How many slashdotters *don't* spend more than 100 bucks a month on their evil carrier overlord of choice...
Go ahead, ask around, I will wait.
I pay ZERO for my telephone services. I'm disabled and used my lifeline benefit to get a free cell phone, via reachoutwireless, that includes 60 minutes per month. I use about 10 minutes each month and the unused minutes DO roll over. I have a Google Voice number that I give out to everyone so they can leave messages for me. But then, the only people who ever call are Doctor's offices reminding me of appointments.
WAY back in the early days of the graphics driven internet I used to use a filtering program called PROXIMITY to filter web sites for me. This was to change background colors, fonts, remove items to speed up page loading as I was on a dial up connection, etc., all strictly for my own viewing pleasure. Then X started their pop up/under cam campaign. I started filtering that out with Proximity. As ads became more prevalent I had to adjust the filtering more so my meager bandwidth wouldn't be overwhelmed When cable connections became available I continued to filter ads out as I was now able to do some serious multi-tasking. When Proximity's author dropped support for the program some of it's users banded together, created their own support network, and began writing filters for everyone to use. This worked great for a few years. I started using the Marathon browser a few years ago and found that I could accomplish the same filtering with that program. About that time FIrefox became available with plug-ins for ad-blocking.
Currently, I have an 8 MB/Sec internet connection and letting ads load is no longer much of a bandwidth issue. However, I've become quite comfy with nice, clean, ad-free pages that load F// A// S// T and use little memory. For this reason, I continue, and will always continue, to block all ads.
"Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future."
The information/contracts would be classified at multiple levels. IF you had anything to do with them, besides collecting your information from CNN, you would now be in violation of the Oath's that you swore, the paperwork that you signed, as well as a number of felony offenses. The FBI would now be dragging you off to one of those prisons that no one seems to know about.
These guys never show up where there's a camera. There are IRC channels where these people contract with others to the dirty work. Send them a small box of freshly made ATM cards and they split the take.
When the RIAA started their ILLEGAL racketeering I stopped buying CD's as well as listening to music period. No radio either.
When the RIAA stops their racketeering or are stopped, I might consider listening to music again....but I doubt it. The RIAA has left me with this taste in my mouth like I've just licked a pile of shit.
I take a far far dimmer view of telemarketers. (Henceforth to be known as Scumbags of the Earth). I put my name on the list, as well as that of anyone else who asked me to, back when they 1st began letting people sign up. That way, when the list went online, we were there on day one. I STILL recieve calls from telemarketers to this day. Yes, I file a complaint each and every time. Yes, each and every time, the scumbags tell me that they comply with the list and try to give me the song and dance routine about how long you have to be on the list before it's effective and/or tell me that the 'current version' of the list doesn't have my name/phone number on it. All the while, trying to hang up before giving me the information needed to file a complaint. I've even had them give me area codes/addresses that didn't match. Then try to say that I misheard them when they gave me the area code. Lyingpieceofcraplooserseverylastoneofthem.
500 is WAY too high. Any single complaint should result in the telemarketers company being instantly shut down. If the call was an honest mistake, the company may resume operations. If not, then the company should be liquidated, the owners assests confiscated, and the proceeds be distributed to various relief agencies like the Red Cross. As for the company who hired the scumbags, the penalty would not need be so steep. Say, an amount equel to their previous years Gross. Not net, gross. No "Pattern of Behavior" or "abberation" BS either. Can I get away with a robbery or a murder based on my "Pattern of Behavior" or some other "Abberation"???
Perhaps such measures would encourage companies to obey the law.
I have severe medical problems secondary to a spinal cord injury I suffered a decade ago. I live in unimaginable pain every second, of every minute, of every hour, of every day... IF God exists AND he allows this to happen, when I die, I'm going to shove an infinant number of baseball bats up his ass.:@
Any of the applications at www.collectorz.com, for cataloging your collections, will accept a barcode input. I purchased a declawed cuecat off of ebay and used it to catalog my 5,000+ book collection. Ditto for my movie collection but that one's FAR less than 5,000. This saved me a TON of typing.
