At least when my daughter flew out of Machester, NH last year, she got a TSA 'badge' (which coincidentally looks like a real police badge - remember that TSA are not law enforcement).
The only big trip we have upcoming is Disney next year and I find it unlikely we'll be going anywhere else by plane soon. Unfortunately, taking Amtrak down from Boston will be about as expensive as staying down there for a week. Which makes getting there half the fun^W price.
Because legislation isn't about how many pages it takes up. Health care and insurance is a very complicated issue. Just because it's 4000 pages long it's bad?
Maybe you missed the memo - the majority of the country opposes the healthcare reform that got passed. Many of them are the people who just did they annual enrollment and discovered how much more their premiums went up because of it.
You should re-read the memo a bit more closely.
1) When looking at individual parts of HCR, most people approved of them. 2) Many who oppose the current version of HCR wanted single payer. Do I oppose it? Yes, but not because it went too far.
My premiums went up, but actually at a smaller rate than previously.
Wait, so the (two) people that proposed TARP, proposed Stimulus, propose the budgets (and has veto approval), nominates the head of the Federal Reserve and Treasury had little to do with the economy? Sorry, I'm not buying it.
1) It's teaching us about how to live, build, and work long term in space. We need that knowledge to go to the moon and mars.
2) You can't put a price tag on basic research. There's no guarantee that you'll find what you're looking for, or if you'll find what you're looking for, or if you find something completely different. Any of those answers could be worth nothing, it could be worth new industries, it could be life saving. There's no way of telling until you've spent the time and money on it.
In some ways, yes. I really like my Kindle. Mostly because it allows me to carry a good portion of my library in my bag. I have about 4 books on it that I'm currently reading along with one that I'm currently reading to my daughter.
I've bought almost all the books (some were PD, so didn't cost anything) and are books I may not have bought otherwise since they were impulse buys from the store. I'm looking at you "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo".
Do I still buy physical books? Sure. Do I miss lending? Sorta. Books I lend out rarely return. My copies of "Snow Crash" and "World War Z" are somewhere on the East Coast of the US, but I can't get much more specific than that.
What I would love to see for the Kindle and iTMS is a family account, where my wife and I can each have a Kindle managed separately under our own accounts, yet share books between us without having to repurchase the book. She has her preferences, I have mine, and neither one of us wants our suggestion list 'spoiled' by the other, though there are times we like the same book and would each like to read it.
RIM is doing just fine in the corporate and governmental world.
Neither are exactly growth markets. Those groups already have Blackberries and they're not going to do anything but go down. RIM has gone from 36% of the smartphone market at the beginning of the year to 21% in August, all that was loss to the Android who went from 8% to 19%. iPhone usage was pretty stable.
So you are taking your own decisions and applying them to the millions of people that are part of the smartphone market?
Since I was one of the people that would have bought an iPhone if it were available on Verizon and instead bought a Droid? Yeah. And the millions of people who have also bought Droid devices in the past year seem to agree with me.
Could Apple have gotten the phone to market the way they wanted without going exclusive?
Who knows? Maybe the iPhone was the straw that broke Verizon's back on allowing open handsets.
So much FAIL here I don't really know where to start.
Uhh.. There is a constant swarm of people with contracts expiring. What a stupid thing to say.
Yes, and they're mostly going to get Android phones now. Anyone who had their contract expire in the past year has been able to get an Android phone. Those on two year contracts may be expiring soon and maybe they will want an iPhone.
This makes no sense. Of course there will be huge incentives for contracts, just like with any other phone.
What incentives exist for the iPhone on AT&T now? None.
That's half the equation, yes. The other half is verizon customers wanting an iPhone.
But in that case, the net number of iPhone devices remains the same. There's no gain for Apple.
iPhone has way more apps, and the "openness" means precisely nothing to 99% of regular customers.
