While I didn't read every post on this article, this is the first one I've seen that is objective. Regardless of her qualifications, an evil part of me wants her to win the nomination and Presidency, simply so I can watch the nervous breakdown of some of my liberal friends. Sometimes that same part of me will mention Bush and WMD to get them all worked up like terriers.
She's hated because the media told us we should hate her. I don't really see any other reason why she would be so hated. I don't know if she's libertarian or fiscally conservative enough for my tastes.
It's asshats like this moron who give Republicans a bad name. Most of the conservatives I know are way closer to Libertarian views on personal liberty than anything else, especially when I'm done with 'em.
I call about every 6 months to see if there is a faster package for my DSL line. It's still locked down to 1.5m/768k. The wireless ISP gives me 6m/1.5m. It's frustrating to not even get real DSL speeds, I guess it's one of the prices to pay for living rural outside a small town.
Good! If more people took as much interest in politics as you do, we might actually get back to "government of the people, by the people and for the people". We also might get a candidate worth voting for, instead of the collection we've had for the past 20 something years.
Whereas when I was living in Germany, it wasn't totally uncommon to have someone sit at an empty chair at your table in a restaurant. That sort of thing would cause the manager of the restaurant to be called to have the person ejected from the premises if it happened here in the US. Different things are "rude" to different folks.
Hmmm, does your ISP have a TOS? If so, then by using that service you are agreeing to the idea that they have the right to set terms for your service, that connecting to their pipes can come with limitations. Branding it "internet access" doesn't convey any special protected rights to you, only that you can access the internet, in accordance with their terms. Your TOS probably doesn't even spell out that you will be guaranteed access to the entire internet. As long as they are providing you access to part of the internet, they have fulfilled their requirements of "internet access".
Now, that said, while I generally disagree with the Feds sticking their nose in any private business, I do agree with the idea of a free (as in speech) internet and if they do have to regulate net neutrality then so be it.
I'd go for random selection like jury duty. Those who desire power are often unfit to wield it. Could we do worse than the bunch from the last 20 years?
I think your arguments would have more impact on me if CO2 was more than 3 hundredths of a percent of our atmosphere and there were not billions to be made in the US alone on carbon credits.
I hope you'll provide some examples of that, because I can't recall a single time where the population at large was involved in determining national security. I'm far from an expert here, but I wouldn't find it hard to believe that the 'random' people at the Pentagon are less than random, and placed in that position by due process (by law).
AND self assembling does not necessarily mean self manufacturing or self replicating.
Now, if they were some how able to splice these photo voltaic cells into a plant or algae so you could grown a film of solar panels, now that would be cool.
Well... I for one have to insist that living without broadband is even an option to consider. I work from a home office about 50% of the time. I have 2 ISPs, one for office use and one for everything else. Neither of them puts bandwidth caps or sniffs my packets.
I live in a town of less than 8k people, and live well outside the city limits, even we have 3 choices for ISPs. So I agree with you, there is always a choice.
That would entail at least one of them actually reading the bill before voting on it, and since I don't think most of them on either side of the aisle can actually read... I don't see that happening.
My problem with the Cigarette tax is that here in the states, the proceeds from the taxes mostly go into states general funds. So instead of those funds help people overcome a horrible nicotine addiction, the states and feds are doing nothing but raking in money from addictions.
Just like the billions won in lawsuits against "big tobacco". Most of that went into lawyers pockets, which in turn went into the legislator's political contributions.
turns out, there is some truth to the idea of 'follow the money trail'
Yes, and this is why my "grunty" iPhone often lags while doing complex tasks, like turning pages in a book app. Or switching from landscape to portrait mode. I'll take ANY android phone over my 3G iPhone, any day of the week. Sure, it's a great music player and the phone quality is decent when it's not dropping calls, but it's not the "do what you want to do" platform and never will be. It's more of a 'do what we want you to do' sort of phone.
I think you're aiming too low. Ideally, one would simply punch in, state or otherwise interface with the menu selections and the automated kitchen would do the rest. Remove the Beast from the freezer, order missing ingredients for the sauce, prepare to your instructions (or pre-coded recipes from the net). Serve it for you, box up left overs for later disposal and do the dishes. Now THATS home automation. Oh, and it should bring you coffee in bed and wake you with the gentle aroma of a perfect roast instead of having an annoying alarm clock.
Or, you could get married, but this is/. after all, and the odds of someone coming up with this solution are far greater than the majority of us getting married to a woman who would do all this for you on a regular basis.
As a misterhouse user, I can attest that it's updated far more frequently than 2008. New code and patches are added the SVN on an as needed basis. New release comes out every so often, but users are encouraged to keep updated with the SVN. Also has a very responsive mailing list with a number of folks willing to help even the greenest n00b. Runs FAR better on linux than it does on Windows, at least in my experience. YMMV. I can't speak for the other bits of software, I dumped homeseer years ago, tho I understand it's quite popular.
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While I didn't read every post on this article, this is the first one I've seen that is objective. Regardless of her qualifications, an evil part of me wants her to win the nomination and Presidency, simply so I can watch the nervous breakdown of some of my liberal friends. Sometimes that same part of me will mention Bush and WMD to get them all worked up like terriers.
She's hated because the media told us we should hate her. I don't really see any other reason why she would be so hated. I don't know if she's libertarian or fiscally conservative enough for my tastes.
