RT-N16 all the way. I have plaster walls in my house (the kind held up by perforated metal sheets which make excellent faraday cages) and couldn't get wireless through. Got this router specifically because it had 3 removable antennae. Threw on some monster 12db antennae, loaded DD-WRT, tweaked a few settings and poof I had wireless through the whole house. The antennae I got had super long cables on them so it made finding the perfect placement easy.
It's actually rather simple to understand the real problem.
The earth's temperature changes on a large number of different cycles. The longest being hundreds of thousands of years long and the shortest is a few hours. It's easy to look for patterns in short cycles. We've got a hundred years or so of actual measured data, so it's not too hard to predict what the weather will be like tomorrow or the next day. When you have 100+ years of actual data, it's easy to spot changes in patterns that are days or maybe weeks long.
The problem is that you can't use 100+ years of actual data to know anything about a cycle that lasts hundreds of thousands of years. It's way too short a time period. The ONLY way anyone will know for a fact that humans have disrupted a hundred thousand year cycle is after, at the minimum, ten or twenty thousand years of actual recorded data.
Regardless, there's nothing wrong with continuing efforts to make things cleaner and more efficient and we've come a long way doing that. A few of the cities I've lived in are much cleaner now than they were 20 years ago, auto fuel efficiency has made huge strides, and wind/solar/whatever have come a long way too. We're doing good and will continue to make things better.
There really is nothing to worry about. It's impossible, literally, to know if we've affected the long climate cycle of hundreds of thousands of years. Anyone attempting to get an emotional reaction out of you over it is a scam artist, regardless of which direction they're trying to scam you. Conserve what you can, recycle what you can, and just do your best to be a good person. Life is good. Don't let the global warming deniers or the global warming denier deniers get you down. They're all after the same things, an ego boost, money, and/or power.
The housing bubble burst when the govt announced it was no longer backing or buying sub-prime loans, destroying the entire market that had built up around it. This bubble won't burst unless the govt does the same thing. It would have to announce that it is no longer backing high-risk student loans. Note the parallels here. When govt uses taxpayer dollars to make a high-risk venture into a low-risk one, it artificially inflates demand which artificially inflates the price. Supply and demand will always be at work no matter what anyone does. Increasing demand always increases the price. The more high-risk home loans the government backed or bought with Fannie and Freddie, the more expensive housing got. Same thing with education. The longer government backs or buys high-risk student loans, the more expensive education will get. We saw it happen already with housing, yet nobody seems to notice it happening with education.
Kids these days.... We had all of those things before the federal departments ever existed, and in most cases they were better before the feds stepped in and messed with them. Try reading some history sometime.
Not sure what Glen Beck has to do with anything, but ACORN was responsible for the mass letter writing campaigns against banks that wouldn't make bad loans. Enough letters and the govt investigates you and puts a halt to any expansion of the bank you might want to do. No new branches, no new offices, nothing per the rules written by the HUD.
Of course the HUD doesn't create investment vehicles. Private banks made them under duress from the rules written by the HUD and from the mass letter writing campaigns ACORN organized. It should be trivial to understand that making loans you know won't be paid back is a bad idea and will cost a business a lot of money in losses, so they did whatever they could to prevent those losses. The whole thing snowballed as these bad assets were sold and resold until it collapsed.
Go ask any 10 year old kid if they would ever loan someone money if they were pretty sure they wouldn't get paid back. It's a concept everyone understands, and it should be just as trivial to understand that people would never make a bad loan unless there was a way to make money on it. This is where Fannie and Freddie came in. When the govt announced that they'd be buying up sub-prime loans everyone got in the business. Loan shops opened up on every street corner. Who wouldn't want to make free money by making loans to poor people?
So yeah you can blame the banks or wall st. if you want, but the fact remains that none of these loans would have ever existed in the first place if it wasn't for the govt interfering in business it had no business interfering in.
