They spent the money to develop the fiber optics high speed "pipes".
Why is it the governments business what speed, or how they control it?
If someone doesn't like it, develop their own pipe?
Considering the amount of TAX money cities, states, federal government get from the sales of cigarettes,
you would think they would encourage smoking. You watch, the continued decline in tobacco sales will
result in less money coming into governments, and they will cry about not having enough money.
They WANT cash to disappear...what better way of seeing how many people still use cash, than have CC machines go down
on black Friday? Once they are convinced the majority of people use cards instead of cash, they will outlaw the use of cash
because the cards are "safer"...and they will also use an anti criminal element to get rid of cash, since a lot of illegal transactions
are in cash. It's for your "safety". Once cash is gone, and everything is an electronic blip, the government can see ANYTHING you
do. Don't think THIS can't happen. Walk into a fast food place, swipe for a double cheese burger, fries, shake, get rejected because
your last government healthcare check up says your BMI was too high. Try to buy a new sports car, get rejected because you've had
too many speeding tickets, or the car doesn't get good mileage.
DON'T think it can't happen that if the government needs money, or the bank needs money, they just pull 1% of everyone's account.
It's already happened in where? Greece?
In the 80's, I was an avid bowler. Two different leagues.
Left handers have an edge by the time the end of the night. Most bowlers are right handed. By the
end of the night, they have dragged the oil down to the pin deck, which means the ball won't have as
much snap to the 1/3 pocket. Whereas, me being the only lefty, it's still pretty dry into the 1/2 pocket.
Kind of reminds me in 1960, Eisenhower saying "beware of the military industrial complex", warning how
the industry that supplies the government with the weapons of war, will figure out a way to have a sustainable
war (the war on terror comes to mind), that NEVER ends, to keep the bullets, bombs & guns streaming.
Same with the "war on cancer, AIDS, heart disease" etc.
Why cure it, when they can continue to milk it forever with treatments that never cure it.
Back during the communist era, the "core" of the soviet state, Russia, was about protecting Russia.
The satellite states be damned. Heck, they've always done that all the way back to Peter the Great.
Give up outside territory, to protect the core. Same thing in the soviet era. All the risky crap was mostly
done OUTSIDE native Russian empire area, so that if something did go wrong, it would not impact the
"motherland".
Other than any serious security patches, older versions of the Android OS work just as well as new ones.
Not only that, most apps run perfectly fine on anything from Jelly Bean 4.3 onward.
If you think you have to have the absolute latest OS, get a Google phone, or Apple phone.
Heck, I bet most people have no idea what version of OS is on their android phones, or care, as long as
their phone works as intended.
Continuing the cheaper EIS, which is way inferior to the optical stabilization found on their previous phones.
Along with backdoor spy programs that are known, and what isn't known, it's not a bad phone, but, I'd wait a
few months for them to get the kinks worked out. All of their phones have had out the door bugs.
Going from the 3 to the 3T, wasn't as bad, and since the 5 & 5T are pretty similar, it probably won't have as
many bugs, but the lack of OIS is a problem, unless you just don't care about the IQ of the image. Zoom into
the image, and you will see lack of sharpness in the detail.
global warming ie: climate change is made up, you are just to blinded by "Algore" types to believe the truth.
You think man is responsible for everything. You have no idea how and why the climate changes. For one thing,
the undersea volcanoes can heat up and melt ice. But, the MAIN component to our ever changing climate structure
comes from a tiny object about 300,000 km from our blue speck. It's called THE SUN.
Why don't you look up the sunspot cycles from the past 300-400 years and plot the temperature graphs like I found
on NASA climate sites and you can see the parallels in the sunspots (or lack of sunspots) and the global temperatures.
I know of one such story, attempting to prove man made global warming, in the 90's, the melting ice around the greenland
or scandinavian areas, uncovered a few abandoned settlements that dated to the 1300-1400 era. Now, if this was WAY
before the industrial revolution, what allowed the earth to be warm enough, to support a settlement? If you overlay the
sunspot cycle of the period, it shows an increase in sunspot activity in that era. When the sunspot cycles are high, massive
CME's puke out of the sun, then, impact the magnetic bubble around our tiny rock. A disruption of the magnetic bubble
causes the weather patterns to shift. In the 1700's, about the time of the American revolution, we were in a sunspot minimum
pattern, and it lead to the Potomac river to ice over, along with about the same time period the Thames in London freezing over.
