FedEx and UPS are required to charge a minimum amount for letters, which means USPS can always undercut their price. USPS also has the exclusive privilege of delivering to a mailbox; everyone else must deliver to the door or some other receptacle. Those are the USPS monopoly powers.
You mean I can sell items on Etsy or Amazon like the ones I sold on eBay for a nice profit?
- A rare Tadpole Alphabook laptop computer - Multiple more common Alphaservers and VAXes - A small collection of trumpet mouthpieces, some used, some new, all different sizes - Two different trombone mutes - A nice sounding pair of Klipsch rear channel speakers with a big dent in one of the metal grilles - A 50 year old Vincent Bach trumpet case (no trumpet!) in nice shape but smelling a little stale - A bunch of old OS/2 software
None of that is craft stuff, and most of it is either used or one-offs.
They already killed the groups for me when they announced that RSS alerts would be removed, then quietly removed ALL RSS altogether. I'd designed my web site to grab the latest articles and display them inline (including a group I'd created just for site announcements), and they destroyed it. I haven't had time to code a replacement, which would either be some barbaric screen-scraping garbage that belongs in the 1990s or a complete move to something else.
This is hardly a fault of Islam since the main tenets of that faith were written down thousands of years ago and have been unchanged since
The main tenets of that faith were written down 1400 years ago. Any parts of Islam that resemble Judeo-Christianity were assimilated by Mohammed through his interactions; most notably with his Gnostic wife.
They have also not been unchanged. The parts were written down in a haphazard manner (Mohammed was himself illiterate), and people were actually killed over which pieces were inspired.
It looks like you have made a decision of what truth is, based on your subjective experience. I didn't grow up in a fundamentalist Baptist household, and my father didn't have responsibility for nuclear weapons. If I had, those would have colored my views. Your entire first paragraph doesn't address what God really is, but what a young Nadaka perceived him to be. We have to get past our subjective experience, and examine the evidence.
TWITfan... appropriate. Your deliberate ignorance and willingness to use an obvious straw man are notable.
You are quite ignorant of the actual situation. What you have in Somalia is a system of local governments with two rather weak regional ones. Since the transitional government's elections last year, it's not so much of an anarchy anymore. And it wasn't in a constant state of war, regardless. The safety and security of a city was based on the stability of its local government-- which in most of the country, is surprisingly good.
I've tried to stick to wireless, but signal strength is a problem because of the architecture: a 2.5 story stone Colonial mated to a modern 1 story frame addition. I currently have 7 year old Motorola G boxes linked with WDS at opposite ends of the addition. The G signal on the second floor is weak, already at half the G bandwidth due to the WDS, and it will probably be unusable in the attic once we convert that room to an office. I'm not fond of running CAT6 everywhere, but I am in the process of running a CAT6 "backbone" between the two sections with N APs on each end. This should bring the wireless bandwidth from a theoretical 23 Mbps to 288 Mbps (or 600, if I were to upgrade my laptop to a 5GHz card).
I almost hate to retire these Motorola units; they are incredibly reliable and secure compared to the Linksys and Netgears of their time. I probably should have bought two new Motorolas to replace them, but Motorola had vacated the WiFi market a few years ago and I didn't know they'd reentered it before I bought the Netgears. No guarantee the all-new stuff is as solid as the old, regardless.
So what you're saying is that Israel isn't allowed to test their defense systems? What you probably really mean is for them to all be pushed into the sea like the peaceful Arab "Palestinians" would like.
I appreciate your vintage gear, but really: there have been a few technological advances since 1967 that are worth upgrading to; not just "novel". Please don't argue that your CRT and VCR are just as good as a Blu-ray player and LCD.
No, you have it backward. If supply had remained the same, RAM prices would have gone UP with the release of Windows 95. Fortunately, late in 1995, China started saber-rattling and spooked Taiwanese factories dumped a load of RAM on the market. Prices halved overnight.
For instance a religious parent is going to skip over the bits of "science" that don't align with the Bible, or a vegan parent is going to force their children to be vegan.
Well, I don't think the vegan thing is germane to the discussion because parents are entitled to choose what to feed their kids as long as it's healthy. But you act as if it is impossible to regulate home schooling, or at least there are no enforced standards in home schooling (there are). I'm not sure how there's a difference between a teacher indoctrinating her/his pupils with his/her beliefs and a parent doing the same. Without standards and regulation, both are possible.
We live in a society where we choose which toys to get our children and how much to spend, but we're forced to pay immense sums of money (a LOT more than we spend on toys!) for failing public school systems, or else have our homes seized. Toy companies actually have to compete or fail, while teacher unions complain if you demand to be able to send your child to a different school district or a charter school.
I pay an awful lot of tax money (and have no kids in school, BTW) for the school district to hire a bunch of test proctors. Yes, I actually expect teachers to teach in grade school and high school! Keeping pace and entertaining the occasional question is for ADULT STUDENTS IN COLLEGE.
It's time we ended discrimination against dead people, don't you think? Why, they aren't even allowed to vote except in Chicago and a few other cities.
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LG made $54 million on phones in the last quarter. That sounds pretty significant.
FedEx and UPS are required to charge a minimum amount for letters, which means USPS can always undercut their price. USPS also has the exclusive privilege of delivering to a mailbox; everyone else must deliver to the door or some other receptacle. Those are the USPS monopoly powers.
