BOTH U.S. senators for Virginia are democrats, and 40% of their U.S. reps are democrats.
They put it in Virginia, most likely because it is close to DC.
My dad is going through radiation/chemo for bladder cancer. 3 weeks in, and his hair is starting to fall out.
Good spirits though...said it would cut down on shampoo & combing his hair in the morning.
I was a child, growing up in the "space race" age. Watched every launch from Alan Sheppard through the last moon landing.
But, that was a race against the Soviet Union.
Yes, it would be nice to go back to the moon, if anything else, to PROVE we were there once before!
But, what real science would come out of it, versus the amount of money the government will waste getting us there?
Leave something like this to private industry. It will be faster, and less expensive.
Use to be news for nerds, stuff that matters
Now, it's more like POLITICAL news that doesn't matter.
Get enough of that garbage on 99.9% of the other sites.
My first SS card, said "not to be used for identification".
Oh, I'm sure the government will come up with an alternative...CHIP implants.
And they won't make it mandatory, but, if you don't they'll make a law that says
if you don't have one, you can't access this government service or that government
service.
Hell, Sweden is doing it, and thinking about making it MANDATORY.
When it comes to the USA, I'll be long gone, but, if I'm still around, I'll save them the
fight, I'll just shoot myself. No one is putting an ID chip inside of me. It's bad enough
your phone, home computer, GPS, car computers and what not know where you are
and what you do all day long, but I'll be damn if someone plants one inside of me or
puts a tattoo bar code on my skin.
What are you going to do with the HAZARDOUS materials associated with the panels?
silicon tetrachloride, cadmium, selenium, and sulfur hexafluoride to name a few. Average
lifespan of the panels is 20 years. Where ya gonna dump all of that "waste" material???
Well of COURSE, google, twitter, fakebook, the national media would "get it wrong".
They are always hoping a few things when there is something like this that happens.
1. It's a white male
2. He's Republican
3. He's a member of the NRA
4. He voted for (insert name of any republican president)
5. He's a member of the KKK.
If the person is black, other minority, or a moslem...it's DROPPED.
THIS is the problem with "instant" so called news. The so called news station, in the effort
to obtain an "exclusive" are more concerned about being first, that being right, ESPECIALLY if
it means the above 1-6 are into play. Journalism has been dead for a LONG time.
But, no one holds a gun to your head to buy these over priced objects of instant gratification.
Build costs of even the most expensive "flagships" is still in the 200-300 dollar range, but they
"command" upwards of $1,000.00? Yeah, marketing, R&D bla bla bla, but still the price is too
high. Their profit is way out of whack. But, if people want to spend THAT much, I'm not going to
stop them. Not my money.
Why are they so high? Because people are "willing" to pay that much. Oh, they will play it off
saying I only "lease/rent" my phone. They would rather make payment after payment after payment
for a phone? "But I get the latest technology". Ummm...other than a gimmick here and there, the smartphone
has really not "evolved" more than what Apple came up with in 07. It's still a rectangular slab of glass, plastic
and metal, with a battery, touch screen & camera.
In the past 3-4 years, the only "improvements" have been in processor speed, graphics, & perhaps the camera.
Coming from the android side, the apps all work on anything past 4.3 or 5, for the most part. People do not even
come close to hitting the barrier as far as the processor goes. Other than the benchmark geeks, wanting to say
mine is faster than yours, most people run 1 app at a time. They do pretty much the same thing on all of them.
Facebook, twitter, talk, text, video, web, and music player. Even if they tried to do this at the same time, they wouldn't
overwhelm the processor, let alone the graphic.
As for the camera, stuffing more megapixels into such a TINY smartphone sensor is only good for a couple things.
1. Just makes it easier to zoom/crop into a photo
2. Introduces crosstalk/noise from having the signal wires THAT microscopically close to each other, requiring the camera
software to try and mask it which results in a poor photo, which the software will try to fix. 8-10 megapixels, is effective for
an A3 (ledger) size print. Who prints photos from a camera phone?
Dual lenses, are just another gimmick that in real terms is just that...a gimmick. "but it gives you bokeh background blur
like a dSLR". Yeah, and if I stick racing stripes & a spoiler on a front wheel drive car, I'll have a race car!
