You can get your SS# changed. Granted it's 1) a hassle and 2) has to be court ordered, but it's POSSIBLE. I don't know where you heard you couldn't. I've had identity theft and the SS office, the police, they all told me that if it keeps happening I might want to think of getting a different number.
Some people (yes, Christians even) view the Bible as historically representative of the views of men in the days it was written, and thus must be interpreted as such. Some things still hold true to today (Thou shalt not kill) whereas other things are archaic (stoning adulterers...).
If I was in the desert and hadn't drank any water in days and all I had was a diamond ring. You bet your ass I would give that diamond ring for a gallon of water.
But if I lived on a lake and had all the water I wanted for free, I'd have no need to part with the diamond ring.
In which case they should just put the value of MS-Windows & Office at zilch because the value of the equivilent products (Linux & Staroffice) are priced at $0.
So get a PO Box, use a fake name, fake phone number, and an email at a free email site. NSI isn't going to go ask for your birth certificate or go calling your house.
My time is more valuable to me than spending 2 hours getting to work (and 2 hours back), and $300/mo for the privilege. I can make $60k in a decent sized city, live 1 mile from work (or 20-45 mins to the burbs), free parking... and then spend my vacations in NYC if I really really wanted to.
If they can spend millions and millions and millions of dollars from the government to the major parties to get their people elected, they can SURELY spend a few bucks to update the circa 1899 voting machines. I mean, COME ON.
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I think the biggest benefit by using screens is that the type can be made REALLY BIG for the people who have bad eyesight (ie. the people in Palm Beach FLA). I don't know how blind people vote now unless they've got braille ballots (which would be odd sized anyways, so they'd still have to do something special for them)
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Well at least he backed Notepad up! I mean, what in the world would they do if they couldn't get their original Notepad back?
Hear, hear. I just set up my cousin's computer (hand me down from her father) so that she and her 78 yr old roommate could use AOL for e-mail. These are people who didn't know what a floppy disk was or that computers write your password in as stars. I put Wordpad, Solitaire, Hearts, and AOL on the desktop, explained that you click on the icon twice to open it, click on the x in the corner to close it. She got a full copy of an older edition of Microsoft Office, but I think she'll be happy with Wordpad for awhile. She writes faster with her hand than on a keyboard anyways.
You're entering into flamebait territory...
Most Americans can use metric. Everyone who has taken a science course has had to learn the metric system. It might be difficult for us to have an idea in our head exactly what size 180 cm is but we do know how to convert or at least estimate.
And, languages, even British English, do evolve over time. Languages are created by humans and can be changed by humans. So it doesn't really matter that the Americans spell "colour" without the "u". We (Americans) all know they're the same word, and so does everyone else.
How is this any different than how Redhat distributes their Linux? You can download it for free from their website or go to the store and pay $79.99 or $24.99 for the CD and books and support.
The difference between StarOffice and say, MS Office is you have to buy a whole nother package of it if you want to put it on more than one computer. With staroffice you can get the media and then install it on 1 or 10000 computers, because the license is free.
Are you a troll or something? The website says "Staroffice 5.2 Application Suite" - "The Ultimate free full-featured, integrated, interoperable, office suite just got better"... "The StarOffice 5.2 suite is now available for free download in Danish, Dutch, English,..."
I disagree on your "typical requirements". The presentation program in StarOffice is the one I use the MOST. What makes you think that "most people" have no use for a spreadsheet? Our workplace has standardized on StarOffice so I use it every day for work. I use:
1. The word processor 2. Presentation 3. Spreadsheets
The other programs I haven't used at all, we use the calendar that comes with Solaris and dtmail. I did try to create a database with the database program before but I couldn't get it to work. Money management is all online through my bank.
Have you thought that maybe there are many tools for the different needs of users? Just because I don't use the same tools that you use doesn't mean that the ones I do use are "frivolous". People wouldn't be BUYING MS Office if they thought anything beyond the word processor was unneeded extras (which is what you're saying since you say the presentation, database, and spreadsheet programs are rather unneeded).
Well what peeves me about Exodus is their pricing strategy. They price in 2 dimensions so you can stack your machines up to the ceiling and not pay any more than if you spread them out a little. This stacking them to the ceiling makes it really a nightmare to administer. I think they should price it per processor or something.
I will say right now that I like a lot of romantic comedies. I like watching them for some laughs, a nice story, and just to be entertained. I'm your average chick when it comes to movies. I love the Little Mermaid, I dislike horror movies in general, and I usually have to be dragged to the movie theater if the intention is to watch a shoot em up gory action movie.
