When I was looking to get a cell phone years ago, I was so afraid of the 2 year contracts with ETF's and monthly rates that didn't match up with my meager (at the time) usage habits. I looked through a number of the pay as you go plans, and T-Mobile seemed the most reasonable. A number of the others had per minute/text costs in excess of 20 cents a minute.
T-Mobile is 10cents a minute/text if you fill up at the $100 rate, and you don't have to worry about the minutes expiring for a year. You will have to add time to roll your unused minutes over if they are near expiration. And if you need more minutes, you just buy more.
Years ago, neither my father nor my uncle had a cell phone, so I bought them each a starter kit and a $100 refill card. They both continue to use it.
I, myself, am no longer on T-Mobile. My usage went up to the point where monthly plans started becoming attractive to me, and after a couple years I hopped onto SERO while it was still available.
I know I'm beating a dead horse, but I just want to second the disappointment of D3. Boring, repetitive, torturous gameplay once you reach the end game. Chinese gear/gold farmers plagued my public games (I can only imagine this was inspired by the real money AH). And my friend had a 3 month wait time to get accepted to sell/buy/transfer gear from the auction house as well as transfer gear to/from other players (some sort of policy they created later on.)
And who is going to fucking pay for them? Because I can fucking tell you that society doesn't want to pay for them to be locked up in a hospital, and they don't want them to be free to interfere with the rest of society, which leaves killing them or forcing the family to pay to lock them up, and I'm not sure which one is more humane.
I live in New Jersey, so the traffic atmosphere might be a little different here. I have never seen someone get pulled over for going 10 miles over the limit. There's almost an unspoken rule that you can go 8-10 over without being pulled over. (This is talking about 45+ MPH areas, mind you.) As for keeping with traffic and going more than 10 over the limit to avoid being a road hazard, the only people I see get pulled over are trail blazing and not staying with the pack.
A traffic ticket here for 3 over the limit will get thrown out if you just show up to court. I assume 5 would as well, unless you were in some type of low speed school zone. They want their money, and they can't negotiate you from a high point ticket to a low/no point ticket with a more expensive fine if you aren't getting any points on your license to begin with.
I do agree that there is too much focus on making revenue from traffic infractions, especially with traffic cameras. However, here at least, I haven't seen any cops bothering with minor speeding infractions.
The seriousness of a crime should take into account whether or not the perpetrator took advantage of a weakness, whether that weakness is physical or mental. A child has a weakness in that it relies upon adults to protect it and guide it, and so it is more vulnerable to being mislead. An adult won't fall for "want to play a special game?" An adult won't fall for "I'll give you this candy bar if you get in my van". An adult won't fall for "I'll give you candy if you play rub lotion on the sausage."
Regardless of the above, it is still more heinous and unethical to perpetrate a crime on people physically unable to defend themselves, as you are exploiting their weakness to aid in your crime. Victimizing a quadriplegic for instance, or an 80 year old woman. Perhaps you do not feel this is any more unethical.
Fact is: If you sexually abuse anyone, be it a child, animal or fully grown human - it's abuse. It isn't more or less terrible if it is a defenseless child. You are defenseless if you where raped anyway, why is another human more or less worth than you?
I'd like to take issue with this point. While it is a fact that "if you abuse someone it is abuse", it is much more a matter of opinion the severity of its horror. You can pretend this isn't true. You can pretend that the act of abusing an adult, who has better means of resisting as well as an understanding of what abuse is, is the same as abusing a child, who is easily exploited due to reliance on adults and in many cases is unable to communicate that they have been abused. Also, you can pretend that all rape victims were "defenseless" leading up to the moment of their abuse, but this is another fallacy.
Buy your own laptop to fuck around with you cheap bastard. The laptop is the property of your employer and if you don't agree to the terms they set then don't work for them.
What he said. Seriously, you can find something decent for under $300. If you have a position that received a company issued laptop, I can't imagine how you can't afford $300. Yeah, so you have to lug around one more device, big deal. A tablet or a netbook really isn't that back breaking.
The article itself makes it pretty clear that they expect that Sprint is simply going to switch to some other software.
I'd like to know what article you were reading.
I going to go ahead and make some assumptions, because that's all that you've left me with:
1. Article says they are making OTA updates to remove Carrier IQ
2. In your paranoid world, this really means they're removing Carrier IQ and putting on Sprint IQ. Even though they're about to seriously get their assholes reamed for spying on 1.3 million customers. Right.