Explain how "greed" is loaning money to someone knowing they can't pay it back. Doing that makes you lose money, not make it. The only way someone would make a loan to someone knowing it won't be paid back is if somehow they are actually going to make money on it, as in if the government buys that loan through Freddie or Fannie. You let the government brainwash you into believing it's someone elses fault besides politicians.
If you mean Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, I'm all for it. If you mean the thousands of bankers who were forced to make bad loans by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, then why? You can't punish people for doing something they would never normally do until the govt steps in and makes them.
They will ultimately be ignored. They're protesting in the wrong damn place for one.
NAFTA chased middle class jobs out of the country. You can't compete with cheap labor from Mexico and Asia and pay people what they're worth in the USA. The 1st Bush and Clinton pulled that one off. There used to be 4 general ways of creating wealth in this country. 1st, minimum wage jobs, for kids, students, and anyone who doesn't need a job to live but wants one for extra money. 2nd, manufacturing jobs where you could enter at ground level and work your way up to a decent salary and benefits. 3rd, careers that required a college degree. 4th, starting a business and growing it. NAFTA killed the 2nd one, increasing costs of college has made the 3rd difficult, constantly changing tax laws and nobody knowing what environmental or other policy change is going to happen next is killing the 4th. That leaves people who were lucky enough to get a college education, people who were lucky enough to be able to start a successful business, and everyone else is forced to fight for minimum wage jobs.
The HUD and Project ACORN created a false demand for houses by forcing banks to make loans that would never be paid back. That raised housing prices through the law of supply and demand. Like any scam it can't run forever so when it collapsed it took the economy with it. Since the HUD consolidated all of these bad loans in one place, it was like a bomb going off.
Bush signed TARP and signaled the beginning of the drop in value of the Dollar. Obama continued this through trillions in loans from China and money printed from the Fed. On top of that, nobody wants to expand business or start new ones because nobody knows if some random politically-motivated investigation is going to shut you down (Gibson?), if some new policy and restriction is going to be passed, and nobody knows what's going to happen to their tax rate. Uncertainty is the best way to kill economic growth.
And now we have a bunch of protesters pissed off at Wall St. Huh? Perfect example of people being brainwashed by our government.
If you really want the problem solved, first you have to stop buying products from corporations who lobby politicians in the worst ways. That's where they get their bribe money from. You. Second, stop re-electing politicians that accept these bribes. Politicians aren't afraid of cheating on their spouses, they're not afraid of legal charges, gossip, or anything. The only thing they fear is not getting re-elected.
So go ahead and join them. You'll just get laughed at by the same politicians who created these problems in the first place, because you'll be letting them know the snow-job they pulled on you, with the help of the media, worked.
There were over 600 peaceful protests nationwide a little while ago performed by the tea party. Not one single arrest. Sorry but your claim that these protests are peaceful is totally and completely full of crap. There's a large number of videos on youtube showing these supposedly peaceful protesters causing all kinds of trouble you should check out. Not the ones edited by the protesters either. You know the ones where they cut out the bit where they aren't being peaceful and only show the consequences of their actions in an attempt to convince people they're being oppressed.
I had gained hope that CCP had turned a new corner but the second link in the article just showed me they haven't. You are right. They still don't get why the player base was upset.
"Cockerill said the team did get some things right. He pointed to the $65 monocle that players can purchase in-game and said that despite the controversy it generated among players, it was the highest-grossing item for the virtual-goods launch. "
Timing doesn't really have anything to do with it. FB became public well after MySpace. If G+ was "better" (generally speaking from the point of view of the masses) then it would have taken over FB the same way FB took over MySpace. Bottom line is G+ just isn't that good for use by the general public.
Let me guess...you still believe that back in the 70s the oil companies bought up the patents for a super carburetor that could make a car get 100 mpg and buried them so nobody could make it, right? The fun thing about getting old is you get to see the same wacked out conspiracy theories get repeated by generation after generation of naive kids, regardless of how ridiculous they are.