Thus, when my boyfriend (sci-fi fan) wanted to see Titan AE last week, I remembered the preview I saw and was like "oh joy, a shoot em up Power ranger-like movie. yeah right, no way, let's do something else." Then on Sat, I was with a group of people who all wanted to see it, so since I was outnumbered, I went and saw it.
I think the movie was rather suprising, I was expecting it to be hokey and not to like it. When I saw the Iron Giant (my roommate had free tickets) and Pleasantville, I was expecting those movies to be stupid too but ended up liking them. Pleasantville really has a lot in it.
Granted, Titan AE doesn't compare to Life is Beautiful, but it has a decent storyline, great graphics, and it was entertaining. You can't expect every movie to be deep and thought provoking. If you suspend belief during the movie, you'll be entertained. If you sit there and say "feh, an anti-gravity box is impossible" and "you can't move through space like you fly in planes" and "they live in outer space, who the hell is cutting their hair like that??" then you'll probably be more aggravated than entertained.
If you only want to go see movies that will win Oscars then save your money, but if you want to be entertained for an hour and a half then go for it. I'm a girly girl chick flick loving person and I liked it.
I think that they were stalling in order to figure out the right way to "open" it up, without having MS stranglehold them out of their essential IM monopoly. You know MS would find a way, look at what they tried to do to Java. Also, if people are using other IM clients but accessing AOL's servers, they aren't looking at AOL's banner ads which are supporting the servers that they're letting you use for free.
On the other hand, I find AOL really annoying in the fact that if you go to http://www.aol.com you get an annoying pop up window advertising their 500 hours free! Anyone that goes to their site is either a) an AOL subscriber already or b) already knows about AOL Besides, it's not really 500 hours free, it's a month free, and if you wish to spend 24/7 up to 500 hours on AOL, then so be it, go for it. That's a bit of false advertising. Disclaimer: I have an aol account since work pays for it and I have cable modem at home, so it is very handy when I am out of town on business and can dial in. Thus I use AOL email once in awhile.
Yeah I guess that is a pretty poor example, but if the CDs weren't so expensive, I'd buy every single one of hers, like I have with Celine's (but hers were over the course of 9 years or so). If the CD prices weren't artificially high, people would buy more CDs (think supply & demand curves on a price/quantity scale). Then the profit maximization curve. I honestly don't think they're maximizing their profits. I'm not an economist but if they'd lower the prices, fewer people would be bootlegging them, people would buy more, and fewer CDs would be stolen from stores.
I guess I don't feel as bad knowing that Ms. McKennitt is getting a bigger portion of the money I spent.
As for the gas thread I seem to have started... yeah I'm feeling the pain of suddenly inflated prices like everyone else ($1.80 here). My point was that if they can sell the gas for $1.25 in TN then it's not the Middle Eastern oil dudes who are setting the prices. In Europe where gas is obscenely expensive, people have adjusted and the public transit is very good. If gas prices would rise here slowly and not go up 20c in one night then people wouldn't be complaining; they'd have time to adjust. I heard the Feds are investigating the problem.
Until a couple weeks ago I hadn't ever used Napster at all, so I decided to download it and see what it's all about. One of the things I did on there was do a search for "Celtic" and it came up with Loreena McKennitt, which I listened to and decided I really loved her songs. I decided I wanted to buy one of her CDs for myself, and also thought that my friend would like one for her birthday. So I went to the music store and was COMPLETELY disgusted with the price of the CDs (I hadn't gone CD shopping in awhile...) I ended up getting 2 at $17.99 (+5.75% tax) each but I definitely wasn't happy about it. I looked them up on Amazon.com later and they have them for $13.99. Which is better, but still a lot if you take shipping into consideration.
I wonder if there's anything the average person can do to help with the "war for cheaper CDs". They're seriously gouging us.
Not to mention I found out that it isn't the foreign people setting the prices for gas. Down in Tennessee gas is $1.25 and people are complaining about that. What the hell is this, who is setting the gas prices so high? It's harming the gas stations who are having lots of people drive off without paying.
I would argue against what you are saying there. I can't speak for LA but I can speak for my hometown in Ohio. It is about as urban as a small town can get, and anyone who lives in the brand spanking new houses all goes to the other (predominantly white) schools. My high school had around 1200 students, the Catholic school had significantly fewer students. There is this theory that the Catholic schools are better, and so a couple of my aunts and uncles sent their children all through the Catholic schools.
