I used to be a skeptic of Chiropractor but after doing a trade for service I think it's part of staying healthy. The one I go to is really inexpensive and uses an acupressure device instead of twisting you around. If I go in with a headcold or a stuffy nose, he'll hit a spot near the upper back and nearly instantly I clear up. It doesn't last but it's the oddest thing. Your holistic approach comment makes sense to me, if everything is lined up right the whole system should work more efficiently. But yeah, I still take normal medicine too - anyone who ignores all forms of modern medicine is crazy.
I have done a few drupal sites, nothing overly complex. I did come into it later so didn't touch the early releases. I recently needed a CMS and used 7.x. I was pleasantly surprised at the ease of use. As it's an easy site and I haven't had to look at any programming I can't speak for under the hood, but for this easy one I'm impressed.
In rural GTE land, then Verizon, and now Frontier, tone was an added feature on the monthly bill. It may still be but I haven't had a phone there for 5 years. The telco equipment comes setup for tone so if you don''t pay for tone they had to manually switch to pulse. I was fine having the minor delay in pulse simply to not let Verizon bleed a few more dollars out of their old lines. And people wonder why the US is behind so many other countries in broadband.
Years ago the credit card companies came up with some very stringent rules for retaining credit card info. The fines are high for each card stolen. To be complaint requires regular testing from outside security firms. So either Sony skipped these rules which wouldn't surprise me, or the security firm is on the hook for this. Although one other option, and more likely, these rules make the industry sound good without actually making anything better.
They could do something like this older hack, but still neat - 3d with a wii. It'd be like the single player tracking games at the arcade. Not sure how viable this would be but for shooters it'd be great. Like the old thief games and slowly leaning to the side to get a shot.
I remember a magazine article years ago talking about the earth having a nuclear reactor at the core. Wikipedia has an article on the idea of a Georeactor.
When the 'should Bush be impeached' questions abounded Obama said we should look to the future not the past. From that point on he was just like the rest - cover yourself from fallout and you know the other side will cover you when push comes to shove.
I got the boxed set about a decade ago. It wasn't nearly as entertaining as I remember, it was often downright horrid. But with Syfy turned into Wrestling, lots of really bad made for tv movies and the various Ghost Hunters - hands down Star Blazers will be better.
I read that the Toto version of the water closet/bidet combo used over 400 hundred employees for the preset locations. I wonder how they did that - ask for volunteers, have HR post a company wide memo, just grab the first 400 people through the door?
I live in a fruit belt area and our local farmers have trouble growing apples for the same price that comes in from China, Argentina, etc. Having constant new regulations is part of this problem. The latest fun is something like an ISO 9000 certification required for every aspect of each crop. You're the farmer and want to grab an apple off a tree and take a bite to see how it's going? If you're not in a designated food eating area and are seen, you're docked points for the certification.
In the IT world, When Amazon turk offers a huge list of 3 cent tasks you wonder how low things can go.
Not to defend a politician that speaks out of both sides of his mouth but he does raise a point - vaguely. After a time you have to wonder what jobs we can keep here with the labor differences between countries being so vast. Awhile ago a person built a nice second home in the area and I learned what he did. He works for a large company and they opened a factory in Mexico in order to supply a new Ford plant there. The locals knew American factories were unionized and demanded 15 cents an hour. Part of his job is negotiating those contracts and he was proud to say they settled for less. Total package per employee , cost to company, was less than $1 an hour.
Now part of me thinks this is fine, the best way to drive down costs and raise profits. Who doesn't want to make lots of money. But the other part of me wonders where things stop as we're able to outsource so many goods and services that it's getting hard to figure out what'll be left. Heck even a local hospital has outsourced overseas the radiology techs that read MRIs, Xrays, CT scans, etc. Personally I don't think the Free Trade agreements were fair when other countries don't have the same labor laws and pollution controls. Wanting to be fair without looking like an isolationist can be tough. Although maybe I have a more skewed view since I'm in Michigan which has seen outsourcing kill a lot of the state.
It's just called the markets. Commodities, stocks, foreign exchange, etc. If they could make penny stocks more interesting it could be as amusing as some other gambling. But the way things currently are it's like a regular casino, in the end the house always wins.
