I'm not sure that's how it works. Locally, we have 10TV (CBS) and they also own ONN (Ohio News Network). 10TV told Wide Open West (who wanted to drop ONN) that they wouldn't let them carry 10TV if they didn't take ONN as well. WOW relented because they'd have some angry customers if they couldn't get CBS anymore, so they still carry both 10TV and ONN. But I don't think ONN has to PAY WOW to carry them, just it's a condition of 10TV "letting" them carry the CBS station.
For stations that can't piggyback (QVC perhaps, I'm not an expert), then perhaps they do have to pay to get carried. But smaller networks like ONN that are affiliated with a bigger network (like CBS) don't.
Alternatively, they would force everyone to switch to digital, where they can turn individual channels on and off at a flick of a switch.
However, what I predict would happen is something similar to phone service. On your land line, you can choose between unlimited or pay per minute for local calls. But the difference between the two is only something like $5. So most people opt for unlimited, because if you talk on the phone a lot you could quite easily eat through that measly $5 difference.
So with cable, what would happen is you'd get charged some rate like what they charge for current premium channels (it's what $10 for HBO, and get 1-5+ HBO channels depending on what market you're in and whether you have digital programming or not). So they'd charge you something like $10 per channel, and you'd only be able to get 5 channels or so before you'd get to their "all channels" rate. What's the point of that? Might as well get all 300 channels since surely once in awhile there is a good show or movie on a channel you don't normally watch.
Except, how do you know that you want to watch the Simpsons? (other than it being on the air for 10+ years) How do you get sucked into watching new shows if you'd have to pay per episode to find out if it sucks or doesn't suck? Commercials for shows don't always make people want to watch them, it's flipping over to the channel, watching for 5 minutes and then getting sucked in and "having" to watch that show every week for the rest of its run.
We turn on Noggin for our daughter, and their schedule is pretty much like that. Run the actual show for 15 minutes and then commercials for the last 15 minutes (usually promoting other shows.) I swear, I always seem to turn the tv on after the show is over.
At least on PBS, Sesame Street would last the whole hour, and Mr Rogers would last a whole half hour.
There's been a sudden popularity in scrapbooking though. I'm finding that people are a lot more interested in looking at my scrapbooks than they are at sifting through pages and pages of photo albums. I can pick the best photos that I took with my digital camera, get the ones printed that I want to put in my scrapbook, and have a much better medium for sharing right there.
I've been breastfeeding my daughter for the past year and have not had to take supplements since I was pregnant. She eats 5 meals/snacks of table foods a day along with breastfeeding and sippy cups of organic milk or water.
My next door neighbor's son is a year and a half and not eating any table foods whatsoever. Still on the expensive prescription formula. He upchucks anything besides the prescription formula. One of my friends has a son who is a week older than my daughter and it was only just recently that his vomiting (not "spit up" but vomiting) decreased. They still have to be very careful about what he eats. Another one of my friends has a formula-fed son who also has vomiting problems. He has problems keeping anything down.
I was considering weaning my daughter at 6 months, and read everything I could about formulas. I did not find a single piece about formula being good for babies, and believe me I looked. On the contrary, I found page after page of negative effects of formulas. And not even on the "breast is best" sites. And that's ignoring the number of babies who have died from formula recalls (missing a key vitamin, or contaminants at the factory).
You got lucky with your kids not having digestive problems. If my next door neighbor had breastfed her son he probably would not have the issues he's having, but unfortunately once you discover the problems it's too late to turn back the clock.
The iron in breastmilk is far better absorbed in the baby's system than the iron in infant formulas. So breastmilk doesn't need to have more iron.
Yours is the first time I've heard of a breastfed baby being jaundiced for longer than the first couple weeks (I'm assuming, you didn't say). It can't be that common.
Infant formula has its own laundry list of issues that crop up. Namely, recalls (contaminants getting into the final product) and digestive problems. Babies that have trouble digesting ANYTHING even after their first year of life, I've seen it several times with friends who formula feed but have never seen it with friends who breastfeed. I've also read that it is fairly common in formula fed babies to have the digestive problems.