Well, the Catholic school didn't have nearly the amount of sports that the public school had. They don't have nearly the amount of scholarships offered. They don't have nearly the amount of choice in subjects (art classes, foreign languages, for instance). They don't have nearly the number of advanced (AP) courses offered. Next year they are thinking of doing away with their band in order to save money.
The one day that I spent at the Catholic school (I visited with a friend who went there to see what it was like), I found that none of the students listened one bit in the French class. The science teacher had all the students do some science homework in class, and everyone sat around throwing paper and talking. I just was not very impressed with the school.
A couple of my cousins who go there have to work all summer long to pay for their tuition there, and then during the school year they have to do a ton of fund raisers for the school as well. Obviously these kids who go there have parents who care about their schooling, whereas at the public school you've got the kids who are forced to go because of laws. School is what you make of it, if you pay attention to your teachers and try to learn, you will learn.
That said, I know that my high school got into an arrangement with Pepsi. There was all these rules about pop, and they would turn off the vending machines during the day even. But after they got into this arrangement, they started serving 16 oz cups of Pepsi at lunch. And here, for the longest time, they wouldn't let anyone have a pop because they said it wasn't food (as if anything else in the cafeteria qualified as food).
I think this Intel thing wanting them to cover up their Imacs is silly though. If the people going there was just students, they've already seen the Imacs before. Besides, most people don't really consider one to be a replacement to the other. If you want a mac, you buy a mac, if you want an Intel, you buy Intel or AMD from Compaq, Gateway, or Dell.
When I had a pager I had 150 msg's included and then some sort of fee for every message above that. I don't have messaging on my cell phone because it's an extra $3 a month and people might as well call me. I haven't looked into the short messaging on the cell phone since it's a bit more extra than I want to pay considering they make me pay for all sorts of functionality that I don't ever use (call forwarding...)
How do they know that they're sending the short message to a pager and not a cell phone? in the USA the numbers are all the same with no distinguishing characteristics. I'm not sure if the $3 is for unlimited or for a certain # of messages or what it's for, I'll have to look it up.
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You can get your SS# changed. Granted it's 1) a hassle and 2) has to be court ordered, but it's POSSIBLE. I don't know where you heard you couldn't. I've had identity theft and the SS office, the police, they all told me that if it keeps happening I might want to think of getting a different number.
If you didn't pay for them, how can you have an invoice?
Some people (yes, Christians even) view the Bible as historically representative of the views of men in the days it was written, and thus must be interpreted as such. Some things still hold true to today (Thou shalt not kill) whereas other things are archaic (stoning adulterers...).
If I was in the desert and hadn't drank any water in days and all I had was a diamond ring. You bet your ass I would give that diamond ring for a gallon of water.
But if I lived on a lake and had all the water I wanted for free, I'd have no need to part with the diamond ring.
In which case they should just put the value of MS-Windows & Office at zilch because the value of the equivilent products (Linux & Staroffice) are priced at $0.
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So get a PO Box, use a fake name, fake phone number, and an email at a free email site. NSI isn't going to go ask for your birth certificate or go calling your house.
My time is more valuable to me than spending 2 hours getting to work (and 2 hours back), and $300/mo for the privilege. I can make $60k in a decent sized city, live 1 mile from work (or 20-45 mins to the burbs), free parking... and then spend my vacations in NYC if I really really wanted to.
If they can spend millions and millions and millions of dollars from the government to the major parties to get their people elected, they can SURELY spend a few bucks to update the circa 1899 voting machines. I mean, COME ON.
I think the biggest benefit by using screens is that the type can be made REALLY BIG for the people who have bad eyesight (ie. the people in Palm Beach FLA). I don't know how blind people vote now unless they've got braille ballots (which would be odd sized anyways, so they'd still have to do something special for them)
Well at least he backed Notepad up! I mean, what in the world would they do if they couldn't get their original Notepad back?
They wouldn't, they'd use punch cards, of course. Course it would take 48 days to install Windows 95 using punch cards... :-)
Hear, hear. I just set up my cousin's computer (hand me down from her father) so that she and her 78 yr old roommate could use AOL for e-mail. These are people who didn't know what a floppy disk was or that computers write your password in as stars. I put Wordpad, Solitaire, Hearts, and AOL on the desktop, explained that you click on the icon twice to open it, click on the x in the corner to close it. She got a full copy of an older edition of Microsoft Office, but I think she'll be happy with Wordpad for awhile. She writes faster with her hand than on a keyboard anyways.