If you look at the current sunspot cycle (24) and the recently ended "modern maximum" we are heading to another period of
low sunspot activity. The sun disk has been very devoid of sunspots the past 12 months (ask anyone that is a ham radio operator
like me!). There is also new evidence that the positions of the two giant planets, Saturn & Jupiter, in relation to the sun can also
impact the geo-stabilization of the sun. Currently, the positions of Jupiter & Saturn are opposite of each other, creating a slight
magnetic pull with the sun, which theories suggest also cause a lack of geo-magnetic activity on the sun.
So basically, do a little research before you spout out the 30 second liberal talking points. You'll look MORE informed!
Is that it is LESS expensive, more "Earth friendly" and on and on when that is a big fat lie.
It's a huge drain of environmental resources, caustic & hazardous wastes products and without
government subsidies it would be WAY too expensive to use.
Get use to it. Coal, gas, nuclear is must more powerful, plentiful & cost effective than wind, water, or
sun, or corn to be used as fuel.
US is now the only country in the world SMART ENOUGH to reject the Paris "take money from rich countries and give it to the poor countries"
so called climate deal.
Another of the heroes of my youth in the 60's is gone.
All of the Mercury 7 are gone, now a lot of the Gemini & Apollo astronauts are passing away.
What's left? "Sports" players, actors that constantly disrespect our nation.
I don't have too much of a problem. If it is the employers computer, on the employers dime,
then you don't have the expectation of privacy as you would at home.
Now...if they are monitoring them OUTSIDE of work, THAT is a completely different story!
Best idea about DST comes from an old Indian...
Only government would think you could cut a foot off a blanket, sew it onto the top, and have a longer blanket.
It's a PITA to deal with, serves no useful purpose anymore, other than during the summer giving people more
after work time to "play". GET RID OF IT!
Man caused global warming (climate change) is NOT REAL. It's a made up term used by morons, trying to bilk wealthy nations out of money, in a form of redistribution. You really want to know what screws up our weather? Go look up the term Maunder Minimum, Dalton Minimum, Modern Maximum (which just ended).
The SUNSPOT CYCLE is what impacts weather on Earth, more than man could ever dream of (short of an all out global nuclear war). One good belch from a volcano has more impact on our weather than "man".
The modern maximum, with cycle 23 just ended within the past year, but the trend in sunspots has been down, WAY down. There have been many times this past winter & spring, that the Earth facing solar disk has been completely BLANK. NOT ONE sunspot. Sunspots are disturbances on the surface of the sun, magnetic ripples. When one of those lets go a coronal mass ejection (CME), and it is streaming to the Earth, it strikes our magnetic field, and can change weather patterns.
There is evidence now from some, stating the positions of Venus & Uranus can also change the suns relationship with regard to spots.
In the 1700's, (the Maunder minimum) winters were so cold, the Thames in London, and the Potomac in Maryland FROZE SOLID. We had the modern maximum in the period where people like Algore came up with the idea of "man made global warming". Now, in the past couple of years, after cycle 23, the trend has been for cooler overall temperatures.
But, since most people under the age of 30, have been indoctrinated from birth to "save the polar bears" bla bla bla, they will not look at the hard science of what really impacts this little blue ball in space.
Boy it’s been fun cruising the liberal blogs watching their collective heads EXPLODE. This man made global warming nonsense needs to be put to rest.
THE SUN is what changes our climate. Man couldn’t change it, short of an all out nuclear war, if it wanted to. One belch from a volcano screws up the weather more than man can do.
Why don’t you guys start researching the solar sunspot cycles over the last 400 years and then lay the graphic temperatures on top and you will see they are pretty much the same. Cycle 23, just ended, and with it, ended what REAL scientist call the modern maximum (1950's through early 2000's). The trend in the last 9 years has been for less spots on the sun, which results in less geomagnetic disturbances. Those disturbances, in the form of coronal mass ejections (CME’s) hit the magnetic bubble around our planet, and screw with the weather...not man. In all likelyhood we are heading toward a COOLING trend, not a warming trend, but, you’ve been indoctrinated since birth into believing it is all man’s fault, and, in particular, “evil rich white slaveholder men from the imperialist United States”.
To buy something new...One, usually has problems, Two, usually limited quantity, and most important
Three, TOO EXPENSIVE.
Wait a couple months and the price comes down, the quality goes up, the bugs are removed.
But, there isn't anything you could do, to get me to pay over 500.00 for "a phone".
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They spent the money to develop the fiber optics high speed "pipes". Why is it the governments business what speed, or how they control it? If someone doesn't like it, develop their own pipe?
