I was a switcher before switching was cool. I have used Mozilla since somewhere in the.9 range. I have used Opera for Windows for a few years. I have used OmniWeb and iCab on Mac.
My honest opinion is that Chimera is better than the other Mac browsers - but will have stiff competition from Safari.
There are things that I like from Safari that I would like to see in Chimera. Like some of the interface elements - like the progress bar or snap back... And there are things from Chimera that I would like to see in Safari - like tabs and better cookie management and popup management. I would like both to offer flash filtering the same as chimera/mozilla do image filtering.
All in all I think the other browsers can learn from Safari - and Apple can learn from the success of the open source Chimera. Currently - I still prefer Chimera, the latest builds have so far been extremely stable, fast, and usable. Thank you Chimera Dev....
My understanding is that if you could, some observers would see you traveling back in time, and this is forbidden.
Well maybe in YOUR home. In my home I expressly allow travelling back in time, AND the observation thereof. Don't go trying to push your morals... er... physics on me buster.
Damn. I read through all these comments, and yearn for the days when/. readers used to be SMART.
I am an Oregon resident, and this has been analyzed and discussed locally and all that LONG before it made any national news streams - or/.
Oregon's laws are no better or worse than anywhere else in the country. Every state has sucky laws. Every state has screwed up government. Every state has bad taxing schemes. Every state has areas with bad roads, crummy schools, or high crime. Every state also has some good stuffs, nice places, good policies - what have you. Portland has some strange laws (It is illegal to ride a bycicle on the streets downtown) and some good ones (they were the first major city to oficially legalize skateboarding and give skateboarders rights and responsibilities).
1. Oregon is looking at this system for the LONG TERM future, not immediate gain. The simple truth is that Petrolium based fuels are going to be replaced with other mechanisms. They are just THINKING of how they will be able to still provide roads when no one is buy buying gasoline any more. (Flashes of "Mr Fusion" powerd cars come to mind). "OUR ROADS SUCK - WE WANT MORE, BETTER ROADS!!! What do you MEAN you want us to PAY for them? Why should we have to PAY for them?"
2. These things you have been reading about are all trial programs to test the viability. They are planning on passing legislation to allow them to TEST these types of systems with voluntary participants. The results of these tests will be used to design the real system. (with the speed of state govt, it'll be a while.)
3. Part of the needs of these tests is to design a system that charges appropriately. Some of the discussed options is having the mileage rate also be based on vehicle weight, size, number of axels, etc... So that a smaller lighter vehicle won't pay as much as a large heavy one.
4. Outsiders will just pay the regular gas tax for now. Just like they do currently. If you buy gas in a state - any state - and you pay their gas taxes, you are helping to pay for their roads. If you pass through the state without buying gas - you are using the roads at a discount. (Some of all roads is paid for with federal dollars and federal gas taxes - so no one gets a completely free ride).
5. GPS is important so that they don't bill people for miles they drive outside of Oregon, or not on Oregon roads. The ultimate goal is for the GPS to only count miles driven on ROADS. We all know that GPS is not perfect, but we have to start figuring out something - and it is a place to start.
6. I do have very real privacy concerns. The system is NOT real-time - but who is to say what info they actually record? Even if it is after the fact, it could be abused. "Lets see, this indicates you were in the vincinity of this crack house - we should search your home for drug paraphanalia." "Hmmm, looks like you broke the speed limit 38 times this month. Here is ticket."
7. Any system would have to have the ability to detect tampering - much like cars computers do now (the dealership can tell if you have a chip or modified system) - and they would have to account for irregularities or weather problems. Our GPS devices we have now work pretty good here - except in forests. And since 2/3 of oregon residents live in the Willamette valley - full of dense forests - this could pose a problem.
8. People REMEMBER: Gas taxes are usage fees THE SAME WAY but just collected differently. Currently, a large heavy vehicle will typically get much less mileage, and thus pay more per mile for usage. A motorcycle that gets 70mpg will pay much less gas tax, but also damages the road much less. If you drive a million miles a year - you pay gas taxes - thus mileage fees - evey gallon of gas you consume.