I then purchased a copy of listpro, for my PDA, and imported the book database. Helps me find books that I need to flesh out my collection. Helps me IMMENSLY in keeping me from purchasing something I already have. This USED to be a problem. Not any more.:D
Caveat: YES, I've read all but about 50 of the books. They're on the TO BE READ shelf. NO, these aren't Romance novels. Mostly History and Biography, then Sci-Fi, Medical texts, Various Science books, Computer stuff, etc.
I found Netflix to be a complete paradigm shift in renting movies.
- I set up a list of 150+ movies that I wanted to rent. - When new movies come out or I think of something else I want to rent, I just add it to the list. - You can change the order of the movies in the list anytime you want. - When you send the movie back, Netflix automatically sends you the next movie in the list. - You can keep the movie indefinantly if you wish. - I found that I would rent movies that I wouldn't otherwise rent. Especially documentaries and OLD movies. Things I wouldn't have rented because I couldn't justify the BB price. - If Netflix doesn't carry a title you can request same. Netflix is real good at adding titles at customer requests. - Oh, and they carry a HUGE selection.
Buying the 5 at a time level was the only way for Netflix to be worth the price. Otherwise, you're always waiting 4 to 6 days for your movies. Netflix's turn around time is virtually same day service but you're still waiting on the post office.
RIGHT. Last year I posted NINE questions to E-Bay. E-Bay's automated responses NEVER had ANYthing to do with my query.
For example, when I asked a question about the Final Value Fee Refund that I hadn't received, E-Bay's automated response was to give me instructions on how to change the text color when constructing an auction and 3 paragraphs on E-bay's.net policy WRT logging in.
Another response, to a different question, was 15 some odd pages on what must have been 50 different topics.
Oh yeah, the automated response system was useful.......for laughs.
1. The President was in the air aboard AF1 when the 2nd plane hit.
2. The whisper in his ear was that a plane had just hit the WTC, NOT that America was under attack.
3. For that 7 minutes, no one new what was happening.......when it was clear that 3 other planes had been hijacked, the President made a bee-line for AF1 and it's Command and Control capabilities.
The big fat idiot Michael Moore did a REAL good job of spin and editing.
This is not surprising. These things are the "Stock and Trade" of the Democrat....not the truth.
>America's welfare program is hardly fair
>
>Yes, I should pay more taxes so my hard earned >money can be given to someone who:
>(a) is too lazy to find a job, or
>(b) is too immature to hold a job for more than >a week, or
>(c) failed to get educated becuase they were too >busy jerking off when they were being offered a >free education in our public high schools, or
>(d) couldn't keep their legs closed or their >dick in their pants and now wants to blame me >for having to support a family.
I'm on Welfare.
(a) I'm not lazy or immature.
(b) I am educated.
(c) I have a hole in my spinal cord, at C7. This creates a pocket of fluid therein....
(d) *I AM* waiting on the lazy.gov idiots at social security to get around to doing their job. So far, it's taken 4 years (2 years of bureaucratic red tape between each step in the system).
Welfare provides my son and I with food, a place to live, medication ($1,500/month), and health care ($30,000/year). Without this system, my son would be an orphan. Sure, a great deal of people on welfare fit YOUR description....but not all of us.
I've been in this very scenario...just a different cause. Two trips to the ER, via ambulance, were rejected by Medicaid. Turned out that the paperwork had the wrong billing code. I was never sent a bill/invoice or anything. A year later I get a phone call from a credit agency demanding payment in full. Medicaid doesn't accept bills over a year old, so the bill cannot be resubmitted to them with the correct billing code. Just to make it more fun, I was still laid up in bed.
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How many slashdotters *don't* spend more than 100 bucks a month on their evil carrier overlord of choice...
Go ahead, ask around, I will wait.
I pay ZERO for my telephone services. I'm disabled and used my lifeline benefit to get a free cell phone, via reachoutwireless, that includes 60 minutes per month. I use about 10 minutes each month and the unused minutes DO roll over. I have a Google Voice number that I give out to everyone so they can leave messages for me. But then, the only people who ever call are Doctor's offices reminding me of appointments.