I use.us - I registered rose.columbus.oh.us awhile ago. I found it rather difficult though; I submitted the document on http://www.nic.us and then was contacted by oar.net which handles the columbus.oh.us subdomain (plus numerous others). One problem is, there is no way to find out if it is taken already or not. You just have to submit and pray that it's not. I like it because I don't think it's that hard to remember, and plus you can pretty much pick whichever 4th level domain you want (right now). And, another benefit is the domain is free so you don't have to pay the yearly fee.
The question is, how does Jack know that he's willing to pay $10 if he hasn't seen it yet? If they let him see it, then why would he pay afterwards? If it's an ongoing subscription model, think about how many ongoing subscriptions you'd end up with. IT ALL ADDS UP! You'd end up with $100s in monthly subscriptions. (not to mention some places don't like canceling you)
Then what they should've done was not allowed people with subscriptions to dial in to do the time checks. They should've made it so you could set the time yourself, or make it so you manually have to dial a long distance or 900# to do it (NOT automatic or people will bitch). So then it's NOT on their own dime. But they designed the box that way so they should have to deal.
This [O-Town, corruptedness of the record labels...] is the reason my car radio is permanently set to NPR.
I don't find it hard to believe that the same kids who grew up with Teletubbies and Barney, who enjoy watching Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen videos (and their new magazine *gag*) would get into O-Town.
Word of warning... do NOT click on the link. Not if you're at work anyway. Yes it's the worst use of popup ads... wasn't expecting the neverending stream of porn windows though.
I haven't started any of these online games even though I would probably like them simply because they take too much damn time and you have to pay for the privilege of playing it. If I paid $10 a month but only got to play it a couple hours a week, that's quite a bit of money for not a lot of enjoyment. So then I'd probably play it more to get my money's worth. And then I'd quit going to the gym and meeting up with friends (I already hardly watch any tv) and end up with no life.
I was into MUDs a few years ago, when I didn't have any money to do anything, and had a boyfriend who lived out of town and had to cater to whether he might want to come up that particular weekend, and when he didn't, I was on the MUD. (it was a screwy relationship I admit, we're not together anymore). Once I gained immortal status the game became less fun though because then you know how everything works and how everything is put together and there is no more magic or mystery to it.
*shrug* I've heard about people who spend all their time on UO and don't do anything else... that is sad, really sad...
Intelligence doesn't mean "knowing more" and it doesn't equate to "being mature". A lot of stuff you learn, you learn from life experiences, and no 13 year old is going to know as much as a 26 yr old in terms of that. No 13 yr old looks at the world from the perspective of an adult, yet most 13 yr olds are under the impression that they are somehow smarter than adults are. I've got a 13 yr old sister (and I am 25) and although she is one smart cookie, she's never driven a car, never spent 4 years in college, never lived on her own, etc. I wouldn't have believed it when I was 13 but yes my parents do know what they're talking about! sheesh, kids these days...
uhhh I beg your pardon? No boy bands??
So what were the Spice Girls anyway if they weren't an artificially put together band?
But yes there are boy bands, In April, I took a trip to Wales (part of the UK for those needing geography lessons) and what did I see on TV but some sort of "making the band" type of boy band fluff. And British girls screamin their heads off over them.
Actually, you do buy a hamburger from Mcdonalds.us. The difference is, since you are from the USA you are used to the default of everything being US-centric. THe people in the UK want to go to amazon.co.uk and not amazon.com.us because then the books are related to them, the movies are region 2, and it's quoted in GBP and not US$. If you go to Mcdonalds.com you don't want to see a lot of stuff relating to Israel or Australia if you're from the US. I don't see anything wrong with there being a mcdonalds.com.us (since it's an american based company) or nestle.co.ch since it's a swiss company. But Nestle could also have nestle.com.us for pages relating to Americans.