9. Oregon already taxes trucks heavily. Deisel taxes are higher than gasoline taxes - which sucks for those who drive the 50mpg Volkswagen TDIs. In addition, Oregon taxes trucks on a weight / miles driven scale IN ADDITION to the fuel taxes. Pretty steeply as I understand it. Thats why we have so many weigh stations on our highways.
10. There could be better ways. Toll roads. I always have thought they were a good choice - because then the people who use that specific road pay for it. Transponders. Could work just like toll roads - with less manpower requirements. Maybe a combination of all the solutions. Nothing is perfect.
11. I *like* not having to pump my gas. Last night it was damn cold and raining sideways. I got to sit in a warm car while someone else froze. I always watch them and make sure they don't F up. And AFAIK Oregon is not the only state that it is illegal to pump your own gas, New Jersey the other maybe? One on the east coast anyway.
12. The one most important thing they could do is either get rid of studded tires - or tax them heavily. They freaking destroy the roads! We get nice ruts - so deep you can take your hands off the steering wheel and let the car just steer itself in the "tracks". And they are ABSOLUTELY un needed. I ski regularly, and on a two wheel drive rear drive van - I make it just fine without studs. Have for 5 years now. Only need chains occasionally. People use studs forgetting that studded tires REDUCE your traction in wet or dry conditions. NW Oregon has mostly wet conditions. So by using studs you REDUCE your traction 99% of the time, so that the ONE day a year we MIGHT get Ice, or the once a week you ski, or the one time you need to go through the mountains - you will have traction. Dumbasses. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I love when it is a sunny warm spring day, and I am walking around in a short sleeved shirt downtown Portland, and cars are driving by clacking with studs. Good thing they had them, those bone dry roads can be treachorus.
HELLO PEOPLE. STUFF IS NOT FREE. There is ALWAYS a cost somewhere. (I have heard people complaining that they had to pay a $3 use fee at a state park when before THAT policy they complained that trails that were washed out were not being fixed fast enough.)
Of course, a #8 torx, chip puller, anti-static wristband, and dremmel tool are *required* for learning. That's why MIT gives you them in a nice handy "education kit" when you enroll (for a small fee of course).
You can use GameCube controllers - even on a PC or Mac. GC controllers are HID compliant, and you just buy an adapter for GC -> USB. Some of the adapters will even support GC, PS/PS2, N64, X-Box controllers. a 2 year old can use the NGC controllers. Nintendo makes a GREAT wireless controller called the "Wavebird" or something like that.
Myamoto games have great GAMEPLAY. I own all those *adult* games. GTA. Eternal Darkness. Resident Evil. SOCOMM. Unreal. Half-Life. RTCW. Heck, even Leisure Suit Larry... But we keep going back to the Myamoto games - long after we have grown tired of the others - because they are still, and will always be FUN.
Nintendo makes kid-friendly games because happy kids grow up to be happy adults who buy games that remind them of their happy childhoods. I have been playing Nintendo games since DonkeyKong on the ColecoVision. Then the NES changed it all, and I have owned EVERY Nintendo console since. My kids will play and own Nintendo. And the games will always be good, as long as they focus on gameplay instead of *shock value* and marketing.
Can I jump on the "nothing new here" bandwagon? It has been known for a while that PCs are getting faster than Macs, in almost every way. Macs are very very good, and I am actually a switcher. But the PCs in the last year or so have been advancing faster in processing speed than Macs. Who knows who is to blame, but I put the blame on Motorola. But if the "rumors" are true, if Apple releases the Power4 based 970 IBM chips in a Mac, it will be QUITE fast. Then we can start the comparison's again. But for now, just keep enjoying Mac OS X.
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Did you say something?
hehe
I still have not figured out why *some* of these things get accepted. (Like the Apple users dislike M$ crap). And then others get rejected, seemingly for no reason.
Maybe the/. is really part of the new Homeland Security Administration...;)
That already exists in Mozilla.
Under the "Privacy&Security" section in preferences.
Under Cookies select:
[]enable cookies for the originating web site only
Under images select:
[]accept images that come from the originating server only
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If they are so good at new things, maybe they should get better at new browsers:
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I was going to post about this but you beat me to the punch...
Here in Portland, Oregon - any event at the "Rose Garden" (which is the arena where the TrailBlazers lose) - be it a sporting event, a concert, or a convention - tickets have to be purchased via ticketmaster.
