Locking it up is almost certainly a Verizon-demanded attribute, and not an initiative from HTC.
Absolutely. For sure. If you look to how Verizon's business model works, it's by nickle and dime-ing their customers through extended feature add-ons. Much in the same way AT&T did in the 80s with their landline (POTS) subscribers. Having a locked down phone is the only way to control that subscription based business model.
As I understand it from others is that God's love is so pure and free from sin, that it displaces anything but. Being that man is born with sin, God's imediate presence would "purify" man and thus render his mortal flesh dead. His soul however, may be welcomed within the envelopment of his light.
...you think it is in your own interest to manage world affairs! I assure you, it is not.
Maybe if the rest of the world would step in to help rather than cower in the face of adversity, we (Americans) wouldn't have to be all that involved. At least France has the balls to stand up to Muammar Gaddafi. Which is more than I can say for our current administration.
You have it all wrong Sir. Our finest men in uniform is well equiped and trained to hold the line in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The real problem is that the rest of the world (among many US politicians) don't give a shit about achiving victory. You don't win wars with a squeamish policy.
Assange is no hero. He actively bent over backwards to release those cables indiscriminately. He was focused on releasing the information to such a degree, that he didn't care what the remifications would be. For all we knew, it could have started another cold war with Russia and/or internal strife between European nations. If anything, Assange can be credited with fulfilling his goal. However, the liberation certain Middle Eastern countries belong to the locals only. Assange didn't actively do diddly squat for them, nor should he be given credit as some great liberator. That man is playing a game of Russian Roulette with foreign policy.
Of course, I know that an epic nuclear disaster took place. Perhaps it's just my mindset. Personally, I don't accept "sorry", and rarely (if ever) do give them out. I'm of the belief that we should accept the good, bad, and ugly in life. We learn from our actions and mistakes in life. But most importantly, we move on to make progress. The worst thing Japan can do is stagnate. I understand there has been a massive loss of life among shitty living conditions. But stepping into depression leads to a nasty little feedback cycle and thus can continue to drag a nation far below what it's capable of. And that's really what it's about. Forget the sorries. What these people need is a donation of resources to help them help themselves. That right there, is true support.
Circle, I'm not directing this at you personally so please don't take offense. However, i cringe when I hear statements of "sorry" in a time of crisis. For me at least, it's a statement of defeat in life and its acceptance in submission. Well screw that! All I have to say to the Japanese is this.
GET 'ER DONE! Just finish the job. Even if it's a futile attempt, move on with cleanup containment, and post infrastructure changes as needed. But being "sorry" is a defeatist attitude leaving everyone else around you demoralized. Lets live, learn, accept, and move on.
I'm not sure what you mean by "providers", so allow me to clarify. Assuming what you quoted is true, please ignore the following... However,
Your local Cable Co acts as nothing but a conduit to external media. The issue may not be technical, but contractual (legal) between TWC (Time Warner Cable) and the stations they carry from SatCom links. Sometimes entire sporting events get blacked out for this reason. It's quite possible TWC got blind-sided by the content providers in the last minute as they too have contracts with Comcast and other local Cable Co's.
Many nations are at different levels of maturity. Both in terms of culture, and international aggressiveness. Both the US and Russia have come a long way to being more cooperative. But it won't take long before other countries start pissing in the pool, yet again. At that point, both US and Russia will be forced to militarize space against those other immature nations that would not hesitate to do us harm.
If you want a reliable HDD, you're better off going SAS as they're considered classified as enterprise level hardware. Generally, they have a higher MTBF rating.
Oh come on now! That's being a bit too harsh don't you think? Aside from iTunes, please name the 2nd best candidate. Even if the Zune platform came in 3rd, it's still not *that* bad.
Perhaps it's not available in all areas. I live in Houston, TX, so I know at least in my city most if not all Comcast subscribers that I know of have this capability.
Add to this the fact that NONE of these dishonest fuckers in these companies give you a good way to track "usage", and it gets worse
It's not obvious, but if you log into Comcast.net and access your account properties, you will find your % of usage under "User & Settings" tab. Apperently, I have a cap of 250GB per month. On average, I use about 16GB per month between my wife and I. And I know for a fact she watches more streaming youtube like media than I do.
As for my Verizon account, I've got the official Droid app from them that called My Verizon. It lists my current bill and data and minutes utilization. By far the easiest and up-front way of double checking your monthly numbers.
If bandwidth caps become the norm, I could see next gen home routers provide e-mail updates to users as to how much has been logged and how much they have left in the billing cycle (according to the settings you've provided). There might even been some sort of new industry standard to make this information "plug-in-play" to the user.
If the bandwidth issue involves an unbalanced paring agreement utilization, why doesn't Netflix and AT&T agree on a deal that would allow for a local media proxy server? Seems that, right there, would solve a lot bandwidth problems.
