Stealing is a harsh word.. and not really what is happening.. If I like your car and I buy one just like it, is that stealing ?.. If I buy a similar car that has everything yours has is that stealing ?.. If I build a car from scratch that that has everything your car has, is that stealing ?.. I say no to all... Now if I take your car and you no longer have it.. well, that would be stealing.
No, that was a compromise that when combined with forcing insurance companies to maintain a smaller profit margin or reduce rates is supposed to lead to reform of what is already a broken system... The majority of people who already have medical insurance, never use it.. just as the majority of those now forced to get insurance will never use it.. This same type of reform was done in the auto insurance industry, and it did lead to reduced rates.. The alternatives are to leave things as they are, or go even further and take over the whole thing to make it manageable.. Medical Insurance used to be almost a given when you got a job, but it has gotten so expensive it is hard to find a job that offers it without you paying in 80 percent.. perhaps if the reforms lead to reasonable rates we will get back to those "good ol' days",, but I'm not holding my breath.. Still if I end up having to pay for it, I'd much rather it be reasonable.
I have had my Hotmail hacked too many times.. and I use a mixture of upper and lower case letters with some numbers.. I have finally resolved myself to delete it if it happens again.. I have 3 other email accounts that have not been hacked.. I really only have Hotmail because I used to use Messenger.. I don't know what Hotmails log in policy is, but maybe they need to find a way to suspend it after x amount of unsuccessful tries, and force the owner to recover.. yes you might have many customers frustrated for a time, but as it becomes too difficult to hack, the hackers will go elsewhere.
Your contention that the Galaxy S's Android v2.1x -> 2.2x -> 2.3x is somehow better than the 3GS's: iOS 3.x -> 4.x to 5.x is stupid.
I didn't say it was better.. I said it was the same number in less time.. and there are also incremental updates for security and bug fixes besides the version updates, even on older versions that you seem to think are abandoned.. As to the developers woes, well they seem to be doing a good job if the majority of people don't know there is a problem.
Had two brothers and a niece and nephew in town for Christmas.. They all have Android phones (as do I), as part of breakfast conversation I asked them if they were on Gingerbread.. none of them knew what that was, or what Froyo was, or what Eclair was., or that Ice Cream Sandwich was released and should be coming soon., We had four different models on 3 different carriers (2 different EVOS, Fascinate, Sensation).. there was nothing someone else had app wise that any of us could not get if we wanted.. In truth, although we all used our phones at times, other than directly asking to see their phone none of would have known what the other had.. no one said they liked anothers phone better than theirs.. there was more talk of the carrier differences than there was about phone models.. The reality of fragmentation is that it's not a big deal that some people would make it.. I also have a phone on Froyo that I assume will never go beyond it, but I got my 2 years out of it, and it is in a drawer as a backup phone.. Now the iPhone crowd car harp on the 3GS getting updates beyond the 2 and a half years, but the same type of enthusuuast, that would care, would also upgrade within that time. My 2 year old phone in the drawer had the same number of updates as the 3GS.. The Galaxy S that this article is about, has also had the same number of updates as the 3GS, and in over a year less time.
The average dependent (who is not paying taxes btw) increases the tax return well beyond what the average single person gets,, multiply that by each one, and it's some nice cash.. It's a strange system in which those that use more of the government services pay less than single people.. Don't mean to start another inequality debate or "occupy daycare" movement.. just the way it is..
Just as there is no ultimate safe place to live.. there is no real "guaranteed" security.. Saving, whether or not it is for retirement, is a good bet. As the other poster said, uninsured motorist is pretty standard.. As to the 6 month injury, it's a good idea to add the supplemental to disability to your insurance. It's cheap.. Actually if I got injured like that, I would make even more than I do working as I had the option to boost it higher. (had a motorcycle accident years ago, so I am for covering the bases).. As to the college fund, the parent poster said he was single.. but, as people with kids get some awesome tax breaks, there is no reason for some money to be put away for college for them.. A better gage of "security" would be.. If you lost your job and did not get unemployment, how long could you survive without increasing debt, before you would be in serious threat of being on the street ?
Very few of these people have any genuine need for these things, i.e. not an EMT or Doctor, it's their little luxury.
So.. an EMT or a doctor has "genuine need" and "those people" don't ?.. An EMT or a doctor needs it for what ?.. their job ?.. really ?.. neither of those professions have more of a genuine need for a smart phone than the guy who made my hamburger at McDonalds.. they are equal in "need" of such a device... If a medical professional needs a smart phone to treat me, I think I am better off doing it myself at home with Google search... All that said, it's not about "need" anyway.. you don't need much.. You don't need a TV, movies, or cable, or the Internet, or books, or a hobby to keep you from dying from boredom.. those are wants.. and like all these entertainment "luxuries" those that want to have them will find a way.