You're entering into flamebait territory...
Most Americans can use metric. Everyone who has taken a science course has had to learn the metric system. It might be difficult for us to have an idea in our head exactly what size 180 cm is but we do know how to convert or at least estimate.
And, languages, even British English, do evolve over time. Languages are created by humans and can be changed by humans. So it doesn't really matter that the Americans spell "colour" without the "u". We (Americans) all know they're the same word, and so does everyone else.
Easy to learn, difficult to perfect.
How is this any different than how Redhat distributes their Linux? You can download it for free from their website or go to the store and pay $79.99 or $24.99 for the CD and books and support.
The difference between StarOffice and say, MS Office is you have to buy a whole nother package of it if you want to put it on more than one computer. With staroffice you can get the media and then install it on 1 or 10000 computers, because the license is free.
Are you a troll or something? The website says "Staroffice 5.2 Application Suite" - "The Ultimate free full-featured, integrated, interoperable, office suite just got better" ... "The StarOffice 5.2 suite is now available for free download in Danish, Dutch, English, ..."
I disagree on your "typical requirements". The presentation program in StarOffice is the one I use the MOST. What makes you think that "most people" have no use for a spreadsheet? Our workplace has standardized on StarOffice so I use it every day for work. I use:
1. The word processor
2. Presentation
3. Spreadsheets
The other programs I haven't used at all, we use the calendar that comes with Solaris and dtmail. I did try to create a database with the database program before but I couldn't get it to work. Money management is all online through my bank.
Have you thought that maybe there are many tools for the different needs of users? Just because I don't use the same tools that you use doesn't mean that the ones I do use are "frivolous". People wouldn't be BUYING MS Office if they thought anything beyond the word processor was unneeded extras (which is what you're saying since you say the presentation, database, and spreadsheet programs are rather unneeded).
Well what peeves me about Exodus is their pricing strategy. They price in 2 dimensions so you can stack your machines up to the ceiling and not pay any more than if you spread them out a little. This stacking them to the ceiling makes it really a nightmare to administer. I think they should price it per processor or something.
I will say right now that I like a lot of romantic comedies. I like watching them for some laughs, a nice story, and just to be entertained. I'm your average chick when it comes to movies. I love the Little Mermaid, I dislike horror movies in general, and I usually have to be dragged to the movie theater if the intention is to watch a shoot em up gory action movie.
Thus, when my boyfriend (sci-fi fan) wanted to see Titan AE last week, I remembered the preview I saw and was like "oh joy, a shoot em up Power ranger-like movie. yeah right, no way, let's do something else." Then on Sat, I was with a group of people who all wanted to see it, so since I was outnumbered, I went and saw it.
I think the movie was rather suprising, I was expecting it to be hokey and not to like it. When I saw the Iron Giant (my roommate had free tickets) and Pleasantville, I was expecting those movies to be stupid too but ended up liking them. Pleasantville really has a lot in it.
Granted, Titan AE doesn't compare to Life is Beautiful, but it has a decent storyline, great graphics, and it was entertaining. You can't expect every movie to be deep and thought provoking. If you suspend belief during the movie, you'll be entertained. If you sit there and say "feh, an anti-gravity box is impossible" and "you can't move through space like you fly in planes" and "they live in outer space, who the hell is cutting their hair like that??" then you'll probably be more aggravated than entertained.
If you only want to go see movies that will win Oscars then save your money, but if you want to be entertained for an hour and a half then go for it. I'm a girly girl chick flick loving person and I liked it.
Yeah but the reader doesn't help you if you want to do something extremely difficult such as, oh, PRINT the document.
I think that they were stalling in order to figure out the right way to "open" it up, without having MS stranglehold them out of their essential IM monopoly. You know MS would find a way, look at what they tried to do to Java. Also, if people are using other IM clients but accessing AOL's servers, they aren't looking at AOL's banner ads which are supporting the servers that they're letting you use for free.
On the other hand, I find AOL really annoying in the fact that if you go to http://www.aol.com you get an annoying pop up window advertising their 500 hours free! Anyone that goes to their site is either a) an AOL subscriber already or b) already knows about AOL Besides, it's not really 500 hours free, it's a month free, and if you wish to spend 24/7 up to 500 hours on AOL, then so be it, go for it. That's a bit of false advertising. Disclaimer: I have an aol account since work pays for it and I have cable modem at home, so it is very handy when I am out of town on business and can dial in. Thus I use AOL email once in awhile.