I kept my FF upgraded and found myself getting more and more annoyed with it. I started looking at other browsers, but they still didn't suit me as well as FF 3.x did. I decided to roll back to FF 3.6 and wow. All my extensions worked. My forecast bar was there (missed this one the most), my google toolbar, my foxclocks, everything. Looks like I'll be the one you guys write about in two years when you're making fun of people still using IE 6...er. FF 3.
Adam and Eve weren't the first humans to exist. They were the first to receive a soul which is what makes humans different from all other animals and has allowed us to advance technologically unlike all other animals. When God made them in his image, it was his spiritual image, not his physical one.
Nice to see that you view knife throwing as "being shot for something stupid." If one of my kids (I have 4 whom are all grown adults) ever did throw a knife at a cop and got shot for it I certainly wouldn't be blaming the cop. I'd be blaming my kid for being an idiot. I know it's a foreign concept for you, but some parents actually did teach their kids to be responsible for their actions. Obviously your parents taught you that you should be able to do anything you want without any consequences.
You're mistaken on who the idiot is here. Police have every right to use deadly force if a threat is perceived to be deadly in nature. If a cop is standing in front of your car and you start the engine and put it in gear, you can and should be shot. Throwing knives is most certainly a threat that can lead to death.
You forgot to take into account how much water will be needed to make the steam, and how carrying enough water to give a car the same range is has with gasoline will make it much larger and heavier than it is today. What will you do in states like California that constantly have drought problems? Oh, and no you can't just convert the steam back to water. Doing so would require a massive condenser to handle the volume of steam needed for power and it would never fit on a single car.
There is actually a really good reason why we still use non-renewable energy sources. Nothing has come anywhere close to replacing them and won't for a long time to come.
It's common for people to create an organization to solve a problem when no solutions exist. Most of the time though those people keep going even after the problems have been solved. Greenpeace and PETA are examples. Their original goals were met and instead of going "ok we won", they just kept going. As they searched hard for relevance, their organizations become more radical and extreme in the process until they get to a point where they become a new problem.
It's nice to see someone actually be able to quit when there's no reason to still exist. I'm afraid groklaw would take the same route as it tried too hard to remain relevant.
We're beyond broke. We're 14 trillion in debt. There is no room for compromise on a budget that is only the beginning of a fix. Saying the Republicans are wrong for not compromising makes no sense.
Say you make $100k a year. Your wife starts spending $500k a year. You give her a budget that says she can only spend $300k a year and it's just the beginning, more will be cut later. She says no way, I want $400k a year. Are you really going to compromise? Seriously? I hope to God you don't run the finances in your household.
I went to check this out and found that their privacy policy said all this could be controlled through my privacy settings. It took a bit to find them, but when I did find the link (http://www.pandora.com/privacysettings) It said:
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Thanks for pointing out that you completely fail to understand what freedom of speech means and that you didn't even bother reading the link you provided.
All speech has consequences. Sometimes they're good sometimes not. Telling your mother that you love her usually has good consequences.
"Freedom of speech" only covers negative consequences that the government might want to hand out over your speech. It doesn't cover anyone else, including your boss. Tell him off and he can fire you. That's where the narcissism comment comes from. It takes a pretty huge ego to believe that you should be able to say anything you want without there being any repercussions.
No idea what that has to do with soviet russia and authoritarianism either. It's called common sense most places.
I am a major Tron fanboi and have watched the movie weekly since I got my first copy on vhs, then later the 20th anniversary dvd. It was the first movie on my phone when I learned phones could have movies on them (way before iPhones).
Tron has those 4 squares on his chest. Took me 3 days after watching it to figure out that's how he knew. That's how bad the writing was.
