I've never gotten a nastygram from them (which isn't to say that I doubt your word that you did). They've been borging up providers left and right, so maybe they're honoring the old contracts?
If I do, though, yeah, it'll definitely lower my opinion of them.
Centurylink has been having some routing issues the past few days (which is why I STILL haven't been able to download my Torchlight 2 Beta!) and I was beginning to suspect that they might have come about by them playing stupid routing tricks to block TPB.
I've had DSL with them for 8 years now and they've given me as close to a raw pipe as I'm likely to get, and that would have pissed me off to no end, since the fact that they don't fuck with me is the primary reason I pay more and tend to be mellow about the occasional outage, because, and I quote, "At least they're not Comcast."
Or smart enough to realize that intelligence measurements are normally distributed, and left a legacy in the form of the knowledge that, whenever that quote is uttered, some pedantic putz is going to say the same goddamn thing and out himself for the douchecanoe that he is.
I had a similar experience (though with higher numbers). I was shocked. I'd already cut soda about 6 months before that (from 2-3 12-packs/wk to 1 can/month at most). Pretty much totally abandoned fast food (good riddance) and even most "frozen junkfood" type meals (TV dinners, frozen pizza, etc...). My activity level was pretty much the same.
Six months later, I'm constantly fatigued and I find out that I PUT ON about 23 lbs.
I would have been better off keeping the shitty diet.
In the same way, I presume, that Navy flight school (or whatever they call it where they train the fighter pilots) involves simulated flying against $BAD_GUYS air combat models...
Measuring vitals and dispensing medication ARE routinely performed by nurses (though, IIRC, only a Registered Nurse can dispense meds, a Licensed Practical Nurse can't).
In households with more than one gamer, how are games whose only multiplayer is LAN or online typically played?
"Taking Turns." The same way it was dealt with 20 years ago when I wanted to play Dragon Warrior II and my brother wanted to play Contra.
And plenty of games have split screen. Mostly shooters and sports games, but those seem to be the most popular genres on the console, so they can still play alongside their brothers.
It's called don't buy their fucking product if you don't like the shit they pull. Sometimes it means you have to go without aforementioned really cool product.
Since it's been shown, over and over again, that Facebook doesn't care whether or not you elect to use their product and is perfectly happy to accept your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roomate as a proxy for providing them your information, could you please, for the love of all that's holy, stop with the stupid "vote with your wallet" canard.
Prohibiting you from turning down a customer on the basis of their race is most certainly commerce. Whether or not it qualifies as interstate depends on the business being regulated.
And since a business that doesn't do interstate commerce can't opt out of the Act, which, as you stated,draws its power from the ICC... it's abuse, just like I said.
You consider abortion private, because you don't consider it murder. Once you make that logical leap, it clearly ceases to be a private matter. Unfortunately for you, the personhood of different stages of fetus is still wildly open to interpretation, and therefore you can not be "correct", only opinionated.
How is that "unfortunate for me?" Clearly, by your tone and word choice, you disagree, which is your own right, but it seems to me that most of the existing rules are on my side. I'm not sure which side is making the "logical leap" when it comes to considering an undifferentiated bundle of cells "a person," the basis of which seems to be entirely based on either A) Religion ("the soul exists at conception") or B) RIAA accounting ("Well, it's a POTENTIAL person.")
Obviously, I'm not the only "opnionated" one here.
Abortion is still ambigious because either way one party is forced (the mother or the child).
Only if one makes the "logical leap" that the potential offspring is a person. Otherwise, that argument fails on its face.
The first amendment applies to speech and beliefs. It does not apply to your choice of whom to do business with. However, the interstate commerce clause, from which the Civil Rights Act derives its Constitutionality, does.
Wow. Just wow.
You ignore the "Assembly" part of the first amendment (the right to associate with whom you wish), AND then you abuse the ICC as bad as congress ever did? Or are you claiming that any little local business that doesn't do business across state lines should be allowed to ignore the Civil Rights Act?
doesn't think the federal government should involve itself in them, which, last I checked, is exactly the definition of a libertarian.
Check again. That's the definition of an anti-federalist. A libertarian wold maintain that, the first, second, and last being private matters, the states have no business doing so, either.
I don't know about that. Colloquially, "thug" can be used synonymously with "minion," "goon," etc... as a criminal in the service of powerful individual or organization ("The don sent his thugs..." etc...)
Considering that we get more and more reports every month of the TSA doing things that would be explicitly illegal for the citizenry, it seems like a pretty fitting term to me. Though maybe "government" should have been "government's," but that's more of a semantic nitpick than "extremism."
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I've never gotten a nastygram from them (which isn't to say that I doubt your word that you did). They've been borging up providers left and right, so maybe they're honoring the old contracts?
If I do, though, yeah, it'll definitely lower my opinion of them.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." - - Princess Leia
Followed, not long after, by:
"You may fire when ready." -- Tarkin.
Something to think about, that.
Centurylink has been having some routing issues the past few days (which is why I STILL haven't been able to download my Torchlight 2 Beta!) and I was beginning to suspect that they might have come about by them playing stupid routing tricks to block TPB.
I've had DSL with them for 8 years now and they've given me as close to a raw pipe as I'm likely to get, and that would have pissed me off to no end, since the fact that they don't fuck with me is the primary reason I pay more and tend to be mellow about the occasional outage, because, and I quote, "At least they're not Comcast."