For the most part, the American media is the mouth-piece of the Democrat party. Anyone who doesn't already know this obviously doesn't watch the media. As for Fox News, they're an exception to the rule. Why you ask? Because there was a vacuum in the market place. A void if you will that would have eventually been filled. But again, that's an exception to the rule.
And please, none of you give me that clap-trap about reality having a liberal bias. We are talking about an allegiance with a "political" party. That supersedes liberal ideology as far as I'm concerned. The former is much more dangerous.
In Shanghai, skyscraper condos are made out of poured concrete. Floor, walls, and ceilings are stone cold. I've felt warmer in an igloo in winter time. Anyways, they still have these building catch on fire from time to time. You can find plenty of news coverage on Youtube. If it's not the bamboo scaffolding that's acting as the fuel, it's someones grease fire setting their furniture ablaze. Never underestimate the power of "stupid".
Well you know what they say, don't you? What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. That holds just as true for civilization as it does in evolution at large.
Japan has had prior experiences with earthquakes, so it should come to no surprise that they've had a game plan in the works along with prior public drills.
...or firestorm in the wrong place could probably turn most western countries into Haiti within hours.
Look up the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Our modern fire department system got a major overhaul as a direct result of that catastrophe. From extra fire hydrants to fire drills, the rest of America learned a valuable lesson about urgent preparedness.
By design. DHS sees the loss of IP export as a national security issue. So according to the Feds, money must be spent to protect the vast (potential) wealth that IP export generates for America.
Wrong. The mission (as with all organizations) is to justify its existance and grow larger. The "beast" is always hungry. And it will feed even if it has to consume the very people it was sworn to protect.
Corporations? Please, they're just a convenient group of useful idiots in their eyes.
Why wasn't a fail-safe implemented into the design of the reactor? How hard would it have been to keep the control rods in position with electromagnetism? When you lose power, the rods fall into place by gravity thus stopping the reaction. I mean, it seems like such a simple idea does it not?
The water, from what I've read, got into the generators and caused all of them to shutdown at the same time
Oh sweet bajesus! Once an engine has been hydrolocked, it's game over! Surely both the piston pins, connecting rods, and crankshaft suffered severe bending/warping. Essentially, the entire engine just got trashed and tagged for the recycling plant.
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Absolutely. For sure. If you look to how Verizon's business model works, it's by nickle and dime-ing their customers through extended feature add-ons. Much in the same way AT&T did in the 80s with their landline (POTS) subscribers. Having a locked down phone is the only way to control that subscription based business model.
You assume that theology and science are one in the same. I wouldn't be so sure of that.
When people refer to God's radiant light, it has no direct association with the EM spectrum within our plain of existence/dimension or otherwise.
As I understand it from others is that God's love is so pure and free from sin, that it displaces anything but. Being that man is born with sin, God's imediate presence would "purify" man and thus render his mortal flesh dead. His soul however, may be welcomed within the envelopment of his light.
Maybe if the rest of the world would step in to help rather than cower in the face of adversity, we (Americans) wouldn't have to be all that involved. At least France has the balls to stand up to Muammar Gaddafi. Which is more than I can say for our current administration.
You have it all wrong Sir. Our finest men in uniform is well equiped and trained to hold the line in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The real problem is that the rest of the world (among many US politicians) don't give a shit about achiving victory. You don't win wars with a squeamish policy.
He'll hang at the gallows for sure. That is, if someone doesn't already shoot him for glory.
Assange is no hero. He actively bent over backwards to release those cables indiscriminately. He was focused on releasing the information to such a degree, that he didn't care what the remifications would be. For all we knew, it could have started another cold war with Russia and/or internal strife between European nations. If anything, Assange can be credited with fulfilling his goal. However, the liberation certain Middle Eastern countries belong to the locals only. Assange didn't actively do diddly squat for them, nor should he be given credit as some great liberator. That man is playing a game of Russian Roulette with foreign policy.
Of course, I know that an epic nuclear disaster took place. Perhaps it's just my mindset. Personally, I don't accept "sorry", and rarely (if ever) do give them out. I'm of the belief that we should accept the good, bad, and ugly in life. We learn from our actions and mistakes in life. But most importantly, we move on to make progress. The worst thing Japan can do is stagnate. I understand there has been a massive loss of life among shitty living conditions. But stepping into depression leads to a nasty little feedback cycle and thus can continue to drag a nation far below what it's capable of. And that's really what it's about. Forget the sorries. What these people need is a donation of resources to help them help themselves. That right there, is true support.
Circle, I'm not directing this at you personally so please don't take offense. However, i cringe when I hear statements of "sorry" in a time of crisis. For me at least, it's a statement of defeat in life and its acceptance in submission. Well screw that! All I have to say to the Japanese is this.