Apples and..err.. Droids. The Apple app store has been around far longer than Android's. The Android app store has really only been gaining traction in the past year and the quality of apps and number have been steadily increasing. Google even has the app inventor and a very open marketplace. The openness means that a larger variety of apps are available, increasing customer choice.
Unless you thing having 400 different fart apps is choice.
And those that are expiring now are mostly turning to the Droid. There are a few holdouts (my parents for two) that are waiting for the iPhone on Verizon. Don't get me wrong, it will be a hot seller, but Android isn't going away anytime soon.
RIM is pretty well dead. They'll hang on like Palm at this point.
Android would have come out and had its users but when I upgraded my phone before I got my Droid, I would have purchased an iPhone if it were available on Verizon, and I may not have purchased the Droid if it were available when I upgraded that time.
AT&T/Apple stumbled, and Google was able to take advantage of it.
Yes, to Verizon's benefit. They were able to see what happened to AT&T's network. AT&T has been playing catchup since day 1. Verizon has been able to sit back and upgrade their systems in relative security. We're now at the point where Verizon Droid users use 25% more data per month than iPhone users and noone is claiming that Verizon's network stinks.
What I mean is all the people that wanted a true smartphone got one in the past year - they got a Droid. Few will want to pay again to get an iPhone. That leaves you with the people whose contracts are almost up and haven't upgraded. Around here (Boston), that's a fairly small number. I see almost as many Droid phones as I do iPhones.
Oh, and the talk-and-surf works when you're on wifi. I don't know if LTE lets you do that.
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At least when my daughter flew out of Machester, NH last year, she got a TSA 'badge' (which coincidentally looks like a real police badge - remember that TSA are not law enforcement).
The only big trip we have upcoming is Disney next year and I find it unlikely we'll be going anywhere else by plane soon. Unfortunately, taking Amtrak down from Boston will be about as expensive as staying down there for a week. Which makes getting there half the fun^W price.
Why are we texting on /. and not talking to each other instead?
If you have to ask that question, you should turn in your geek card.
You could probably find out by looking on Facebook or Twitter.
It's my right to tell you to quit being afraid of your own shadow.
No, the airlines will get a bailout from the government, like they always do.
Then you should probably think about it and I'm sure you will figure it out sometime.
Based off your last answer, maybe not.
*plonk*
You mean like the fiduciary interest the insurance industry lacks?
'Single payer' simply means the hospitals laugh all the way to the bank.
Which would be an improvement over what we have now, which is hospitals *and* insurance companies laughing all the way to the bank.
Because legislation isn't about how many pages it takes up. Health care and insurance is a very complicated issue. Just because it's 4000 pages long it's bad?
Yes and yes.
I don't think Paulson can propose legislation. The President can, and members of Congress can.
Maybe you missed the memo - the majority of the country opposes the healthcare reform that got passed. Many of them are the people who just did they annual enrollment and discovered how much more their premiums went up because of it.
You should re-read the memo a bit more closely.
1) When looking at individual parts of HCR, most people approved of them.
2) Many who oppose the current version of HCR wanted single payer. Do I oppose it? Yes, but not because it went too far.
My premiums went up, but actually at a smaller rate than previously.
Wait, so the (two) people that proposed TARP, proposed Stimulus, propose the budgets (and has veto approval), nominates the head of the Federal Reserve and Treasury had little to do with the economy? Sorry, I'm not buying it.
It's an invalid question for two reasons:
1) It's teaching us about how to live, build, and work long term in space. We need that knowledge to go to the moon and mars.
2) You can't put a price tag on basic research. There's no guarantee that you'll find what you're looking for, or if you'll find what you're looking for, or if you find something completely different. Any of those answers could be worth nothing, it could be worth new industries, it could be life saving. There's no way of telling until you've spent the time and money on it.
How about a dessert island?
In some ways, yes. I really like my Kindle. Mostly because it allows me to carry a good portion of my library in my bag. I have about 4 books on it that I'm currently reading along with one that I'm currently reading to my daughter.
