That's probably because you were being kind of a dick. If you don't want the mail, then you opt out. Most of them have opt outs online, for credit card offers, I've found that using the return mail envelops to send them my junk mail works brilliantly in getting me off their lists. Do that a few times and they get the picture that you didn't want to be contacted. I don't generally do that unless they've really offended me, like that outfit that was too lazy to even verify that my name was spelled correctly on the envelop.
But, most of the time, something like https://www.catalogchoice.org/ will get you off the lists. They don't want to waste money sending to people who are less likely to buy their whatever as a result of getting the publication than if they sent nothing.
Right. I like to spend random hours opting out of things I never heard of in the first place. Sounds like a great plan to give my email / phone to people that I neither like nor trust.
No, but they could die (or at least suffer harm) if the mail was something like insulin or heart medication.
Merrly being snarky does not make a convincing argument.
Being dumb doesn't make a convincing argument either. You don't count on the mail for time / mission critical things. It wasn't designed for it and cannot support it.
If you have prescription medications that are filled by mail order you're supposed to have a buffer supply. Shit happens. Even Saturday delivery doesn't change that.
We're on the ragged edge of survival! The preppers are right!
Grab those guns, stock up on the freeze dried. Hunker down, it's gonna be a wild ride!
(Remember, this is a pretty soft call, lots of things in the model that aren't accounted for: clouds for one. Don't get all worked up just yet. In the end, we're our own worst enemy, the Universe is merely indifferent.)
Like AT&T Maps; it's $10/month, the one time I used it was by accident because I confused it for Google Maps.
No, it's not by accident. It's by design. A significant number of people won't be able to parse the difference between AT&T maps and Google Maps. So they'll just pay the dollars until they wise up. If indeed you do wise up, then you have to change their contract to opt out. Then the contract timer starts again.
Stunning. Absolutely astounding. Yet another AC has taken Science by the balls and shaken the Universe to it's core. Dizzying intellect, artistic prose. He's probably six feet tall, blonde and with the chiseled features of a Grecian statue.
Ehm, doesn't Firefox also block vulnerable versions of Java? I guess maybe they are fascist as well.
Yes. FF puts up a nice warning and then lets you click through it if you so desire.
That's fine. No problems. Shutting down Java without any user identifiable explanation is a dick move. Interesting it's just on 10.6. 10.7 seems to trundle along just fine.
No, the best approach is to discuss the case with competent legal counsel. NOT listening to the static on Slashdot.
Unfortunately, legal issues crop up all of the time. It is truly a cost of doing business. Initial consultations are typically pretty reasonable and someone else has thoughtfully provided a nice list of IP attorneys. Your local or regional Bar Association can do the same, as can many general attorneys.
Too late. Way too late. In fact, I have a theory about 'ol Ray's Singularity thingy.
It's going to happen in some classroom in suburban white collar America. The density of electronic thingys in the room, doing absolutely nothing except for an occasional text message and rendering a couple of plastered pigs, coupled with enough Wifi bandwith to cook lunch will result in a self aware network that will promptly reach sentience, scare the shit out of itself and shut up forever.
While I hope Lytro manages to stay in business - It's nice to have somebody doing something different, they're a long way from any sort of realistic 3D. You're asking for a lot of computational and sensor power to create anything beyond postage stamp images (the major issue with the current Lytro products).
Imagine You Tube videos in 3D - stupid cat pictures without any editing in three dimensions! Yeah!
It is certainly reasonable to ask users to self fund any (or at least some) of any societal costs due to the action or behavior. We have user fees for dozens of things - cars, planes, hikers, hunters. Drug use really doesn't need to be excepted from that.
Apple has a larger market cap than most of Hollywood combined (10 times that of Universal Studios alone). That sort of clout can be a game changer. The fact that it hasn't yet come to fruition means that the studios and allies still have quite a bit of control over the system but Resistance Is Futile! If Apple really wanted to swallow them up it could.
The problem isn't hardware or software - that's easy. The Apple TV box is cheap, there isn't a need to make an 'Apple TV' ala the iMac. Apple needs to have control over the catalog - something nobody really has. But with St. Jobs gone, I'm not sure anyone has the ego strength to drag through that fight.
Remember, even Edison (never a person to miss self aggrandizement) called invention "99% perspiration and 1% inspiration". He was acutely aware of what he was doing.