There already is the geographical domain name system (as other people have already pointed out) and it doesn't get much use (again, as other people have already pointed out).
One reason why it doesn't get much use is because it is DAMN hard to get a domain name. You have to KNOW to go to http://www.nic.us and the application is kind of cryptic, plus there is no real way to find out what domain names are already taken. The average person doesn't know about the.us namespace because on all the web pages for getting domain names they only mention.com,.net,.org, etc.
In fact I just got my own.us domain name. I don't see how rose.columbus.oh.us is harder to remember than somecrypticcompoundword.com plus, registering a.us domain is free vs not free and all the easy words are taken.
Brandon,
You're defending SLC (Utah) coming from the mouth of someone who's of the "in crowd". As a lot of people on/. have pointed out, if you're not LDS, you're treated like you've got some disease and will never be "one of us". Which means, that even if you've got a family and don't drink, your social life is going to be limited because other people aren't going to want to be friends with you.
The majority doesn't, and shouldn't always rule. Just because the majority over in Germany wanted the Jews to die, doesn't mean that that's what is right. To tell people to just move somewhere else if they're not of "the majority" is like telling the one black person in an all white town that they need to move out. People should have the freedom to live where they want to and not be persecuted because they're different than the locals.
Also, family and drinking are not mutually exclusive. Just because you drink doesn't mean that you drink excessively. There's a difference between getting smashed every weekend and having a beer with your barbecue in the backyard. So you don't have to trade "alcohol for family".
Besides, Ultra 5's aren't $5000, and they come with DVD's now. You forgot the high end card if you're looking for good graphics. You're pulling those numbers from your ass is what you're doing. Try closer to around $2500.
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I'm fairly certain that the UK channels are heavily subsidized by the British government. So you're paying a lot more than 10 a month technically.
I'm not sure that's how it works. Locally, we have 10TV (CBS) and they also own ONN (Ohio News Network). 10TV told Wide Open West (who wanted to drop ONN) that they wouldn't let them carry 10TV if they didn't take ONN as well. WOW relented because they'd have some angry customers if they couldn't get CBS anymore, so they still carry both 10TV and ONN. But I don't think ONN has to PAY WOW to carry them, just it's a condition of 10TV "letting" them carry the CBS station.
For stations that can't piggyback (QVC perhaps, I'm not an expert), then perhaps they do have to pay to get carried. But smaller networks like ONN that are affiliated with a bigger network (like CBS) don't.
Alternatively, they would force everyone to switch to digital, where they can turn individual channels on and off at a flick of a switch.
However, what I predict would happen is something similar to phone service. On your land line, you can choose between unlimited or pay per minute for local calls. But the difference between the two is only something like $5. So most people opt for unlimited, because if you talk on the phone a lot you could quite easily eat through that measly $5 difference.
So with cable, what would happen is you'd get charged some rate like what they charge for current premium channels (it's what $10 for HBO, and get 1-5+ HBO channels depending on what market you're in and whether you have digital programming or not). So they'd charge you something like $10 per channel, and you'd only be able to get 5 channels or so before you'd get to their "all channels" rate. What's the point of that? Might as well get all 300 channels since surely once in awhile there is a good show or movie on a channel you don't normally watch.
Except, how do you know that you want to watch the Simpsons? (other than it being on the air for 10+ years) How do you get sucked into watching new shows if you'd have to pay per episode to find out if it sucks or doesn't suck? Commercials for shows don't always make people want to watch them, it's flipping over to the channel, watching for 5 minutes and then getting sucked in and "having" to watch that show every week for the rest of its run.
We turn on Noggin for our daughter, and their schedule is pretty much like that. Run the actual show for 15 minutes and then commercials for the last 15 minutes (usually promoting other shows.) I swear, I always seem to turn the tv on after the show is over.
At least on PBS, Sesame Street would last the whole hour, and Mr Rogers would last a whole half hour.