I dual booted XFCE and Ubuntu for probably close to the last 2 years, with the majority of my time spent in XFCE.. Years back I used to swap distros like changing socks and stay on top of upgrading to the "latest" release.. I don't see much need for doing all that as long as I am getting security updates.. although I had some minor annoyance issues with a Mint distro many moons ago, I decided to give it a try recently and am running Mint 11 Katya (wiping out an earlier Ubuntu).. In all the hubub, I ended up redoing my drive and figured I would also try the latest Ubuntu (replacing my XFCE).. Still like XFCE a lot, and it will probably go back over the Ubuntu.. Still have to say Mint is growing on me.. It worried me that they might blindly follow Ubuntu, so this story is good to hear.. Still nothing is forcing me into the upgrade path if they in go an unpleasant direction.. I'll have this, and of course it's always easy to get XFCE back on.
Easier to just get yourself a live CD and boot it up.. then play around to your hearts content before committing it to hard drive install.. You will be amazed that you can boot it up and do things like surf the Internet without having to find drivers.. I had a friend who's hard drive died, loaned her a live CD so she wouldn't be without the Internet until she could get her new drive.. She ended up dual booting on the new drive... I use Windows at work, and Linux at home.. It's not like my brain is twice the size of others to know how to use both systems.. there are many commonalities.. I have had visitors to my house who have used my PC to surf or check their email and never realized they were using that complicated scary Linux OS.
As a caveat, I should say that I didn't create them from scratch.. but I imported bookmarks from Firefox to Chrome on my Linux machine, and bookmarks all work fine.. and the bookmark manager works as expected.
It's not cultural miscommunication.. it's just communication period.. Most people with a problem that needs solving could care less where you are, or even that you have an accent, as long as they can understand you and that they feel you are understanding them.. but words, and meanings are only part of communicating.. Even if an offshore worker strings together the words in the same order as an onshore worker, it can have the same effect that most computer text readers do,, you say.. "what ?".. Onshore/offshore aside,, you can have people read a book out loud and have vastly different results for the listener even though all the same words were spoken. The ability to read and speak does not mean you will be good at reading to people.. If an offshore workers is good at communicating effectively then they are in the right job, if not.. then they are not.
Even before 911, the US had a pretty strict visa policy.. Yes there were/are abuses, mostly people coming and never going back. It's part of what makes 911 so suspicious. People were, and are, declined visas every day even without explanation. People with legitimate passports and visa's were and are turned back at the port of entry.. There is no "right to visit the US".. The whole point of a visa system is to weed out bad intent.. The whole point of a passport system, is to control entry.. It's why we have US embassies, and why we have immigration and customs,, In the "scenario" provided, why would such a person be given a visa in the first place ?.. Wouldn't it be easier to collect a list of known bad people and their friends, and just deny them at the get go ?.. In "visa required countries", even people unknown to intelligence agencies, have to provide proof as to who they are and reasonable explanations about their visit, and convince the embassy of their intentions to return.. The sorting it out after someone has arrived method, does not make sense.. It's like installing anti-virus after you have already been infected.
Phones have hardware speed limits.. 3G and 4G have theoretical speed limits.. when you buy 3G or 4G plans, you have the expectation that they will provide you with the fastest speed they can provide for that technology.. For someone who bought the LTE cool-aide they already believe themselves to be on the "fastest" plan.. To now say, your on the fast plan, but we can open it up for a few more dollars begs to be the source of a class action lawsuit.. This speed boost also does not appear to be an "always on" speed level, but more like an enticement for use when you know that you are going to need more bandwidth.. They are targeting specific bandwidth using applications, by offering improved service. You should be getting the fastest service they can provide regardless of what your doing with the bits... Now if your getting your hardware and theoretical 3G/4G limits, and they want to bump you beyond them for a price.. different story.
I've done the net install, no problems really.. It takes some time, but then it also takes time to download, burn, and install from a DVD.. I suppose it could be stated that it is nice to have the hard copy as backup, but then we are talking Linux here,, How often have I used the Install disk more than the initial install ?.. Well truthfully, never.. When my motherboard died, I just installed a new one and kind of lucked out in that everything worked even though the two boards had different video chips. I lived without the hardware drivers (due to laziness) for a month or three, and decided to try redoing my system with another distro.. I had several backups of various distros I could install (including Debian net-install), but instead downloaded a new ISO, burned, installed.. Now, if my hard drive ever quits, I suppose it will be a different can of worms, and I'll be thankful to have a backup CD.