GET 'ER DONE! Just finish the job. Even if it's a futile attempt, move on with cleanup containment, and post infrastructure changes as needed. But being "sorry" is a defeatist attitude leaving everyone else around you demoralized. Lets live, learn, accept, and move on.
I'm not sure what you mean by "providers", so allow me to clarify. Assuming what you quoted is true, please ignore the following... However,
Your local Cable Co acts as nothing but a conduit to external media. The issue may not be technical, but contractual (legal) between TWC (Time Warner Cable) and the stations they carry from SatCom links. Sometimes entire sporting events get blacked out for this reason. It's quite possible TWC got blind-sided by the content providers in the last minute as they too have contracts with Comcast and other local Cable Co's.
I always thought it was just a joke, but that phrase was actually trademarked by Apple last year.
http://www.trademarkia.com/theres-an-app-for-that-77980556.html
Many nations are at different levels of maturity. Both in terms of culture, and international aggressiveness. Both the US and Russia have come a long way to being more cooperative. But it won't take long before other countries start pissing in the pool, yet again. At that point, both US and Russia will be forced to militarize space against those other immature nations that would not hesitate to do us harm.
If you want a reliable HDD, you're better off going SAS as they're considered classified as enterprise level hardware. Generally, they have a higher MTBF rating.
Oh come on now! That's being a bit too harsh don't you think? Aside from iTunes, please name the 2nd best candidate. Even if the Zune platform came in 3rd, it's still not *that* bad.
Perhaps it's not available in all areas. I live in Houston, TX, so I know at least in my city most if not all Comcast subscribers that I know of have this capability.
Add to this the fact that NONE of these dishonest fuckers in these companies give you a good way to track "usage", and it gets worse
It's not obvious, but if you log into Comcast.net and access your account properties, you will find your % of usage under "User & Settings" tab. Apperently, I have a cap of 250GB per month. On average, I use about 16GB per month between my wife and I. And I know for a fact she watches more streaming youtube like media than I do.
As for my Verizon account, I've got the official Droid app from them that called My Verizon. It lists my current bill and data and minutes utilization. By far the easiest and up-front way of double checking your monthly numbers.
If bandwidth caps become the norm, I could see next gen home routers provide e-mail updates to users as to how much has been logged and how much they have left in the billing cycle (according to the settings you've provided). There might even been some sort of new industry standard to make this information "plug-in-play" to the user.
If the bandwidth issue involves an unbalanced paring agreement utilization, why doesn't Netflix and AT&T agree on a deal that would allow for a local media proxy server? Seems that, right there, would solve a lot bandwidth problems.
For the most part, the American media is the mouth-piece of the Democrat party. Anyone who doesn't already know this obviously doesn't watch the media. As for Fox News, they're an exception to the rule. Why you ask? Because there was a vacuum in the market place. A void if you will that would have eventually been filled. But again, that's an exception to the rule.
And please, none of you give me that clap-trap about reality having a liberal bias. We are talking about an allegiance with a "political" party. That supersedes liberal ideology as far as I'm concerned. The former is much more dangerous.
In Shanghai, skyscraper condos are made out of poured concrete. Floor, walls, and ceilings are stone cold. I've felt warmer in an igloo in winter time. Anyways, they still have these building catch on fire from time to time. You can find plenty of news coverage on Youtube. If it's not the bamboo scaffolding that's acting as the fuel, it's someones grease fire setting their furniture ablaze. Never underestimate the power of "stupid".
Well you know what they say, don't you? What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. That holds just as true for civilization as it does in evolution at large.
Japan has had prior experiences with earthquakes, so it should come to no surprise that they've had a game plan in the works along with prior public drills.
Look up the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Our modern fire department system got a major overhaul as a direct result of that catastrophe. From extra fire hydrants to fire drills, the rest of America learned a valuable lesson about urgent preparedness.
So true. My old tape cassettes sounds better than these CD and digital rehashes because of all the damn compression these days.
By design. DHS sees the loss of IP export as a national security issue. So according to the Feds, money must be spent to protect the vast (potential) wealth that IP export generates for America.
Wrong. The mission (as with all organizations) is to justify its existance and grow larger. The "beast" is always hungry. And it will feed even if it has to consume the very people it was sworn to protect.
Corporations? Please, they're just a convenient group of useful idiots in their eyes.
Why wasn't a fail-safe implemented into the design of the reactor? How hard would it have been to keep the control rods in position with electromagnetism? When you lose power, the rods fall into place by gravity thus stopping the reaction. I mean, it seems like such a simple idea does it not?
Oh sweet bajesus! Once an engine has been hydrolocked, it's game over! Surely both the piston pins, connecting rods, and crankshaft suffered severe bending/warping. Essentially, the entire engine just got trashed and tagged for the recycling plant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolock