T-Mobile lets you change yourNumber@t-mobile.com to nickname@t-mobile. It stopped spam instantly when I did this because I only gave my nick to a few people. Very nice feature. Other providers may do this as well.
or even the "little" stuff. It used to be Walmart was full of the stuff. Now, I go to HD or Lowe's even screws nuts, bolts are from there. Yesterday I bought a 3/4" plastic water valve and guess where it came from? Frankly, I'm confused. How can it be cheaper to ship something as simple to make as a nut all the way around the world cheaper than it is to make it here? Maybe they use inferior metals, like when they added melamine to milk. I wonder what the price of chinese goods would be if we started testing everything to make sure it wasn't watered down?
In a way, now in america it does grow on trees. We chop down trees, make pulp, and print it. (oh, does that mean it devalues the dollar. Hmm, don't tell the fed!)
yes 20 or 30 years ago it was alot worse than some urine or a tomato. Do you not remember the riots in chicago in 68? I seriously doubt these guys were planning anything even close. Just google it if your too young to remember.
How close are we to arresting people applying for permits to demonstrate like the chinese did at the olympics?
Stuff like this really makes me sad. Just 20 or 30 years ago, demonstrations could get out of hand, but I think that is part of free speech. Now, any speech off script by either party is squashed as if it was soviet russia. Maybe mrs mccain should rethink the trip to georgia she just took. Maybe instead of taking democracy around the world, we could start by re-invigorating freedom here at home. I'm afraid to predict the next 20 or 30 years. I'm sure it will include many cameras, microphones, drone planes and fear.
If I'm not busy, I find just pressing "1" immediately gets me the "live" operator. Then depending on my mood I either 1:) Say nothing amd snicker to myself while they keep saying "hello", "hello", "is anybody out there?" 2:) ask them "why they do this for a job? People hate them so why would you do this." this line usually gets them pretty angry 3:) ask them about the product and just yank their chain to keep them on the line and burning up their time. (I gotta be pretty bored to do this one, so I don't do it often)
Usually I do 1, cause it takes zero time. Just press 1 instead of hanging up and put the phone down. The idea is that the telemarketers are using these techniques to reduce their costs. So we as the victims need to raise their costs back up again to discourage the behavior. Its all about cost. Why else is spam so prevalent. It costs nothing basically, so there is alot of it. The T-Marketers at least have to pay for a phone line and a robo-dialer and some droid in case somebody wants to actually connect to their dumb message.
Obviously, you only do this on a landline where your not being charged minutes...
I never said I was not for immigrant labor. It is not the same as a H1-B. I worked with H1-B's. They frequently learn, then return home and apply their newfound skill in their home country. That is not the same as immigrating where you typically stay as they did in the 1900 and keep those skills here. If you don't get that, then you will not understand my argument.
oops my bad, yep clinton did that. She just seemed like she must be a bushie. How can anyone be sooo stupid as to not understand foreign workers will depress wages. Economics 101. she has the stench of bush even if clinton appointed her. Wonder if she was a trade to get someone clinton wanted, or if she was really wanted by clinton. Clinton at least understood the economy.
I'm a techie too. I can see a difference AND hear a difference. So for me its worth it. For you not. Don't buy it. Me, I plan on getting a 2nd BD player since my first does not decode DTS-master and dolby true hd. Basically, the sound from blu is first rate (at least the PCM tracks I've heard so far, still need decoding for the other lossless formats) and I don't feel like I'm in a compression zone. DVD reminds me of MP3, which I also think is piss.
Fortunately I live in austin, which opted out of dereg power. As a result, we have nearly the cheapest power rates in the state. I think dallas is 50% higher because they opted for the "cheaper" dereg approach. Even with austin's low rates, the utility/city offers some of the best rebates on hi-eff A/C, insulation rebates, solar PV and some water conserving rebates. My personal experience is a 50% reduction or more by adding some solar panels and a hi-eff A/C (16 SEER instead of the old 12 SEER unit). Dereg was a disaster for the rest of texas. While I support the idea of adding more wind power to the state, I have mixed feelings about giving a handout to pickens for his wind-farm. I'd be ok with it if after he died, inheritance taxes took 99.9% of his assets and left the heirs with.1%, with no trusts hiding stuff. Then society would get back what he took with interest.
