First: Chocolate here is waxy and a far cry from what Europeans think of as chocolate...
Then:
...because Americans can't tell the difference anyhow.
How'd you figure it out? Are you an immigrant? Lucky duck, I wish I didn't have these genetically deficient taste buds of mine.
Oh well, more cheap chocolate for the reaping which will evidently, at least to my impure tongue, taste exactly the same as the stuff costing 5 times as much.
There is a serious issue in terms of the bias TV has towards undemanding entertainment, but where should the blame lie?
What issue? You watch the few science shows there are on tv plus films/documentries, downloadable shows, podcasts and the like, idiots watch 'reality' shows, everybody's happy.
On the national front there are stories about relief operations, successes at bringing peace in war-torn nations, free-trade summits and other international meetings.
At the local level you can have stories about new businesses opening up, festivals that are up-coming, concerts, sports, the arts.
The gloomy news isn't necessarily more important than the happy news. It just sells ads.
I mean, is the story about another shot drug dealer 75 miles away from where I ever go really somehow more important than the story about a new restaurant opening up in the next town? Personally, knowing about the restaurant would probably have more effect on my life than knowing about violence between drug addicts.
That said, I wouldn't watch the local news, happy or sad, if you paid me. Pure gossip!
These type of guys are the ones I always point out when conspiracy theorists go off about how the oil companies are keeping electric cars from the market place.
If the electric car really is the held back panacea some nut jobs make it out to be then hobbyists would be building them and driving them everywhere. Exxon may be able to influence GM (not that I think they are) but do you think they're knocking down the doors of everybody with an arc welder and a couple volt meters in their garage?
Ahh, so you're one of those 5% of customers foolish companies spend 95% of their time on.
You're the kind of client who barely hears me say 'fuck off' right as the phone slams down onto the receiver. And I'll tell you what else, you're going to have a pretty hard time getting that check back.
The other 95% of my clients thank you for the great price they're getting because you made it so easy to identify a simple cost-cutting measure.
the right not to be killed because somebody wants our land
That's not a right at all. In fact it's a threat we all constantly live under. The only reason I don't kill people for their property is because I know someone else would come along and kill me for having done it.
I don't have some high sense of morality guiding me. I don't steal because I'd be thrown in jail, period. If there were no consequences to theft then I would never work a day in my life, I'd just go take whatever I wanted.
I don't know what kind of magical thing you think happened over the past few hundred years that somehow takes us above market forces and the use of physical force but get over it. People will never be demigods, we're animals with needs that will be met in the easiest ways we can find which may include the use of physical force.
To enforce any kind of rights you need violence. When primates can threaten to wage war then they will have rights.
but adults are the technical owners of the console since they bought it with their money.
I don't know about how it works with adult to child relationships where the adult is the guardian of the child. But your statement definitely isn't true about other situations. If one adult gives another adult a gift, then the recipient of the gift is now the owner of the item. For example, if you give someone a car one day just because you're happy then it becomes theirs. If a month later you decide you couldn't really afford to do that and go to court to try to get it back you'd be out of luck. The owner now is the person you gave it to (unless you can prove you were incompetent or tricked). No degifters in this society!
If you think liberal and conservative is synonymous with non-religious and religious then I suspect you have a very superficial understanding of what it means when someone identifies themself as any of the four.
I find it strange that people make such a big fuss over this. Seems to me you ought to evaluate something based upon it's usage 99.99% of the time, not based upon what would happen in a scenario that might possibly could happen.01% of the time. I mean come on, how often does the power go out for three days? And what are the odds that you'll have a heart attack exactly during those three days? And what are the odds that if you just run out of your house and collapse in the street that someone won't pick you up and race you to the hospital anyway?
If you really wanted to be taking on a project as big as coding a new feature for mtv you wouldn't let two hours of sifting through mailing list archives to find an ideal hardware setup get in the way.
It is illegal for a library to keep a record of the books you have checked out after they're returned.
Where? In the Albuquerque library system I can login to my account through their website and see a history of the books I've checked out. There's also an option to delete the history if I like. Though people knowing I've been reading up on Sailing last summer isn't really something I'm concerned about. In fact it'd be kind of neat to have a big long record to look back on to watch my interests vary over the years.
Better yet let's just keep pushing it up an hour each year for the next 11 years and that way when you get off work the sun will just be coming up. Lots more of those extra daylight hours to play ball after work!