I've bought almost all the books (some were PD, so didn't cost anything) and are books I may not have bought otherwise since they were impulse buys from the store. I'm looking at you "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo".
Do I still buy physical books? Sure. Do I miss lending? Sorta. Books I lend out rarely return. My copies of "Snow Crash" and "World War Z" are somewhere on the East Coast of the US, but I can't get much more specific than that.
What I would love to see for the Kindle and iTMS is a family account, where my wife and I can each have a Kindle managed separately under our own accounts, yet share books between us without having to repurchase the book. She has her preferences, I have mine, and neither one of us wants our suggestion list 'spoiled' by the other, though there are times we like the same book and would each like to read it.
I saw it just over a week ago in PHL on my iPod touch. There's also one hiding somewhere near the State Street T station in Boston.
RIM is doing just fine in the corporate and governmental world.
Neither are exactly growth markets. Those groups already have Blackberries and they're not going to do anything but go down. RIM has gone from 36% of the smartphone market at the beginning of the year to 21% in August, all that was loss to the Android who went from 8% to 19%. iPhone usage was pretty stable.
So you are taking your own decisions and applying them to the millions of people that are part of the smartphone market?
Since I was one of the people that would have bought an iPhone if it were available on Verizon and instead bought a Droid? Yeah. And the millions of people who have also bought Droid devices in the past year seem to agree with me.
Could Apple have gotten the phone to market the way they wanted without going exclusive?
Who knows? Maybe the iPhone was the straw that broke Verizon's back on allowing open handsets.
So much FAIL here I don't really know where to start.
Uhh.. There is a constant swarm of people with contracts expiring. What a stupid thing to say.
Yes, and they're mostly going to get Android phones now. Anyone who had their contract expire in the past year has been able to get an Android phone. Those on two year contracts may be expiring soon and maybe they will want an iPhone.
This makes no sense. Of course there will be huge incentives for contracts, just like with any other phone.
What incentives exist for the iPhone on AT&T now? None.
That's half the equation, yes. The other half is verizon customers wanting an iPhone.
But in that case, the net number of iPhone devices remains the same. There's no gain for Apple.
iPhone has way more apps, and the "openness" means precisely nothing to 99% of regular customers.
Apples and ..err.. Droids. The Apple app store has been around far longer than Android's. The Android app store has really only been gaining traction in the past year and the quality of apps and number have been steadily increasing. Google even has the app inventor and a very open marketplace. The openness means that a larger variety of apps are available, increasing customer choice.
Unless you thing having 400 different fart apps is choice.
Great. Prove me wrong. I've already given my reasons why I'm right.
And those that are expiring now are mostly turning to the Droid. There are a few holdouts (my parents for two) that are waiting for the iPhone on Verizon. Don't get me wrong, it will be a hot seller, but Android isn't going away anytime soon.
RIM is pretty well dead. They'll hang on like Palm at this point.
Android would have come out and had its users but when I upgraded my phone before I got my Droid, I would have purchased an iPhone if it were available on Verizon, and I may not have purchased the Droid if it were available when I upgraded that time.
AT&T/Apple stumbled, and Google was able to take advantage of it.
Yes, to Verizon's benefit. They were able to see what happened to AT&T's network. AT&T has been playing catchup since day 1. Verizon has been able to sit back and upgrade their systems in relative security. We're now at the point where Verizon Droid users use 25% more data per month than iPhone users and noone is claiming that Verizon's network stinks.
Bad analogy is bad.
What I mean is all the people that wanted a true smartphone got one in the past year - they got a Droid. Few will want to pay again to get an iPhone. That leaves you with the people whose contracts are almost up and haven't upgraded. Around here (Boston), that's a fairly small number. I see almost as many Droid phones as I do iPhones.
Oh, and the talk-and-surf works when you're on wifi. I don't know if LTE lets you do that.