Yeah I guess that is a pretty poor example, but if the CDs weren't so expensive, I'd buy every single one of hers, like I have with Celine's (but hers were over the course of 9 years or so). If the CD prices weren't artificially high, people would buy more CDs (think supply & demand curves on a price/quantity scale). Then the profit maximization curve. I honestly don't think they're maximizing their profits. I'm not an economist but if they'd lower the prices, fewer people would be bootlegging them, people would buy more, and fewer CDs would be stolen from stores.
I guess I don't feel as bad knowing that Ms. McKennitt is getting a bigger portion of the money I spent.
As for the gas thread I seem to have started... yeah I'm feeling the pain of suddenly inflated prices like everyone else ($1.80 here). My point was that if they can sell the gas for $1.25 in TN then it's not the Middle Eastern oil dudes who are setting the prices. In Europe where gas is obscenely expensive, people have adjusted and the public transit is very good. If gas prices would rise here slowly and not go up 20c in one night then people wouldn't be complaining; they'd have time to adjust. I heard the Feds are investigating the problem.
Until a couple weeks ago I hadn't ever used Napster at all, so I decided to download it and see what it's all about. One of the things I did on there was do a search for "Celtic" and it came up with Loreena McKennitt, which I listened to and decided I really loved her songs. I decided I wanted to buy one of her CDs for myself, and also thought that my friend would like one for her birthday. So I went to the music store and was COMPLETELY disgusted with the price of the CDs (I hadn't gone CD shopping in awhile...) I ended up getting 2 at $17.99 (+5.75% tax) each but I definitely wasn't happy about it. I looked them up on Amazon.com later and they have them for $13.99. Which is better, but still a lot if you take shipping into consideration.
I wonder if there's anything the average person can do to help with the "war for cheaper CDs". They're seriously gouging us.
Not to mention I found out that it isn't the foreign people setting the prices for gas. Down in Tennessee gas is $1.25 and people are complaining about that. What the hell is this, who is setting the gas prices so high? It's harming the gas stations who are having lots of people drive off without paying.
I would argue against what you are saying there. I can't speak for LA but I can speak for my hometown in Ohio. It is about as urban as a small town can get, and anyone who lives in the brand spanking new houses all goes to the other (predominantly white) schools. My high school had around 1200 students, the Catholic school had significantly fewer students. There is this theory that the Catholic schools are better, and so a couple of my aunts and uncles sent their children all through the Catholic schools.
Well, the Catholic school didn't have nearly the amount of sports that the public school had. They don't have nearly the amount of scholarships offered. They don't have nearly the amount of choice in subjects (art classes, foreign languages, for instance). They don't have nearly the number of advanced (AP) courses offered. Next year they are thinking of doing away with their band in order to save money.
The one day that I spent at the Catholic school (I visited with a friend who went there to see what it was like), I found that none of the students listened one bit in the French class. The science teacher had all the students do some science homework in class, and everyone sat around throwing paper and talking. I just was not very impressed with the school.
A couple of my cousins who go there have to work all summer long to pay for their tuition there, and then during the school year they have to do a ton of fund raisers for the school as well. Obviously these kids who go there have parents who care about their schooling, whereas at the public school you've got the kids who are forced to go because of laws. School is what you make of it, if you pay attention to your teachers and try to learn, you will learn.
That said, I know that my high school got into an arrangement with Pepsi. There was all these rules about pop, and they would turn off the vending machines during the day even. But after they got into this arrangement, they started serving 16 oz cups of Pepsi at lunch. And here, for the longest time, they wouldn't let anyone have a pop because they said it wasn't food (as if anything else in the cafeteria qualified as food).
I think this Intel thing wanting them to cover up their Imacs is silly though. If the people going there was just students, they've already seen the Imacs before. Besides, most people don't really consider one to be a replacement to the other. If you want a mac, you buy a mac, if you want an Intel, you buy Intel or AMD from Compaq, Gateway, or Dell.
When I had a pager I had 150 msg's included and then some sort of fee for every message above that. I don't have messaging on my cell phone because it's an extra $3 a month and people might as well call me. I haven't looked into the short messaging on the cell phone since it's a bit more extra than I want to pay considering they make me pay for all sorts of functionality that I don't ever use (call forwarding...)
How do they know that they're sending the short message to a pager and not a cell phone? in the USA the numbers are all the same with no distinguishing characteristics. I'm not sure if the $3 is for unlimited or for a certain # of messages or what it's for, I'll have to look it up.