Considering the amount of TAX money cities, states, federal government get from the sales of cigarettes, you would think they would encourage smoking. You watch, the continued decline in tobacco sales will result in less money coming into governments, and they will cry about not having enough money.
I didn't buy a bloody thing :)
They WANT cash to disappear...what better way of seeing how many people still use cash, than have CC machines go down on black Friday? Once they are convinced the majority of people use cards instead of cash, they will outlaw the use of cash because the cards are "safer"...and they will also use an anti criminal element to get rid of cash, since a lot of illegal transactions are in cash. It's for your "safety". Once cash is gone, and everything is an electronic blip, the government can see ANYTHING you do. Don't think THIS can't happen. Walk into a fast food place, swipe for a double cheese burger, fries, shake, get rejected because your last government healthcare check up says your BMI was too high. Try to buy a new sports car, get rejected because you've had too many speeding tickets, or the car doesn't get good mileage. DON'T think it can't happen that if the government needs money, or the bank needs money, they just pull 1% of everyone's account. It's already happened in where? Greece?
In the 80's, I was an avid bowler. Two different leagues. Left handers have an edge by the time the end of the night. Most bowlers are right handed. By the end of the night, they have dragged the oil down to the pin deck, which means the ball won't have as much snap to the 1/3 pocket. Whereas, me being the only lefty, it's still pretty dry into the 1/2 pocket.
That's all that matters!
Reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Kind of reminds me in 1960, Eisenhower saying "beware of the military industrial complex", warning how the industry that supplies the government with the weapons of war, will figure out a way to have a sustainable war (the war on terror comes to mind), that NEVER ends, to keep the bullets, bombs & guns streaming. Same with the "war on cancer, AIDS, heart disease" etc. Why cure it, when they can continue to milk it forever with treatments that never cure it.
Back during the communist era, the "core" of the soviet state, Russia, was about protecting Russia. The satellite states be damned. Heck, they've always done that all the way back to Peter the Great. Give up outside territory, to protect the core. Same thing in the soviet era. All the risky crap was mostly done OUTSIDE native Russian empire area, so that if something did go wrong, it would not impact the "motherland".
Hammer me all you want, but, mixing of races, can have some impact in genetics. Same as marrying your sister/cousins...it screws up the DNA.
Man made global warming to be exact. It HAS to be man's fault...that's what Algore says.
Other than any serious security patches, older versions of the Android OS work just as well as new ones. Not only that, most apps run perfectly fine on anything from Jelly Bean 4.3 onward. If you think you have to have the absolute latest OS, get a Google phone, or Apple phone. Heck, I bet most people have no idea what version of OS is on their android phones, or care, as long as their phone works as intended.
Continuing the cheaper EIS, which is way inferior to the optical stabilization found on their previous phones. Along with backdoor spy programs that are known, and what isn't known, it's not a bad phone, but, I'd wait a few months for them to get the kinks worked out. All of their phones have had out the door bugs. Going from the 3 to the 3T, wasn't as bad, and since the 5 & 5T are pretty similar, it probably won't have as many bugs, but the lack of OIS is a problem, unless you just don't care about the IQ of the image. Zoom into the image, and you will see lack of sharpness in the detail.
global warming ie: climate change is made up, you are just to blinded by "Algore" types to believe the truth. You think man is responsible for everything. You have no idea how and why the climate changes. For one thing, the undersea volcanoes can heat up and melt ice. But, the MAIN component to our ever changing climate structure comes from a tiny object about 300,000 km from our blue speck. It's called THE SUN. Why don't you look up the sunspot cycles from the past 300-400 years and plot the temperature graphs like I found on NASA climate sites and you can see the parallels in the sunspots (or lack of sunspots) and the global temperatures. I know of one such story, attempting to prove man made global warming, in the 90's, the melting ice around the greenland or scandinavian areas, uncovered a few abandoned settlements that dated to the 1300-1400 era. Now, if this was WAY before the industrial revolution, what allowed the earth to be warm enough, to support a settlement? If you overlay the sunspot cycle of the period, it shows an increase in sunspot activity in that era. When the sunspot cycles are high, massive CME's puke out of the sun, then, impact the magnetic bubble around our tiny rock. A disruption of the magnetic bubble causes the weather patterns to shift. In the 1700's, about the time of the American revolution, we were in a sunspot minimum pattern, and it lead to the Potomac river to ice over, along with about the same time period the Thames in London freezing over. If you look at the current sunspot cycle (24) and the recently ended "modern maximum" we are heading to another period of low sunspot activity. The sun disk has been very devoid of sunspots the past 12 months (ask anyone that is a ham radio operator like me!). There is also new evidence that the positions of the two giant planets, Saturn & Jupiter, in relation to the sun can also impact the geo-stabilization of the sun. Currently, the positions of Jupiter & Saturn are opposite of each other, creating a slight magnetic pull with the sun, which theories suggest also cause a lack of geo-magnetic activity on the sun. So basically, do a little research before you spout out the 30 second liberal talking points. You'll look MORE informed!
