I get this kind of thing all the time. Endless demands for tech support and then when I do something they scream at me that I broke something and they know better. So from now on screw them, they're on their own.
This is democracy in action. the Egyptian people voted for this. Obama supported it, the news media in the west cheered the bloggers all locked arms and did a little dance. Current course and speed mass executions in downtown soccer stadiums is arriving any day now.
It was built for high inclination polar orbit insertion, e.g. spy satellites. A more useful general purpose launch site is Svobodny. It was originally built to replace Baikonur but they ran out of money.
It's become the mantra of angry trust fund anarchists. If you don't like the laws of your own country, change them. Even Warren Buffet, while he's extolling the virtues of rich people paying more, is massively invested in offshore tax havens BECAUSE IT'S LEGAL TO DO SO.
Most of their content is freely available elsewhere. Except for the Op Eds and if I wanted to hear the sound of Obama going bareback in a hooker's mouth, I'd hire one and film it.
T-Mobile is also going to end handset subsidies which translates into everyone paying MSRP for all handsets all the time. The upside of this is that it will kill most handset sales since few of them are even laughably close in value to the full retail price. b
On my HTC Evo 4G the difference in performance between Dolphin and the built in browser is negligible because 90% of web sites struggle like a drowning man trying to resolve all the banners, dancing lizards popups, popdowns, embedded video players and of course 112 dozen different Java scripts they attempt to run. And this is on WiFi so the network isn't the issue.
And even some of the apps meant to replace browser pages, like the IMDB app for Android are so bloated and heavy anyway they barely render correctly anyhow.
No the problem is that virtually all websites are bloated terrible pieces of shit and the only reason we don't throw our laptops out the window is because they're basically equivalent to an NSA supercomputer of 8 years ago.
Bring all manufacturing to the US, hire UAW workers for $75/hr, refuse to utilize any and all automation and grind out a shitty product that costs 3x what it does now and has a 20% field failure rate.
Option #5 is let Obama build nationalized factories and hire eleventy million civil servants to do that work. In 40 years they'll be making 7 iPads a day.
I only have one non laptop now. I just tossed my last USB attached floppy drive. Used to have a parallel port tape drive, tossed that too. Tossed a Com1 Serial port Acom digitizer tablet. I haven't used a CDROM or DVDROM in years, read or write. I haven't owned a modem in years. Only my desktop has LPT or COM ports. I tossed every extra PS/2 mouse and keyboard and have a single spare USB keyboard. The desktop uses my sole remaining PS/2 keyboard and the Logi marble mouse is connected by a USB-PS/2 dongle. I tossed out my last 2 SCSI2 adapters one of which was used for an ancient but entirely functional HP ScanJet II. I still have 3 or 4 PCI 802.11g adapters laying around. My single desktop is the only device that's still ethernet wired to the router. Everything else including my MF printer is wireless. The desktop is an old eMachines minitower with a replacement Mbit Mobo, AMD CPU and new RAM and a brand new power supply. The monitor is an ancient 19" SUN LCD flatscreen (back in the day when SUN flatscreens were 2" thick and still weighed several pounds). The router is an old Cisco Linksys WRT110 connected to a Vonage VIOP box behind a brand new shitty Time Warner Ubee cable modem. The Atlanta Scientific - Cisco DVR from Time Warner is also a piece of shit as is the Netflix app on my Wii. All the other machines in the house are a mixture of Toshiba, Lenovo and Asus laptops, Android and iPhones.
We really don't own our hardware or software anymore. We just plunk down a prepaid user fee. The vendors are the ones who have most of the benefits of what we commonly call ownership. They can do more or less whatever they like to the object you 'own', whenever it suits them. They can even stop you from using it after you pay them. And they can use that object to do whatever they want to all the other objects you think you own but really don't. And if it stops working or doesn't behave the way they pretend they've warranted, you discover it was never warranted and it sucks to be you. Even your own behavior while using their object isn't your own. It's theirs, the information about it is theirs to do with as they wish w/o your knowledge or consent.