WAY back in the early days of the graphics driven internet I used to use a filtering program called PROXIMITY to filter web sites for me. This was to change background colors, fonts, remove items to speed up page loading as I was on a dial up connection, etc., all strictly for my own viewing pleasure. Then X started their pop up/under cam campaign. I started filtering that out with Proximity. As ads became more prevalent I had to adjust the filtering more so my meager bandwidth wouldn't be overwhelmed When cable connections became available I continued to filter ads out as I was now able to do some serious multi-tasking. When Proximity's author dropped support for the program some of it's users banded together, created their own support network, and began writing filters for everyone to use. This worked great for a few years. I started using the Marathon browser a few years ago and found that I could accomplish the same filtering with that program. About that time FIrefox became available with plug-ins for ad-blocking.
// A // S // T and use little memory. For this reason, I continue, and will always continue, to block all ads.
Currently, I have an 8 MB/Sec internet connection and letting ads load is no longer much of a bandwidth issue. However, I've become quite comfy with nice, clean, ad-free pages that load F
Doyle
>$.002 cents per KB times 35893 KB
K B+times+35893+KB .002) (U.S. cents per KB)) times 35 893 KB = 0.71786 U.S. Dollars
>
>which leads to a nonsensical result (as well it should).
Actually, your string returns the correct result.
$.002 cents per KB times 35893 KB
Equals
http://www.google.com/search?q=%24.002+cents+per+
Equals
((US$
"Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future."
The Amazing Criswell
I always knew that there was a good reason that I never used ANY of the "My" folders.....
The information/contracts would be classified at multiple levels. IF you had anything to do with them, besides collecting your information from CNN, you would now be in violation of the Oath's that you swore, the paperwork that you signed, as well as a number of felony offenses. The FBI would now be dragging you off to one of those prisons that no one seems to know about.
Regards,
These guys never show up where there's a camera. There are IRC channels where these people contract with others to the dirty work. Send them a small box of freshly made ATM cards and they split the take.
When the RIAA started their ILLEGAL racketeering I stopped buying CD's as well as listening to music period. No radio either.
When the RIAA stops their racketeering or are stopped, I might consider listening to music again....but I doubt it. The RIAA has left me with this taste in my mouth like I've just licked a pile of shit.
>(I just need to come up with a good way to separate the BBs from the dust once they're in the bin)
Have you tried a magnet??? A Rare-Earth magnet should work quite well.
I take a far far dimmer view of telemarketers. (Henceforth to be known as Scumbags of the Earth). I put my name on the list, as well as that of anyone else who asked me to, back when they 1st began letting people sign up. That way, when the list went online, we were there on day one. I STILL recieve calls from telemarketers to this day. Yes, I file a complaint each and every time. Yes, each and every time, the scumbags tell me that they comply with the list and try to give me the song and dance routine about how long you have to be on the list before it's effective and/or tell me that the 'current version' of the list doesn't have my name/phone number on it. All the while, trying to hang up before giving me the information needed to file a complaint. I've even had them give me area codes/addresses that didn't match. Then try to say that I misheard them when they gave me the area code. Lyingpieceofcraplooserseverylastoneofthem.
500 is WAY too high. Any single complaint should result in the telemarketers company being instantly shut down. If the call was an honest mistake, the company may resume operations. If not, then the company should be liquidated, the owners assests confiscated, and the proceeds be distributed to various relief agencies like the Red Cross. As for the company who hired the scumbags, the penalty would not need be so steep. Say, an amount equel to their previous years Gross. Not net, gross. No "Pattern of Behavior" or "abberation" BS either. Can I get away with a robbery or a murder based on my "Pattern of Behavior" or some other "Abberation"???
Perhaps such measures would encourage companies to obey the law.
BZZZT, WRONG. I've already taken 1st dibs at owning real estate on Mars. :P
:D:D:D
http://www.marsshop.com/
PS. If NASA lands on my property I will be charging them rent.
--Ads half ounce of vision to his inventory--
I have severe medical problems secondary to a spinal cord injury I suffered a decade ago. I live in unimaginable pain every second, of every minute, of every hour, of every day... IF God exists AND he allows this to happen, when I die, I'm going to shove an infinant number of baseball bats up his ass. :@
>That's nice. What, do you want a cookie?
:D:D:D
Yes please. I prefer the Extra Chunky Chocolate chip cookies. Oh......I will, of course, need plenty of milk to dunk the cookies in as well.
