The delivery charge is the cost of the infrastructure and its maintenance. Just getting the pipes and wires to your house and maintaining them so they are capable of delivering energy costs money whether you use any or not.
And what sort of observation would shake your belief that "Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming" (are we just making up terms now?) is just a bunch of crap?
I disagree.
Buy the best lens you can afford and buy the lowest end body that will fit it. Expensive bodies are overkill for a novice but give them plenty of opportunity to learn and grow into the more advanced features. Bodies change and become obsolete "quickly", lenses are "forever".
In my experience, only an idiot works for his "career" and a "image", a real man works for his family and doing things that make him happy
I agree completely. I'm always suspicious of people that seem like they'd rather spend time at the office than with their kids.
To paraphrase a saying: Any man can be a father but only real men are Dads.
Trillions of US dollars down the drain every year for military toys and invasions of other countries which pose absolutely no threat to the US, and for what?
You answered your own question.
War isn't a means to an end anymore. War is the end itself. Ike is rolling in his grave.
I was listening to NPR recently and they played a bit of a Mike Wallace interview with Ayn Rand in 1959 or so. I was struck by how Wallace phrased a question to her regarding her philosophy.
"One of the principal achievements of this country in the past 20 years, particularly — I think most people agree — is the gradual growth of social, protective legislation, based on the principle that we are our brothers' keepers. Like welfare. Social Security. Fair labor standards. Public health programs. How do you feel about the political trends of the United States?" Wallace asks.
Disregarding political philosophies and who's right and who's wrong and where we're headed and all that, I was struck by how proud we were of the way we took care of each other.
During our scientific and economic boom of the 50s, people were gleefully anticipating the rise of robots and machines that would do our work for us, freeing us spend time with our families and grilling in our back yards. The assumption was, of course, that we would ALL benefit from the increased productivity of machines.
Oops.
The problem is, individuals aren't able to decide how to spend money on health care so would you rather have the government deciding on your behalf or an insurance company (keeping in mind an insurance company makes more money by finding ways to screw you)?
Facebook has been doing some questionable things lately, which is interesting considering they have an up-and-coming contender in Google+ to compete against.
There have been murmurings about the privacy stuff and general griping going on for a while now but there was no "real" alternative. Then G+ goes live and Facebook makes some pretty big interface changes. I figure a lot of people just Facebook because it's comfortable and cozy... but when you introduce a crapload of new things and push people out of their comfort zone that just makes checking out G+ that much easier.
Now they just keep doing things to dare people to leave
I will certainly take my eyeballs elsewhere. You don't just not deliver email (yay double negative). Child porn, maybe. But once you start delivering this email but not that one.... well, that's not a direction I'd like to head.
There are a brazillion other webmail hosts out there. No need to worry if your emails are being delivered with most of them.
Why would anyone be surprised? That's why we moved our manufacturing over there. That and the child labor. *We* care about the environment and fair labor laws. Those godless commies are the awful ones.
Of course we're still the ones causing the pollution but it's ISEBY instead of our own.
It's getting to the point where I can't trust any Windows machine entirely. That Adobe Flash update? Am I really certain I haven't just opened up another vulnerability that's being exploited? Any number of "legit" software packages have their way with registry settings, file permissions, network access, etc in ways that would make most of us a little uncomfortable.
So "probably good enough" is good enough these days.
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Would you be surprised to learn that oil companies get a US subsidy too?
Yeah, you're not going to get much sympathy from any new parents around here.
Throw in a "jet" and "rocket" and I think we'll be all set.
The delivery charge is the cost of the infrastructure and its maintenance. Just getting the pipes and wires to your house and maintaining them so they are capable of delivering energy costs money whether you use any or not.
And what sort of observation would shake your belief that "Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming" (are we just making up terms now?) is just a bunch of crap?
Don't make me admit that greaseball did something actually useful! Argh!
They are also your photos on Flickr. You pretty much sign your rights away to the photos you upload to Facebook.
