On the other hand, I can always buy a wireless/wired headset for the phone but what's the point of walking around looking like a badly-puttogether-cyborg?
How do you use your hands (taking notes with your PDA) and talk on the phone while walking (with no surface to rest the PDA on)? Are you the guy from that beer commercial who had a third arm attached?
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sorry, I had to go chew some gum, but I'm done now. Us meager two-armed people typically use a headset to talk on the phone if we need to use our hands while having a conversation.
magnatune. You get WAV files from the master recording. Selection is pretty limited at the moment, but it's a non-RIAA studio, and the artists get %50 of the sales.
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but it's a majority of the representatives, not necessarily of the general public. The general public don't actually vote on anything except for who gets to vote for laws and presidents.
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uh, wrong. Laws are written by Congress, not the general public. So even if 75% of all people nationally say they want law X, if those 75% are repsented by only 49% of Congress, they still loose. So an even smaller minority than the oppressed wealthy decided who would pay how much. And Congressional reprensentative are most likely all in that wealthy half. There are a number of safety measures in place to protect against the tyranny. they may not always work as designed, of course, but they're always evolving with us. If you don't like it, you can run for office or communicate your malcontent with your elected representatives. Or you can go live somewhere else.
ok, when i hit the submit button i was taken to a survey on salary.com. Anyone else see anything like that on this discussion?
Re:So it all comes down to "become a pirate"
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So that's what it boils down to? Don't like, then ship out and hoist the jolly roger. Argghhh!
I know you were joking, at least I think you were, and I thought it was funny. But I just meant be self-sufficient in international territory. I can't think of any legally inhabitable land that isn't within any nation's borders. Right now I can think of nothing better than to have a nice private island with solar/wind-power for electricity and a nice boat. Grow fruits/vegetables and fish for food. Do a bunch of SCUBA diving and lazing around on the beach.
well, working at home and staying at home rearing the children implies two different things to me. The former means the individual has a income, and should therefor be included in an analysis of average incomes. The latter implies no income, and thus no inclusion in such an analysis. So I don't really see a conflict between what the parent post said and the feminists you mention. Now that I write it out I feel like Jon Stewart interviewing Ariana Huffington. I feel like the three of us are arguing over something we all agree on.
well at least for now we tall folk can hold our extra earning over you heads.
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Do you think a thief takes effort to steal the same value of goods when they break into a $4M mansion as when they break into a $200/month government housing project? How do you suggest to maintain the budget with a flat tax? The poorest half is literally unable to pick up the difference. Do you know anyone who is going to volunteer to pay taxes if not required by law? I don't, I know I wouldn't. But then we wouldn't have funding for the military to defend us, or for public education, or public health care. It's a trade-off that the majority of the population thinks has more benefits than problems. If you're so fed up with it, move to another country, or by a boat and live in international waters.
there is no reason at all to think he was in league with any terrorist organisation.
I think a standing offer of monetary reward to the families of anyone who commits suicide bombings against groups he considers enemies puts him in league.
I agree that the best way to prevent a terrorist attack is find the terrorists before hand and stop them or take away their weapons.
so if a country allows terrorist groups to stay within its borders, and won't allow another military force access to apprehend terrorist agents, what then? Note I'm not trying to link this with any specific action, just a hypothetical.
It's pretty clear what is happening is that the US Administration is pursuing it's own selfish goals at the expense of truth, justice and anyone who happens to get in their way.
I don't think it is clear. Iraq invaded another country, a group of countires including the U.S. stopped them, the U.N. gave Iraq a set of actions, and Iraq failed to prove compliance. Combined with Hussein's open support for the terrorist enemies of the U.S., I don't think removing him from power is a 'selfish' act. I won't say that I think bush has been totally altruistic, but Hussein was a world threat, guilty of some pretty awfule crimes against humanity.
I'll certainly concede that military powers (all of them) often understate the true numbers. But I find it unfortunate you feel compelled to focus on just those caused by the US military, ignoring that Hussein's own military caused many innocent civilian deaths in absence of any opposing military force. When you consider that perspective (my countrymen are the only people being killed by my own government to keep me in line, or my countrymen are being caught in the crossfire between my government and military forces trying to free me from my government) it should hopefully loose some of the imperialist tone [that I may very well be implying on my own] you put over it.
I definitely agree with you that apathy is one of the major problems with preservation of civil rights.
Forgive my possible ignorance, but wasn't it all one really long antitrust case, began and pursued by Clinton's administration, ending when Bush appointed a new administration and basically said 'hands off'?