Miss the old mininova.., now mostly use btjunkie and extv.. but when eztv goes down, piratebay is the best source as a backup because files show up sooner.
It does not say that marijuana is addictive.. stop smoking and getting into a hissy fit because it's not going your way.. and learn to read.. It says "marijuana use is associated with addiction".. and that is undisputed,, Find me a meth or Heroin user that did not smoke pot first.. That you can control yourself, or that you may know 5 other people who can control themselves does not take away from the fact that a large number of people who smoke pot, also end up trying these other addictive drugs.. It's about getting "high", and that eventually ends up into finding alternative highs.. Learn to deal with life without pot.
They are not charging them with anything.. they have prevented access that would harass other guests and asked him to get a permit to film.. which would probably be denied based on intent to harass other visitors to the park.
Actually.. this is a state park.. requires a fee to enter.. Given that, I am inclined to agree those that have paid to enter should expect some policing.. In my mind, requiring a fee changes it's status from public access to private paid access.. The issue here is not about filming in a public place.. in fact I am certain they could have filmed all day long.. even in a Bigfoot suit.. the issue was whether the filming was harassing other guests.. Let's say they did the same thing even without filming it.. or let's say they (without their Bigfoot suit) just hid behind trees on a trail and jumped out to scare people to see their reaction.. In either case film or no film, you would expect them to be kicked out.. It was nice of them to state their intent before doing it.. and reasonable of the park to refuse to let them.
Or you can just not remove it, and install and run all of them and more like xfce and others.. boot the computer and choose which one you feel like running. Disk space is cheap, and choice is great. there is no reason to pick only one.
Feature phones still do have applications.. they just are not for heavy data users and browsing the web., With a feature phone, you get bored, and maybe download tetris or video poker or something...
are you running there ?.. There are very few positions in most businesses where Internet access is required to perform your job.. This is why I have always thought that web based apps and cloud computing are going to cause more problems than it solves.. Now you have to play babysitter. If you can't trust employees to do the right thing with access it's best that they not have it at all.
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Stealing is a harsh word.. and not really what is happening.. If I like your car and I buy one just like it, is that stealing ?.. If I buy a similar car that has everything yours has is that stealing ?.. If I build a car from scratch that that has everything your car has, is that stealing ? .. I say no to all... Now if I take your car and you no longer have it.. well, that would be stealing.
No, that was a compromise that when combined with forcing insurance companies to maintain a smaller profit margin or reduce rates is supposed to lead to reform of what is already a broken system... The majority of people who already have medical insurance, never use it.. just as the majority of those now forced to get insurance will never use it.. This same type of reform was done in the auto insurance industry, and it did lead to reduced rates.. The alternatives are to leave things as they are, or go even further and take over the whole thing to make it manageable.. Medical Insurance used to be almost a given when you got a job, but it has gotten so expensive it is hard to find a job that offers it without you paying in 80 percent.. perhaps if the reforms lead to reasonable rates we will get back to those "good ol' days",, but I'm not holding my breath.. Still if I end up having to pay for it, I'd much rather it be reasonable.
Your correct.. the metaphor only works if your the leading light behind an FTL test flight..
I have had my Hotmail hacked too many times.. and I use a mixture of upper and lower case letters with some numbers.. I have finally resolved myself to delete it if it happens again.. I have 3 other email accounts that have not been hacked.. I really only have Hotmail because I used to use Messenger.. I don't know what Hotmails log in policy is, but maybe they need to find a way to suspend it after x amount of unsuccessful tries, and force the owner to recover.. yes you might have many customers frustrated for a time, but as it becomes too difficult to hack, the hackers will go elsewhere.
Your contention that the Galaxy S's Android v2.1x -> 2.2x -> 2.3x is somehow better than the 3GS's: iOS 3.x -> 4.x to 5.x is stupid.
I didn't say it was better.. I said it was the same number in less time.. and there are also incremental updates for security and bug fixes besides the version updates, even on older versions that you seem to think are abandoned.. As to the developers woes, well they seem to be doing a good job if the majority of people don't know there is a problem.