A kid who hacks something together in his dorm room and swindles investors into a huge chunk of money is a perfect tech story. Reminds me of the vulture capital days where everyone with a wacky idea was trying something new. Too bad there's no more f'dcompany around to play the deadpool game.
I'd also point out that somewhere in the middle of your list, at least in the US, would be competition. When the 1996 telco reform act forced the monopoly phone companies to allow interconnects with startup local exchanges you saw a drastic drop in price. You also saw the forming of thousands of ISPs across the country reaching into areas that none of the big companies were serving. Also backbone service got cheaper with competition. I remember having MCI lines. When MCI merged with UUnet they had to sell off their backbone as part of the regulated deal to stop them from being a complete monopoly. Cable and Wireless ended up with my contract and I instantly saw better pricing.
Once Bush put Powell's kid in charge of the FCC they rolled back all the telco reform and we saw pretty stagnant growth, the death of independent ISPs, and prices that didn't fall compared to service. There's a reason the US is so far from other countries in Internet speed and reach, monopolies suck for consumers.
For more of a rant against legislated monopoly telco, they received hundreds of billions to run fiber across the country. They still haven't delivered and never will. Most everyone in the US should be on fiber by this point, it's already been paid for.
I notice that Sprint offers voicemail to text for 2.99 a month as an addon feature. Now if they're combined either sprint gives up on this income source or they start charging for this GV feature. Although, if Google starts to actually charge for GV then it may be a break even proposition.
Years ago I ran a dating site. The forums soon had a thread going about which member hookups caused STDs. It's times like that when a web developer really knows they've had an impact on their user's lives. I can say that I have experience in social media with a lot of user stickiness.
It matters by the state. I'm in Michigan and you don't have to register in a party to vote in the primary. What really helped ruin the old guard Republicans not liking libertarians. In Nevada to stop Paul from winning some delegates at the state convention they turned off the lights and walked out the door. Now that's professional.
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The are short sighted, aliens would allow them to dump money into the military like nothing else.
His favorite porn must have ended with getting shot in the eye
I'm seeing the same thing, or not seeing as the case may be. If the comment isn't expanded it's not all there
I used to be a skeptic of Chiropractor but after doing a trade for service I think it's part of staying healthy. The one I go to is really inexpensive and uses an acupressure device instead of twisting you around. If I go in with a headcold or a stuffy nose, he'll hit a spot near the upper back and nearly instantly I clear up. It doesn't last but it's the oddest thing. Your holistic approach comment makes sense to me, if everything is lined up right the whole system should work more efficiently. But yeah, I still take normal medicine too - anyone who ignores all forms of modern medicine is crazy.
I have done a few drupal sites, nothing overly complex. I did come into it later so didn't touch the early releases. I recently needed a CMS and used 7.x. I was pleasantly surprised at the ease of use. As it's an easy site and I haven't had to look at any programming I can't speak for under the hood, but for this easy one I'm impressed.
In rural GTE land, then Verizon, and now Frontier, tone was an added feature on the monthly bill. It may still be but I haven't had a phone there for 5 years. The telco equipment comes setup for tone so if you don''t pay for tone they had to manually switch to pulse. I was fine having the minor delay in pulse simply to not let Verizon bleed a few more dollars out of their old lines. And people wonder why the US is behind so many other countries in broadband.
I guess the little finger slide to unlock the phone doesn't count? Heck my android even has a little padlock symbol on it.
Years ago the credit card companies came up with some very stringent rules for retaining credit card info. The fines are high for each card stolen. To be complaint requires regular testing from outside security firms. So either Sony skipped these rules which wouldn't surprise me, or the security firm is on the hook for this. Although one other option, and more likely, these rules make the industry sound good without actually making anything better.
They could do something like this older hack, but still neat - 3d with a wii. It'd be like the single player tracking games at the arcade. Not sure how viable this would be but for shooters it'd be great. Like the old thief games and slowly leaning to the side to get a shot.
I remember a magazine article years ago talking about the earth having a nuclear reactor at the core. Wikipedia has an article on the idea of a Georeactor.
When the 'should Bush be impeached' questions abounded Obama said we should look to the future not the past. From that point on he was just like the rest - cover yourself from fallout and you know the other side will cover you when push comes to shove.
I got the boxed set about a decade ago. It wasn't nearly as entertaining as I remember, it was often downright horrid. But with Syfy turned into Wrestling, lots of really bad made for tv movies and the various Ghost Hunters - hands down Star Blazers will be better.