I disagree. Buy the best lens you can afford and buy the lowest end body that will fit it. Expensive bodies are overkill for a novice but give them plenty of opportunity to learn and grow into the more advanced features. Bodies change and become obsolete "quickly", lenses are "forever".
In my experience, only an idiot works for his "career" and a "image", a real man works for his family and doing things that make him happy
I agree completely. I'm always suspicious of people that seem like they'd rather spend time at the office than with their kids. To paraphrase a saying: Any man can be a father but only real men are Dads.
Trillions of US dollars down the drain every year for military toys and invasions of other countries which pose absolutely no threat to the US, and for what?
You answered your own question. War isn't a means to an end anymore. War is the end itself. Ike is rolling in his grave.
Creating techtonic activity would create the geomagnetic dynamo the planet needs
I'll get right on that and let you know when I'm done so we can move to the next phase.
And here I thought I was the only one clever enough to twist that saying into something sig-worthy. Well I guess the sig-worthy part is debatable.
Well said.
I was listening to NPR recently and they played a bit of a Mike Wallace interview with Ayn Rand in 1959 or so. I was struck by how Wallace phrased a question to her regarding her philosophy.
"One of the principal achievements of this country in the past 20 years, particularly — I think most people agree — is the gradual growth of social, protective legislation, based on the principle that we are our brothers' keepers. Like welfare. Social Security. Fair labor standards. Public health programs. How do you feel about the political trends of the United States?" Wallace asks.
Disregarding political philosophies and who's right and who's wrong and where we're headed and all that, I was struck by how proud we were of the way we took care of each other.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/14/142245517/on-capitol-hill-rands-atlas-cant-be-shrugged-off
During our scientific and economic boom of the 50s, people were gleefully anticipating the rise of robots and machines that would do our work for us, freeing us spend time with our families and grilling in our back yards. The assumption was, of course, that we would ALL benefit from the increased productivity of machines. Oops.
It wasn't a scifi story. Edwin Land, Mr. Polaroid himself, did a lot of research in the area and proposed a combination of headlights and windshields. I remember reading a pretty interesting article in New Scientist about it. Here's the teaser before the "subscribe to read the full article" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19426061.800-histories-still-dazzled-after-all-these-years.html
Really? You're going to go there?
The problem is, individuals aren't able to decide how to spend money on health care so would you rather have the government deciding on your behalf or an insurance company (keeping in mind an insurance company makes more money by finding ways to screw you)?
I might go out and buy another Nook to reward these guys for what they're doing.
Facebook has been doing some questionable things lately, which is interesting considering they have an up-and-coming contender in Google+ to compete against.
There have been murmurings about the privacy stuff and general griping going on for a while now but there was no "real" alternative. Then G+ goes live and Facebook makes some pretty big interface changes. I figure a lot of people just Facebook because it's comfortable and cozy... but when you introduce a crapload of new things and push people out of their comfort zone that just makes checking out G+ that much easier.
Now they just keep doing things to dare people to leave
I will certainly take my eyeballs elsewhere. You don't just not deliver email (yay double negative). Child porn, maybe. But once you start delivering this email but not that one.... well, that's not a direction I'd like to head.
There are a brazillion other webmail hosts out there. No need to worry if your emails are being delivered with most of them.
Why would anyone be surprised? That's why we moved our manufacturing over there. That and the child labor. *We* care about the environment and fair labor laws. Those godless commies are the awful ones.
Of course we're still the ones causing the pollution but it's ISEBY instead of our own.
Did the court also bless the rains down in Africa?
I didn't RTFA nor do I really know anything about the issue at hand. I'm just wondering if we get to blame Obama for this.
What a glorious day it would be if they were successful. Knock out TV for a while too and we might end up having to talk to each other. EEK!
Did Google even publish their wifi data? I hope Microsoft gets the same attention Google is getting.
It's getting to the point where I can't trust any Windows machine entirely. That Adobe Flash update? Am I really certain I haven't just opened up another vulnerability that's being exploited? Any number of "legit" software packages have their way with registry settings, file permissions, network access, etc in ways that would make most of us a little uncomfortable. So "probably good enough" is good enough these days.