Had two brothers and a niece and nephew in town for Christmas.. They all have Android phones (as do I), as part of breakfast conversation I asked them if they were on Gingerbread.. none of them knew what that was, or what Froyo was, or what Eclair was., or that Ice Cream Sandwich was released and should be coming soon., We had four different models on 3 different carriers (2 different EVOS, Fascinate, Sensation).. there was nothing someone else had app wise that any of us could not get if we wanted.. In truth, although we all used our phones at times, other than directly asking to see their phone none of would have known what the other had.. no one said they liked anothers phone better than theirs.. there was more talk of the carrier differences than there was about phone models.. The reality of fragmentation is that it's not a big deal that some people would make it.. I also have a phone on Froyo that I assume will never go beyond it, but I got my 2 years out of it, and it is in a drawer as a backup phone.. Now the iPhone crowd car harp on the 3GS getting updates beyond the 2 and a half years, but the same type of enthusuuast, that would care, would also upgrade within that time. My 2 year old phone in the drawer had the same number of updates as the 3GS.. The Galaxy S that this article is about, has also had the same number of updates as the 3GS, and in over a year less time.
The average dependent (who is not paying taxes btw) increases the tax return well beyond what the average single person gets,, multiply that by each one, and it's some nice cash.. It's a strange system in which those that use more of the government services pay less than single people.. Don't mean to start another inequality debate or "occupy daycare" movement.. just the way it is..
Just as there is no ultimate safe place to live.. there is no real "guaranteed" security.. Saving, whether or not it is for retirement, is a good bet. As the other poster said, uninsured motorist is pretty standard.. As to the 6 month injury, it's a good idea to add the supplemental to disability to your insurance. It's cheap.. Actually if I got injured like that, I would make even more than I do working as I had the option to boost it higher. (had a motorcycle accident years ago, so I am for covering the bases).. As to the college fund, the parent poster said he was single.. but, as people with kids get some awesome tax breaks, there is no reason for some money to be put away for college for them.. A better gage of "security" would be.. If you lost your job and did not get unemployment, how long could you survive without increasing debt, before you would be in serious threat of being on the street ?
Very few of these people have any genuine need for these things, i.e. not an EMT or Doctor, it's their little luxury.
.. really ? .. neither of those professions have more of a genuine need for a smart phone than the guy who made my hamburger at McDonalds.. they are equal in "need" of such a device... If a medical professional needs a smart phone to treat me, I think I am better off doing it myself at home with Google search... All that said, it's not about "need" anyway.. you don't need much.. You don't need a TV, movies, or cable, or the Internet, or books, or a hobby to keep you from dying from boredom.. those are wants.. and like all these entertainment "luxuries" those that want to have them will find a way.
So.. an EMT or a doctor has "genuine need" and "those people" don't ?.. An EMT or a doctor needs it for what ?.. their job ?
I dual booted XFCE and Ubuntu for probably close to the last 2 years, with the majority of my time spent in XFCE.. Years back I used to swap distros like changing socks and stay on top of upgrading to the "latest" release.. I don't see much need for doing all that as long as I am getting security updates.. although I had some minor annoyance issues with a Mint distro many moons ago, I decided to give it a try recently and am running Mint 11 Katya (wiping out an earlier Ubuntu).. In all the hubub, I ended up redoing my drive and figured I would also try the latest Ubuntu (replacing my XFCE).. Still like XFCE a lot, and it will probably go back over the Ubuntu.. Still have to say Mint is growing on me.. It worried me that they might blindly follow Ubuntu, so this story is good to hear.. Still nothing is forcing me into the upgrade path if they in go an unpleasant direction.. I'll have this, and of course it's always easy to get XFCE back on.
Easier to just get yourself a live CD and boot it up.. then play around to your hearts content before committing it to hard drive install.. You will be amazed that you can boot it up and do things like surf the Internet without having to find drivers.. I had a friend who's hard drive died, loaned her a live CD so she wouldn't be without the Internet until she could get her new drive.. She ended up dual booting on the new drive... I use Windows at work, and Linux at home.. It's not like my brain is twice the size of others to know how to use both systems.. there are many commonalities.. I have had visitors to my house who have used my PC to surf or check their email and never realized they were using that complicated scary Linux OS.
As a caveat, I should say that I didn't create them from scratch.. but I imported bookmarks from Firefox to Chrome on my Linux machine, and bookmarks all work fine.. and the bookmark manager works as expected.
I'm thinking there may have been an artifact involved..
It's not cultural miscommunication.. it's just communication period.. Most people with a problem that needs solving could care less where you are, or even that you have an accent, as long as they can understand you and that they feel you are understanding them.. but words, and meanings are only part of communicating.. Even if an offshore worker strings together the words in the same order as an onshore worker, it can have the same effect that most computer text readers do,, you say.. "what ?".. Onshore/offshore aside,, you can have people read a book out loud and have vastly different results for the listener even though all the same words were spoken. The ability to read and speak does not mean you will be good at reading to people.. If an offshore workers is good at communicating effectively then they are in the right job, if not.. then they are not.