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RT-N16 all the way. I have plaster walls in my house (the kind held up by perforated metal sheets which make excellent faraday cages) and couldn't get wireless through. Got this router specifically because it had 3 removable antennae. Threw on some monster 12db antennae, loaded DD-WRT, tweaked a few settings and poof I had wireless through the whole house. The antennae I got had super long cables on them so it made finding the perfect placement easy.
It's actually rather simple to understand the real problem.
The earth's temperature changes on a large number of different cycles. The longest being hundreds of thousands of years long and the shortest is a few hours. It's easy to look for patterns in short cycles. We've got a hundred years or so of actual measured data, so it's not too hard to predict what the weather will be like tomorrow or the next day. When you have 100+ years of actual data, it's easy to spot changes in patterns that are days or maybe weeks long.
The problem is that you can't use 100+ years of actual data to know anything about a cycle that lasts hundreds of thousands of years. It's way too short a time period. The ONLY way anyone will know for a fact that humans have disrupted a hundred thousand year cycle is after, at the minimum, ten or twenty thousand years of actual recorded data.
Regardless, there's nothing wrong with continuing efforts to make things cleaner and more efficient and we've come a long way doing that. A few of the cities I've lived in are much cleaner now than they were 20 years ago, auto fuel efficiency has made huge strides, and wind/solar/whatever have come a long way too. We're doing good and will continue to make things better.
There really is nothing to worry about. It's impossible, literally, to know if we've affected the long climate cycle of hundreds of thousands of years. Anyone attempting to get an emotional reaction out of you over it is a scam artist, regardless of which direction they're trying to scam you. Conserve what you can, recycle what you can, and just do your best to be a good person. Life is good. Don't let the global warming deniers or the global warming denier deniers get you down. They're all after the same things, an ego boost, money, and/or power.
The housing bubble burst when the govt announced it was no longer backing or buying sub-prime loans, destroying the entire market that had built up around it. This bubble won't burst unless the govt does the same thing. It would have to announce that it is no longer backing high-risk student loans.
Note the parallels here. When govt uses taxpayer dollars to make a high-risk venture into a low-risk one, it artificially inflates demand which artificially inflates the price. Supply and demand will always be at work no matter what anyone does. Increasing demand always increases the price. The more high-risk home loans the government backed or bought with Fannie and Freddie, the more expensive housing got. Same thing with education. The longer government backs or buys high-risk student loans, the more expensive education will get. We saw it happen already with housing, yet nobody seems to notice it happening with education.
Kids these days....
We had all of those things before the federal departments ever existed, and in most cases they were better before the feds stepped in and messed with them. Try reading some history sometime.
Not sure what Glen Beck has to do with anything, but ACORN was responsible for the mass letter writing campaigns against banks that wouldn't make bad loans. Enough letters and the govt investigates you and puts a halt to any expansion of the bank you might want to do. No new branches, no new offices, nothing per the rules written by the HUD.
Of course the HUD doesn't create investment vehicles. Private banks made them under duress from the rules written by the HUD and from the mass letter writing campaigns ACORN organized. It should be trivial to understand that making loans you know won't be paid back is a bad idea and will cost a business a lot of money in losses, so they did whatever they could to prevent those losses. The whole thing snowballed as these bad assets were sold and resold until it collapsed.
Go ask any 10 year old kid if they would ever loan someone money if they were pretty sure they wouldn't get paid back. It's a concept everyone understands, and it should be just as trivial to understand that people would never make a bad loan unless there was a way to make money on it. This is where Fannie and Freddie came in. When the govt announced that they'd be buying up sub-prime loans everyone got in the business. Loan shops opened up on every street corner. Who wouldn't want to make free money by making loans to poor people?
So yeah you can blame the banks or wall st. if you want, but the fact remains that none of these loans would have ever existed in the first place if it wasn't for the govt interfering in business it had no business interfering in.
Explain how "greed" is loaning money to someone knowing they can't pay it back. Doing that makes you lose money, not make it. The only way someone would make a loan to someone knowing it won't be paid back is if somehow they are actually going to make money on it, as in if the government buys that loan through Freddie or Fannie. You let the government brainwash you into believing it's someone elses fault besides politicians.