Which is fine. When I rent a car this is how I expect to be treated. When I 'buy' an airplane ticket this is how it works. All we're arguing about is whether or not when you 'buy' software or hardware you're really just prepaying consumption of that hardware or software just as you would a rented car or a perishable service like an airline seat.
All we have to do is disabuse ourselves of the fiction that we're buying something that we then own. We are not.
If you work for IBM for instance your wages will never climb. They're on about year 13 of essentially no wage increases for 95% of the workforce. In the US, at least. But I would say it speaks to a different problem over all. Most employers want young people for about 3 years and then it's churn churn churn. For the employees out of school you have to make as much as you can as quickly as you can up to about age 30 or so. After that they plateau you whether you're good at your job, great at your job or terrible at your job. They just freeze you. You can stay and eventually make LESS than all the newcomers, become a management sociopath, or just quite. Employers don't care which of those three options you choose.
I suspect that in practical terms, a 'new' way of looking at violence yields nothing of any use. Oh there will be studies and commissions and pundits and people who write well reviewed books on Amazon that are variously touted on The Daily Show but as always it will suffer the same myopic failure of every other First World Problems Study.
As opposed to say South Africa, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Algeria or Pakistan which have murder rates that make the US look like Yoga class.
But you go right along and scream at the no shoes wearing cousin humping bible and gun waving redneck hillbilly you've smugly determined is in fact the reality of every last human being (except of course for all the illegal aliens who are christ like in their peacefulness and love) residing here.
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I get this kind of thing all the time. Endless demands for tech support and then when I do something they scream at me that I broke something and they know better. So from now on screw them, they're on their own.
As long as those robots are in Michigan or Ohio and are gay and vote Democrat.
Like the law that ensures you're told not to smoke on airplanes because few people even have a living memory of that being permitted at all any more.
Remember smoking on airplanes or throwing a virgin child into the volcano is a violation of Federal Law.
This is democracy in action. the Egyptian people voted for this. Obama supported it, the news media in the west cheered the bloggers all locked arms and did a little dance. Current course and speed mass executions in downtown soccer stadiums is arriving any day now.
They've repeatedly demonstrated just this ability to do so.
It was built for high inclination polar orbit insertion, e.g. spy satellites. A more useful general purpose launch site is Svobodny. It was originally built to replace Baikonur but they ran out of money.
It's become the mantra of angry trust fund anarchists. If you don't like the laws of your own country, change them. Even Warren Buffet, while he's extolling the virtues of rich people paying more, is massively invested in offshore tax havens BECAUSE IT'S LEGAL TO DO SO.
Tim Cook will sue you for illegal death appropriation.
It's about brand management. Apple can now say they are making stuff in the US.
Most of their content is freely available elsewhere. Except for the Op Eds and if I wanted to hear the sound of Obama going bareback in a hooker's mouth, I'd hire one and film it.
100mph no belt a crash and he walks away?
There's always billions of dollars laying around to pay lawyers to sue everyone else for a few billion other dollars.
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Should it be $1000/month or $975 with the "Triple Play".
T-Mobile is also going to end handset subsidies which translates into everyone paying MSRP for all handsets all the time. The upside of this is that it will kill most handset sales since few of them are even laughably close in value to the full retail price. b
They don't care. And they'll make toys and toothpaste out of it and sell it back.
Apple?
"Hello planes? This is blimps, you win".
On my HTC Evo 4G the difference in performance between Dolphin and the built in browser is negligible because 90% of web sites struggle like a drowning man trying to resolve all the banners, dancing lizards popups, popdowns, embedded video players and of course 112 dozen different Java scripts they attempt to run. And this is on WiFi so the network isn't the issue.
And even some of the apps meant to replace browser pages, like the IMDB app for Android are so bloated and heavy anyway they barely render correctly anyhow.