How silly. You can have lots of large southern windows on one side and a front door on another. Or combine the two. Or move the house towards the back of the lot so that the yard is in the front and hence in the sun if the road is to the south. Or make a round house. Or simply realize that all sides of a house are the front. Architects being lazy about making the rear of a home unattractive are creating insincere structures. - Like an old LA trollup with a face-lift.
How many suburban houses have front doors that are never opened? I count them by the dozens while I'm driving along. Because the driveways are to the side and to go in the front would actually require taking a route almost 1 1/2 times longer than the backdoor. It's a relic from an era when people would approach the house from the street because they were WALKING. Now people insist on them because they think it would look silly without one. Of course, a moment of thought makes that notion much sillier than any results coming from thinking creatively about how one most often enters a building.
Anywho, replace north for south for you anti-northern hemisphere-ites.
some company somewhere will break ranks and offer lower cost SMS sometime
The issue is that this isn't a free market. It's a government regulated market of radio spectrums. So a company won't just come along and fix it unless the way spectrums are regulated is changed.
Unless some breakthrough wifi or wimax mesh network or ultra cheap satellite phone service comes out.
I think the reason for this is consumer ignorance.
Nah. Verizon charged me $9.99 to add another line onto my family plan. Then another $9.99 on top of that to enable SMS for that line.
I know it's a ridiculous pricing scheme but unless there's some kind of two-way SMS pager that's less than $9.99/month I'm stuck either paying for it or going without. Even if there were an alternative it'd have to be pretty cheap to warrant the inconvenience of having to carry the pager and the phone around.
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Not yet it isn't. How many keyboard-sized laptops are there? Not many.
First:
...because Americans can't tell the difference anyhow.
Chocolate here is waxy and a far cry from what Europeans think of as chocolate...
Then:
How'd you figure it out? Are you an immigrant? Lucky duck, I wish I didn't have these genetically deficient taste buds of mine.
Oh well, more cheap chocolate for the reaping which will evidently, at least to my impure tongue, taste exactly the same as the stuff costing 5 times as much.
There is a serious issue in terms of the bias TV has towards undemanding entertainment, but where should the blame lie?
What issue? You watch the few science shows there are on tv plus films/documentries, downloadable shows, podcasts and the like, idiots watch 'reality' shows, everybody's happy.
100% of morons repeat bad jokes
On the national front there are stories about relief operations, successes at bringing peace in war-torn nations, free-trade summits and other international meetings.
At the local level you can have stories about new businesses opening up, festivals that are up-coming, concerts, sports, the arts.
The gloomy news isn't necessarily more important than the happy news. It just sells ads.
I mean, is the story about another shot drug dealer 75 miles away from where I ever go really somehow more important than the story about a new restaurant opening up in the next town? Personally, knowing about the restaurant would probably have more effect on my life than knowing about violence between drug addicts.
That said, I wouldn't watch the local news, happy or sad, if you paid me. Pure gossip!
These type of guys are the ones I always point out when conspiracy theorists go off about how the oil companies are keeping electric cars from the market place.
If the electric car really is the held back panacea some nut jobs make it out to be then hobbyists would be building them and driving them everywhere. Exxon may be able to influence GM (not that I think they are) but do you think they're knocking down the doors of everybody with an arc welder and a couple volt meters in their garage?
Ahh, so you're one of those 5% of customers foolish companies spend 95% of their time on. You're the kind of client who barely hears me say 'fuck off' right as the phone slams down onto the receiver. And I'll tell you what else, you're going to have a pretty hard time getting that check back. The other 95% of my clients thank you for the great price they're getting because you made it so easy to identify a simple cost-cutting measure.
the right not to be killed because somebody wants our land
That's not a right at all. In fact it's a threat we all constantly live under. The only reason I don't kill people for their property is because I know someone else would come along and kill me for having done it.
I don't have some high sense of morality guiding me. I don't steal because I'd be thrown in jail, period. If there were no consequences to theft then I would never work a day in my life, I'd just go take whatever I wanted.
I don't know what kind of magical thing you think happened over the past few hundred years that somehow takes us above market forces and the use of physical force but get over it. People will never be demigods, we're animals with needs that will be met in the easiest ways we can find which may include the use of physical force.
To enforce any kind of rights you need violence. When primates can threaten to wage war then they will have rights.
Once you get older and start a family
I'm sorry, what?
VOIP and IM doesn't cut it.