It's asshats like this moron who give Republicans a bad name. Most of the conservatives I know are way closer to Libertarian views on personal liberty than anything else, especially when I'm done with 'em.
You might check out UMA or wifi-calling that Tmob has on some of their handsets. I use it on my G2 and it's beautiful for voice and SMS (Not MMS).
I call about every 6 months to see if there is a faster package for my DSL line. It's still locked down to 1.5m/768k. The wireless ISP gives me 6m/1.5m. It's frustrating to not even get real DSL speeds, I guess it's one of the prices to pay for living rural outside a small town.
Good! If more people took as much interest in politics as you do, we might actually get back to "government of the people, by the people and for the people". We also might get a candidate worth voting for, instead of the collection we've had for the past 20 something years.
Only by seasoned /. ers.
Whereas when I was living in Germany, it wasn't totally uncommon to have someone sit at an empty chair at your table in a restaurant. That sort of thing would cause the manager of the restaurant to be called to have the person ejected from the premises if it happened here in the US. Different things are "rude" to different folks.
Hmmm, does your ISP have a TOS? If so, then by using that service you are agreeing to the idea that they have the right to set terms for your service, that connecting to their pipes can come with limitations. Branding it "internet access" doesn't convey any special protected rights to you, only that you can access the internet, in accordance with their terms. Your TOS probably doesn't even spell out that you will be guaranteed access to the entire internet. As long as they are providing you access to part of the internet, they have fulfilled their requirements of "internet access".
Now, that said, while I generally disagree with the Feds sticking their nose in any private business, I do agree with the idea of a free (as in speech) internet and if they do have to regulate net neutrality then so be it.
I'd go for random selection like jury duty. Those who desire power are often unfit to wield it. Could we do worse than the bunch from the last 20 years?
I think your arguments would have more impact on me if CO2 was more than 3 hundredths of a percent of our atmosphere and there were not billions to be made in the US alone on carbon credits.
and if those were txt messages, it would hold my teen daughter over through at least 6 months.
I hope you'll provide some examples of that, because I can't recall a single time where the population at large was involved in determining national security. I'm far from an expert here, but I wouldn't find it hard to believe that the 'random' people at the Pentagon are less than random, and placed in that position by due process (by law).
So, it's a tablet with printer drivers and some of HPs bloatware installed on it? Like, the same thing I could do with say, a laptop, or a desktop?
AND self assembling does not necessarily mean self manufacturing or self replicating.
Now, if they were some how able to splice these photo voltaic cells into a plant or algae so you could grown a film of solar panels, now that would be cool.
Well... I for one have to insist that living without broadband is even an option to consider. I work from a home office about 50% of the time. I have 2 ISPs, one for office use and one for everything else. Neither of them puts bandwidth caps or sniffs my packets.
I live in a town of less than 8k people, and live well outside the city limits, even we have 3 choices for ISPs. So I agree with you, there is always a choice.
I don't watch a lot of flash on my Nexus One, but it's a hell of a lot better than not having the choice to do so at all.
That would entail at least one of them actually reading the bill before voting on it, and since I don't think most of them on either side of the aisle can actually read... I don't see that happening.
My problem with the Cigarette tax is that here in the states, the proceeds from the taxes mostly go into states general funds. So instead of those funds help people overcome a horrible nicotine addiction, the states and feds are doing nothing but raking in money from addictions.
Just like the billions won in lawsuits against "big tobacco". Most of that went into lawyers pockets, which in turn went into the legislator's political contributions.
turns out, there is some truth to the idea of 'follow the money trail'
does it run on Linux?
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=3839 - So... depends on your distro.
http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/09/28/how-to-partition-your-androids-sd-card-to-install-apps-on-it/ - I've not tried this but it sure looks simple enough.
Yes, and this is why my "grunty" iPhone often lags while doing complex tasks, like turning pages in a book app. Or switching from landscape to portrait mode. I'll take ANY android phone over my 3G iPhone, any day of the week. Sure, it's a great music player and the phone quality is decent when it's not dropping calls, but it's not the "do what you want to do" platform and never will be. It's more of a 'do what we want you to do' sort of phone.
How did it come to this?
We let them take away our over voltage cattle prods. Plain and simple.
I think you're aiming too low. Ideally, one would simply punch in, state or otherwise interface with the menu selections and the automated kitchen would do the rest. Remove the Beast from the freezer, order missing ingredients for the sauce, prepare to your instructions (or pre-coded recipes from the net). Serve it for you, box up left overs for later disposal and do the dishes. Now THATS home automation. Oh, and it should bring you coffee in bed and wake you with the gentle aroma of a perfect roast instead of having an annoying alarm clock.
Or, you could get married, but this is /. after all, and the odds of someone coming up with this solution are far greater than the majority of us getting married to a woman who would do all this for you on a regular basis.
As a misterhouse user, I can attest that it's updated far more frequently than 2008. New code and patches are added the SVN on an as needed basis. New release comes out every so often, but users are encouraged to keep updated with the SVN. Also has a very responsive mailing list with a number of folks willing to help even the greenest n00b. Runs FAR better on linux than it does on Windows, at least in my experience. YMMV. I can't speak for the other bits of software, I dumped homeseer years ago, tho I understand it's quite popular.
Or, put a removable Faraday cage around the antenna assembly. It will never see a satellite, will never know that you've moved.