at the moment, out of 10,200 votes, it's 2500 'AYE', 7700 'NAY'
Out of 8 answers (3 Aye, 5 Nay), the largest chunk by far is the one I poked. "I'm satisfied with AT&T at the moment and will wait out the terms of my contract before deciding whether or not to switch."
I must be one of the only people in America who doesn't have a problem with dropped calls.
The only times I've ever had dropped calls is while talking to my sister when she's in her car and she goes through a Sprint dead zone that she knows about, and she warns me "I'll probably lose the call somewhere around here, If so, I'll call you back.".
Same here. When AT&T came out with the two tiered option last June (June?) I checked, and in the past year neither milady nor I had ever used more than 80MB/month. I dropped to the 250MB plan.
Mostly looking up maps while talking to someone. Or telling someone about something I saw on Amazon, and checking a feature... Or talking about an movie and checking IMDB to see who played *that* role in it.
No, it's not necessary, just like 99% of the other features of smartphones.
So competitive bidding is a bad thing and we should just let whatever appointed drone with the authority over an agency choose to spend a few tens of millions because of a pretty sales pitch?
According to wikipedia: Censorship is suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.
How do you know what Amazon "must feel"?
According to the article, the writer believes it was a response to complaints by a Fox news reported who freaked out over the titles.
Censorship is suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.
No, the award bestowed on Robert Heinlein by the Science Fiction Writers of America is called the Grand Master award. If you don't like it, or his work, too bad.
And if we don't like it, we can not only not shop there, but we can spread the word about their policies, which others may not know about, which is the point of the article.
You wouldn't happen to have actual LINKS for any of that, would you?
You know not everything Glenn and Rush tell you is true, don't you?
What exactly does "people sitting in the white house" mean? Visitors who went to the loo? Third-level clerks? The President"
"Or the Congressman saying MSNBC and FOXnews should be yanked off the air" can we compare that to the Congressman yelling "YOU LIE" to the President's face, or insisting that he's a foreign-born Muslim, or that 9/11 was an inside job? Congressmen (and women) do whacky thing, alright.
I'm so glad that you've "seen the videos/heard the audios" yourself, but in order to convince people, you're going to have to tell them where THEY can "seen the videos/heard the audios"
On Climate change... ***** The directive, sent by Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, was issued less than 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler accurately reported on-air that the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization announced that 2000-2009 was "on track to be the warmest [decade] on record." *********
That's something that needs to be challenged?
and on the "because..." From the link: ******************
[Frank] Luntz, who counseled the GOP on how to sell the 1994 Contract With America, told the Fox News host to stop using President Obama's preferred term for a key provision.
"If you call it a public option, the American people are split," he explained. "If you call it the government option, the public is overwhelmingly against it."
Probably. The difference is that MSNBC management hasn't, (or at least hasn't been caught) sending orders to staff to:
"refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question." http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012150004
While quite a few people compare Keith Olbermann to Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly, I don't think there's any comparison over how much news bias is shown at the two networks overall.
It's almost impossible to find ANY ebooks for a lot of the stories I'd like in my library. It's not worth the publishers' time or investment to have them processed into ebooks, but God forbid anyone distribute them for free without paying. They're MUCH better off with everyone just forgetting the stories and the authors.
It's sort of like the movies they let rot in the vaults, locked away where nobody can pirate them.
I've been seriously thinking about putting together the Instructable book scanner... http://www.diybookscanner.org/ Is that the kind of rig you're using, or something else?
As for sending the author the money, John Scalzi, at least, has said he doesn't WANT you to send him money instead of buying his books, because he has a good relationship with his publisher, and wants them to do well.
But books I'm thinking about scanning because I can't find them as ebooks at all... Leonard Wibberley, the "Grand Fenwick" books especially, but he wrote some other great stories too. T.J. Bass, "Almost Human" and "The Godwhale" Trevanian the "Sanction" books Dennis Schmidt, "Wayfarer" Thomas Burnett Swann, lots of really sweet mythology/fantasy most of Peter Benchley (OK, guilty pleasure. I think
I own all of these in paper, but most of them I bought used, which don't contribute to the authors, their heirs or their publishers ANYWAY. I would just like to have them as ebooks to clear out some space.