3. You're going to base your argument on the bullshit statement "The article itself makes it pretty clear that they expect that Sprint is simply going to switch to some other software". I mean, what the fuck is that supposed to mean? They're talking about the update to the phone to remove Carrier IQ, nowhere do they talk about replacing it with more spyware. It would be like saying the new Windows 7 bug fix is really an update for your copy of Pretty Pretty Princess: Princesses Gone Wild. It simply doesn't follow.
I would say I don't agree with anything you've said, but I do agree that this move is merely to save their own skin.
Yes, but the batteries are smaller, denser, and last longer. What is the problem, exactly?
Well, the problem is with your argument. You have linked size, density, and life with oddball proprietary formats.
Just as easily, a smaller, denser, longer lasting standardized battery could have been made. If not universally standardized, at least brand standardized.
This has nothing to do with cloning per se, but it is inspired by your question.
If you bred pigs for deformity, to produce pigs with no limbs, would those pigs be kosher? (Ethics and morals aside.)
So what is the implication of the defective snake? What happens if we could repair this defect? Would it grow to encompass a different form? Or would it just be a shorter, fatter snake? I'm sure there's a joke to be made here somewhere...
Is that Lulzsec, or maybe Anonymous? Will they find some way to make thing funny for Sony? Are they busy with other plans? Or perhaps they are keeping their heads down from the big bad government?
I'm a little skeptical about this. I'm not saying you haven't experienced this, and that this isn't how your allergy and your son's allergy function.
What I will say, is that this sounds entirely counter-intuitive to what I've heard and read about anaphylaxis.
Anaphylaxis is a severe, whole-body allergic reaction. After an initial exposure "sensitizing dose" to a substance like bee sting toxin, the person's immune system becomes sensitized to that allergen. On a subsequent exposure "shocking dose", an allergic reaction occurs. This reaction is sudden, severe, and involves the whole body.
So, while I've heard of the idea of taking small doses of an allergen to acclimate yourself to it, I don't think this gives clear recognition to the fact that many people have allergies that are impossible to combat in such a manner. These people have to carry epinephrine in case they are unexpectedly faced with a life-threatening allergic reaction. If there is an alternate treatment for them, I haven't heard of it. This is also the first time I've heard the that people can be weaned onto allergens as as children to prevent them from manifesting more severe allergies later. (I'm not saying it's not true, but it is a first.)
No way in hell, indeed. Everything about this is stupid. Take the cost, spending 1200 servers * 2 cpus each * at least $200 and you're singing $480,000, not including the 1200 servers themselves which I'm going to lowball at $200 each because I don't feel like newegging it, and you get $720,000. If you really had a lot money to spend in a short period of time, is this the first thing you would think of to squander it on? Do you already have 8-core desktops with dual 50" HDTV's as displays? How's all your lab equipment? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't half ass a supercomputer like this.
And if this really is supposed to be a serious submission, the time to ask all of those questions was *before* you started ordering parts.
My personal pet peeve here is education, so let me harp on that for a minute. We are drastically in need of education reform. There is more to know now than there was 50 years ago and the efficiency of education has not kept up. Every school has computers which must be maintained and upgraded. Students are now being taught how to pass standardized tests, which yields zero value once they finally graduate. Children who are developmentally behind other children are thrown into school early (for them) only to lag behind and fail. Other children who are prodigious are thrown into the same classes based only on age, without special attention being given to their abilities. Throw in a general lack of guidance for encouraging growth towards a profession and the future and you end up with half of your high school graduates dropping out of collage in their freshman year (yes, some of them were going to drop out anyway). Do the cost analysis on that one, and the effects on our economy of our recent HS graduates being burdened with 10k or 20k in bills and having no skills to apply to anything other than a near minimum-wage job. I know it isn't your money, so it's easy not to care, but it could be going towards the advancement of our society in some way or another.
So, while I know spending is the big, bad, boogie monster that takes dollars from your wallet, it's probably going to take some money to straighten education out, as well ongoing costs related to things like computers and their upkeep. I know it may seem natural to pinch pennies on the issue, but we pay in the long run when other countries gain or surpass our intellectual and technical prowess.
I understand the point you're trying to make, but:
1: This is a hypothetical situation
2: The OP's point still stands
3: If you compare the case of the app showing a "safe" drive home, and the case of not having an app at all, I assume the outcome would usually be the same and that he would drive home intoxicated. (Maybe some people would not drive home due to the uncertainty, but I don't think that would be the majority)
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I will third the T-mobile option.