Nope, I lived thru nixon. GW still wins worst prez in my lifetime. Nixon at least opened up china a bit. GW will have no positives. He killed the economy, started an unnecessary war, got 2 losers in the court, intermixed religion and govt, cut the knees off any science that didn't agree with his politics, wire tapped his own citizens, tortured people, encouraged exportation of jobs. Bush should have been impeached for the lies about WMD in Iraq, but the pussy congress didn't do anything. Nixon just didn't have a pussy congress and media.
is the one who deserves the worst president title. Sorry Clinton kept the economy humming after GW's dad screwed it up. I seriously doubt *anyone* will be capable of fixing the current bush's economic disaster for a decade or more. Clinton was no god, but bush is the devil.
Interesting, I've been doing a DNS lookup of authority section and rejecting from name-services.com, domaincontrol.com and existservers.com. I don't like it, as it is too generic, but in my case, my email is from companies who use higher grade name servers.
Very well put. How will we manage when population growth is negative? Eskimo's would commit suicide when they were no longer productive. This may in fact be the only solution unfortunately. It will be interesting if Japan's robot method is going to pay off. If not, the long term golden years may not be so golden...
I spose you have a point. We are increasing our consumption at an ever increasing rate. Hmm, I wonder, how long china will continue to subsidize our std of living. We currently owe the world 10T dollars. yes, that is trillion. It will take our children's children's children to pay that off. Yeah, free trade is working well, for china.
I don't know about the rest of you, but 27 gal of water/day is only about 900 gal/month. Check your water bill. I doubt yours is that low. What do you do if you have a water leak? A friend of mine lives in an rental duplex and was using 15K gallons per month. The landlord never fixed the leak, he did. So by your math, he would have consumed 15 people's water for the 2 months. Wanna take a bath this month, better factor in that 4 days worth of water your going to use for one bath.
As another example, consider Israel & Gaza. In 1999, Gaza citizens were alotted 10 gal/day. Not much. Israel on the other hand was using a 100/day. Both were urban statistics. Would you rather live like an Israeli or a Gazan? Personally, I would prefer to limit the number of people on the planet. I just don't see the point of stacking people up and giving them enough water and food to survive and nothing else. Wasn't that what basically what the matrix was about? Stick people in a pod and put them in a dream state.
Secondly, the poster assumes that the weather will be perfect for his crop production. Consider the latest bad midwestern weather. I think it took out 30% of the corn crop for the US this year. You simply cannot assume best case for such important things as food & energy. One bad hurricane shutters the gulf oil production for a week. A drought here, a hurricane there, earthquakes, tsunami's, etc. Energy and food require excess capacity.
Finally to free trade. The poster is naive to believe free trade will solve the world's problems. It is currently weakening the US and may well cause our collapse. Free trade assumes both parties are free in the free trade. S Korea recently banned US beef. Be real, it was protectionist. Maybe we could ban Kia's and Hyandai's. China controls the exchange rate and thereby encourages exports at the expense of its own people being able to afford imports. Maybe we should ban chinese goods.
Alot of southern states encourage the use of solar screens to block a great deal of the sun's energy from getting into the house. The drapes would get significantly less energy with this type of screen. I like the idea of "little" improvements to reduce energy consumption, I just don't think this one qualifies. It reminds me of people who supersize the fries and then get a diet coke with that.
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we do it "for the children" in the US!
