My Social Security card is old enough to have this printed on it: "Not to be used as identification."
But everybody and his brother will ask for it every time you try to do business with them - the doctor, the phone company, the cable company, etc. etc. etc.
I always ask why they need it and they can never come up with a good answer. I also don't have my SS# on my driver's license.
I know of thousands of city streets that don't even have the first generation of street view yet. When, if ever, will Google get to them? Oh, they're great when it comes to medium to large cities, but they've practically ignored small towns. Even in cities of 5,000 to 15,000 some streets are missing and the ones they've photographed are from years ago.
It makes me wonder if self-driving cars would be practicable in small towns and rural areas. Nobody has the data yet. Even my Garmin GPS misses a lot.
Baseball players wear socks. The colors of the socks are team colors. Duh.
In the past, all the players wore stirrup socks with shorter uniform pants so the socks were a very visible part of the uniform. Most players today wear pants that come down to their shoes and the socks are harder to see.
Go ahead. Name another country that leaves its borders wide open and says come on in. Hell, try entering Mexico illegally and see how far you get. Demand that they do all of their government business in English and Spanish. Good luck.
I'm all for immigration as long as it's done legally and orderly. Letting in too many people and not allowing enough time for them to assimilate is asking for disaster.
One thing that irritates the hell out me is people calling everything an "app". They even call games apps, for Pete's sake. No, an application is something you can actually use to something productive. I always divided the programs (remember programs?) on my computer into applications, games, utilities, etc. Of course, on a phone I guess it doesn't make any difference because you can't do much productive on a phone.
That's strange. I just installed Here maps (again), and it asked for location service to be turned on. When I denied it, it closed. That's still bad. Maybe one day they'll get it right.
I use Google maps. It does ask, but it still works if I tell it "NO".
That's really scary, because if any of the "bad guys" ever hack into facebook and get their hands on that information . . . . wait . . . . facebook IS the "bad guys".
Imagine a time where the world is run by a handful of large corporations. We're there. Even governments can't control Google, Amazon, facebook, etc..
I would really hate using a spreadsheet or Photoshop on a phone or tablet. Even reading a simple pdf on my phone makes me want to pull my hair out.
I can see using a phone that's docked so that you can have a real keyboard and monitor, but do phones have the graphics horsepower to, say, edit a movie or even a large digital photo?
Every few years new research results come out saying that the old research was wrong. That's fine because this is science, but when it concerns diet and health, it can make a huge difference in your life expectancy.
Can we just refrain from saying what's good or bad for you until we know for near certainty?
I'm planning to live forever . . . . or die trying.
When you're European and are as left as it's possible to go, then everything is to your right. That's why Nazis get labeled as right wing when clearly to an outside observer, they're left wing. They're only very slightly right of communists.
The left in the United States before WWII recognized Nazis as one of their own. It was only after the war and the world saw what the Nazis did that the left disowned them and started calling them right wing. Read your history, folks. You're being lied to in a big way.
The on-screen guide on my cable box is great. The channel numbers are laid out in a more or less logical fashion. I can scroll a page at a time, not just one channel at a time. I can hide channels I'm not interested in and actually mark my favorite channels so they're easy to find. The DVR is also drop-dead simple to use.
That's from Charter in a small town in Alabama. Where do you live?
I use any resources I can find before I buy something that costs more than $50. Read reviews of the product on several different retailers' sites. See if any of them are written exactly the same. I've seen the exact same review on three different sites for the same product. I hope the guy got paid for writing them.
If there's a link to a pdf of the manual, it's good to read the manual. A manual gives you some idea about how hard or easy the product is to install, put together, and use. It gives you a much more detailed description than you can find on a retailer's website. Check out the "troubleshooting" part to see what kind of problems you can expect and how easy they are to fix.
If the retail site doesn't link to the manual, go to the manufacturer's site to find one. There's usually one there.