And yet despite your anecdote virtually every collabratively made open source software continues to exist.
Sure but you'd be lying and trying to get around the law that I was pointing out exists.
but adults are the technical owners of the console since they bought it with their money.
I don't know about how it works with adult to child relationships where the adult is the guardian of the child. But your statement definitely isn't true about other situations. If one adult gives another adult a gift, then the recipient of the gift is now the owner of the item. For example, if you give someone a car one day just because you're happy then it becomes theirs. If a month later you decide you couldn't really afford to do that and go to court to try to get it back you'd be out of luck. The owner now is the person you gave it to (unless you can prove you were incompetent or tricked). No degifters in this society!
If you think liberal and conservative is synonymous with non-religious and religious then I suspect you have a very superficial understanding of what it means when someone identifies themself as any of the four.
This might be your last opportunity to live relatively low-tech.
What a silly idea. You could make the decision to do that at any moment.
And REI wins!
Translation:
Q: Hey I want to do something kind of fun with internet radio and maybe a podcast but I need...
A: You suck.
I find it strange that people make such a big fuss over this. Seems to me you ought to evaluate something based upon it's usage 99.99% of the time, not based upon what would happen in a scenario that might possibly could happen .01% of the time. I mean come on, how often does the power go out for three days? And what are the odds that you'll have a heart attack exactly during those three days? And what are the odds that if you just run out of your house and collapse in the street that someone won't pick you up and race you to the hospital anyway?
I think we've all met people like this.
If you really wanted to be taking on a project as big as coding a new feature for mtv you wouldn't let two hours of sifting through mailing list archives to find an ideal hardware setup get in the way.
It is illegal for a library to keep a record of the books you have checked out after they're returned.
Where? In the Albuquerque library system I can login to my account through their website and see a history of the books I've checked out. There's also an option to delete the history if I like. Though people knowing I've been reading up on Sailing last summer isn't really something I'm concerned about. In fact it'd be kind of neat to have a big long record to look back on to watch my interests vary over the years.
But I've since moved so that won't be happening.
Better yet let's just keep pushing it up an hour each year for the next 11 years and that way when you get off work the sun will just be coming up. Lots more of those extra daylight hours to play ball after work!
The house simply faces the road.
How silly. You can have lots of large southern windows on one side and a front door on another. Or combine the two. Or move the house towards the back of the lot so that the yard is in the front and hence in the sun if the road is to the south. Or make a round house. Or simply realize that all sides of a house are the front. Architects being lazy about making the rear of a home unattractive are creating insincere structures. - Like an old LA trollup with a face-lift.
How many suburban houses have front doors that are never opened? I count them by the dozens while I'm driving along. Because the driveways are to the side and to go in the front would actually require taking a route almost 1 1/2 times longer than the backdoor. It's a relic from an era when people would approach the house from the street because they were WALKING. Now people insist on them because they think it would look silly without one. Of course, a moment of thought makes that notion much sillier than any results coming from thinking creatively about how one most often enters a building.
Anywho, replace north for south for you anti-northern hemisphere-ites.
How the fuck can you contend that 256 megs is sufficient for anyone?
**shrug** I manage to get quite a bit done with my 32 megs...
some company somewhere will break ranks and offer lower cost SMS sometime
The issue is that this isn't a free market. It's a government regulated market of radio spectrums. So a company won't just come along and fix it unless the way spectrums are regulated is changed.
Unless some breakthrough wifi or wimax mesh network or ultra cheap satellite phone service comes out.
I think the reason for this is consumer ignorance.
Nah. Verizon charged me $9.99 to add another line onto my family plan. Then another $9.99 on top of that to enable SMS for that line.
I know it's a ridiculous pricing scheme but unless there's some kind of two-way SMS pager that's less than $9.99/month I'm stuck either paying for it or going without. Even if there were an alternative it'd have to be pretty cheap to warrant the inconvenience of having to carry the pager and the phone around.
Whether or not I'm an athiest is usually dependent upon how who I'm communicating with defines 'god'.
If god has a white beard, then yeah, I'm an athiest.
If god possesses things, experiences anger or love, has desire or manifests itself in human forms. Then I'm an athiest.
If god is more akin to something like omnicient consciousness or beauty itself then I'm agnostic.
If god is whatever is containing the universe or the prime mover or somehow intimately tied with space and time itself then I'm agnostic.
If god is that than which nothing greater can be conceived then I'm a believer.