If you mean Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, I'm all for it. If you mean the thousands of bankers who were forced to make bad loans by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, then why? You can't punish people for doing something they would never normally do until the govt steps in and makes them.
They will ultimately be ignored. They're protesting in the wrong damn place for one.
NAFTA chased middle class jobs out of the country. You can't compete with cheap labor from Mexico and Asia and pay people what they're worth in the USA. The 1st Bush and Clinton pulled that one off. There used to be 4 general ways of creating wealth in this country. 1st, minimum wage jobs, for kids, students, and anyone who doesn't need a job to live but wants one for extra money. 2nd, manufacturing jobs where you could enter at ground level and work your way up to a decent salary and benefits. 3rd, careers that required a college degree. 4th, starting a business and growing it. NAFTA killed the 2nd one, increasing costs of college has made the 3rd difficult, constantly changing tax laws and nobody knowing what environmental or other policy change is going to happen next is killing the 4th. That leaves people who were lucky enough to get a college education, people who were lucky enough to be able to start a successful business, and everyone else is forced to fight for minimum wage jobs.
The HUD and Project ACORN created a false demand for houses by forcing banks to make loans that would never be paid back. That raised housing prices through the law of supply and demand. Like any scam it can't run forever so when it collapsed it took the economy with it. Since the HUD consolidated all of these bad loans in one place, it was like a bomb going off.
Bush signed TARP and signaled the beginning of the drop in value of the Dollar. Obama continued this through trillions in loans from China and money printed from the Fed. On top of that, nobody wants to expand business or start new ones because nobody knows if some random politically-motivated investigation is going to shut you down (Gibson?), if some new policy and restriction is going to be passed, and nobody knows what's going to happen to their tax rate. Uncertainty is the best way to kill economic growth.
And now we have a bunch of protesters pissed off at Wall St. Huh? Perfect example of people being brainwashed by our government.
If you really want the problem solved, first you have to stop buying products from corporations who lobby politicians in the worst ways. That's where they get their bribe money from. You. Second, stop re-electing politicians that accept these bribes. Politicians aren't afraid of cheating on their spouses, they're not afraid of legal charges, gossip, or anything. The only thing they fear is not getting re-elected.
So go ahead and join them. You'll just get laughed at by the same politicians who created these problems in the first place, because you'll be letting them know the snow-job they pulled on you, with the help of the media, worked.
There were over 600 peaceful protests nationwide a little while ago performed by the tea party. Not one single arrest. Sorry but your claim that these protests are peaceful is totally and completely full of crap. There's a large number of videos on youtube showing these supposedly peaceful protesters causing all kinds of trouble you should check out. Not the ones edited by the protesters either. You know the ones where they cut out the bit where they aren't being peaceful and only show the consequences of their actions in an attempt to convince people they're being oppressed.
I had gained hope that CCP had turned a new corner but the second link in the article just showed me they haven't. You are right. They still don't get why the player base was upset.
"Cockerill said the team did get some things right. He pointed to the $65 monocle that players can purchase in-game and said that despite the controversy it generated among players, it was the highest-grossing item for the virtual-goods launch. "
Unbelievable.
Timing doesn't really have anything to do with it. FB became public well after MySpace. If G+ was "better" (generally speaking from the point of view of the masses) then it would have taken over FB the same way FB took over MySpace. Bottom line is G+ just isn't that good for use by the general public.
I'll just leave this here too. Weed induces paranoia, you know.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1658544_1658535,00.html
Let me guess...you still believe that back in the 70s the oil companies bought up the patents for a super carburetor that could make a car get 100 mpg and buried them so nobody could make it, right? The fun thing about getting old is you get to see the same wacked out conspiracy theories get repeated by generation after generation of naive kids, regardless of how ridiculous they are.