If all I'm buying is lentils from Amazon, I just go by name brand and reputation. Reviews don't even come into play for a lot of items.
I was working near the Alabama coast in Baldwin County and it was totally cloudy with light rain falling during the whole time. You couldn't even make out where the sun was through the clouds, not even a bright spot.
What everybody needs to keep in mind is that law enforcement officers are not paid to fight hand-to-hand with anybody. That happens in movies, not so much in real life. The average officer isn't Chuck Norris.
Talking is to be preferred unless you're being charged at by somebody bigger and stronger than you are. Tase away!
Why would they not know? It's mentioned in every single commercial for Cheerios I've ever seen. You'd have to have been living as a hermit in a cave all your life to not know they're made from oats.
What's really depressing is that information didn't make into the mainstream media. Our press may be free, but it's extremely biased - a fifth column so to speak.
Back in the good old days (and still today) the New York Times was a left-leaning publication, so of course they loved the Fascists. And, yes, Fascism and Nazism are on the left. Just because they fought against the Communists doesn't mean they're right wing. They're all evil siblings and the offspring of Satan.
I can do a lot of things and I know a lot about a lot of subjects, but I'm old enough and wise enough now to know my limits.
I've always done nearly all the maintenance on my home, car, mowers, and computers. I can talk with friends about nearly any subject they bring up - history, astronomy, physics, gardening, politics, television, music, etc.. But I'm not an expert about any of those.
So, if my car's transmission needs work, it's time to call in a pro. If I need doctor, I go to a doctor.
I can watch television when it's raining with my Charter cable. I had DirecTV and the picture quit whenever it rained more than a few drops. I kinda like watching uninterrupted, know what I mean?
Plus Charter (Spectrum) has no data cap on my internet.:p
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I'm 64, soon to be 65. Are any of you older than that?
My Social Security card is old enough to have this printed on it: "Not to be used as identification."
But everybody and his brother will ask for it every time you try to do business with them - the doctor, the phone company, the cable company, etc. etc. etc.
I always ask why they need it and they can never come up with a good answer. I also don't have my SS# on my driver's license.
I know of thousands of city streets that don't even have the first generation of street view yet. When, if ever, will Google get to them? Oh, they're great when it comes to medium to large cities, but they've practically ignored small towns. Even in cities of 5,000 to 15,000 some streets are missing and the ones they've photographed are from years ago.
It makes me wonder if self-driving cars would be practicable in small towns and rural areas. Nobody has the data yet. Even my Garmin GPS misses a lot.
To hell with that. Why do I have to choose any devil at all?
Somebody, please, just give me an old flip phone.
Baseball players wear socks. The colors of the socks are team colors. Duh.
In the past, all the players wore stirrup socks with shorter uniform pants so the socks were a very visible part of the uniform. Most players today wear pants that come down to their shoes and the socks are harder to see.
Go ahead. Name another country that leaves its borders wide open and says come on in. Hell, try entering Mexico illegally and see how far you get. Demand that they do all of their government business in English and Spanish. Good luck.
I'm all for immigration as long as it's done legally and orderly. Letting in too many people and not allowing enough time for them to assimilate is asking for disaster.
Amen, brother! I agree with you 100%.
One thing that irritates the hell out me is people calling everything an "app". They even call games apps, for Pete's sake. No, an application is something you can actually use to something productive. I always divided the programs (remember programs?) on my computer into applications, games, utilities, etc. Of course, on a phone I guess it doesn't make any difference because you can't do much productive on a phone.
That's strange. I just installed Here maps (again), and it asked for location service to be turned on. When I denied it, it closed. That's still bad. Maybe one day they'll get it right.
I use Google maps. It does ask, but it still works if I tell it "NO".
Damn, that actually sounds good! I may have to make up my own recipes for them, but it's worth a try.
That's really scary, because if any of the "bad guys" ever hack into facebook and get their hands on that information . . . . wait . . . . facebook IS the "bad guys".