When I was looking to get a cell phone years ago, I was so afraid of the 2 year contracts with ETF's and monthly rates that didn't match up with my meager (at the time) usage habits. I looked through a number of the pay as you go plans, and T-Mobile seemed the most reasonable. A number of the others had per minute/text costs in excess of 20 cents a minute.
T-Mobile is 10cents a minute/text if you fill up at the $100 rate, and you don't have to worry about the minutes expiring for a year. You will have to add time to roll your unused minutes over if they are near expiration. And if you need more minutes, you just buy more.
Years ago, neither my father nor my uncle had a cell phone, so I bought them each a starter kit and a $100 refill card. They both continue to use it.
I, myself, am no longer on T-Mobile. My usage went up to the point where monthly plans started becoming attractive to me, and after a couple years I hopped onto SERO while it was still available.
For some reason I hoped that he had found a free and easy way to control app permissions on Android.
(Other than deleting the apps outright.)
I believe that should be
"Therefore, cats are made of dogs.",
not "Therefore dogs are made of cats."
I know I'm beating a dead horse, but I just want to second the disappointment of D3. Boring, repetitive, torturous gameplay once you reach the end game. Chinese gear/gold farmers plagued my public games (I can only imagine this was inspired by the real money AH). And my friend had a 3 month wait time to get accepted to sell/buy/transfer gear from the auction house as well as transfer gear to/from other players (some sort of policy they created later on.)
Society has desires. Whether or not you go along with them is another matter entirely.
And who is going to fucking pay for them? Because I can fucking tell you that society doesn't want to pay for them to be locked up in a hospital, and they don't want them to be free to interfere with the rest of society, which leaves killing them or forcing the family to pay to lock them up, and I'm not sure which one is more humane.
I live in New Jersey, so the traffic atmosphere might be a little different here. I have never seen someone get pulled over for going 10 miles over the limit. There's almost an unspoken rule that you can go 8-10 over without being pulled over. (This is talking about 45+ MPH areas, mind you.) As for keeping with traffic and going more than 10 over the limit to avoid being a road hazard, the only people I see get pulled over are trail blazing and not staying with the pack.
A traffic ticket here for 3 over the limit will get thrown out if you just show up to court. I assume 5 would as well, unless you were in some type of low speed school zone. They want their money, and they can't negotiate you from a high point ticket to a low/no point ticket with a more expensive fine if you aren't getting any points on your license to begin with.
I do agree that there is too much focus on making revenue from traffic infractions, especially with traffic cameras. However, here at least, I haven't seen any cops bothering with minor speeding infractions.
The seriousness of a crime should take into account whether or not the perpetrator took advantage of a weakness, whether that weakness is physical or mental. A child has a weakness in that it relies upon adults to protect it and guide it, and so it is more vulnerable to being mislead. An adult won't fall for "want to play a special game?" An adult won't fall for "I'll give you this candy bar if you get in my van". An adult won't fall for "I'll give you candy if you play rub lotion on the sausage."
Regardless of the above, it is still more heinous and unethical to perpetrate a crime on people physically unable to defend themselves, as you are exploiting their weakness to aid in your crime. Victimizing a quadriplegic for instance, or an 80 year old woman. Perhaps you do not feel this is any more unethical.
I'd like to take issue with this point. While it is a fact that "if you abuse someone it is abuse", it is much more a matter of opinion the severity of its horror. You can pretend this isn't true. You can pretend that the act of abusing an adult, who has better means of resisting as well as an understanding of what abuse is, is the same as abusing a child, who is easily exploited due to reliance on adults and in many cases is unable to communicate that they have been abused. Also, you can pretend that all rape victims were "defenseless" leading up to the moment of their abuse, but this is another fallacy.
A little bit late for that as well, just replicate yourself (or someone else) another replicator.
http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
Since I'm over 25 and work for a living,
and since I got into Diablo and Starcraft when I was under 25,
this does effect me.
But if they make being an asshole a criminal, then we will all end up in jail, because we all have our special moments sooner or later.
Usually when we have our special moments, we aren't going out of our way, unprompted, to make somebody else's life miserable. Just sayin'.
Buy your own laptop to fuck around with you cheap bastard. The laptop is the property of your employer and if you don't agree to the terms they set then don't work for them.
What he said. Seriously, you can find something decent for under $300. If you have a position that received a company issued laptop, I can't imagine how you can't afford $300. Yeah, so you have to lug around one more device, big deal. A tablet or a netbook really isn't that back breaking.
I'd like to know what article you were reading.