A few of these might have a title or two available on the torrent sites, and a lot of authors ONLY appear on the torrent sites, all user scanned, proofread (usually poorly), and converted.
Chief among those, of course, is J.K. Rowling's series, since she STILL hasn't allowed a legal ebook version to be published, because she thinks that will keep it from being pirated.
It WOULD be hard to not look up stuff when you went home in the evening, on a multi-day trial.
It's really to hear the people saying "Just turn off your damn phone!" and say "Right on!" but a lot of these juror misconduct cases have been about a juror looking things up online, and then using that information when deliberating in the jury room later.
I'm so used to looking up ANYTHING I'm wondering about... but tour rules are that you're not supposed to base your decision on anything you didn't see or hear in the courtroom.
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The state Board of Education has 11 members. You mean it was five and a half until recently?
Wow... sounds like something Steve Jobs would do.
Gruber's ranting about Flash again? Surprise surprise.
I think Google's just doing it to screw Apple. Apple decided to screw Adobe and not allow Flash on iOS, so Google's doing something similar to Apple.
Good for them.
at http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/11/tuaw-poll-will-you-buy-the-verizon-iphone/
Will You buy the Verizon iPhone?
at the moment, out of 10,200 votes, it's 2500 'AYE', 7700 'NAY'
Out of 8 answers (3 Aye, 5 Nay), the largest chunk by far is the one I poked.
"I'm satisfied with AT&T at the moment and will wait out the terms of my contract before deciding whether or not to switch."
I don't see what the problem is either.
I guess I am staying with AT&T then.
I must be one of the only people in America who doesn't have a problem with dropped calls.
The only times I've ever had dropped calls is while talking to my sister when she's in her car and she goes through a Sprint dead zone that she knows about, and she warns me "I'll probably lose the call somewhere around here, If so, I'll call you back.".
Same here.
When AT&T came out with the two tiered option last June (June?) I checked, and in the past year neither milady nor I had ever used more than 80MB/month.
I dropped to the 250MB plan.
It's like anything else.. you can't miss what you've never had.
To the people who use it, it would be missed.
No, I don't do Pandora, but I do occasionally use maps, Google, etc, while talking.
Mostly looking up maps while talking to someone.
Or telling someone about something I saw on Amazon, and checking a feature...
Or talking about an movie and checking IMDB to see who played *that* role in it.
No, it's not necessary, just like 99% of the other features of smartphones.
You really think the Department of the Interior manager who made this purchasing decision is an IT person?
So competitive bidding is a bad thing and we should just let whatever appointed drone with the authority over an agency choose to spend a few tens of millions because of a pretty sales pitch?
According to wikipedia:
Censorship is suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.
How do you know what Amazon "must feel"?
According to the article, the writer believes it was a response to complaints by a Fox news reported who freaked out over the titles.
It is according to wikipedia.
Censorship is suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.
An easier target lets you get your foot in the door...
"Music industry spokesman loves child porn"
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/28/music-industry-spoke.html
You're making up a knee jerk reaction and then attacking it. Maybe your feeling was wrong. People in general really suck at mind reading.
Maybe the continuation to "Just how far is this going to be allowed to proceed" is "...without widespread coverage of what they're doing?"
Not necessarily.
We're supposed to be informed.
I was going to suggest the Sony, (I have the 600) using Calibre instead of the Sony Reader app, until you got to the last requirement.
I don't know of any that have open source firmware.
EFF has a comparison of the various readers as far as privacy, security, etc at
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/2010-e-book-buyers-guide-e-book-privacy
But are you saying he shouldn't let people know about Amazon's editorial decisions?
It's called "news"
No, the award bestowed on Robert Heinlein by the Science Fiction Writers of America is called the Grand Master award. If you don't like it, or his work, too bad.
And if we don't like it, we can not only not shop there, but we can spread the word about their policies, which others may not know about, which is the point of the article.
If you don't approve, go read something else.
