For one thing, if you already pay your cable company for Internet only, it's probably willing to sell you TV for negligible additional cost. For another, if your favorite NFL team is playing in this week's Monday Night Football, then this week's game is off limits to you unless you have ESPN and all the other channels bundled with it.
I strongly get the impression OP isn't interested in adding cable TV, especially since the cable company is competing with a free service.
I've actually been looking into going back to over the air myself. A few months ago we cut cable back to the bare minimum and hardly noticed the difference after a week. We live in a deep fringe area of Canada and can probably get six channels at most but for all the overlap in programming I doubt we'd need more. For everything else, we can just watch it online or wait for it to come out on DVD. The biggest bonus of course is that even the most expensive antenna would pay for itself inside of a year, bringing in ~$300 in savings annually after that.
Does the law really require that you have to provide this information in order to see your records.?
Maybe not, but I imagine the law would really come down on them for releasing records to the wrong people. I see requesting government-issued ID as ass-coverage; if they release the wrong records to the wrong people now they can prove they made a reasonable effort to prevent it.
And in that short post you claimed that all criticism is pointless.
Why criticize a movie? Watch another movie. Why review a game? Play another game. You don't like this Beatles song? How dare you say so - go listen to something else!
If you are bothered enough by something why wouldn't you look for an alternative? Why continue to watch a movie, play a game, listen to a song or use a service that offends you? That's not criticism, it's finding a better use for your time.
The only real information I have in my account is my name and email address, which is my name, so it's enough for people to confirm it's me but not enough for FB to scrape anything meaningful out of it. Oddly, the fact that the rest of my profile is total BS seems to make it easier for my friends to find me.
Red Hat makes money primarily on support and if you don't want to pay them, then you have other options, you can go without support or you can hire somebody else. With Steam, you pay for the product and support or you do without, the other option being piracy.
I'd say that makes it very different, when a corporation uses volunteer labor for a pay only product, that's fundamentally different from when a corporation makes money off a freely available product.
I know people like Steam and all but it's not the only legal option. If you don't like Steam you don't use it, games can still be purchased through other channels, but if someone does like Steam enough to go above and beyond giving them their money what's wrong with that?
On the other end of the equation, what's wrong with a corporation using volunteers? If they have people lining up to work for free on a project they can make some money off why wouldn't they let them? All they offered was a fuzzy feeling and people still lined up. This seems like a case of everyone getting what they want.
I believe the point is information was shared under the assumption that it would remain confidential, the fact that a company purchasing the scraps of the company that entered into this agreement is no longer willing to honor those conditions is a little disconcerting; it could potentially set a precedent where other information can be "released" without your consent simply because a company stops existing.
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I imagine that if/when this tech is available at the hardware store there will be companies selling borderline-foolproof kits.
It gives you a sudden urge to play broken games?
You have to admit, it's a pretty good analogy for the current political system.
Nope, a wizard did it.
Apparently aluminium oxynitride is pretty close.
Approximately 551,155,655 African bull elephants.
Seems to me like saying a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup is a new discovery because they mixed chocolate with peanut butter.
Please, I think we all know that they mixed peanut butter with chocolate.
I'm thoroughly convinced they just mixed sugar with both.
What you do is you unwrap it, and put it in your bag.
Now if you want to steal it without anyone noticing, that would be a different matter..
"This isn't the thief you're looking for."
For one thing, if you already pay your cable company for Internet only, it's probably willing to sell you TV for negligible additional cost. For another, if your favorite NFL team is playing in this week's Monday Night Football, then this week's game is off limits to you unless you have ESPN and all the other channels bundled with it.
I strongly get the impression OP isn't interested in adding cable TV, especially since the cable company is competing with a free service.
I've actually been looking into going back to over the air myself. A few months ago we cut cable back to the bare minimum and hardly noticed the difference after a week. We live in a deep fringe area of Canada and can probably get six channels at most but for all the overlap in programming I doubt we'd need more. For everything else, we can just watch it online or wait for it to come out on DVD. The biggest bonus of course is that even the most expensive antenna would pay for itself inside of a year, bringing in ~$300 in savings annually after that.
Does the law really require that you have to provide this information in order to see your records.?
Maybe not, but I imagine the law would really come down on them for releasing records to the wrong people. I see requesting government-issued ID as ass-coverage; if they release the wrong records to the wrong people now they can prove they made a reasonable effort to prevent it.
if you didn't want Facebook to have the info, you shouldn't have given it to them in the first place.
To your friends? ;-)
That's easy enough on Slashdot
Yeah, just post it in an article, no one will read it. ;)
How about when you're sober. Can you fly then?
No, I find it equally difficult. Being drunk just makes it seem like a much better idea to try.
I also fall over, have difficulty flying and run into things when drunk.
After reading your explanation I think it's safe to agree that no, I didn't get it. Thanks for clearing it up though.
Don't like it? Use another service.
And in that short post you claimed that all criticism is pointless.
Why criticize a movie? Watch another movie. Why review a game? Play another game. You don't like this Beatles song? How dare you say so - go listen to something else!
If you are bothered enough by something why wouldn't you look for an alternative? Why continue to watch a movie, play a game, listen to a song or use a service that offends you? That's not criticism, it's finding a better use for your time.
The only real information I have in my account is my name and email address, which is my name, so it's enough for people to confirm it's me but not enough for FB to scrape anything meaningful out of it. Oddly, the fact that the rest of my profile is total BS seems to make it easier for my friends to find me.
I see what you [are going to do] there.
This is a great quote. I like it. I'm going to repost it in a place where it gets far more notoriety though.
Slashdot?
Red Hat makes money primarily on support and if you don't want to pay them, then you have other options, you can go without support or you can hire somebody else. With Steam, you pay for the product and support or you do without, the other option being piracy.
I'd say that makes it very different, when a corporation uses volunteer labor for a pay only product, that's fundamentally different from when a corporation makes money off a freely available product.
I know people like Steam and all but it's not the only legal option. If you don't like Steam you don't use it, games can still be purchased through other channels, but if someone does like Steam enough to go above and beyond giving them their money what's wrong with that?
On the other end of the equation, what's wrong with a corporation using volunteers? If they have people lining up to work for free on a project they can make some money off why wouldn't they let them? All they offered was a fuzzy feeling and people still lined up. This seems like a case of everyone getting what they want.
Stocking single ply wasn't enough for them? Now they need to go to single atom? And people wonder why I don't poop in public restrooms....
The voices may not be real but they have some pretty good suggestions.
I believe the point is information was shared under the assumption that it would remain confidential, the fact that a company purchasing the scraps of the company that entered into this agreement is no longer willing to honor those conditions is a little disconcerting; it could potentially set a precedent where other information can be "released" without your consent simply because a company stops existing.
Because they don't have enough money for marketing?
Post the project on Kickstarter.
??? (wait)
Profit!
Think of it as geographically redundant storage then. Personally, I'm going to stick with books until I can drop my e-reader in the tub.
We only need a few redundant collections to preserve hard copies in case of an electromagnetic disaster.
We could call these redundant collections libraries!