant working for the Man again.
I was. I'm a lifelong weird Al fan. I wonder what the original guy thought when he heard weird Al turn his keystrokes into a cultural flamebait (albeit playful flamebait.)
Actually, it's about trolling. I've had a bad streak with the moderators for my last 10 posts. I decided to give them a reason to mod me down and nothing happened... go figure.
True. For my personal case, it doesn't work. I depend on DragonDictate and I can't find a comparable dictation system for Linux. It's not freedom if I become less efficient so I enter the weird twilight zone category of "hardcore windows98 user." I own it. Without IE, it works quite well. I can't break my critical voice application. Going up with Windows or moving to Linux would cause major problems. As soon as there's a viable alternative with dictation (they seem to get worse as they get "better"), I'll consider it.
The fight for privacy begins at home. All commercial browsers, including opera, are out to sell you. Fsck them all. Removing Internet Explorer is as simple as downloading a program called IEradicator (no link, no time, find it yourself). Once Explorer is gone, Windows 98 runs very nicely and you'll notice a conspicuous absence of BSODs. No BSODs mean no reason to use Windowsupdate. Get Kazaa off and keep only critical stuff in your tray at startup (for me that's sound card and printer). A good NAT means you can also get rid of anti-virus and firewall software. It's also selling you. So this sounds kind of "tin foil" but I don't get viruses or spyware so I must be doing something right. The other suggestions listed in this thread (sending junk back, etc.) are perfectly valid in the US... so far, anyway.
The US has the third largest population after China and India. Any disasters, suicides and/or mass migration is a good thing. Canada can have all our Top 40 guzzling idiots as far as I'm concerned.
Of course, you are correct but that doesn't make them any less an American company. I'm disappointed in the moderators (as usual) for having a confused view of the proper role of Linux and calling my post flamebait.
Ford is an American company. They should use an American Linux distributor. End of story. China, Japan, Korea, France, the UK and Germany will not be signing contracts with American Linux distributors so the feeling should be mutual. That's really the point of Linux anyway--to foster the local software industry.
Old school, 1980s software pirates will remember the golden rule: the Feds don't give a fuck about software, they will run your ass through the ground over porn.
Does that still hold true? I think to a large degree it does. Nobody steals software forever and it had a social benefit of educating a large segment of society. Beyond that, nobody cared because it was done largely among small private groups.
Remember download ratios? It's "keeping it expensive" as Nixon referred to his decision for banning biological and chemical weapons. You need nuclear to be in an elite club. 99% of the idiots downloading today would not have a chance if sysop didn't break the unwritten law of download ratios. Industry wouldn't care about piracy. Neither would the Feds.
*Unchecked* and easily accessible piracy is the problem that industry has, not piracy itself.
Hatch's comments are indicative that the government *still* doesn't care about piracy. They don't want people looking at porn. Porn leads to jackasses acting out and committing crimes. This ain't a troll. Anyone with friends in law enforcement has heard stories of punks that clearly got their cues from porn on the net.
Indeed. But don't get too ticked off on/. or some jackass is liable to moderate you as a troll.
The "damage" was irrelevant. He typed his name into Lexis-Nexis. Big stinking deal. The New York Times should be shot for leaving their data unsecured. There were significant people in those lists that were put at risk NOT because of Mr. Lamo. They were unbelievably lucky that some happy-go-lucky dork was nice enough to point out the flaws before a Black Hat got to it.
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Not between 3 lines and paying nothing per month for each line. Look at the current stuff. Extra lines are $20 per month. The plan is $85. It comes to roughly $114 after taxes. So look around. What are you getting in the $80 range? About 1000 to 1400 minutes and $20 per month per extra line. So taxes are rape but that's my government.
I've managed to keep my account by turning a perceived disadvantage into an advantage...
The wonderful advantage agreement... follow me for a second.
Over time, the value of the termination fee diminishes. If you are using a service for three years, it's likely that you'll use it for four. I happen to have a kickass plan that my unnamed provider keeps trying to separate me from.
This particular provider allows you to change features on the condition that you agree to a one year extension. Most blind, rabid, tinfoil hat people would get really angry especially if it involves simply adding Night & Weekends or mobile to mobile minutes.
Well... if your plan rocks, you can keep the party going by adding/removing one stupid feature and then putting it back a few days later.
The providers are probably aware of this Achilles heel and, no doubt, my provider knows what I'm doing and why but the amount of people that can figure this exploit is too small to be worth closing.
Prices are going up, not down. Until they start providing *no contract* service that doesn't suck, I encourage everyone to check out this vulnerability with their provider. $150 is irrelevant after years of paying $120 per month. Screw the system.
Is our children learning?--George W. Bush
I'm a werewolf you insensitive clod!
Thank you. I was just waking up when I wrote that. Appreciate you finishing the job for me with a proper link.
get IEradicator (sorry, no link, search google) and get rid of this crap completely.
I heard it sucks.
I heard this from an old engineer at the University of Florida...
In 1976, president Carter pledged to move our country to alternative energy. There's a HUGE field off of 20th Avenue where a tiny solar research center sits today. That was supposed to become the biggest solar research center in the world. Now, it's a cow pasture. When the University of Florida builds research Centers, they build gigantic research Centers but the solar building is forgotten and off the periphery of "the box" (13th, 34th, University and Archer avenues).
One of Reagan first acts was to dismantle all alternative energy initiatives begun by Carter. Most were just about to hit the ground running before Reagan pulled the ground out from under them.