T-Mobile lets you change yourNumber@t-mobile.com to nickname@t-mobile. It stopped spam instantly when I did this because I only gave my nick to a few people. Very nice feature. Other providers may do this as well.
or even the "little" stuff. It used to be Walmart was full of the stuff. Now, I go to HD or Lowe's even screws nuts, bolts are from there. Yesterday I bought a 3/4" plastic water valve and guess where it came from? Frankly, I'm confused. How can it be cheaper to ship something as simple to make as a nut all the way around the world cheaper than it is to make it here? Maybe they use inferior metals, like when they added melamine to milk. I wonder what the price of chinese goods would be if we started testing everything to make sure it wasn't watered down?
also has a DI option. Basically adds 50HP with no mileage reduction. Its a sweet ride. I got one last year.
I especially think texting while driving is far less disruptive than phoning while driving. Who needs to see where they are going????
In a way, now in america it does grow on trees. We chop down trees, make pulp, and print it. (oh, does that mean it devalues the dollar. Hmm, don't tell the fed!)
yes 20 or 30 years ago it was alot worse than some urine or a tomato. Do you not remember the riots in chicago in 68? I seriously doubt these guys were planning anything even close. Just google it if your too young to remember.
How close are we to arresting people applying for permits to demonstrate like the chinese did at the olympics?
Stuff like this really makes me sad. Just 20 or 30 years ago, demonstrations could get out of hand, but I think that is part of free speech. Now, any speech off script by either party is squashed as if it was soviet russia. Maybe mrs mccain should rethink the trip to georgia she just took. Maybe instead of taking democracy around the world, we could start by re-invigorating freedom here at home. I'm afraid to predict the next 20 or 30 years. I'm sure it will include many cameras, microphones, drone planes and fear.
If I'm not busy, I find just pressing "1" immediately gets me the "live" operator. Then depending on my mood I either
1:) Say nothing amd snicker to myself while they keep saying "hello", "hello", "is anybody out there?"
2:) ask them "why they do this for a job? People hate them so why would you do this." this line usually gets them pretty angry
3:) ask them about the product and just yank their chain to keep them on the line and burning up their time. (I gotta be pretty bored to do this one, so I don't do it often)
Usually I do 1, cause it takes zero time. Just press 1 instead of hanging up and put the phone down. The idea is that the telemarketers are using these techniques to reduce their costs. So we as the victims need to raise their costs back up again to discourage the behavior. Its all about cost. Why else is spam so prevalent. It costs nothing basically, so there is alot of it. The T-Marketers at least have to pay for a phone line and a robo-dialer and some droid in case somebody wants to actually connect to their dumb message.
Obviously, you only do this on a landline where your not being charged minutes...
because at this point I hate (yes hate) bush so much I blame everything on him. It isn't right, but it is what it is:)
I never said I was not for immigrant labor. It is not the same as a H1-B. I worked with H1-B's. They frequently learn, then return home and apply their newfound skill in their home country. That is not the same as immigrating where you typically stay as they did in the 1900 and keep those skills here. If you don't get that, then you will not understand my argument.
silly me, I didn't think we had H1-B's in 1900. I thought we allowed people to immigrate.
oops my bad, yep clinton did that. She just seemed like she must be a bushie. How can anyone be sooo stupid as to not understand foreign workers will depress wages. Economics 101. she has the stench of bush even if clinton appointed her. Wonder if she was a trade to get someone clinton wanted, or if she was really wanted by clinton. Clinton at least understood the economy.
because she is just that STUPID
I'm a techie too. I can see a difference AND hear a difference. So for me its worth it. For you not. Don't buy it. Me, I plan on getting a 2nd BD player since my first does not decode DTS-master and dolby true hd. Basically, the sound from blu is first rate (at least the PCM tracks I've heard so far, still need decoding for the other lossless formats) and I don't feel like I'm in a compression zone. DVD reminds me of MP3, which I also think is piss.
Weird, I use email to ship keys. Its faster and *much* cheaper.