I kept my FF upgraded and found myself getting more and more annoyed with it. I started looking at other browsers, but they still didn't suit me as well as FF 3.x did. I decided to roll back to FF 3.6 and wow. All my extensions worked. My forecast bar was there (missed this one the most), my google toolbar, my foxclocks, everything. Looks like I'll be the one you guys write about in two years when you're making fun of people still using IE 6...er. FF 3.
Adam and Eve weren't the first humans to exist. They were the first to receive a soul which is what makes humans different from all other animals and has allowed us to advance technologically unlike all other animals. When God made them in his image, it was his spiritual image, not his physical one.
Nice to see that you view knife throwing as "being shot for something stupid."
If one of my kids (I have 4 whom are all grown adults) ever did throw a knife at a cop and got shot for it I certainly wouldn't be blaming the cop. I'd be blaming my kid for being an idiot. I know it's a foreign concept for you, but some parents actually did teach their kids to be responsible for their actions. Obviously your parents taught you that you should be able to do anything you want without any consequences.
You're mistaken on who the idiot is here. Police have every right to use deadly force if a threat is perceived to be deadly in nature. If a cop is standing in front of your car and you start the engine and put it in gear, you can and should be shot. Throwing knives is most certainly a threat that can lead to death.
You forgot to take into account how much water will be needed to make the steam, and how carrying enough water to give a car the same range is has with gasoline will make it much larger and heavier than it is today. What will you do in states like California that constantly have drought problems? Oh, and no you can't just convert the steam back to water. Doing so would require a massive condenser to handle the volume of steam needed for power and it would never fit on a single car.
There is actually a really good reason why we still use non-renewable energy sources. Nothing has come anywhere close to replacing them and won't for a long time to come.
It's common for people to create an organization to solve a problem when no solutions exist. Most of the time though those people keep going even after the problems have been solved. Greenpeace and PETA are examples. Their original goals were met and instead of going "ok we won", they just kept going. As they searched hard for relevance, their organizations become more radical and extreme in the process until they get to a point where they become a new problem.
It's nice to see someone actually be able to quit when there's no reason to still exist. I'm afraid groklaw would take the same route as it tried too hard to remain relevant.
We're beyond broke. We're 14 trillion in debt. There is no room for compromise on a budget that is only the beginning of a fix. Saying the Republicans are wrong for not compromising makes no sense.
Say you make $100k a year.
Your wife starts spending $500k a year.
You give her a budget that says she can only spend $300k a year and it's just the beginning, more will be cut later.
She says no way, I want $400k a year.
Are you really going to compromise? Seriously? I hope to God you don't run the finances in your household.
I went to check this out and found that their privacy policy said all this could be controlled through my privacy settings. It took a bit to find them, but when I did find the link (http://www.pandora.com/privacysettings) It said:
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Thanks for pointing out that you completely fail to understand what freedom of speech means and that you didn't even bother reading the link you provided.
All speech has consequences. Sometimes they're good sometimes not. Telling your mother that you love her usually has good consequences.
"Freedom of speech" only covers negative consequences that the government might want to hand out over your speech. It doesn't cover anyone else, including your boss. Tell him off and he can fire you. That's where the narcissism comment comes from. It takes a pretty huge ego to believe that you should be able to say anything you want without there being any repercussions.
No idea what that has to do with soviet russia and authoritarianism either. It's called common sense most places.
An ancient piece of wisdom...
"If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all."
Unfortunately we live in an age where narcissism abounds and people actually believe they should be immune to the consequences of their actions.
I am a major Tron fanboi and have watched the movie weekly since I got my first copy on vhs, then later the 20th anniversary dvd. It was the first movie on my phone when I learned phones could have movies on them (way before iPhones).
Tron has those 4 squares on his chest. Took me 3 days after watching it to figure out that's how he knew. That's how bad the writing was.
They're polarized, not tinted. They worked very hard to find polarization film that was as transparent as possible.