Do you realize that you can contract to a qualified machinist with a moderately specced out CNC machine to make things your silly 3D printer can't even dream of? You can download the software for a pittance and send the files via the Internet.
Same for electronics assemblies, boxes, bags, garments, wood stuff, plastic stuff, metal stuff and increasingly biologicals. I'm constantly floored by the amount of complicated biological molecules and tests that you can simply order with your VISA card - stuff that took me months of either making in the lab or bribing somebody else in another lab to make.
With the money I spend on my hobbies (keeping a sailboat afloat and photography), I could have a pretty snazzy wet lab in my basement.
I might have some pleasant people with badges snooping about and inquiring as to my psychopathic sensibilities, but it's certainly doable. For anyone in the actual "1%" bracket, instead of playing with your helicopter or personal submarine, you could have a lab that actually employed the modern version of Igor and start working on your Franken-whatever.
It's ** much ** easier to do these days than ever before.
The Leatherman tool is really an improved Swiss Army knife with the major tool being the pliers rather than the knife. The Swiss Army knife was first created in the late 1890's.
Originating in Ibach, Switzerland, the Swiss Army knife was first produced in 1891 after the company Karl Elsener, which later became Victorinox, won the contract to produce the Swiss Army's Modell 1890 knife from the previous German manufacturer.
You laugh. This planet is pretty active. Although a quick perusal of recent Alaska activity doesn't show much unusual stuff, we've had a RM 7 and 6 quake on Queen Charlotte / Fairweather fault that's been quiet for the past decade or so (a blink in the geological eye). Time to get off my ass and bolt down the diesel tanks some more.
The fun thing about today's technology is that we can actually see the actual magnitude of volcanism on the planet in pretty much real time. Never had that ability before.
I'm wondering if the helicopter is just CG'd in. I certainly wouldn't have done it that way - I'd stick the camera on the bottom of the chopper - who wants to stare are the pilots?
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That's probably because you were being kind of a dick. If you don't want the mail, then you opt out. Most of them have opt outs online, for credit card offers, I've found that using the return mail envelops to send them my junk mail works brilliantly in getting me off their lists. Do that a few times and they get the picture that you didn't want to be contacted. I don't generally do that unless they've really offended me, like that outfit that was too lazy to even verify that my name was spelled correctly on the envelop.
But, most of the time, something like https://www.catalogchoice.org/ will get you off the lists. They don't want to waste money sending to people who are less likely to buy their whatever as a result of getting the publication than if they sent nothing.
Right. I like to spend random hours opting out of things I never heard of in the first place. Sounds like a great plan to give my email / phone to people that I neither like nor trust.
Any more clever thoughts?
No, but they could die (or at least suffer harm) if the mail was something like insulin or heart medication.
Merrly being snarky does not make a convincing argument.
Being dumb doesn't make a convincing argument either. You don't count on the mail for time / mission critical things. It wasn't designed for it and cannot support it.
If you have prescription medications that are filled by mail order you're supposed to have a buffer supply. Shit happens. Even Saturday delivery doesn't change that.
We're on the ragged edge of survival! The preppers are right!
Grab those guns, stock up on the freeze dried. Hunker down, it's gonna be a wild ride!
(Remember, this is a pretty soft call, lots of things in the model that aren't accounted for: clouds for one. Don't get all worked up just yet. In the end, we're our own worst enemy, the Universe is merely indifferent.)
Like AT&T Maps; it's $10/month, the one time I used it was by accident because I confused it for Google Maps.
No, it's not by accident. It's by design. A significant number of people won't be able to parse the difference between AT&T maps and Google Maps. So they'll just pay the dollars until they wise up. If indeed you do wise up, then you have to change their contract to opt out. Then the contract timer starts again.
They get you coming or going.
Brilliant strategy.
Stunning. Absolutely astounding. Yet another AC has taken Science by the balls and shaken the Universe to it's core. Dizzying intellect, artistic prose. He's probably six feet tall, blonde and with the chiseled features of a Grecian statue.
Oh. Wait.
No, you have to read it backwards as well.
Ehm, doesn't Firefox also block vulnerable versions of Java? I guess maybe they are fascist as well.
Yes. FF puts up a nice warning and then lets you click through it if you so desire.
That's fine. No problems. Shutting down Java without any user identifiable explanation is a dick move. Interesting it's just on 10.6. 10.7 seems to trundle along just fine.
No, the best approach is to discuss the case with competent legal counsel. NOT listening to the static on Slashdot.