If everyone relocates to the sticks because of a company that needs 3000 workers... it's not the sticks anymore, is it? :-)
There's been a sudden popularity in scrapbooking though. I'm finding that people are a lot more interested in looking at my scrapbooks than they are at sifting through pages and pages of photo albums. I can pick the best photos that I took with my digital camera, get the ones printed that I want to put in my scrapbook, and have a much better medium for sharing right there.
I've been breastfeeding my daughter for the past year and have not had to take supplements since I was pregnant. She eats 5 meals/snacks of table foods a day along with breastfeeding and sippy cups of organic milk or water.
My next door neighbor's son is a year and a half and not eating any table foods whatsoever. Still on the expensive prescription formula. He upchucks anything besides the prescription formula. One of my friends has a son who is a week older than my daughter and it was only just recently that his vomiting (not "spit up" but vomiting) decreased. They still have to be very careful about what he eats. Another one of my friends has a formula-fed son who also has vomiting problems. He has problems keeping anything down.
I was considering weaning my daughter at 6 months, and read everything I could about formulas. I did not find a single piece about formula being good for babies, and believe me I looked. On the contrary, I found page after page of negative effects of formulas. And not even on the "breast is best" sites. And that's ignoring the number of babies who have died from formula recalls (missing a key vitamin, or contaminants at the factory).
You got lucky with your kids not having digestive problems. If my next door neighbor had breastfed her son he probably would not have the issues he's having, but unfortunately once you discover the problems it's too late to turn back the clock.
The iron in breastmilk is far better absorbed in the baby's system than the iron in infant formulas. So breastmilk doesn't need to have more iron.
Yours is the first time I've heard of a breastfed baby being jaundiced for longer than the first couple weeks (I'm assuming, you didn't say). It can't be that common.
Infant formula has its own laundry list of issues that crop up. Namely, recalls (contaminants getting into the final product) and digestive problems. Babies that have trouble digesting ANYTHING even after their first year of life, I've seen it several times with friends who formula feed but have never seen it with friends who breastfeed. I've also read that it is fairly common in formula fed babies to have the digestive problems.
But a baby and a diaper bag, that's OK. And Meijer with a half dozen canvas bags, that's OK too.
I use .us - I registered rose.columbus.oh.us awhile ago. I found it rather difficult though; I submitted the document on http://www.nic.us and then was contacted by oar.net which handles the columbus.oh.us subdomain (plus numerous others). One problem is, there is no way to find out if it is taken already or not. You just have to submit and pray that it's not. I like it because I don't think it's that hard to remember, and plus you can pretty much pick whichever 4th level domain you want (right now). And, another benefit is the domain is free so you don't have to pay the yearly fee.
The question is, how does Jack know that he's willing to pay $10 if he hasn't seen it yet? If they let him see it, then why would he pay afterwards? If it's an ongoing subscription model, think about how many ongoing subscriptions you'd end up with. IT ALL ADDS UP! You'd end up with $100s in monthly subscriptions. (not to mention some places don't like canceling you)
err that should say "without subscriptions"
Then what they should've done was not allowed people with subscriptions to dial in to do the time checks. They should've made it so you could set the time yourself, or make it so you manually have to dial a long distance or 900# to do it (NOT automatic or people will bitch). So then it's NOT on their own dime. But they designed the box that way so they should have to deal.
Usually I see them for about $14 at Meijers, Best Buy, etc (if you get them when they first come out, on sale) But yeah, I see your point.
This [O-Town, corruptedness of the record labels...] is the reason my car radio is permanently set to NPR.
I don't find it hard to believe that the same kids who grew up with Teletubbies and Barney, who enjoy watching Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen videos (and their new magazine *gag*) would get into O-Town.
Word of warning... do NOT click on the link. Not if you're at work anyway. Yes it's the worst use of popup ads... wasn't expecting the neverending stream of porn windows though.