__PLONK__
Tks in advance.
Any of the applications at www.collectorz.com, for cataloging your collections, will accept a barcode input. I purchased a declawed cuecat off of ebay and used it to catalog my 5,000+ book collection. Ditto for my movie collection but that one's FAR less than 5,000. This saved me a TON of typing.
:D
I then purchased a copy of listpro, for my PDA, and imported the book database. Helps me find books that I need to flesh out my collection. Helps me IMMENSLY in keeping me from purchasing something I already have. This USED to be a problem. Not any more.
Caveat: YES, I've read all but about 50 of the books. They're on the TO BE READ shelf. NO, these aren't Romance novels. Mostly History and Biography, then Sci-Fi, Medical texts, Various Science books, Computer stuff, etc.
I found Netflix to be a complete paradigm shift in renting movies.
- I set up a list of 150+ movies that I wanted to rent.
- When new movies come out or I think of something else I want to rent, I just add it to the list.
- You can change the order of the movies in the list anytime you want.
- When you send the movie back, Netflix automatically sends you the next movie in the list.
- You can keep the movie indefinantly if you wish.
- I found that I would rent movies that I wouldn't otherwise rent. Especially documentaries and OLD movies. Things I wouldn't have rented because I couldn't justify the BB price.
- If Netflix doesn't carry a title you can request same. Netflix is real good at adding titles at customer requests.
- Oh, and they carry a HUGE selection.
Buying the 5 at a time level was the only way for Netflix to be worth the price. Otherwise, you're always waiting 4 to 6 days for your movies. Netflix's turn around time is virtually same day service but you're still waiting on the post office.
>>Automated replies are often useful.
.net policy WRT logging in.
RIGHT. Last year I posted NINE questions to E-Bay. E-Bay's automated responses NEVER had ANYthing to do with my query.
For example, when I asked a question about the Final Value Fee Refund that I hadn't received, E-Bay's automated response was to give me instructions on how to change the text color when constructing an auction and 3 paragraphs on E-bay's
Another response, to a different question, was 15 some odd pages on what must have been 50 different topics.
Oh yeah, the automated response system was useful.......for laughs.
All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president. Is your 1st name Monica?
1. The President was in the air aboard AF1 when the 2nd plane hit. 2. The whisper in his ear was that a plane had just hit the WTC, NOT that America was under attack. 3. For that 7 minutes, no one new what was happening.......when it was clear that 3 other planes had been hijacked, the President made a bee-line for AF1 and it's Command and Control capabilities. The big fat idiot Michael Moore did a REAL good job of spin and editing. This is not surprising. These things are the "Stock and Trade" of the Democrat....not the truth.
Say you've got a wireless network which you leave open for your neighbors, or anyone walking by or driving up, to use.
I didn't share the files, it was someone else.
Prove it was me.
Note to self: Don't use the HTML formatting.
>America's welfare program is hardly fair > >Yes, I should pay more taxes so my hard earned >money can be given to someone who: >(a) is too lazy to find a job, or >(b) is too immature to hold a job for more than >a week, or >(c) failed to get educated becuase they were too >busy jerking off when they were being offered a >free education in our public high schools, or >(d) couldn't keep their legs closed or their >dick in their pants and now wants to blame me >for having to support a family. I'm on Welfare. (a) I'm not lazy or immature. (b) I am educated. (c) I have a hole in my spinal cord, at C7. This creates a pocket of fluid therein.... (d) *I AM* waiting on the lazy .gov idiots at social security to get around to doing their job. So far, it's taken 4 years (2 years of bureaucratic red tape between each step in the system).
Welfare provides my son and I with food, a place to live, medication ($1,500/month), and health care ($30,000/year). Without this system, my son would be an orphan. Sure, a great deal of people on welfare fit YOUR description....but not all of us.
I've been in this very scenario...just a different cause. Two trips to the ER, via ambulance, were rejected by Medicaid. Turned out that the paperwork had the wrong billing code. I was never sent a bill/invoice or anything. A year later I get a phone call from a credit agency demanding payment in full. Medicaid doesn't accept bills over a year old, so the bill cannot be resubmitted to them with the correct billing code. Just to make it more fun, I was still laid up in bed.