I going to go ahead and make some assumptions, because that's all that you've left me with:
1. Article says they are making OTA updates to remove Carrier IQ
2. In your paranoid world, this really means they're removing Carrier IQ and putting on Sprint IQ. Even though they're about to seriously get their assholes reamed for spying on 1.3 million customers. Right.
3. You're going to base your argument on the bullshit statement "The article itself makes it pretty clear that they expect that Sprint is simply going to switch to some other software". I mean, what the fuck is that supposed to mean? They're talking about the update to the phone to remove Carrier IQ, nowhere do they talk about replacing it with more spyware. It would be like saying the new Windows 7 bug fix is really an update for your copy of Pretty Pretty Princess: Princesses Gone Wild. It simply doesn't follow.
I would say I don't agree with anything you've said, but I do agree that this move is merely to save their own skin.
Sprint is just trying to dodge the incoming bullet, but I doubt this will save them from litigation. Sure couldn't hurt, though.
Yes, but the batteries are smaller, denser, and last longer. What is the problem, exactly?
Well, the problem is with your argument. You have linked size, density, and life with oddball proprietary formats.
Just as easily, a smaller, denser, longer lasting standardized battery could have been made. If not universally standardized, at least brand standardized.
So whats this one? Comm stuff? 40.404616,93.636999
I don't know enough about bases.
This has nothing to do with cloning per se, but it is inspired by your question.
If you bred pigs for deformity, to produce pigs with no limbs, would those pigs be kosher? (Ethics and morals aside.)
So what is the implication of the defective snake? What happens if we could repair this defect? Would it grow to encompass a different form? Or would it just be a shorter, fatter snake?
I'm sure there's a joke to be made here somewhere...
Is that Lulzsec, or maybe Anonymous? Will they find some way to make thing funny for Sony? Are they busy with other plans? Or perhaps they are keeping their heads down from the big bad government?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphylaxis#Pathophysiology
So, while I've heard of the idea of taking small doses of an allergen to acclimate yourself to it, I don't think this gives clear recognition to the fact that many people have allergies that are impossible to combat in such a manner. These people have to carry epinephrine in case they are unexpectedly faced with a life-threatening allergic reaction. If there is an alternate treatment for them, I haven't heard of it. This is also the first time I've heard the that people can be weaned onto allergens as as children to prevent them from manifesting more severe allergies later. (I'm not saying it's not true, but it is a first.)
No way in hell, indeed. Everything about this is stupid. Take the cost, spending 1200 servers * 2 cpus each * at least $200 and you're singing $480,000, not including the 1200 servers themselves which I'm going to lowball at $200 each because I don't feel like newegging it, and you get $720,000. If you really had a lot money to spend in a short period of time, is this the first thing you would think of to squander it on? Do you already have 8-core desktops with dual 50" HDTV's as displays? How's all your lab equipment? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't half ass a supercomputer like this.
And if this really is supposed to be a serious submission, the time to ask all of those questions was *before* you started ordering parts.
My personal pet peeve here is education, so let me harp on that for a minute. We are drastically in need of education reform. There is more to know now than there was 50 years ago and the efficiency of education has not kept up. Every school has computers which must be maintained and upgraded. Students are now being taught how to pass standardized tests, which yields zero value once they finally graduate. Children who are developmentally behind other children are thrown into school early (for them) only to lag behind and fail. Other children who are prodigious are thrown into the same classes based only on age, without special attention being given to their abilities. Throw in a general lack of guidance for encouraging growth towards a profession and the future and you end up with half of your high school graduates dropping out of collage in their freshman year (yes, some of them were going to drop out anyway). Do the cost analysis on that one, and the effects on our economy of our recent HS graduates being burdened with 10k or 20k in bills and having no skills to apply to anything other than a near minimum-wage job. I know it isn't your money, so it's easy not to care, but it could be going towards the advancement of our society in some way or another.
So, while I know spending is the big, bad, boogie monster that takes dollars from your wallet, it's probably going to take some money to straighten education out, as well ongoing costs related to things like computers and their upkeep. I know it may seem natural to pinch pennies on the issue, but we pay in the long run when other countries gain or surpass our intellectual and technical prowess.
I understand the point you're trying to make, but:
1: This is a hypothetical situation
2: The OP's point still stands
3: If you compare the case of the app showing a "safe" drive home, and the case of not having an app at all, I assume the outcome would usually be the same and that he would drive home intoxicated. (Maybe some people would not drive home due to the uncertainty, but I don't think that would be the majority)