Fortunately I live in austin, which opted out of dereg power. As a result, we have nearly the cheapest power rates in the state. I think dallas is 50% higher because they opted for the "cheaper" dereg approach. Even with austin's low rates, the utility/city offers some of the best rebates on hi-eff A/C, insulation rebates, solar PV and some water conserving rebates. My personal experience is a 50% reduction or more by adding some solar panels and a hi-eff A/C (16 SEER instead of the old 12 SEER unit). Dereg was a disaster for the rest of texas. .1%, with no trusts hiding stuff. Then society would get back what he took with interest.
While I support the idea of adding more wind power to the state, I have mixed feelings about giving a handout to pickens for his wind-farm. I'd be ok with it if after he died, inheritance taxes took 99.9% of his assets and left the heirs with
Send the guy to gitmo for an "interrogation".
Nope, I lived thru nixon. GW still wins worst prez in my lifetime. Nixon at least opened up china a bit. GW will have no positives. He killed the economy, started an unnecessary war, got 2 losers in the court, intermixed religion and govt, cut the knees off any science that didn't agree with his politics, wire tapped his own citizens, tortured people, encouraged exportation of jobs. Bush should have been impeached for the lies about WMD in Iraq, but the pussy congress didn't do anything. Nixon just didn't have a pussy congress and media.
is the one who deserves the worst president title. Sorry Clinton kept the economy humming after GW's dad screwed it up. I seriously doubt *anyone* will be capable of fixing the current bush's economic disaster for a decade or more. Clinton was no god, but bush is the devil.
Interesting, I've been doing a DNS lookup of authority section and rejecting from
name-services.com, domaincontrol.com and existservers.com. I don't like it, as it is too
generic, but in my case, my email is from companies who use higher grade name servers.
Very well put. How will we manage when population growth is negative? Eskimo's would commit suicide when they were no longer productive. This may in fact be the only solution unfortunately. It will be interesting if Japan's robot method is going to pay off. If not, the long term golden years may not be so golden...
I spose you have a point. We are increasing our consumption at an ever increasing rate. Hmm, I wonder, how long china will continue to subsidize our std of living. We currently owe the world 10T dollars. yes, that is trillion. It will take our children's children's children to pay that off. Yeah, free trade is working well, for china.
I don't know about the rest of you, but 27 gal of water/day is only about 900 gal/month. Check your water bill. I doubt yours is that low. What do you do if you have a water leak? A friend of mine lives in an rental duplex and was using 15K gallons per month. The landlord never fixed the leak, he did. So by your math, he would have consumed 15 people's water for the 2 months. Wanna take a bath this month, better factor in that 4 days worth of water your going to use for one bath.
As another example, consider Israel & Gaza. In 1999, Gaza citizens were alotted 10 gal/day. Not much. Israel on the other hand was using a 100/day. Both were urban statistics. Would you rather live like an Israeli or a Gazan? Personally, I would prefer to limit the number of people on the planet. I just don't see the point of stacking people up and giving them enough water and food to survive and nothing else. Wasn't that what basically what the matrix was about? Stick people in a pod and put them in a dream state.
Secondly, the poster assumes that the weather will be perfect for his crop production. Consider the latest bad midwestern weather. I think it took out 30% of the corn crop for the US this year. You simply cannot assume best case for such important things as food & energy. One bad hurricane shutters the gulf oil production for a week. A drought here, a hurricane there, earthquakes, tsunami's, etc. Energy and food require excess capacity.
Finally to free trade. The poster is naive to believe free trade will solve the world's problems. It is currently weakening the US and may well cause our collapse. Free trade assumes both parties are free in the free trade. S Korea recently banned US beef. Be real, it was protectionist. Maybe we could ban Kia's and Hyandai's. China controls the exchange rate and thereby encourages exports at the expense of its own people being able to afford imports. Maybe we should ban chinese goods.
Alot of southern states encourage the use of solar screens to block a great deal of the sun's energy from getting into the house. The drapes would get significantly less energy with this type of screen. I like the idea of "little" improvements to reduce energy consumption, I just don't think this one qualifies. It reminds me of people who supersize the fries and then get a diet coke with that.