Even before 911, the US had a pretty strict visa policy.. Yes there were/are abuses, mostly people coming and never going back. It's part of what makes 911 so suspicious. People were, and are, declined visas every day even without explanation. People with legitimate passports and visa's were and are turned back at the port of entry.. There is no "right to visit the US".. The whole point of a visa system is to weed out bad intent.. The whole point of a passport system, is to control entry.. It's why we have US embassies, and why we have immigration and customs,, In the "scenario" provided, why would such a person be given a visa in the first place ?.. Wouldn't it be easier to collect a list of known bad people and their friends, and just deny them at the get go ?.. In "visa required countries", even people unknown to intelligence agencies, have to provide proof as to who they are and reasonable explanations about their visit, and convince the embassy of their intentions to return.. The sorting it out after someone has arrived method, does not make sense.. It's like installing anti-virus after you have already been infected.
Phones have hardware speed limits.. 3G and 4G have theoretical speed limits .. when you buy 3G or 4G plans, you have the expectation that they will provide you with the fastest speed they can provide for that technology.. For someone who bought the LTE cool-aide they already believe themselves to be on the "fastest" plan.. To now say, your on the fast plan, but we can open it up for a few more dollars begs to be the source of a class action lawsuit.. This speed boost also does not appear to be an "always on" speed level, but more like an enticement for use when you know that you are going to need more bandwidth.. They are targeting specific bandwidth using applications, by offering improved service. You should be getting the fastest service they can provide regardless of what your doing with the bits... Now if your getting your hardware and theoretical 3G/4G limits, and they want to bump you beyond them for a price.. different story.
I've done the net install, no problems really.. It takes some time, but then it also takes time to download, burn, and install from a DVD.. I suppose it could be stated that it is nice to have the hard copy as backup, but then we are talking Linux here,, How often have I used the Install disk more than the initial install ?.. Well truthfully, never.. When my motherboard died, I just installed a new one and kind of lucked out in that everything worked even though the two boards had different video chips. I lived without the hardware drivers (due to laziness) for a month or three, and decided to try redoing my system with another distro.. I had several backups of various distros I could install (including Debian net-install), but instead downloaded a new ISO, burned, installed.. Now, if my hard drive ever quits, I suppose it will be a different can of worms, and I'll be thankful to have a backup CD.
Miss the old mininova.., now mostly use btjunkie and extv.. but when eztv goes down, piratebay is the best source as a backup because files show up sooner.
It does not say that marijuana is addictive.. stop smoking and getting into a hissy fit because it's not going your way.. and learn to read.. It says "marijuana use is associated with addiction".. and that is undisputed,, Find me a meth or Heroin user that did not smoke pot first.. That you can control yourself, or that you may know 5 other people who can control themselves does not take away from the fact that a large number of people who smoke pot, also end up trying these other addictive drugs.. It's about getting "high", and that eventually ends up into finding alternative highs.. Learn to deal with life without pot.
They are not charging them with anything.. they have prevented access that would harass other guests and asked him to get a permit to film.. which would probably be denied based on intent to harass other visitors to the park.
Actually.. this is a state park.. requires a fee to enter.. Given that, I am inclined to agree those that have paid to enter should expect some policing.. In my mind, requiring a fee changes it's status from public access to private paid access.. The issue here is not about filming in a public place.. in fact I am certain they could have filmed all day long.. even in a Bigfoot suit.. the issue was whether the filming was harassing other guests.. Let's say they did the same thing even without filming it.. or let's say they (without their Bigfoot suit) just hid behind trees on a trail and jumped out to scare people to see their reaction.. In either case film or no film, you would expect them to be kicked out.. It was nice of them to state their intent before doing it.. and reasonable of the park to refuse to let them.
Or you can just not remove it, and install and run all of them and more like xfce and others.. boot the computer and choose which one you feel like running. Disk space is cheap, and choice is great. there is no reason to pick only one.
Feature phones still do have applications.. they just are not for heavy data users and browsing the web., With a feature phone, you get bored, and maybe download tetris or video poker or something...
are you running there ? .. There are very few positions in most businesses where Internet access is required to perform your job.. This is why I have always thought that web based apps and cloud computing are going to cause more problems than it solves.. Now you have to play babysitter. If you can't trust employees to do the right thing with access it's best that they not have it at all.
in relation to beer.. What is this "can" thing you speak of ?