Because it costs $2 extra a month to have an unlisted phone number. Why don't they just tax telemarketers to make up that $2? Why should I have to pay money to keep people from bothering me?
Then again, I am one of those strange people that thinks that I should be able to leave my house unlocked and nobody would come in and steal anything. I also don't think that wearing a slutty outfit means you should get raped.
Search your spam mailbox for 809 and then give the retailer that number. (some 809 numbers are a common hoax by scammers in bed with Dominican Republic and British Virgin Islands telephone companies)
I don't mind the snail spam so much. It beats paying higher natural gas bills in the winter. Though the credit cards are probably not good for the environment.
I agree. Political calls and charity calls should be outlawed as well. I get at least 10 calls a week from a company claiming to benefit State Troopers. Since it shows up on caller ID, I never answer, but it is still an interruption.
I don't see anywhere that free speech requires me to listen or to allow someone else to utilize my time and resources at their whim to promote their cause.
Why don't you just turn that around and wonder how a God who is all knowing, all powerfull and all good could allow even one person to go to heaven?
I know, I know, -1 for a post containing the word God in a forum populated almost exclusively by anti-religious zealots.
You should slap him in the face repeatedly with an OSHA handbook. I don't care if your company owns Deep Blue, it's not worth risking a human life to go shut it down.
The towers were designed to withstand a hit from a 707, which is actually heavier than the 757 which hit one of the towers, and also is heavier in some configurations than the 767 which hit the other. The 767 and 757 are faster, but were not exceeding the speed of a 707 on impact. A 707 actually has a larger fuel payload possibility than a 767 due to having less efficient engines. I can only guess that the calculations did not take into consideration the amount of fuel that a fully loaded 707 would have carried.
Electronic components don't like cycling between cold and hot. At least that is what they said back in the 80's.
My laptop about 1/3 of the time can't find the boot disk, so that would be a good reason to leave it up, but I can't since I have to go home and work most nights.
If I download all kinds of stupid spyware and adware and run stock tickers and weather watchers, then I should expect to have degraded system performance. However, I should not expect this to cause the OS to crash. An OS is supposed to MANAGE programs, not be AFFECTED by them.
I know you are just speaking in generalities, but I for one as a USian am ignorant, but not arrogant. I don't care if anyone or no one wants to be like me. I just want to work hard, make a good wage, and go home and enjoy my time with my family. I don't want to kill anyone, rape or pillage the rest of the world, etc. I want to live and let live. I don't want to have to worry about people who want to live and kill others. Unfortunately, I do have to worry about them.
Unless corporations pull their collective heads out of their behinds and put some money into research, our only hope for scientific research is the government. It was government spending on the space program, which trickled down to defense and aeronautical contractors, that led to so many advances that were brought about by the space program. X-prize aside, I don't seen any willingness by large corporations to research and develop in the area of science.
Of course, this is all our fault as shareholders, who demand the quick shortterm dollar, instead of the longterm millions of dollars.
I think it would be funny if we found gold on the asteroids. Especially if further research deduced that gold was the most plentiful element in the universe. Take THAT, gold backed currency!
How do you run out of metals?
Oh, yeah...Space program. I forgot what we were talking about earlier.
On a related note, I remember reading on the back of a cereal box (Really!) that until the space program began the amount of water on the earth had been a constant for millions of years. But somehow that seems unlikely to me, given that there is undoubtedly some frozen water in comet debris, at least some of which has gotten into the atmosphere. Or at least some hydrogen and oxygen combined with other elements.
Yeah, I say the same thing about electric cars, but it is not politically correct to speak ill about electric cars. The treehuggers seem to think electricity is some magic thing that is created out of nothing, when in fact, it has to be produced. In the U.S. close to 70% of electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels. Granted, the power plant is better able to deal with the pollution in bulk than your car is, but then the power plants sometimes burn coal, which is nasty, nasty stuff. Power plants are also able to more efficiently generate and harness power than an automobile, but not by a huge percentage.
Add to that the energy loss over the transmission live (there's resistance in them there wires!). Then add in the inefficiency of batteries, and in the end you've burned more fuel to power your electric vehicle than you would have it was gas powered.
Hybrids, on the other hand, are another story. Through use of energy recapture in braking, and other features, they are actually slightly more efficient than straight gasoline powered autos.
Other activities aimed at improving third world countries cause everyone to hate us, especially the people who are in power in those countries and are hijacking the food we DO send there and stealing from the impoverished.
Either way, everyone will hate the U.S. If we withhold from helping out other countries, they hate us because we are a rich nation and don't care about anyone else. If we do help out, they hate us because we are trying to monetarily push our opinions on government and lifestyle on others.
I say if they are going to hate us either way, then we should keep our money.
Helping other countries has historically proven not to foster good will, but to create anger against us from those countries' enemies.
Better just to keep our extra money and ignore everyone then to try to make everyone happy. You CAN'T make everyone happy.
That might work if only it were possible to determine the licensing agreement BEFORE purchasing the product.
Also, in most contracts, it is not permissible to enforce language which is actually contrary to existing law. However, in the case of electronic media, they often force you to abide by the terms of the contract, through anti-piracy or other means, even when it is in direct contradiction to existing copyright law.
I'm not sure what being banned (or "challenged" as it were) really means considering that when I was in High School every book we read was pointed out as being on the "banned book list". Or maybe they were just lying to us to make us think we were being naughty so we might actually read it.
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Lucky you. I still get 5 to 10 calls a day from organizations exempt from this law, which I ALSO don't want to hear from.
Uh huh? And where might this "WANT NUDITY" list be found?
Because it costs $2 extra a month to have an unlisted phone number. Why don't they just tax telemarketers to make up that $2? Why should I have to pay money to keep people from bothering me?