You wouldn't happen to have actual LINKS for any of that, would you?
You know not everything Glenn and Rush tell you is true, don't you?
What exactly does "people sitting in the white house" mean? Visitors who went to the loo? Third-level clerks? The President"
"Or the Congressman saying MSNBC and FOXnews should be yanked off the air" can we compare that to the Congressman yelling "YOU LIE" to the President's face, or insisting that he's a foreign-born Muslim, or that 9/11 was an inside job?
Congressmen (and women) do whacky thing, alright.
I'm so glad that you've "seen the videos/heard the audios" yourself, but in order to convince people, you're going to have to tell them where THEY can "seen the videos/heard the audios"
People always throw this quote out like it means something, but it doesn't.
Is it the duty for the corporation to do their absolute best to make money for their investors for the next quarter or for the next 10 years?
Do corporations have a duty to do what's best for the investors right now, even if it's going to hurt, or even destroy the market 5 years from now?
On Climate change...
*****
The directive, sent by Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, was issued less than 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler accurately reported on-air that the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization announced that 2000-2009 was "on track to be the warmest [decade] on record."
*********
That's something that needs to be challenged?
and on the "because..."
From the link:
******************
[Frank] Luntz, who counseled the GOP on how to sell the 1994 Contract With America, told the Fox News host to stop using President Obama's preferred term for a key provision.
"If you call it a public option, the American people are split," he explained. "If you call it the government option, the public is overwhelmingly against it."
**************
I think I'm fair is using the word "because"...
Probably.
The difference is that MSNBC management hasn't, (or at least hasn't been caught) sending orders to staff to:
"refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012150004
or to use the phrase "government option" instead of "public option" when reporting about the health care plan, because more people react negatively to the former.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-09/how-fox-news-spun-the-health-care-debate/
While quite a few people compare Keith Olbermann to Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly, I don't think there's any comparison over how much news bias is shown at the two networks overall.
It's almost impossible to find ANY ebooks for a lot of the stories I'd like in my library. It's not worth the publishers' time or investment to have them processed into ebooks, but God forbid anyone distribute them for free without paying. They're MUCH better off with everyone just forgetting the stories and the authors.
It's sort of like the movies they let rot in the vaults, locked away where nobody can pirate them.
I've been seriously thinking about putting together the Instructable book scanner... http://www.diybookscanner.org/
Is that the kind of rig you're using, or something else?
As for sending the author the money, John Scalzi, at least, has said he doesn't WANT you to send him money instead of buying his books, because he has a good relationship with his publisher, and wants them to do well.
But books I'm thinking about scanning because I can't find them as ebooks at all...
Leonard Wibberley, the "Grand Fenwick" books especially, but he wrote some other great stories too.
T.J. Bass, "Almost Human" and "The Godwhale"
Trevanian the "Sanction" books
Dennis Schmidt, "Wayfarer"
Thomas Burnett Swann, lots of really sweet mythology/fantasy
most of Peter Benchley (OK, guilty pleasure. I think
I own all of these in paper, but most of them I bought used, which don't contribute to the authors, their heirs or their publishers ANYWAY.
I would just like to have them as ebooks to clear out some space.
A few of these might have a title or two available on the torrent sites, and a lot of authors ONLY appear on the torrent sites, all user scanned, proofread (usually poorly), and converted.
Chief among those, of course, is J.K. Rowling's series, since she STILL hasn't allowed a legal ebook version to be published, because she thinks that will keep it from being pirated.
It WOULD be hard to not look up stuff when you went home in the evening, on a multi-day trial.
It's really to hear the people saying "Just turn off your damn phone!" and say "Right on!" but a lot of these juror misconduct cases have been about a juror looking things up online, and then using that information when deliberating in the jury room later.
I'm so used to looking up ANYTHING I'm wondering about... but tour rules are that you're not supposed to base your decision on anything you didn't see or hear in the courtroom.
Interesting discussions here. http://goo.gl/zc77H
You are free to use that as a reason that you can't serve on the jury.
The judge is free to accept that reason or not, and some actually might.
I wouldn't count on it.