Or smart enough to realize that intelligence measurements are normally distributed, and left a legacy in the form of the knowledge that, whenever that quote is uttered, some pedantic putz is going to say the same goddamn thing and out himself for the douchecanoe that he is.
In all fairness to the GP, that IS what the scumbags in the TLAs and their media minions wanted us to believe awhille back.
Granted, the fact that it may have worked doesn't speak well for the believers' bullshit detectors.
The government is short on money, what better way to recoup it that fining the collective asses off copyright infringers?
How about taxing "IP" as assets, since they want to treat them that way in every other respect?
Where are you from? There are no consumer protection laws where you live?
Probably from the US, and none worth mentioning outside of food and phramacy, respectively.
I had a similar experience (though with higher numbers). I was shocked. I'd already cut soda about 6 months before that (from 2-3 12-packs/wk to 1 can/month at most). Pretty much totally abandoned fast food (good riddance) and even most "frozen junkfood" type meals (TV dinners, frozen pizza, etc...). My activity level was pretty much the same.
Six months later, I'm constantly fatigued and I find out that I PUT ON about 23 lbs.
I would have been better off keeping the shitty diet.
Wuss.
My coffee cup is 35 oz.
Have they finally demoted the USA out of the first world? About damn time...
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A Disgruntled Florida Resident.
In the same way, I presume, that Navy flight school (or whatever they call it where they train the fighter pilots) involves simulated flying against $BAD_GUYS air combat models...
But, I fear that this may cause abuse of antibiotics by those who do not know the difference between bacteria and viruses.
The MDs themselves are hardly innocent of any hand in that particular clusterfuck, though.
Measuring vitals and dispensing medication ARE routinely performed by nurses (though, IIRC, only a Registered Nurse can dispense meds, a Licensed Practical Nurse can't).
In households with more than one gamer, how are games whose only multiplayer is LAN or online typically played?
"Taking Turns." The same way it was dealt with 20 years ago when I wanted to play Dragon Warrior II and my brother wanted to play Contra.
And plenty of games have split screen. Mostly shooters and sports games, but those seem to be the most popular genres on the console, so they can still play alongside their brothers.
Amusingly, now owned by Google.
It's called don't buy their fucking product if you don't like the shit they pull. Sometimes it means you have to go without aforementioned really cool product.
Since it's been shown, over and over again, that Facebook doesn't care whether or not you elect to use their product and is perfectly happy to accept your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roomate as a proxy for providing them your information, could you please, for the love of all that's holy, stop with the stupid "vote with your wallet" canard.
We're not the customers. We're the product.
Nah, he's just a Tool fan.
Prohibiting you from turning down a customer on the basis of their race is most certainly commerce. Whether or not it qualifies as interstate depends on the business being regulated.
And since a business that doesn't do interstate commerce can't opt out of the Act, which, as you stated ,draws its power from the ICC... it's abuse, just like I said.
You consider abortion private, because you don't consider it murder. Once you make that logical leap, it clearly ceases to be a private matter. Unfortunately for you, the personhood of different stages of fetus is still wildly open to interpretation, and therefore you can not be "correct", only opinionated.
How is that "unfortunate for me?" Clearly, by your tone and word choice, you disagree, which is your own right, but it seems to me that most of the existing rules are on my side. I'm not sure which side is making the "logical leap" when it comes to considering an undifferentiated bundle of cells "a person," the basis of which seems to be entirely based on either A) Religion ("the soul exists at conception") or B) RIAA accounting ("Well, it's a POTENTIAL person.")
Obviously, I'm not the only "opnionated" one here.
Abortion is still ambigious because either way one party is forced (the mother or the child).
Only if one makes the "logical leap" that the potential offspring is a person. Otherwise, that argument fails on its face.
The first amendment applies to speech and beliefs. It does not apply to your choice of whom to do business with. However, the interstate commerce clause, from which the Civil Rights Act derives its Constitutionality, does.
Wow. Just wow.
You ignore the "Assembly" part of the first amendment (the right to associate with whom you wish), AND then you abuse the ICC as bad as congress ever did? Or are you claiming that any little local business that doesn't do business across state lines should be allowed to ignore the Civil Rights Act?
doesn't think the federal government should involve itself in them, which, last I checked, is exactly the definition of a libertarian.
Check again. That's the definition of an anti-federalist. A libertarian wold maintain that, the first, second, and last being private matters, the states have no business doing so, either.
They are not beating the shit out of you for no reason, stealing your belongings, or engaging in other thuggish behavior.
Well, 1 out of 3 isn't bad... err, wait...
There are a bunch of instances where they've gotten caught pinching stuff. Remember that twit with the ipads?
I don't know about that. Colloquially, "thug" can be used synonymously with "minion," "goon," etc... as a criminal in the service of powerful individual or organization ("The don sent his thugs..." etc...)
Considering that we get more and more reports every month of the TSA doing things that would be explicitly illegal for the citizenry, it seems like a pretty fitting term to me. Though maybe "government" should have been "government's," but that's more of a semantic nitpick than "extremism."
Especially still relevant since Nintendo has adopted the same rationale toward the horrible hand-numbing controls of a recent game.
Not sure if you're kidding, but I've actually had local stations playing late 70s/early 80s as "oldies." I'm really considering multiple homicide now.