Imagine a time where the world is run by a handful of large corporations. We're there. Even governments can't control Google, Amazon, facebook, etc..
I would really hate using a spreadsheet or Photoshop on a phone or tablet. Even reading a simple pdf on my phone makes me want to pull my hair out.
I can see using a phone that's docked so that you can have a real keyboard and monitor, but do phones have the graphics horsepower to, say, edit a movie or even a large digital photo?
Every few years new research results come out saying that the old research was wrong. That's fine because this is science, but when it concerns diet and health, it can make a huge difference in your life expectancy.
Can we just refrain from saying what's good or bad for you until we know for near certainty?
I'm planning to live forever . . . . or die trying.
No, but I've read more about this than the one article the summary linked to, and there definitely is a risk.
NASA's proposed solution may very well trigger the damned thing.
When you're European and are as left as it's possible to go, then everything is to your right. That's why Nazis get labeled as right wing when clearly to an outside observer, they're left wing. They're only very slightly right of communists.
The left in the United States before WWII recognized Nazis as one of their own. It was only after the war and the world saw what the Nazis did that the left disowned them and started calling them right wing. Read your history, folks. You're being lied to in a big way.
The on-screen guide on my cable box is great. The channel numbers are laid out in a more or less logical fashion. I can scroll a page at a time, not just one channel at a time. I can hide channels I'm not interested in and actually mark my favorite channels so they're easy to find. The DVR is also drop-dead simple to use.
That's from Charter in a small town in Alabama. Where do you live?
I use any resources I can find before I buy something that costs more than $50. Read reviews of the product on several different retailers' sites. See if any of them are written exactly the same. I've seen the exact same review on three different sites for the same product. I hope the guy got paid for writing them.
If there's a link to a pdf of the manual, it's good to read the manual. A manual gives you some idea about how hard or easy the product is to install, put together, and use. It gives you a much more detailed description than you can find on a retailer's website. Check out the "troubleshooting" part to see what kind of problems you can expect and how easy they are to fix.
If the retail site doesn't link to the manual, go to the manufacturer's site to find one. There's usually one there.
If all I'm buying is lentils from Amazon, I just go by name brand and reputation. Reviews don't even come into play for a lot of items.
I was working near the Alabama coast in Baldwin County and it was totally cloudy with light rain falling during the whole time. You couldn't even make out where the sun was through the clouds, not even a bright spot.
What everybody needs to keep in mind is that law enforcement officers are not paid to fight hand-to-hand with anybody. That happens in movies, not so much in real life. The average officer isn't Chuck Norris.
Talking is to be preferred unless you're being charged at by somebody bigger and stronger than you are. Tase away!
Why would they not know? It's mentioned in every single commercial for Cheerios I've ever seen. You'd have to have been living as a hermit in a cave all your life to not know they're made from oats.
I would pay for a browser that behaved itself and guaranteed my privacy.
We pay for lots of other software, so why not a good browser?
What's really depressing is that information didn't make into the mainstream media. Our press may be free, but it's extremely biased - a fifth column so to speak.
Back in the good old days (and still today) the New York Times was a left-leaning publication, so of course they loved the Fascists. And, yes, Fascism and Nazism are on the left. Just because they fought against the Communists doesn't mean they're right wing. They're all evil siblings and the offspring of Satan.
I can do a lot of things and I know a lot about a lot of subjects, but I'm old enough and wise enough now to know my limits.
I've always done nearly all the maintenance on my home, car, mowers, and computers. I can talk with friends about nearly any subject they bring up - history, astronomy, physics, gardening, politics, television, music, etc.. But I'm not an expert about any of those.
So, if my car's transmission needs work, it's time to call in a pro. If I need doctor, I go to a doctor.
I can watch television when it's raining with my Charter cable. I had DirecTV and the picture quit whenever it rained more than a few drops. I kinda like watching uninterrupted, know what I mean?
:p
Plus Charter (Spectrum) has no data cap on my internet.