So if you buy at a Ticketmaster outlet near your home, you pay a convenience fee.
If you buy over the phone or on the web you pay a convenience fee.
If you buy your ticket AT THE BOX OFFICE at the front door of the venue at the time of the event?
You guessed it. You pay a convenience fee.
BA$TARD$.
So we tried to boycot them by only attending shows at places that don't use TM. There were many here in PDX. But most of them have been strongarmed into TM now, that almost every concert or band in the city is via TM.
Funny. Paul Allen is a major owner of TicketMaster, the "Rose Garden" and the Portland Trail Blazers. So if you wanted to see the blazers play - just send the deed to your house to Paul Allen. (As if his part in M$ wasn't enough).
I had a similar experience. I have two computers running OS X and on on Linux. I had been using this setup with ATT Broadband for 2 years. (NOTE: I HATE ATT BROADBAND.)
When we changed names on the acocunt they insisted that duw to new policies they had to come and swap the cable modem.
Now (as of a few months ago they said) the cable modems have to be registered. That is what the software does.
So I told the cable guy I would run the software, he said OK and left. The disk SAID it was OSX compatible - but I didn't care.
I then called the support line and said that I needed to register the modem. They sent me to a website that asked all the questions the software would have.
Mozilla didn't work. IE in OSX wouldn't even work. But I started up Classic, and ran IE in OS9 and it worked. (Even through a NAT Firewall utility).
Moral? Just call customer service after the installer leaves and get the website...
PS: I HATE ATT BRAODBAND. But I have no other options realistically for broadband.
Yeah, private companies *never* develop anything the public wants or can use. Good thing the "government" developed DVD's, CD's, Cars, Refridgerators, TVs, and all that other stuff.
what is wrong with charging per GB of usage? Do you complain that a 1 hour call across the country costs more than a 15 min call?
But how do they meter that usage? My broadband connection is used *a lot* more than I use it - by all the crap that is pounding my firewall.
How will they be able to know what *I* use, and what is just the virus/trojan/mole noise on the net hitting my account?
They can't - without monitoring every packet for what it *is*, and not only is that pretty impractical - but I sure as heck don't want them doing that. Then I wouldn't be safe looking at pr0n or/dot.
Let me preface this with: "I HATE AT&T BROADBAND".
Cable is down all the time. The phones aren't.
this is entirely untrue. 2 years ago I got ATT@Home broadband internet. It has been down a total of 1 week (all time added together) in that period.
(Excluding the time it took the morons to hook it up in the first place, and outages caused by my changing addresses and accounts. But the network was up - it was just the bad customer service that screwed me).
On top of that, we have had AT&T Telephony over the cable lines for two years. It has never been down, and they have in our contract: If it goes down they guarantee to have someone on-site for repairs within an hour of recieving the complaint, and they will give the family a free cell phone for use if the problem cannot be fixed within 6 hours of the original call.
Now, let me restate. I HATE ATT BROADBAND.
But DSL is the same price with slower speeds and expensive install prices. So for now I stay with Cable. If they raise prices or DSL prices drop for installs, then I'll switch to DSL.
Not only that, but Wal-Mart is the only national chain I know of that continues to sell all sorts of guns and ammunition (mostly shotguns and rifles).
K-Mart also...
BTW, it is NOT funny to go into Wal-Mart and tell them you need more.223 ammo, "because you ran out."
Why else would you need more.223 ammo? You are right. It's not funny. What would be funny is to run into WAL MART, hysterically ranting, and saying you need more ammo cause you dropped yours while jumping over the fence...
Of course that would be if you still shopped at WAL-MART. WAL-MART has destroyed too many small towns for me to give them any more money... Besides, the Waltons already have enough.
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I was a switcher before switching was cool. I have used Mozilla since somewhere in the .9 range. I have used Opera for Windows for a few years. I have used OmniWeb and iCab on Mac.
My honest opinion is that Chimera is better than the other Mac browsers - but will have stiff competition from Safari.
There are things that I like from Safari that I would like to see in Chimera. Like some of the interface elements - like the progress bar or snap back... And there are things from Chimera that I would like to see in Safari - like tabs and better cookie management and popup management. I would like both to offer flash filtering the same as chimera/mozilla do image filtering.