I haven't started any of these online games even though I would probably like them simply because they take too much damn time and you have to pay for the privilege of playing it. If I paid $10 a month but only got to play it a couple hours a week, that's quite a bit of money for not a lot of enjoyment. So then I'd probably play it more to get my money's worth. And then I'd quit going to the gym and meeting up with friends (I already hardly watch any tv) and end up with no life.
I was into MUDs a few years ago, when I didn't have any money to do anything, and had a boyfriend who lived out of town and had to cater to whether he might want to come up that particular weekend, and when he didn't, I was on the MUD. (it was a screwy relationship I admit, we're not together anymore). Once I gained immortal status the game became less fun though because then you know how everything works and how everything is put together and there is no more magic or mystery to it.
*shrug* I've heard about people who spend all their time on UO and don't do anything else... that is sad, really sad...
Intelligence doesn't mean "knowing more" and it doesn't equate to "being mature". A lot of stuff you learn, you learn from life experiences, and no 13 year old is going to know as much as a 26 yr old in terms of that. No 13 yr old looks at the world from the perspective of an adult, yet most 13 yr olds are under the impression that they are somehow smarter than adults are. I've got a 13 yr old sister (and I am 25) and although she is one smart cookie, she's never driven a car, never spent 4 years in college, never lived on her own, etc. I wouldn't have believed it when I was 13 but yes my parents do know what they're talking about! sheesh, kids these days...
uhhh I beg your pardon? No boy bands??
So what were the Spice Girls anyway if they weren't an artificially put together band?
But yes there are boy bands, In April, I took a trip to Wales (part of the UK for those needing geography lessons) and what did I see on TV but some sort of "making the band" type of boy band fluff. And British girls screamin their heads off over them.
Actually, you do buy a hamburger from Mcdonalds.us. The difference is, since you are from the USA you are used to the default of everything being US-centric. THe people in the UK want to go to amazon.co.uk and not amazon.com.us because then the books are related to them, the movies are region 2, and it's quoted in GBP and not US$. If you go to Mcdonalds.com you don't want to see a lot of stuff relating to Israel or Australia if you're from the US. I don't see anything wrong with there being a mcdonalds.com.us (since it's an american based company) or nestle.co.ch since it's a swiss company. But Nestle could also have nestle.com.us for pages relating to Americans.
There already is the geographical domain name system (as other people have already pointed out) and it doesn't get much use (again, as other people have already pointed out).
.us namespace because on all the web pages for getting domain names they only mention .com, .net, .org, etc.
.us domain name. I don't see how rose.columbus.oh.us is harder to remember than somecrypticcompoundword.com plus, registering a .us domain is free vs not free and all the easy words are taken.
One reason why it doesn't get much use is because it is DAMN hard to get a domain name. You have to KNOW to go to http://www.nic.us and the application is kind of cryptic, plus there is no real way to find out what domain names are already taken. The average person doesn't know about the
In fact I just got my own
Brandon, /. have pointed out, if you're not LDS, you're treated like you've got some disease and will never be "one of us". Which means, that even if you've got a family and don't drink, your social life is going to be limited because other people aren't going to want to be friends with you.
You're defending SLC (Utah) coming from the mouth of someone who's of the "in crowd". As a lot of people on
The majority doesn't, and shouldn't always rule. Just because the majority over in Germany wanted the Jews to die, doesn't mean that that's what is right. To tell people to just move somewhere else if they're not of "the majority" is like telling the one black person in an all white town that they need to move out. People should have the freedom to live where they want to and not be persecuted because they're different than the locals.
Also, family and drinking are not mutually exclusive. Just because you drink doesn't mean that you drink excessively. There's a difference between getting smashed every weekend and having a beer with your barbecue in the backyard. So you don't have to trade "alcohol for family".
Besides, Ultra 5's aren't $5000, and they come with DVD's now. You forgot the high end card if you're looking for good graphics. You're pulling those numbers from your ass is what you're doing. Try closer to around $2500.
Linux isn't 30 years old. It was written FROM SCRATCH in oh, 1991 IIRC. Which would make it newer than Windows (DOS).