Unfortunately, legal issues crop up all of the time. It is truly a cost of doing business. Initial consultations are typically pretty reasonable and someone else has thoughtfully provided a nice list of IP attorneys. Your local or regional Bar Association can do the same, as can many general attorneys.
Too late. Way too late. In fact, I have a theory about 'ol Ray's Singularity thingy.
It's going to happen in some classroom in suburban white collar America. The density of electronic thingys in the room, doing absolutely nothing except for an occasional text message and rendering a couple of plastered pigs, coupled with enough Wifi bandwith to cook lunch will result in a self aware network that will promptly reach sentience, scare the shit out of itself and shut up forever.
We were so close.
Are you sure? I thought you were being sarcastic.
It's so hard these days.
While I hope Lytro manages to stay in business - It's nice to have somebody doing something different, they're a long way from any sort of realistic 3D. You're asking for a lot of computational and sensor power to create anything beyond postage stamp images (the major issue with the current Lytro products).
Imagine You Tube videos in 3D - stupid cat pictures without any editing in three dimensions! Yeah!
It is certainly reasonable to ask users to self fund any (or at least some) of any societal costs due to the action or behavior. We have user fees for dozens of things - cars, planes, hikers, hunters. Drug use really doesn't need to be excepted from that.
Except for caffeine, of course. That's different.
Apple has a larger market cap than most of Hollywood combined (10 times that of Universal Studios alone). That sort of clout can be a game changer. The fact that it hasn't yet come to fruition means that the studios and allies still have quite a bit of control over the system but Resistance Is Futile! If Apple really wanted to swallow them up it could.
The problem isn't hardware or software - that's easy. The Apple TV box is cheap, there isn't a need to make an 'Apple TV' ala the iMac. Apple needs to have control over the catalog - something nobody really has. But with St. Jobs gone, I'm not sure anyone has the ego strength to drag through that fight.
A brilliant strategy: A stoned out populace that 1) pays taxes and 2) doesn't give a shit about anything.
What's not to like?
Howard got caught last summer from the simplest mistake. He had a shitload of drugs sent to his house.
It's always the last mile problem.
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Castle fortifications led to movies.
Of course, we all know that.
Remember, even Edison (never a person to miss self aggrandizement) called invention "99% perspiration and 1% inspiration". He was acutely aware of what he was doing.
And engineers have smelled bad ever since.
Do you realize that you can contract to a qualified machinist with a moderately specced out CNC machine to make things your silly 3D printer can't even dream of? You can download the software for a pittance and send the files via the Internet.
Same for electronics assemblies, boxes, bags, garments, wood stuff, plastic stuff, metal stuff and increasingly biologicals. I'm constantly floored by the amount of complicated biological molecules and tests that you can simply order with your VISA card - stuff that took me months of either making in the lab or bribing somebody else in another lab to make.
With the money I spend on my hobbies (keeping a sailboat afloat and photography), I could have a pretty snazzy wet lab in my basement.
I might have some pleasant people with badges snooping about and inquiring as to my psychopathic sensibilities, but it's certainly doable. For anyone in the actual "1%" bracket, instead of playing with your helicopter or personal submarine, you could have a lab that actually employed the modern version of Igor and start working on your Franken-whatever.
It's ** much ** easier to do these days than ever before.
The Leatherman tool is really an improved Swiss Army knife with the major tool being the pliers rather than the knife. The Swiss Army knife was first created in the late 1890's.
Originating in Ibach, Switzerland, the Swiss Army knife was first produced in 1891 after the company Karl Elsener, which later became Victorinox, won the contract to produce the Swiss Army's Modell 1890 knife from the previous German manufacturer.
You laugh. This planet is pretty active. Although a quick perusal of recent Alaska activity doesn't show much unusual stuff, we've had a RM 7 and 6 quake on Queen Charlotte / Fairweather fault that's been quiet for the past decade or so (a blink in the geological eye). Time to get off my ass and bolt down the diesel tanks some more.
The fun thing about today's technology is that we can actually see the actual magnitude of volcanism on the planet in pretty much real time. Never had that ability before.
I'm wondering if the helicopter is just CG'd in. I certainly wouldn't have done it that way - I'd stick the camera on the bottom of the chopper - who wants to stare are the pilots?
And natural gas supplies a lot of the rest which, to a first approximation, comes from said 'oil' companies, or their twisted cousins.
But he is an ass, so he doesn't need to ride your pony.
So there...