All in all I think the other browsers can learn from Safari - and Apple can learn from the success of the open source Chimera. Currently - I still prefer Chimera, the latest builds have so far been extremely stable, fast, and usable. Thank you Chimera Dev....
My understanding is that if you could, some observers would see you traveling back in time, and this is forbidden.
Well maybe in YOUR home. In my home I expressly allow travelling back in time, AND the observation thereof. Don't go trying to push your morals... er... physics on me buster.
Damn. I read through all these comments, and yearn for the days when /. readers used to be SMART.
/.
I am an Oregon resident, and this has been analyzed and discussed locally and all that LONG before it made any national news streams - or
Oregon's laws are no better or worse than anywhere else in the country. Every state has sucky laws. Every state has screwed up government. Every state has bad taxing schemes. Every state has areas with bad roads, crummy schools, or high crime. Every state also has some good stuffs, nice places, good policies - what have you. Portland has some strange laws (It is illegal to ride a bycicle on the streets downtown) and some good ones (they were the first major city to oficially legalize skateboarding and give skateboarders rights and responsibilities).
1. Oregon is looking at this system for the LONG TERM future, not immediate gain. The simple truth is that Petrolium based fuels are going to be replaced with other mechanisms. They are just THINKING of how they will be able to still provide roads when no one is buy buying gasoline any more. (Flashes of "Mr Fusion" powerd cars come to mind). "OUR ROADS SUCK - WE WANT MORE, BETTER ROADS!!! What do you MEAN you want us to PAY for them? Why should we have to PAY for them?"
2. These things you have been reading about are all trial programs to test the viability. They are planning on passing legislation to allow them to TEST these types of systems with voluntary participants. The results of these tests will be used to design the real system. (with the speed of state govt, it'll be a while.)
3. Part of the needs of these tests is to design a system that charges appropriately. Some of the discussed options is having the mileage rate also be based on vehicle weight, size, number of axels, etc... So that a smaller lighter vehicle won't pay as much as a large heavy one.
4. Outsiders will just pay the regular gas tax for now. Just like they do currently. If you buy gas in a state - any state - and you pay their gas taxes, you are helping to pay for their roads. If you pass through the state without buying gas - you are using the roads at a discount. (Some of all roads is paid for with federal dollars and federal gas taxes - so no one gets a completely free ride).
5. GPS is important so that they don't bill people for miles they drive outside of Oregon, or not on Oregon roads. The ultimate goal is for the GPS to only count miles driven on ROADS. We all know that GPS is not perfect, but we have to start figuring out something - and it is a place to start.
6. I do have very real privacy concerns. The system is NOT real-time - but who is to say what info they actually record? Even if it is after the fact, it could be abused. "Lets see, this indicates you were in the vincinity of this crack house - we should search your home for drug paraphanalia." "Hmmm, looks like you broke the speed limit 38 times this month. Here is ticket."
7. Any system would have to have the ability to detect tampering - much like cars computers do now (the dealership can tell if you have a chip or modified system) - and they would have to account for irregularities or weather problems. Our GPS devices we have now work pretty good here - except in forests. And since 2/3 of oregon residents live in the Willamette valley - full of dense forests - this could pose a problem.
8. People REMEMBER: Gas taxes are usage fees THE SAME WAY but just collected differently. Currently, a large heavy vehicle will typically get much less mileage, and thus pay more per mile for usage. A motorcycle that gets 70mpg will pay much less gas tax, but also damages the road much less. If you drive a million miles a year - you pay gas taxes - thus mileage fees - evey gallon of gas you consume.
9. Oregon already taxes trucks heavily. Deisel taxes are higher than gasoline taxes - which sucks for those who drive the 50mpg Volkswagen TDIs. In addition, Oregon taxes trucks on a weight / miles driven scale IN ADDITION to the fuel taxes. Pretty steeply as I understand it. Thats why we have so many weigh stations on our highways.
10. There could be better ways. Toll roads. I always have thought they were a good choice - because then the people who use that specific road pay for it. Transponders. Could work just like toll roads - with less manpower requirements. Maybe a combination of all the solutions. Nothing is perfect.
11. I *like* not having to pump my gas. Last night it was damn cold and raining sideways. I got to sit in a warm car while someone else froze. I always watch them and make sure they don't F up. And AFAIK Oregon is not the only state that it is illegal to pump your own gas, New Jersey the other maybe? One on the east coast anyway.