Smartphones, got taken over by the "fashion industry". How many times do you hear or see some company say, we hired
designer X, to design our smartphone. Ummm...how many different ways can you design a rectangular slab of metal, plastic
and glass? Also, the bad buzz word now is "ugly bezels". Why? That term was coined by the same designers as a reason to
get rid of the mechanical buttons (added costs), and to increase the screen size, but keep the footprint smaller. Then there is
the COLOR thingy. Everything has to have a "stylish" color that is "sexy" or "hot". And what do 99% of the people do once they
buy these overpriced gadgets? Slap an "ugly" cover on them, to protect them, so, what's the use of having all of these fancy
colors, if you can't see them in the first place?
Until the fashion types, hipsters, trendy types with their fedoras, skinny jeans, black frame glasses get bored, and move on, the
price of phones will probably continue to move UP.
I find the best price/deal on phones is wait for a new model to be released, then buy last years "next best thing". The last two
times I've done that, I got it for around 1/2 of what it was when announced. Also, you typically get the END of production, not
the beginning of production, and older more stable OS and don't have to put up with the glitches. "But, you won't get updates"
So? Does it work? Does it run the apps correctly? Is it stable? Then other than security patches...who cares.
All prisoner areas are FARADAY CAGE. Common areas, that are monitored are not, like day rooms But prisoner cells, turn them into faraday cages. No signals in or out.
But...they won't be able to listen to music, or this or that. So? Stay out of trouble and you don't have
to worry about it.
You can BUY it online from say a TRUSTED source, or, in a store.
Nope, not backing kickstarter. If it were "that good" the venture capitalist
or banks would back it.
Wonder why you don't see "the left" protesting against Amazon, like they did Walmart?
Oh, Walmart...they are putting mom & pop business out of business and on and on.
Well, isn't Amazon doing the same thing?
Oh wait a minute. I forget...liberals (among others) LOVE Amazon, it's chic, it's hip, it's
trendy....and they are located in a leftist paradise. Seattle.
Shoot, I already have tape over my laptop camera, have it disabled in the device manager.
And now they want to introduce a camera in your bedroom? Oh a hacker FIELD DAY!
Take it down to 50 or 60, would get "hollyweird", politicians & so called news media
out of the mix, since they can't think in less than 140 characters.
Design it with a 2-3 score (iFixit scale), then say that if you have it repaired somewhere else,
sorry...we'll not replace it. (cr)APPLE strikes again.
Take away the fingerprint sensor, make some goofy face thing that doesn't work, make it impossible
to repair, use "security" screws that are impossible to find the tools to take it apart...nothing like pissing
off people, but, for the iSheep, they will see this as an "innovation".
I remember when the government broke up the "phone company" in the 80's. It's taken over 30 years, to almost put it
back together. If the t-mobile/Sprint merger goes through, that will leave 3 "giants" for mobile communications in the
United States, Verizon, At&t, T-mobile. Aside from the straight-talk, cricket and other MVNO's, that's your choice.
Competition has caused innovation to explode.
For those of you too young to remember, to have a phone, you went
to "MaBell"...you WENT to the phone company. The GAVE you a phone (charging you rent). If you had MORE than
one phone, you were considered well off. If your phone was any other color than BLACK, you were well off. Then you
WAITED for the phone company to "turn your line on". Plugged your phone in (or even farther back, you waited for
the phone company to HOOK it up). Now, you have "a phone". In some cities, calling some parts of the city was a local
call, everything else was "long distance", which was a separate charge. Even farther back, you had to call the operator
to have THEM place a call.
On the road for work? need to call the office etc? Look for a phonebooth. A box that had this thing called a PAY PHONE.
If it was anything other than a local call, which would cost anywhere from a dime to a quarter, you called the other party
collect (they paid), or the operator had you insert enough money to pay for the call. Car breaks down in the middle of
nowhere? Well, you had to WALK to call someone.
With the break up of the phone company, you got to choose your own phone, local calls usually meant within your own area
code, answering machines, cordless phones, pagers exploded. Then in the early 90's cellular took off.
I hope it doesn't get worse, but with less competition, the price usually goes up.
Well I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it
(you either have to be OLD like me, or love that music to know the group)
Deep vein thrombosis.
Blood clot on long flights, breaks loose and boom! You are dead. Tim Russert died as a result and a lot of
older people, or those on long flights can be affected by DVT.
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BOTH U.S. senators for Virginia are democrats, and 40% of their U.S. reps are democrats. They put it in Virginia, most likely because it is close to DC.
For NOT coming to Missouri. Last thing this state needs is Google bringing MORE moronic liberal socialist to this state!