Where is solar? Ask Reagan.
These jobs you describe were once skilled/respectable labor and they still could be if industrialization didn't become so damn good at making individual lives irrelevant. For over 10 years, IT has programmed themselves into obsolescence. I'm not sure if it was orchestrated or not but harnessing millions of minds to happily write reusable code while giving it away is pretty f'n brilliant. Think about that turkey processing plant in Missouri... do you really believe that they are planning to turn *turkeys* into oil? Try surplus labor. (That last part was meant to be funny)
I don't think it's a resource problem. I think it's fear. People are afraid to step into the unknown or, as in Plato's Cave, step out to the unknown. Sure, it's scary at first because we've never seen our minds unbound. Our minds start fsckin with us for awhile while unemployed but then things settle and it's like being out in the warm light rather than a dark, stuffy cave.
/. denizens. Go mod somebody else down and leave me the fuck alone. You'll get yours in Meta-moderation.
Note to moderators: I'm minding my own business and chatting with other
Agreed entirely. I'd take it one step further: why are we forced to work for a living? The mind has no limitations once it's free from the bonds of repetitive bullshit. I'll bet that your post represents at least a thousand people here. Our slave week boils down to nothing more than plotting for food making us no different from Cuba or any other "lesser" state. If we're busy plotting for food or we have artificial and impossible ideals f'n with our heads then we aren't focus on the system stacked against us. Everyone has to make a living but being a drone in a corporate machine is not necessary. What do we need out of this world? Not enough to warrant working for the Man again.
The implication...
You actually shout at your monitor on occasion.
I suspect you have the "crazy guy that shouts at the TV" gene.
I was. I'm a lifelong weird Al fan. I wonder what the original guy thought when he heard weird Al turn his keystrokes into a cultural flamebait (albeit playful flamebait.)
Actually, it's about trolling. I've had a bad streak with the moderators for my last 10 posts. I decided to give them a reason to mod me down and nothing happened... go figure.
Yeah, the one time I intentionally troll, I didn't get marked damn.
if I ever meet you, I'll control-alt-delete you.
Quite intimidating.
That's a pretty long way to say, "you are an ignorant jackass."
There's nothing remotely interesting about his post and the only reason he wasn't modded Flamebait is because he's a Slashbot subscriber.
If you or I said something like that, count on getting Troll at best.
True. For my personal case, it doesn't work. I depend on DragonDictate and I can't find a comparable dictation system for Linux. It's not freedom if I become less efficient so I enter the weird twilight zone category of "hardcore windows98 user." I own it. Without IE, it works quite well. I can't break my critical voice application. Going up with Windows or moving to Linux would cause major problems. As soon as there's a viable alternative with dictation (they seem to get worse as they get "better"), I'll consider it.
The fight for privacy begins at home. All commercial browsers, including opera, are out to sell you. Fsck them all. Removing Internet Explorer is as simple as downloading a program called IEradicator (no link, no time, find it yourself). Once Explorer is gone, Windows 98 runs very nicely and you'll notice a conspicuous absence of BSODs. No BSODs mean no reason to use Windowsupdate. Get Kazaa off and keep only critical stuff in your tray at startup (for me that's sound card and printer). A good NAT means you can also get rid of anti-virus and firewall software. It's also selling you. So this sounds kind of "tin foil" but I don't get viruses or spyware so I must be doing something right. The other suggestions listed in this thread (sending junk back, etc.) are perfectly valid in the US... so far, anyway.
Darl... use the Schwartz...
The US has the third largest population after China and India. Any disasters, suicides and/or mass migration is a good thing. Canada can have all our Top 40 guzzling idiots as far as I'm concerned.
Of course, you are correct but that doesn't make them any less an American company. I'm disappointed in the moderators (as usual) for having a confused view of the proper role of Linux and calling my post flamebait.
Ford is an American company. They should use an American Linux distributor. End of story. China, Japan, Korea, France, the UK and Germany will not be signing contracts with American Linux distributors so the feeling should be mutual. That's really the point of Linux anyway--to foster the local software industry.
Old school, 1980s software pirates will remember the golden rule: the Feds don't give a fuck about software, they will run your ass through the ground over porn.
Does that still hold true? I think to a large degree it does. Nobody steals software forever and it had a social benefit of educating a large segment of society. Beyond that, nobody cared because it was done largely among small private groups.
Remember download ratios? It's "keeping it expensive" as Nixon referred to his decision for banning biological and chemical weapons. You need nuclear to be in an elite club. 99% of the idiots downloading today would not have a chance if sysop didn't break the unwritten law of download ratios. Industry wouldn't care about piracy. Neither would the Feds.
*Unchecked* and easily accessible piracy is the problem that industry has, not piracy itself.
Hatch's comments are indicative that the government *still* doesn't care about piracy. They don't want people looking at porn. Porn leads to jackasses acting out and committing crimes. This ain't a troll. Anyone with friends in law enforcement has heard stories of punks that clearly got their cues from porn on the net.
Indeed. But don't get too ticked off on /. or some jackass is liable to moderate you as a troll.
The "damage" was irrelevant. He typed his name into Lexis-Nexis. Big stinking deal. The New York Times should be shot for leaving their data unsecured. There were significant people in those lists that were put at risk NOT because of Mr. Lamo. They were unbelievably lucky that some happy-go-lucky dork was nice enough to point out the flaws before a Black Hat got to it.