12. The one most important thing they could do is either get rid of studded tires - or tax them heavily. They freaking destroy the roads! We get nice ruts - so deep you can take your hands off the steering wheel and let the car just steer itself in the "tracks". And they are ABSOLUTELY un needed. I ski regularly, and on a two wheel drive rear drive van - I make it just fine without studs. Have for 5 years now. Only need chains occasionally. People use studs forgetting that studded tires REDUCE your traction in wet or dry conditions. NW Oregon has mostly wet conditions. So by using studs you REDUCE your traction 99% of the time, so that the ONE day a year we MIGHT get Ice, or the once a week you ski, or the one time you need to go through the mountains - you will have traction. Dumbasses. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I love when it is a sunny warm spring day, and I am walking around in a short sleeved shirt downtown Portland, and cars are driving by clacking with studs. Good thing they had them, those bone dry roads can be treachorus.
HELLO PEOPLE. STUFF IS NOT FREE. There is ALWAYS a cost somewhere. (I have heard people complaining that they had to pay a $3 use fee at a state park when before THAT policy they complained that trails that were washed out were not being fixed fast enough.)
Of course, a #8 torx, chip puller, anti-static wristband, and dremmel tool are *required* for learning. That's why MIT gives you them in a nice handy "education kit" when you enroll (for a small fee of course).
You can use GameCube controllers - even on a PC or Mac. GC controllers are HID compliant, and you just buy an adapter for GC -> USB. Some of the adapters will even support GC, PS/PS2, N64, X-Box controllers. a 2 year old can use the NGC controllers. Nintendo makes a GREAT wireless controller called the "Wavebird" or something like that.
Myamoto games have great GAMEPLAY. I own all those *adult* games. GTA. Eternal Darkness. Resident Evil. SOCOMM. Unreal. Half-Life. RTCW. Heck, even Leisure Suit Larry... But we keep going back to the Myamoto games - long after we have grown tired of the others - because they are still, and will always be FUN.
Nintendo makes kid-friendly games because happy kids grow up to be happy adults who buy games that remind them of their happy childhoods. I have been playing Nintendo games since DonkeyKong on the ColecoVision. Then the NES changed it all, and I have owned EVERY Nintendo console since. My kids will play and own Nintendo. And the games will always be good, as long as they focus on gameplay instead of *shock value* and marketing.
Can I jump on the "nothing new here" bandwagon? It has been known for a while that PCs are getting faster than Macs, in almost every way. Macs are very very good, and I am actually a switcher. But the PCs in the last year or so have been advancing faster in processing speed than Macs. Who knows who is to blame, but I put the blame on Motorola. But if the "rumors" are true, if Apple releases the Power4 based 970 IBM chips in a Mac, it will be QUITE fast. Then we can start the comparison's again. But for now, just keep enjoying Mac OS X.
Did you say something? hehe I still have not figured out why *some* of these things get accepted. (Like the Apple users dislike M$ crap). And then others get rejected, seemingly for no reason. Maybe the /. is really part of the new Homeland Security Administration... ;)
Someone mod this up Funny...
;)
Just watched that movie again last night....
Now to go change the combination on my luggage.
If you haven't already, read "Ender's Game" before you read "Ender's Shadow". Works better that way... ;)
I'll second this nomination.
And I'll add that "Enders Game" should be read BEFORE "Enders Shadow" because shadow gives away some of the plot twist in game...
Here is a list of retail diesel pumps that provide Biodiesel. Here is a good forum discussing the Volkswagen TDI vehicles.
That already exists in Mozilla. Under the "Privacy&Security" section in preferences. Under Cookies select: []enable cookies for the originating web site only Under images select: []accept images that come from the originating server only
You can save this as an XML file, and then import it into IE6's privacy settings.
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These custom settings force ALL cookies to session lifetime, and does not allow 3rd party cookies. It will flush all your existing cookies when you import it. (you can remove the flush cookies element to not flush them on import).
You can do this with a cookperm.txt file.
Ad Blocking with Mozilla has some good info. You can also use this in Chimera to some extent. For more info Google it.
I was going to post about this but you beat me to the punch...