My dad is going through radiation/chemo for bladder cancer. 3 weeks in, and his hair is starting to fall out. Good spirits though...said it would cut down on shampoo & combing his hair in the morning.
I was a child, growing up in the "space race" age. Watched every launch from Alan Sheppard through the last moon landing. But, that was a race against the Soviet Union. Yes, it would be nice to go back to the moon, if anything else, to PROVE we were there once before! But, what real science would come out of it, versus the amount of money the government will waste getting us there? Leave something like this to private industry. It will be faster, and less expensive.
The "universal translator" LOL.
More "better/faster/gooder" battery news....story number 3,402 that STILL isn't in mass production. LOL.
They don't like the competition! "Could build a profile" on someone....that cuts into the governments role of building profiles on everyone!
Use to be news for nerds, stuff that matters Now, it's more like POLITICAL news that doesn't matter. Get enough of that garbage on 99.9% of the other sites.
Typical drug dealer....get em hook for free/reduced price, then JACK up the price because they are junkies!
My first SS card, said "not to be used for identification". Oh, I'm sure the government will come up with an alternative...CHIP implants. And they won't make it mandatory, but, if you don't they'll make a law that says if you don't have one, you can't access this government service or that government service. Hell, Sweden is doing it, and thinking about making it MANDATORY. When it comes to the USA, I'll be long gone, but, if I'm still around, I'll save them the fight, I'll just shoot myself. No one is putting an ID chip inside of me. It's bad enough your phone, home computer, GPS, car computers and what not know where you are and what you do all day long, but I'll be damn if someone plants one inside of me or puts a tattoo bar code on my skin.
Look what they did...gave Obama one, for DOING NOTHING at the START of his crowning as president.
What are you going to do with the HAZARDOUS materials associated with the panels? silicon tetrachloride, cadmium, selenium, and sulfur hexafluoride to name a few. Average lifespan of the panels is 20 years. Where ya gonna dump all of that "waste" material???
Well of COURSE, google, twitter, fakebook, the national media would "get it wrong". They are always hoping a few things when there is something like this that happens. 1. It's a white male 2. He's Republican 3. He's a member of the NRA 4. He voted for (insert name of any republican president) 5. He's a member of the KKK. If the person is black, other minority, or a moslem...it's DROPPED. THIS is the problem with "instant" so called news. The so called news station, in the effort to obtain an "exclusive" are more concerned about being first, that being right, ESPECIALLY if it means the above 1-6 are into play. Journalism has been dead for a LONG time.
Oh no! Russian "ads" on Fakebook....so?
But, no one holds a gun to your head to buy these over priced objects of instant gratification. Build costs of even the most expensive "flagships" is still in the 200-300 dollar range, but they "command" upwards of $1,000.00? Yeah, marketing, R&D bla bla bla, but still the price is too high. Their profit is way out of whack. But, if people want to spend THAT much, I'm not going to stop them. Not my money. Why are they so high? Because people are "willing" to pay that much. Oh, they will play it off saying I only "lease/rent" my phone. They would rather make payment after payment after payment for a phone? "But I get the latest technology". Ummm...other than a gimmick here and there, the smartphone has really not "evolved" more than what Apple came up with in 07. It's still a rectangular slab of glass, plastic and metal, with a battery, touch screen & camera. In the past 3-4 years, the only "improvements" have been in processor speed, graphics, & perhaps the camera. Coming from the android side, the apps all work on anything past 4.3 or 5, for the most part. People do not even come close to hitting the barrier as far as the processor goes. Other than the benchmark geeks, wanting to say mine is faster than yours, most people run 1 app at a time. They do pretty much the same thing on all of them. Facebook, twitter, talk, text, video, web, and music player. Even if they tried to do this at the same time, they wouldn't overwhelm the processor, let alone the graphic. As for the camera, stuffing more megapixels into such a TINY smartphone sensor is only good for a couple things. 1. Just makes it easier to zoom/crop into a photo 2. Introduces crosstalk/noise from having the signal wires THAT microscopically close to each other, requiring the camera software to try and mask it which results in a poor photo, which the software will try to fix. 8-10 megapixels, is effective for an A3 (ledger) size print. Who prints photos from a camera phone? Dual lenses, are just another gimmick that in real terms is just that...a gimmick. "but it gives you bokeh background blur like a dSLR". Yeah, and if I stick racing stripes & a spoiler on a front wheel drive car, I'll have a race car! Smartphones, got taken over by the "fashion industry". How many times do you hear or see some company say, we hired designer X, to design our smartphone. Ummm...how many different ways can you design a rectangular slab of metal, plastic and glass? Also, the bad buzz word now is "ugly bezels". Why? That term was coined by the same designers as a reason to get rid of the mechanical buttons (added costs), and to increase the screen size, but keep the footprint smaller. Then there is the COLOR thingy. Everything has to have a "stylish" color that is "sexy" or "hot". And what do 99% of the people do once they buy these overpriced gadgets? Slap an "ugly" cover on them, to protect them, so, what's the use of having all of these fancy colors, if you can't see them in the first place? Until the fashion types, hipsters, trendy types with their fedoras, skinny jeans, black frame glasses get bored, and move on, the price of phones will probably continue to move UP. I find the best price/deal on phones is wait for a new model to be released, then buy last years "next best thing". The last two times I've done that, I got it for around 1/2 of what it was when announced. Also, you typically get the END of production, not the beginning of production, and older more stable OS and don't have to put up with the glitches. "But, you won't get updates" So? Does it work? Does it run the apps correctly? Is it stable? Then other than security patches...who cares.
