Hell yeah it is; I'd been paying the same price just for voice until I switched!
(The catch, for those reading, is that Virgin's data service is supposedly slower than you'd get from the 2-year-contract club. It's fast enough, though.)
What are the other two phones, by the way (the first was the Samsung Intercept)?
Oh I know, there are some alternatives, but most common unlimited plans with minutes will set you back nearly a hundred with taxes and fees.
My plan from Virgin Mobile is $40/month for 800 minutes and unlimited data & text, and it doesn't require a contract. (The catch is that the only phone available, the Samsung Intercept, isn't that great, and the data speed isn't all that fast. It's fast enough though, especially given the price!)
Exactly! I have a smartphone for one reason, and one reason only: Virgin Mobile has a $40/month plan that includes voice and unlimited data. (Actually, they have one for $30/month too, but I need more minutes than that.) Before that, I was paying $40/month for just voice from AT&T!
That's not a problem; use <em>emphasis</em> instead. It's better anyway, since it's semantic rather than presentational. (It's unfortunate that Slashdot doesn't support the <cite>citation</cite> tag, in case you wanted italics to express citation rather than emphasis.)
Neither do <tt>TT</tt>tags.
That one, however, is a problem (despite being presentational) because there isn't a semantic tag that performs a similar function. You should be able to substitute with <code>code</code>, but Slashdot's <ecode>ecode</ecode> not only doesn't use a fixed-width font, but also suspends parsing within the tag (so you can't use other markup inside it).
If the videos are property then so are domain names, and the Feds are seizing property without due process. If the videos are not property then the Feds have no reason to seize the domain names in the first place. Either way, the domain names should not be seized!
The reason why there is two dominating parties in US politics, is because they have vested the time and effort to infest all government offices from the local levels up.
No, the reason why there are two dominating parties in US politics is that we have a first-past-the-post voting system, which causes most everyone to vote strategically for the least-bad candidate that they think has a chance, instead of the candidate that they think would be ideally best. Because of this, if any third party succeeded in vesting the time and effort as you suggest, they would then immediately obliterate and replace whichever of the two incumbent parties they were more ideologically similar to. (This is why the Whigs aren't around anymore.)
It's not a coincidence that this bill is being introduced in New Hampshire, by the way; that's the state with the strongest Libertarian Party. This bill is a strong indication that all the "vesting" and "infesting" they've been doing is starting to pay off.
It doesn't seem to fit into your scale because you have Big government on both ends of your left/right scale.
He mentioned "right wing dictators" and "left wing dictators." Someone who thinks government should be small and weak could be either a "right wing non-dictator" (i.e., a libertarian) or a "left wing non-dictator" (i.e., a hippie).
...frankly the body styles don't change enough to worry about so you don't end up looking dated. I can park my 99 Ranger XLT next to a 2007 and other than the grill you can't really tell the difference.
You can tell with an F-series. The only reason you can't with the Ranger is that Ford has neglected it (not just the body style, but the chassis hasn't changed either, so if you buy a brand new Ranger you're getting '90s technology).
how about when the idiot in front of you goes too slow on the entrance ramp on the freeway instead of speeding up to freeway traffic speeds and you are stuck entering the freeway too slowly[?]
Answer: quit tailgating! Leave space at the beginning of the ramp, then you can accelerate to freeway speeds as you catch up.
Would it really be so bad if the US and the Muslim extremists were on the same side of the barricades?
Yes, in the sense that the US has no business being on either side of the barricades (except perhaps in the context of supporting the UN, as in your Ivory Coast example).
If guns are illegal... then only professional criminals with the resources to acquire them internationally (or those with authorization such as the police/military) will have them.
And that's the key to understanding the issue of gun control in the US: the right to bear arms is a check against a corrupt or treasonous police/military. After all, what else would you expect from a country founded on violent revolution?
Fuck you ZombieBraintrust. Sony is undermining citizens' fundamental property rights. GeoHot did nothing more than exercise his right to modify his own personal property and his right to engage in free speech. Both Sony and the judge are borderline traitorous, and the DMCA itself is unconstitutional!
So he CAN still engage in acts of circumvention of TPMS in the PS3 System to access, obtain, remove, or traffic in NON-copyrighted works.
There's essentially no such thing as a "non-copyrighted work" in the US except for things 100-something years old or things created by the Federal government. Everything you or anyone else writes is automatically copryighted, including something as trivial as this Slashdot post.
Hacking into and sabotaging people's computers using a rootkit-infested trojan horse music CD
Anyone with any sense should have been boycotting Sony long before this. I know I have! And not only does it not belong in the free market, it needs to have its corporate charter dissolved and its executive officers in prison!
And I can't believe that a mobile company doesn't have a mobile version of its own website.
What I can't believe is that the "my account" icon on the phone just loads up their (non-mobile) website. I mean, if the thing's unusable on the phone (which it is), why have have a shortcut to it?
There are trailers and then there are trailers. The ones in pejorative "trailer parks" are trucked in on big rigs, semi-permanent, and lived in (as a primary residence) solely because they're cheap. Steinbeck, on the other hand, is talking about going camping in an RV, where the trailer -- something like an Airstream rather than a double-wide -- is moved about frequently by its owner and used for recreation or vacationing.