Well, that was Brazil and the radioactive material was from an X-ray machine, not a power plant. So, not "close".
You mean I can sell items on Etsy or Amazon like the ones I sold on eBay for a nice profit?
- A rare Tadpole Alphabook laptop computer
- Multiple more common Alphaservers and VAXes
- A small collection of trumpet mouthpieces, some used, some new, all different sizes
- Two different trombone mutes
- A nice sounding pair of Klipsch rear channel speakers with a big dent in one of the metal grilles
- A 50 year old Vincent Bach trumpet case (no trumpet!) in nice shape but smelling a little stale
- A bunch of old OS/2 software
None of that is craft stuff, and most of it is either used or one-offs.
Did they add some modern feature to access the posts, after removing RSS? Or is 1990s screen-scraping supposed to be cutting-edge?
They already killed the groups for me when they announced that RSS alerts would be removed, then quietly removed ALL RSS altogether. I'd designed my web site to grab the latest articles and display them inline (including a group I'd created just for site announcements), and they destroyed it. I haven't had time to code a replacement, which would either be some barbaric screen-scraping garbage that belongs in the 1990s or a complete move to something else.
Rabbi Hillel is my kind of dude. I also appreciate Rabbi Saul: "All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful."
The main tenets of that faith were written down 1400 years ago. Any parts of Islam that resemble Judeo-Christianity were assimilated by Mohammed through his interactions; most notably with his Gnostic wife.
They have also not been unchanged. The parts were written down in a haphazard manner (Mohammed was himself illiterate), and people were actually killed over which pieces were inspired.
It looks like you have made a decision of what truth is, based on your subjective experience. I didn't grow up in a fundamentalist Baptist household, and my father didn't have responsibility for nuclear weapons. If I had, those would have colored my views. Your entire first paragraph doesn't address what God really is, but what a young Nadaka perceived him to be. We have to get past our subjective experience, and examine the evidence.
"Scholars" would expect extant MS, or historical citations, of a text as evidence of its existence.
Documents that support your own preconceived notions.
Your sig is rather contrary to your actual beliefs.
TWITfan... appropriate. Your deliberate ignorance and willingness to use an obvious straw man are notable.
You are quite ignorant of the actual situation. What you have in Somalia is a system of local governments with two rather weak regional ones. Since the transitional government's elections last year, it's not so much of an anarchy anymore. And it wasn't in a constant state of war, regardless. The safety and security of a city was based on the stability of its local government-- which in most of the country, is surprisingly good.
I've tried to stick to wireless, but signal strength is a problem because of the architecture: a 2.5 story stone Colonial mated to a modern 1 story frame addition. I currently have 7 year old Motorola G boxes linked with WDS at opposite ends of the addition. The G signal on the second floor is weak, already at half the G bandwidth due to the WDS, and it will probably be unusable in the attic once we convert that room to an office. I'm not fond of running CAT6 everywhere, but I am in the process of running a CAT6 "backbone" between the two sections with N APs on each end. This should bring the wireless bandwidth from a theoretical 23 Mbps to 288 Mbps (or 600, if I were to upgrade my laptop to a 5GHz card).
I almost hate to retire these Motorola units; they are incredibly reliable and secure compared to the Linksys and Netgears of their time. I probably should have bought two new Motorolas to replace them, but Motorola had vacated the WiFi market a few years ago and I didn't know they'd reentered it before I bought the Netgears. No guarantee the all-new stuff is as solid as the old, regardless.
So what you're saying is that Israel isn't allowed to test their defense systems? What you probably really mean is for them to all be pushed into the sea like the peaceful Arab "Palestinians" would like.
Looks perfectly legit. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to wire $1,000 to my barrister in London so he can free up the one million GBP waiting for me.
I appreciate your vintage gear, but really: there have been a few technological advances since 1967 that are worth upgrading to; not just "novel". Please don't argue that your CRT and VCR are just as good as a Blu-ray player and LCD.
No, you have it backward. If supply had remained the same, RAM prices would have gone UP with the release of Windows 95. Fortunately, late in 1995, China started saber-rattling and spooked Taiwanese factories dumped a load of RAM on the market. Prices halved overnight.
Well, I don't think the vegan thing is germane to the discussion because parents are entitled to choose what to feed their kids as long as it's healthy. But you act as if it is impossible to regulate home schooling, or at least there are no enforced standards in home schooling (there are). I'm not sure how there's a difference between a teacher indoctrinating her/his pupils with his/her beliefs and a parent doing the same. Without standards and regulation, both are possible.
FTFY
We live in a society where we choose which toys to get our children and how much to spend, but we're forced to pay immense sums of money (a LOT more than we spend on toys!) for failing public school systems, or else have our homes seized. Toy companies actually have to compete or fail, while teacher unions complain if you demand to be able to send your child to a different school district or a charter school.
You were far too patient with that idiot jackwad, Jawnn. "Fox News" is the new Godwin.
I pay an awful lot of tax money (and have no kids in school, BTW) for the school district to hire a bunch of test proctors. Yes, I actually expect teachers to teach in grade school and high school! Keeping pace and entertaining the occasional question is for ADULT STUDENTS IN COLLEGE.
No, considering his/her posting history, Fwipp is definitely an antagonizing leftist.
It's time we ended discrimination against dead people, don't you think? Why, they aren't even allowed to vote except in Chicago and a few other cities.