MBA: I don't do shipping. lady: It's real easy with fedex.com, anyone can use it. MBA: you don't understand, I have an MBA. lady: oh, you have an MBA. I better show you how to use it.
I thought it was illegal (federal law) to use an automated dialer and not include all the pertinent info. Perhaps the phone number alone would be enough to pursue under that law. Also, SBC has reverse phone number lookup for business listings on SMARTpages.com.
my contract ran out in january, haven't had a single sales call offering new plans or anything, just bills as usual. I actually found out they don't require a contract when I noticed the $10 no contract charge. Called to bitch since I had signed a contract 6 months prior. They wouldn't refund past the statement I was calling about, and the contract was instituted as of the day I called, rather than when I faxed it in. So it's not all roses, but it's good to know.
There have been numerours discussions on building a kernel with -march 686 instead of 386. An I can't remember the big reason that is always used against it, I'm sure someone smarter than me can provide it.:p But regarding all the modules, that is done to make life extremely easier on the average consumer. People who go buy the retail box at a computer store to try it out won't like have to reconfigure and recompile the kernel when they buy a news scanner, or new TV card, or new video card, or whatever. They want to install the hardware, boot the machine, and install drivers if needed. By installing drivers, I mean pop in a CD and run a shell script that copies some.o files to/lib/modules and runs depmod -a and modprobe -a . Beyond that and you start to agravate the target market for the RH products. Also, having those config files there ready to go is awesome, I remember giving up trying to just build a module to load into my running kernel because I had no idea what the.config for the binary kernel was. That sucks when you have to build the whole freaking things just for one extra.o.
I'm always amazed by the way people obsess over service contracts. Sprint will not cancel your service if you don't sign a new contract when your current one expires. If you don't change your plan at the end of the contract, they just kepp billing you at the same rate. You can cancel at any time for free after this. If you try to change your plan, they'll ask for a contract to get the special rate. But they're perfectly willing to charge you a little more per month ($10) instead of signing a contract. So if you intend to switch within 15 months, pay the extra fee per month and save money in the long run.
Apparently you've never wanted to play your music on any non-apple product without first expanding your files to 12x their original size, and then possibly having to re-compress them to another format.
I know I've cursed not having an apple product around to listen to my music on a stupid redbook audio CD created with iTunes. Those Apple pirates need to learn we won't tolerate that kind of vendor lock-in.
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How do you use your hands (taking notes with your PDA) and talk on the phone while walking (with no surface to rest the PDA on)? Are you the guy from that beer commercial who had a third arm attached?
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sorry, I had to go chew some gum, but I'm done now. Us meager two-armed people typically use a headset to talk on the phone if we need to use our hands while having a conversation.
magnatune. You get WAV files from the master recording. Selection is pretty limited at the moment, but it's a non-RIAA studio, and the artists get %50 of the sales.
but it's a majority of the representatives, not necessarily of the general public. The general public don't actually vote on anything except for who gets to vote for laws and presidents.
uh, wrong. Laws are written by Congress, not the general public. So even if 75% of all people nationally say they want law X, if those 75% are repsented by only 49% of Congress, they still loose. So an even smaller minority than the oppressed wealthy decided who would pay how much. And Congressional reprensentative are most likely all in that wealthy half. There are a number of safety measures in place to protect against the tyranny. they may not always work as designed, of course, but they're always evolving with us. If you don't like it, you can run for office or communicate your malcontent with your elected representatives. Or you can go live somewhere else.
ok, when i hit the submit button i was taken to a survey on salary.com. Anyone else see anything like that on this discussion?
I know you were joking, at least I think you were, and I thought it was funny. But I just meant be self-sufficient in international territory. I can't think of any legally inhabitable land that isn't within any nation's borders. Right now I can think of nothing better than to have a nice private island with solar/wind-power for electricity and a nice boat. Grow fruits/vegetables and fish for food. Do a bunch of SCUBA diving and lazing around on the beach.
well, working at home and staying at home rearing the children implies two different things to me. The former means the individual has a income, and should therefor be included in an analysis of average incomes. The latter implies no income, and thus no inclusion in such an analysis. So I don't really see a conflict between what the parent post said and the feminists you mention. Now that I write it out I feel like Jon Stewart interviewing Ariana Huffington. I feel like the three of us are arguing over something we all agree on.
well at least for now we tall folk can hold our extra earning over you heads.
Do you think a thief takes effort to steal the same value of goods when they break into a $4M mansion as when they break into a $200/month government housing project? How do you suggest to maintain the budget with a flat tax? The poorest half is literally unable to pick up the difference. Do you know anyone who is going to volunteer to pay taxes if not required by law? I don't, I know I wouldn't. But then we wouldn't have funding for the military to defend us, or for public education, or public health care. It's a trade-off that the majority of the population thinks has more benefits than problems. If you're so fed up with it, move to another country, or by a boat and live in international waters.