Hmm, what is your street address? You DO realize that your security has a flaw, right? Lock bumping makes it trivially easy for me to break in to your house and take your stuff.
If houses were gambling machines, you'd have a point. But they aren't, so you don't!
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Hell yeah it is; I'd been paying the same price just for voice until I switched!
(The catch, for those reading, is that Virgin's data service is supposedly slower than you'd get from the 2-year-contract club. It's fast enough, though.)
What are the other two phones, by the way (the first was the Samsung Intercept)?
My plan from Virgin Mobile is $40/month for 800 minutes and unlimited data & text, and it doesn't require a contract. (The catch is that the only phone available, the Samsung Intercept, isn't that great, and the data speed isn't all that fast. It's fast enough though, especially given the price!)
Exactly! I have a smartphone for one reason, and one reason only: Virgin Mobile has a $40/month plan that includes voice and unlimited data. (Actually, they have one for $30/month too, but I need more minutes than that.) Before that, I was paying $40/month for just voice from AT&T!
That's not a problem; use <em>emphasis</em> instead. It's better anyway, since it's semantic rather than presentational. (It's unfortunate that Slashdot doesn't support the <cite>citation</cite> tag, in case you wanted italics to express citation rather than emphasis.)
That one, however, is a problem (despite being presentational) because there isn't a semantic tag that performs a similar function. You should be able to substitute with <code>code</code>, but Slashdot's <ecode>ecode</ecode> not only doesn't use a fixed-width font, but also suspends parsing within the tag (so you can't use other markup inside it).
Wouldn't "vandalism" or "destruction of property" be an even better description than "fraud?"
If the videos are property then so are domain names, and the Feds are seizing property without due process. If the videos are not property then the Feds have no reason to seize the domain names in the first place. Either way, the domain names should not be seized!
Sure there would be: the party leadership wouldn't want to dilute their campaign dollars, media exposure, and platform message.
Independents who would still need enough support to meet ballot access requirements, which would be much more difficult without party backing.
No, the reason why there are two dominating parties in US politics is that we have a first-past-the-post voting system, which causes most everyone to vote strategically for the least-bad candidate that they think has a chance, instead of the candidate that they think would be ideally best. Because of this, if any third party succeeded in vesting the time and effort as you suggest, they would then immediately obliterate and replace whichever of the two incumbent parties they were more ideologically similar to. (This is why the Whigs aren't around anymore.)
It's not a coincidence that this bill is being introduced in New Hampshire, by the way; that's the state with the strongest Libertarian Party. This bill is a strong indication that all the "vesting" and "infesting" they've been doing is starting to pay off.
He mentioned "right wing dictators" and "left wing dictators." Someone who thinks government should be small and weak could be either a "right wing non-dictator" (i.e., a libertarian) or a "left wing non-dictator" (i.e., a hippie).
You forgot food and fuel.
"Self-sustaining" means your submarine would have to be able to operate forever without being resupplied.
You can tell with an F-series. The only reason you can't with the Ranger is that Ford has neglected it (not just the body style, but the chassis hasn't changed either, so if you buy a brand new Ranger you're getting '90s technology).
Answer: quit tailgating! Leave space at the beginning of the ramp, then you can accelerate to freeway speeds as you catch up.
Yes, in the sense that the US has no business being on either side of the barricades (except perhaps in the context of supporting the UN, as in your Ivory Coast example).
Considering that the O.P. was talking about "muslim states" and Israel is Jewish, you're right: you really do know damn little about them!
And that's the key to understanding the issue of gun control in the US: the right to bear arms is a check against a corrupt or treasonous police/military. After all, what else would you expect from a country founded on violent revolution?
Fuck you ZombieBraintrust. Sony is undermining citizens' fundamental property rights. GeoHot did nothing more than exercise his right to modify his own personal property and his right to engage in free speech. Both Sony and the judge are borderline traitorous, and the DMCA itself is unconstitutional!
No, see, they do realize that. After all, destroying the Earth would be evil!
I stopped buying from Sony even before that, when they kept insisting on shoving proprietary formats down our throats (e.g. MemoryStick etc.).
There's essentially no such thing as a "non-copyrighted work" in the US except for things 100-something years old or things created by the Federal government. Everything you or anyone else writes is automatically copryighted, including something as trivial as this Slashdot post.
Sony is also responsible for:
Anyone with any sense should have been boycotting Sony long before this. I know I have! And not only does it not belong in the free market, it needs to have its corporate charter dissolved and its executive officers in prison!
That applies only to criminal cases. This is civil.
So in that case, Oracle is actually the good guy here (for going after a GPL violation)?
What I can't believe is that the "my account" icon on the phone just loads up their (non-mobile) website. I mean, if the thing's unusable on the phone (which it is), why have have a shortcut to it?
There are trailers and then there are trailers. The ones in pejorative "trailer parks" are trucked in on big rigs, semi-permanent, and lived in (as a primary residence) solely because they're cheap. Steinbeck, on the other hand, is talking about going camping in an RV, where the trailer -- something like an Airstream rather than a double-wide -- is moved about frequently by its owner and used for recreation or vacationing.
If houses were gambling machines, you'd have a point. But they aren't, so you don't!