As we have found out in the past.
Is that it is LESS expensive, more "Earth friendly" and on and on when that is a big fat lie. It's a huge drain of environmental resources, caustic & hazardous wastes products and without government subsidies it would be WAY too expensive to use. Get use to it. Coal, gas, nuclear is must more powerful, plentiful & cost effective than wind, water, or sun, or corn to be used as fuel.
Apparently it doesn't get cold either LOL.
Should say "new study says we DON'T UNDERSTAND A LOT OF THINGS we THINK we know about Earth".
US is now the only country in the world SMART ENOUGH to reject the Paris "take money from rich countries and give it to the poor countries" so called climate deal.
Another of the heroes of my youth in the 60's is gone. All of the Mercury 7 are gone, now a lot of the Gemini & Apollo astronauts are passing away. What's left? "Sports" players, actors that constantly disrespect our nation.
When the manufacturer controls the updates, I'm surprised it's THAT low.
I don't have too much of a problem. If it is the employers computer, on the employers dime, then you don't have the expectation of privacy as you would at home. Now...if they are monitoring them OUTSIDE of work, THAT is a completely different story!
Best idea about DST comes from an old Indian... Only government would think you could cut a foot off a blanket, sew it onto the top, and have a longer blanket. It's a PITA to deal with, serves no useful purpose anymore, other than during the summer giving people more after work time to "play". GET RID OF IT!
Man caused global warming (climate change) is NOT REAL. It's a made up term used by morons, trying to bilk wealthy nations out of money, in a form of redistribution. You really want to know what screws up our weather? Go look up the term Maunder Minimum, Dalton Minimum, Modern Maximum (which just ended). The SUNSPOT CYCLE is what impacts weather on Earth, more than man could ever dream of (short of an all out global nuclear war). One good belch from a volcano has more impact on our weather than "man". The modern maximum, with cycle 23 just ended within the past year, but the trend in sunspots has been down, WAY down. There have been many times this past winter & spring, that the Earth facing solar disk has been completely BLANK. NOT ONE sunspot. Sunspots are disturbances on the surface of the sun, magnetic ripples. When one of those lets go a coronal mass ejection (CME), and it is streaming to the Earth, it strikes our magnetic field, and can change weather patterns. There is evidence now from some, stating the positions of Venus & Uranus can also change the suns relationship with regard to spots. In the 1700's, (the Maunder minimum) winters were so cold, the Thames in London, and the Potomac in Maryland FROZE SOLID. We had the modern maximum in the period where people like Algore came up with the idea of "man made global warming". Now, in the past couple of years, after cycle 23, the trend has been for cooler overall temperatures. But, since most people under the age of 30, have been indoctrinated from birth to "save the polar bears" bla bla bla, they will not look at the hard science of what really impacts this little blue ball in space. Boy it’s been fun cruising the liberal blogs watching their collective heads EXPLODE. This man made global warming nonsense needs to be put to rest. THE SUN is what changes our climate. Man couldn’t change it, short of an all out nuclear war, if it wanted to. One belch from a volcano screws up the weather more than man can do. Why don’t you guys start researching the solar sunspot cycles over the last 400 years and then lay the graphic temperatures on top and you will see they are pretty much the same. Cycle 23, just ended, and with it, ended what REAL scientist call the modern maximum (1950's through early 2000's). The trend in the last 9 years has been for less spots on the sun, which results in less geomagnetic disturbances. Those disturbances, in the form of coronal mass ejections (CME’s) hit the magnetic bubble around our planet, and screw with the weather...not man. In all likelyhood we are heading toward a COOLING trend, not a warming trend, but, you’ve been indoctrinated since birth into believing it is all man’s fault, and, in particular, “evil rich white slaveholder men from the imperialist United States”.
To buy something new...One, usually has problems, Two, usually limited quantity, and most important Three, TOO EXPENSIVE. Wait a couple months and the price comes down, the quality goes up, the bugs are removed. But, there isn't anything you could do, to get me to pay over 500.00 for "a phone".