in our homes. Anyone who does, of course, would serve the show well by tuning in at the appointed hour. But otherwise the show cares not whether we download it or watch it at broadcast-time.
but that "don't buy it if you don't like it" argument becomes quickly untenable when every manufacturer of every similar type of product has the same terms.
"Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health."
Nowhere on their website do I seem to be able to find a reason why the good health of the biosphere is both mutually exclusive with and more important than the continued survival of even a reduced-population human race.
I hope they do something good with the trademark other than an MP3 player. I'd like to see C= branded PCs, personally - gamer-oriented ones. That would own.
You mean Kliper? In my opinion that design could be an excellent platform for a multitude of manned space applications. I'd like to see every country that wants to get humans into space license and co-design/build it with the Russians, but sadly I don't think it's ever going to get off the ground.
It could very easily have a great deal to do with Amateur Radio, couldn't it? I for one am looking forward to the opportunity of using an SDR as my communications rig for HF, VHF and SW.
it doesn't hurt anyone to buy it through Gratis, provided they were buying it in the first place.
And Gratis' TOS says they do not resell or give away your personal data, though I believe they anonymize it and resell the anonymous purchasing info.
From the site itself:
We use other third parties to provide a short survey on our site which, with your consent, will collect the personally identifiable information entered on the preceding address form page in order to supply you with information about various special offers and services. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose. You are provided with the option of opting out of these surveys, and must consent to each offer on an individual basis for your personally identifiable information to be transmitted.
I didn't fill out any surveys when I did my offer, and neither did any of my friends.
We may work with other third party businesses using the personal information that you supply to us on the main signup page to bring selected retail opportunities to our members via direct mail, email and telemarketing. These businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation and email marketing. You may choose to opt out of receiving these promotional emails at the initial point of email collection by deselecting this option. Keep in mind that if you take advantage of an offer from a Gratis Internet business partner and thus, become their customer, they may independently wish to send offers to you. In the event that you are not interested in receiving future offers from these affiliates, you must contact them directly to fulfill your list removal request.
This is fairly standard. It's the same as when you deselect the check box when installing any application that wants to send you stupid marketing emails.
Where's the problem here? Be scrupulous about identifying opportunities for companies to mine your data, and you're fine. None of my friends are dumb enough to not pay attention to this stuff.
At some point in the distant past (probably in Byte magazine or something) I remember reading advertisements for whitebox systems that featured 80186 processors.
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I fucking hate you, dude.
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How the hell did you pull that shit off?
And wanna sell one for $2? 100% profit! Can't beat that!
Anyone know why the volume seems to change every second on the acoustic descent pickup?
in our homes. Anyone who does, of course, would serve the show well by tuning in at the appointed hour. But otherwise the show cares not whether we download it or watch it at broadcast-time.
but that "don't buy it if you don't like it" argument becomes quickly untenable when every manufacturer of every similar type of product has the same terms.
"WHAT THE FUCK? MORE LIKE TROLL FILTER"
Yes, I think that's sort of the point.
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Stupid-ass filter doesn't even know when you're quoting someone.
I think I'd ask if the outlet was covered. Otherwise I wouldn't bother.
The major flaw with this position is its blindness to the potential humanity has to improve itself.
I believe when we reach the Vingean "Singularity," we won't be anywhere near as corrupt, malicious and evil as the doomsayers say we are.
On the other hand, Chevy is just now getting into the business of selling up-modified cars for customers interested in performance.
:D
We need more nerds and less people who are essentially zombies-walking-around-in-a-fog. There are too many of those.
"Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health."
Nowhere on their website do I seem to be able to find a reason why the good health of the biosphere is both mutually exclusive with and more important than the continued survival of even a reduced-population human race.
I'm curious what CleverNickName has to say about this.
Doesn't look like he's been very prolific since the Ask Wil Wheaton Anything Again story a couple weeks back, though.
Lingo Insanely cheap and really feature-rich. Call quality is excellent too. Indistinguishible from a standard POTS line.
I hope they do something good with the trademark other than an MP3 player. I'd like to see C= branded PCs, personally - gamer-oriented ones. That would own.
I can see the commercials now...
You mean Kliper? In my opinion that design could be an excellent platform for a multitude of manned space applications. I'd like to see every country that wants to get humans into space license and co-design/build it with the Russians, but sadly I don't think it's ever going to get off the ground.
Keep us posted. I want to hear burn-through-apple stories :)
It could very easily have a great deal to do with Amateur Radio, couldn't it? I for one am looking forward to the opportunity of using an SDR as my communications rig for HF, VHF and SW.
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I'm curious. What'd you do that got it revoked?
it doesn't hurt anyone to buy it through Gratis, provided they were buying it in the first place.
And Gratis' TOS says they do not resell or give away your personal data, though I believe they anonymize it and resell the anonymous purchasing info.
From the site itself:
We use other third parties to provide a short survey on our site which, with your consent, will collect the personally identifiable information entered on the preceding address form page in order to supply you with information about various special offers and services. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose. You are provided with the option of opting out of these surveys, and must consent to each offer on an individual basis for your personally identifiable information to be transmitted.
I didn't fill out any surveys when I did my offer, and neither did any of my friends.
We may work with other third party businesses using the personal information that you supply to us on the main signup page to bring selected retail opportunities to our members via direct mail, email and telemarketing. These businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation and email marketing. You may choose to opt out of receiving these promotional emails at the initial point of email collection by deselecting this option. Keep in mind that if you take advantage of an offer from a Gratis Internet business partner and thus, become their customer, they may independently wish to send offers to you. In the event that you are not interested in receiving future offers from these affiliates, you must contact them directly to fulfill your list removal request.
This is fairly standard. It's the same as when you deselect the check box when installing any application that wants to send you stupid marketing emails.
Where's the problem here? Be scrupulous about identifying opportunities for companies to mine your data, and you're fine. None of my friends are dumb enough to not pay attention to this stuff.
"No, but selling out 5 of your friends to get it does."
Not if they're actually getting something for what they buy into the deal with.
The best offer on the Gratis site is probably MyInks, which sells remanufactured inkjet cartridges, refill kits, and other consumables.
Come ink refill time, it's reeeeal nice not to have to subsidize your printer company's printers sold at a loss by buying their overpriced ink.
can anyone give a compelling reason why keeping the poor from reproducing is a bad idea?
Note that this is not a eugenics program.
There have been anecdotal stories of astronauts using off-the-shelf laptops aboard the ISS with no issues to speak of.
I'd google, but am on crappy dial-up this evening.
This begs the question of how we make voluntary sterilization an attractive option.
At some point in the distant past (probably in Byte magazine or something) I remember reading advertisements for whitebox systems that featured 80186 processors.
IIRC they were basically faster 8086s.
This piqued my interest. Do you have any source info about that?
Kurt Russell's O'Neill didn't really have much of a sense of humor. He was more of the tortured-haunted-guy.