I read that the Toto version of the water closet/bidet combo used over 400 hundred employees for the preset locations. I wonder how they did that - ask for volunteers, have HR post a company wide memo, just grab the first 400 people through the door?
I live in a fruit belt area and our local farmers have trouble growing apples for the same price that comes in from China, Argentina, etc. Having constant new regulations is part of this problem. The latest fun is something like an ISO 9000 certification required for every aspect of each crop. You're the farmer and want to grab an apple off a tree and take a bite to see how it's going? If you're not in a designated food eating area and are seen, you're docked points for the certification.
In the IT world, When Amazon turk offers a huge list of 3 cent tasks you wonder how low things can go.
Not to defend a politician that speaks out of both sides of his mouth but he does raise a point - vaguely. After a time you have to wonder what jobs we can keep here with the labor differences between countries being so vast. Awhile ago a person built a nice second home in the area and I learned what he did. He works for a large company and they opened a factory in Mexico in order to supply a new Ford plant there. The locals knew American factories were unionized and demanded 15 cents an hour. Part of his job is negotiating those contracts and he was proud to say they settled for less. Total package per employee , cost to company, was less than $1 an hour.
Now part of me thinks this is fine, the best way to drive down costs and raise profits. Who doesn't want to make lots of money. But the other part of me wonders where things stop as we're able to outsource so many goods and services that it's getting hard to figure out what'll be left. Heck even a local hospital has outsourced overseas the radiology techs that read MRIs, Xrays, CT scans, etc. Personally I don't think the Free Trade agreements were fair when other countries don't have the same labor laws and pollution controls. Wanting to be fair without looking like an isolationist can be tough. Although maybe I have a more skewed view since I'm in Michigan which has seen outsourcing kill a lot of the state.
And pretty soon it'll be all trains stations and other forms of public transportation.
It's just called the markets. Commodities, stocks, foreign exchange, etc. If they could make penny stocks more interesting it could be as amusing as some other gambling. But the way things currently are it's like a regular casino, in the end the house always wins.
Darn, I was hoping this article would prove the Aurora existed. Of course browsing the web in a military airplane seems dangerous.
Aurora is the name of a top secret airplane that has been denied for a decade and a half although it did show up on a budget line item once.
A kid who hacks something together in his dorm room and swindles investors into a huge chunk of money is a perfect tech story. Reminds me of the vulture capital days where everyone with a wacky idea was trying something new. Too bad there's no more f'dcompany around to play the deadpool game.
I'd also point out that somewhere in the middle of your list, at least in the US, would be competition. When the 1996 telco reform act forced the monopoly phone companies to allow interconnects with startup local exchanges you saw a drastic drop in price. You also saw the forming of thousands of ISPs across the country reaching into areas that none of the big companies were serving. Also backbone service got cheaper with competition. I remember having MCI lines. When MCI merged with UUnet they had to sell off their backbone as part of the regulated deal to stop them from being a complete monopoly. Cable and Wireless ended up with my contract and I instantly saw better pricing.
Once Bush put Powell's kid in charge of the FCC they rolled back all the telco reform and we saw pretty stagnant growth, the death of independent ISPs, and prices that didn't fall compared to service. There's a reason the US is so far from other countries in Internet speed and reach, monopolies suck for consumers.
For more of a rant against legislated monopoly telco, they received hundreds of billions to run fiber across the country. They still haven't delivered and never will. Most everyone in the US should be on fiber by this point, it's already been paid for.
Quite the cloud computing infrastructure
While these additions will make Scrabble easier, I'd like a few additions that include Q without U.
I notice that Sprint offers voicemail to text for 2.99 a month as an addon feature. Now if they're combined either sprint gives up on this income source or they start charging for this GV feature. Although, if Google starts to actually charge for GV then it may be a break even proposition.
Years ago I ran a dating site. The forums soon had a thread going about which member hookups caused STDs. It's times like that when a web developer really knows they've had an impact on their user's lives. I can say that I have experience in social media with a lot of user stickiness.
It matters by the state. I'm in Michigan and you don't have to register in a party to vote in the primary. What really helped ruin the old guard Republicans not liking libertarians. In Nevada to stop Paul from winning some delegates at the state convention they turned off the lights and walked out the door. Now that's professional.