I think a standing offer of monetary reward to the families of anyone who commits suicide bombings against groups he considers enemies puts him in league.
I agree that the best way to prevent a terrorist attack is find the terrorists before hand and stop them or take away their weapons.
so if a country allows terrorist groups to stay within its borders, and won't allow another military force access to apprehend terrorist agents, what then? Note I'm not trying to link this with any specific action, just a hypothetical.
It's pretty clear what is happening is that the US Administration is pursuing it's own selfish goals at the expense of truth, justice and anyone who happens to get in their way.
I don't think it is clear. Iraq invaded another country, a group of countires including the U.S. stopped them, the U.N. gave Iraq a set of actions, and Iraq failed to prove compliance. Combined with Hussein's open support for the terrorist enemies of the U.S., I don't think removing him from power is a 'selfish' act. I won't say that I think bush has been totally altruistic, but Hussein was a world threat, guilty of some pretty awfule crimes against humanity.
I'll certainly concede that military powers (all of them) often understate the true numbers. But I find it unfortunate you feel compelled to focus on just those caused by the US military, ignoring that Hussein's own military caused many innocent civilian deaths in absence of any opposing military force. When you consider that perspective (my countrymen are the only people being killed by my own government to keep me in line, or my countrymen are being caught in the crossfire between my government and military forces trying to free me from my government) it should hopefully loose some of the imperialist tone [that I may very well be implying on my own] you put over it.
I definitely agree with you that apathy is one of the major problems with preservation of civil rights.
check out chkconfig, way nicer than ntsysv `chkconfig service off` disables the service for all runlevels specified in /etc/init.d/service.
You forgot to call him a warthog-faced buffoon.
Forgive my possible ignorance, but wasn't it all one really long antitrust case, began and pursued by Clinton's administration, ending when Bush appointed a new administration and basically said 'hands off'?
MBA: I don't do shipping.
lady: It's real easy with fedex.com, anyone can use it.
MBA: you don't understand, I have an MBA.
lady: oh, you have an MBA. I better show you how to use it.
Awesome! I've already swam with blacktips and lemons. But don't you think all the SCUBA gear would make it hard to communicate in meetings?
I still don't see how it's ironic. To me it just sounds like Mozilla is a kick-ass browser.
what doesn't make sense is believing that one tool fits all jobs.
I thought it was illegal (federal law) to use an automated dialer and not include all the pertinent info. Perhaps the phone number alone would be enough to pursue under that law. Also, SBC has reverse phone number lookup for business listings on SMARTpages.com.
how is that ironic?
my contract ran out in january, haven't had a single sales call offering new plans or anything, just bills as usual. I actually found out they don't require a contract when I noticed the $10 no contract charge. Called to bitch since I had signed a contract 6 months prior. They wouldn't refund past the statement I was calling about, and the contract was instituted as of the day I called, rather than when I faxed it in. So it's not all roses, but it's good to know.
There have been numerours discussions on building a kernel with -march 686 instead of 386. An I can't remember the big reason that is always used against it, I'm sure someone smarter than me can provide it. :p But regarding all the modules, that is done to make life extremely easier on the average consumer. People who go buy the retail box at a computer store to try it out won't like have to reconfigure and recompile the kernel when they buy a news scanner, or new TV card, or new video card, or whatever. They want to install the hardware, boot the machine, and install drivers if needed. By installing drivers, I mean pop in a CD and run a shell script that copies some .o files to /lib/modules and runs depmod -a and modprobe -a . Beyond that and you start to agravate the target market for the RH products. Also, having those config files there ready to go is awesome, I remember giving up trying to just build a module to load into my running kernel because I had no idea what the .config for the binary kernel was. That sucks when you have to build the whole freaking things just for one extra .o.
I'm always amazed by the way people obsess over service contracts. Sprint will not cancel your service if you don't sign a new contract when your current one expires. If you don't change your plan at the end of the contract, they just kepp billing you at the same rate. You can cancel at any time for free after this. If you try to change your plan, they'll ask for a contract to get the special rate. But they're perfectly willing to charge you a little more per month ($10) instead of signing a contract. So if you intend to switch within 15 months, pay the extra fee per month and save money in the long run.
I know I've cursed not having an apple product around to listen to my music on a stupid redbook audio CD created with iTunes. Those Apple pirates need to learn we won't tolerate that kind of vendor lock-in.