All prisoner areas are FARADAY CAGE. Common areas, that are monitored are not, like day rooms But prisoner cells, turn them into faraday cages. No signals in or out. But...they won't be able to listen to music, or this or that. So? Stay out of trouble and you don't have to worry about it.
You can BUY it online from say a TRUSTED source, or, in a store. Nope, not backing kickstarter. If it were "that good" the venture capitalist or banks would back it.
Wonder why you don't see "the left" protesting against Amazon, like they did Walmart? Oh, Walmart...they are putting mom & pop business out of business and on and on. Well, isn't Amazon doing the same thing? Oh wait a minute. I forget...liberals (among others) LOVE Amazon, it's chic, it's hip, it's trendy....and they are located in a leftist paradise. Seattle.
Shoot, I already have tape over my laptop camera, have it disabled in the device manager. And now they want to introduce a camera in your bedroom? Oh a hacker FIELD DAY!
Take it down to 50 or 60, would get "hollyweird", politicians & so called news media out of the mix, since they can't think in less than 140 characters.
Make it EASIER for (insert your favorite government agency) to find/track you. But...it's for YOUR security!!
Design it with a 2-3 score (iFixit scale), then say that if you have it repaired somewhere else, sorry...we'll not replace it. (cr)APPLE strikes again. Take away the fingerprint sensor, make some goofy face thing that doesn't work, make it impossible to repair, use "security" screws that are impossible to find the tools to take it apart...nothing like pissing off people, but, for the iSheep, they will see this as an "innovation".
I remember when the government broke up the "phone company" in the 80's. It's taken over 30 years, to almost put it back together. If the t-mobile/Sprint merger goes through, that will leave 3 "giants" for mobile communications in the United States, Verizon, At&t, T-mobile. Aside from the straight-talk, cricket and other MVNO's, that's your choice. Competition has caused innovation to explode. For those of you too young to remember, to have a phone, you went to "MaBell"...you WENT to the phone company. The GAVE you a phone (charging you rent). If you had MORE than one phone, you were considered well off. If your phone was any other color than BLACK, you were well off. Then you WAITED for the phone company to "turn your line on". Plugged your phone in (or even farther back, you waited for the phone company to HOOK it up). Now, you have "a phone". In some cities, calling some parts of the city was a local call, everything else was "long distance", which was a separate charge. Even farther back, you had to call the operator to have THEM place a call. On the road for work? need to call the office etc? Look for a phonebooth. A box that had this thing called a PAY PHONE. If it was anything other than a local call, which would cost anywhere from a dime to a quarter, you called the other party collect (they paid), or the operator had you insert enough money to pay for the call. Car breaks down in the middle of nowhere? Well, you had to WALK to call someone. With the break up of the phone company, you got to choose your own phone, local calls usually meant within your own area code, answering machines, cordless phones, pagers exploded. Then in the early 90's cellular took off. I hope it doesn't get worse, but with less competition, the price usually goes up.
Well I never been to Spain But I kinda like the music Say the ladies are insane there And they sure know how to use it They don't abuse it Never gonna lose it I can't refuse it (you either have to be OLD like me, or love that music to know the group)
Deep vein thrombosis. Blood clot on long flights, breaks loose and boom! You are dead. Tim Russert died as a result and a lot of older people, or those on long flights can be affected by DVT.