Here in Portland, Oregon - any event at the "Rose Garden" (which is the arena where the TrailBlazers lose) - be it a sporting event, a concert, or a convention - tickets have to be purchased via ticketmaster.
So if you buy at a Ticketmaster outlet near your home, you pay a convenience fee.
If you buy over the phone or on the web you pay a convenience fee.
If you buy your ticket AT THE BOX OFFICE at the front door of the venue at the time of the event?
You guessed it. You pay a convenience fee.
BA$TARD$.
So we tried to boycot them by only attending shows at places that don't use TM. There were many here in PDX. But most of them have been strongarmed into TM now, that almost every concert or band in the city is via TM.
Funny. Paul Allen is a major owner of TicketMaster, the "Rose Garden" and the Portland Trail Blazers. So if you wanted to see the blazers play - just send the deed to your house to Paul Allen. (As if his part in M$ wasn't enough).
Actually, you don't HAVE to install the junk.
I had a similar experience. I have two computers running OS X and on on Linux. I had been using this setup with ATT Broadband for 2 years. (NOTE: I HATE ATT BROADBAND.)
When we changed names on the acocunt they insisted that duw to new policies they had to come and swap the cable modem.
Now (as of a few months ago they said) the cable modems have to be registered. That is what the software does.
So I told the cable guy I would run the software, he said OK and left. The disk SAID it was OSX compatible - but I didn't care.
I then called the support line and said that I needed to register the modem. They sent me to a website that asked all the questions the software would have.
Mozilla didn't work. IE in OSX wouldn't even work. But I started up Classic, and ran IE in OS9 and it worked. (Even through a NAT Firewall utility).
Moral? Just call customer service after the installer leaves and get the website...
PS: I HATE ATT BRAODBAND. But I have no other options realistically for broadband.
The other thing that will become big will be pop-up blockers.
Most flavors of Mozilla, and OmniWeb (OSX) have this built in. I have not seen a "popup" in months. *nice*.
Who are the providers? Maybe we can convince them to come to the Northwest....
a libertarian controlled society
Oxy, meet Moron...
Yeah, private companies *never* develop anything the public wants or can use. Good thing the "government" developed DVD's, CD's, Cars, Refridgerators, TVs, and all that other stuff.
Wait...
what is wrong with charging per GB of usage? Do you complain that a 1 hour call across the country costs more than a 15 min call?
/dot.
But how do they meter that usage? My broadband connection is used *a lot* more than I use it - by all the crap that is pounding my firewall.
How will they be able to know what *I* use, and what is just the virus/trojan/mole noise on the net hitting my account?
They can't - without monitoring every packet for what it *is*, and not only is that pretty impractical - but I sure as heck don't want them doing that. Then I wouldn't be safe looking at pr0n or
Let me preface this with: "I HATE AT&T BROADBAND".
Cable is down all the time. The phones aren't.
this is entirely untrue. 2 years ago I got ATT@Home broadband internet. It has been down a total of 1 week (all time added together) in that period.
(Excluding the time it took the morons to hook it up in the first place, and outages caused by my changing addresses and accounts. But the network was up - it was just the bad customer service that screwed me).
On top of that, we have had AT&T Telephony over the cable lines for two years. It has never been down, and they have in our contract: If it goes down they guarantee to have someone on-site for repairs within an hour of recieving the complaint, and they will give the family a free cell phone for use if the problem cannot be fixed within 6 hours of the original call.
Now, let me restate. I HATE ATT BROADBAND.
But DSL is the same price with slower speeds and expensive install prices. So for now I stay with Cable. If they raise prices or DSL prices drop for installs, then I'll switch to DSL.
Not only that, but Wal-Mart is the only national chain I know of that continues to sell all sorts of guns and ammunition (mostly shotguns and rifles).
.223 ammo, "because you ran out."
.223 ammo? You are right. It's not funny. What would be funny is to run into WAL MART, hysterically ranting, and saying you need more ammo cause you dropped yours while jumping over the fence...
K-Mart also...
BTW, it is NOT funny to go into Wal-Mart and tell them you need more
Why else would you need more
Of course that would be if you still shopped at WAL-MART. WAL-MART has destroyed too many small towns for me to give them any more money... Besides, the Waltons already have enough.