No the problem is that virtually all websites are bloated terrible pieces of shit and the only reason we don't throw our laptops out the window is because they're basically equivalent to an NSA supercomputer of 8 years ago.
Bring all manufacturing to the US, hire UAW workers for $75/hr, refuse to utilize any and all automation and grind out a shitty product that costs 3x what it does now and has a 20% field failure rate.
Option #5 is let Obama build nationalized factories and hire eleventy million civil servants to do that work. In 40 years they'll be making 7 iPads a day.
I only have one non laptop now. I just tossed my last USB attached floppy drive. Used to have a parallel port tape drive, tossed that too. Tossed a Com1 Serial port Acom digitizer tablet. I haven't used a CDROM or DVDROM in years, read or write. I haven't owned a modem in years. Only my desktop has LPT or COM ports. I tossed every extra PS/2 mouse and keyboard and have a single spare USB keyboard. The desktop uses my sole remaining PS/2 keyboard and the Logi marble mouse is connected by a USB-PS/2 dongle. I tossed out my last 2 SCSI2 adapters one of which was used for an ancient but entirely functional HP ScanJet II. I still have 3 or 4 PCI 802.11g adapters laying around. My single desktop is the only device that's still ethernet wired to the router. Everything else including my MF printer is wireless. The desktop is an old eMachines minitower with a replacement Mbit Mobo, AMD CPU and new RAM and a brand new power supply. The monitor is an ancient 19" SUN LCD flatscreen (back in the day when SUN flatscreens were 2" thick and still weighed several pounds). The router is an old Cisco Linksys WRT110 connected to a Vonage VIOP box behind a brand new shitty Time Warner Ubee cable modem. The Atlanta Scientific - Cisco DVR from Time Warner is also a piece of shit as is the Netflix app on my Wii. All the other machines in the house are a mixture of Toshiba, Lenovo and Asus laptops, Android and iPhones.
We really don't own our hardware or software anymore. We just plunk down a prepaid user fee. The vendors are the ones who have most of the benefits of what we commonly call ownership. They can do more or less whatever they like to the object you 'own', whenever it suits them. They can even stop you from using it after you pay them. And they can use that object to do whatever they want to all the other objects you think you own but really don't. And if it stops working or doesn't behave the way they pretend they've warranted, you discover it was never warranted and it sucks to be you. Even your own behavior while using their object isn't your own. It's theirs, the information about it is theirs to do with as they wish w/o your knowledge or consent.
Which is fine. When I rent a car this is how I expect to be treated. When I 'buy' an airplane ticket this is how it works. All we're arguing about is whether or not when you 'buy' software or hardware you're really just prepaying consumption of that hardware or software just as you would a rented car or a perishable service like an airline seat.
All we have to do is disabuse ourselves of the fiction that we're buying something that we then own. We are not.
If you work for IBM for instance your wages will never climb. They're on about year 13 of essentially no wage increases for 95% of the workforce. In the US, at least. But I would say it speaks to a different problem over all. Most employers want young people for about 3 years and then it's churn churn churn. For the employees out of school you have to make as much as you can as quickly as you can up to about age 30 or so. After that they plateau you whether you're good at your job, great at your job or terrible at your job. They just freeze you. You can stay and eventually make LESS than all the newcomers, become a management sociopath, or just quite. Employers don't care which of those three options you choose.
They're not Marxist countries, but their apologists pretend to be.
I suspect that in practical terms, a 'new' way of looking at violence yields nothing of any use. Oh there will be studies and commissions and pundits and people who write well reviewed books on Amazon that are variously touted on The Daily Show but as always it will suffer the same myopic failure of every other First World Problems Study.
As opposed to say South Africa, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Algeria or Pakistan which have murder rates that make the US look like Yoga class.
But you go right along and scream at the no shoes wearing cousin humping bible and gun waving redneck hillbilly you've smugly determined is in fact the reality of every last human being (except of course for all the illegal aliens who are christ like in their peacefulness and love) residing here.
Of MSNBC's race card.