Then again, I am one of those strange people that thinks that I should be able to leave my house unlocked and nobody would come in and steal anything. I also don't think that wearing a slutty outfit means you should get raped.
Search your spam mailbox for 809 and then give the retailer that number. (some 809 numbers are a common hoax by scammers in bed with Dominican Republic and British Virgin Islands telephone companies)
Most clerks are too stupid to know that all 555 numbers are invalid.
They'll probably ask if you're from Hollywood.
Give 'em your number. Your full number, starting with the country code ... of North Korea. They won't call.
I don't mind the snail spam so much. It beats paying higher natural gas bills in the winter. Though the credit cards are probably not good for the environment.
I agree. Political calls and charity calls should be outlawed as well. I get at least 10 calls a week from a company claiming to benefit State Troopers. Since it shows up on caller ID, I never answer, but it is still an interruption.
I don't see anywhere that free speech requires me to listen or to allow someone else to utilize my time and resources at their whim to promote their cause.
Why don't you just turn that around and wonder how a God who is all knowing, all powerfull and all good could allow even one person to go to heaven?
I know, I know, -1 for a post containing the word God in a forum populated almost exclusively by anti-religious zealots.
You should slap him in the face repeatedly with an OSHA handbook. I don't care if your company owns Deep Blue, it's not worth risking a human life to go shut it down.
The towers were designed to withstand a hit from a 707, which is actually heavier than the 757 which hit one of the towers, and also is heavier in some configurations than the 767 which hit the other. The 767 and 757 are faster, but were not exceeding the speed of a 707 on impact. A 707 actually has a larger fuel payload possibility than a 767 due to having less efficient engines. I can only guess that the calculations did not take into consideration the amount of fuel that a fully loaded 707 would have carried.
Humans are there in case something happens that is outside of a set of preprogrammed responses.
Electronic components don't like cycling between cold and hot. At least that is what they said back in the 80's.
My laptop about 1/3 of the time can't find the boot disk, so that would be a good reason to leave it up, but I can't since I have to go home and work most nights.
If I download all kinds of stupid spyware and adware and run stock tickers and weather watchers, then I should expect to have degraded system performance. However, I should not expect this to cause the OS to crash. An OS is supposed to MANAGE programs, not be AFFECTED by them.
I know you are just speaking in generalities, but I for one as a USian am ignorant, but not arrogant. I don't care if anyone or no one wants to be like me. I just want to work hard, make a good wage, and go home and enjoy my time with my family. I don't want to kill anyone, rape or pillage the rest of the world, etc. I want to live and let live. I don't want to have to worry about people who want to live and kill others. Unfortunately, I do have to worry about them.
Unless corporations pull their collective heads out of their behinds and put some money into research, our only hope for scientific research is the government. It was government spending on the space program, which trickled down to defense and aeronautical contractors, that led to so many advances that were brought about by the space program. X-prize aside, I don't seen any willingness by large corporations to research and develop in the area of science.
Of course, this is all our fault as shareholders, who demand the quick shortterm dollar, instead of the longterm millions of dollars.
The Scientists are shortsighted? /. posters, all our problems would be solved.
If only the greatest minds in America had the intelligence of
I think it would be funny if we found gold on the asteroids. Especially if further research deduced that gold was the most plentiful element in the universe. Take THAT, gold backed currency!
How do you run out of metals?
Oh, yeah...Space program. I forgot what we were talking about earlier.
On a related note, I remember reading on the back of a cereal box (Really!) that until the space program began the amount of water on the earth had been a constant for millions of years. But somehow that seems unlikely to me, given that there is undoubtedly some frozen water in comet debris, at least some of which has gotten into the atmosphere. Or at least some hydrogen and oxygen combined with other elements.
Yeah, I say the same thing about electric cars, but it is not politically correct to speak ill about electric cars. The treehuggers seem to think electricity is some magic thing that is created out of nothing, when in fact, it has to be produced. In the U.S. close to 70% of electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels. Granted, the power plant is better able to deal with the pollution in bulk than your car is, but then the power plants sometimes burn coal, which is nasty, nasty stuff. Power plants are also able to more efficiently generate and harness power than an automobile, but not by a huge percentage.
Add to that the energy loss over the transmission live (there's resistance in them there wires!). Then add in the inefficiency of batteries, and in the end you've burned more fuel to power your electric vehicle than you would have it was gas powered.
Hybrids, on the other hand, are another story. Through use of energy recapture in braking, and other features, they are actually slightly more efficient than straight gasoline powered autos.
Other activities aimed at improving third world countries cause everyone to hate us, especially the people who are in power in those countries and are hijacking the food we DO send there and stealing from the impoverished.
Either way, everyone will hate the U.S. If we withhold from helping out other countries, they hate us because we are a rich nation and don't care about anyone else. If we do help out, they hate us because we are trying to monetarily push our opinions on government and lifestyle on others.
I say if they are going to hate us either way, then we should keep our money.
Helping other countries has historically proven not to foster good will, but to create anger against us from those countries' enemies. Better just to keep our extra money and ignore everyone then to try to make everyone happy. You CAN'T make everyone happy.
I guess there's something wrong with me. That was the first thing that popped into my head when I met up with the beast.
That might work if only it were possible to determine the licensing agreement BEFORE purchasing the product.
Also, in most contracts, it is not permissible to enforce language which is actually contrary to existing law. However, in the case of electronic media, they often force you to abide by the terms of the contract, through anti-piracy or other means, even when it is in direct contradiction to existing copyright law.
I'm not sure what being banned (or "challenged" as it were) really means considering that when I was in High School every book we read was pointed out as being on the "banned book list". Or maybe they were just lying to us to make us think we were being naughty so we might actually read it.