Of course you have to fuck with the extensions thing, that's a Microsoft issue. Is it their fault they assumed you'd want to use their default handling just like they did in Windows 7? Same shit happens there too. Click an image? Open *windows* image viewer. Play an MP3? Default: open windows media player.
I don't like the behavior regardless but you can't say that they haven't been consistent.
8.1 actually does fix some things, although classic shell fixes much more. Does that mean I want Windows 8 for anything other than a lazy home PC for gaming? Absolutely not.
Actually you know more people using *nix* than ubuntu, mint, or windows due to Android and because people were always using more nix than windows, they just never realized because it was mostly in background appliances, etc.
He's not even in exile, but we thanks for letting us know you're an idiot.
You have no idea just how much money he has saved us from expanding even further on completely fucking useless NSA programs with nothing to show for them. In a sense he has added significant economic value/efficiency to the US.
Hahaha. Trust me, if you think Chicago is bad you should see New York and LA.
Hollywood and New York are the original crony capitalism groups, by definition. Look at the NY judge that made up his own rules just to rule in the NSA's favor yesterday! Those rules and facts that he used don't even exist! If that's not a clear "I am sucking at the government teat" then I don't know what is.
Chicago's corruption is the police force, but not the legal system itself. New York's is 100% regulatory capture.
What makes you think it takes Chicago to be corrupt? The irony is the second he came in office he started trying to do good things on occasion and mostly tried to not do anything to change, well, anything. Which is a big problem considering some very bad things that have come along in his presidency and continued during it (such as our illegal war camps, fueling more wars, not repealing the patriot act, etc) - obamacare not actually being an illegal thing or entirely terrible concept, although allowing other politicians to have obamacare coverage for free being 100% BS.
So, is the solution then that consumers themselves need a way to store some of the energy they generate? Or is that (in comparison to generating the electricity) prohibitively expensive?
Unfortunately I don't have a good way to not put you on the spot, but I'm curious - what are your thoughts for how to make this more fair? Are you saying the utility shouldn't be paying the consumer for the electricity? Or just that consumers + utility need to meet in the middle regarding fees, etc? I don't really know anything about the real cost to benefit ratios of solar myself.
Guess which of those locations is more likely to house fires?
That should sum up the potential of whether it's likely the Tesla was faulted or not. Whether that's idle speculation or not at this point, the fact that the county appears ready to speculate with no confirmed facts is actually very concerning.
Techdirt covers a lot of the shit that is going on from a strongly unbiased (and fact driven) perspective. I strongly suggest reading their articles in coverage of the NSA, Apple, and really anything technology. That is the true informed US view which some people share, not this kind of blatant propaganda. Some, not all. Lawrence Lessig's rootstrikers is a movement focused on fixing the whole american politics problem at it's source - lobbying money.
I do unfortunately agree that misinformed inflammatory coverage does always pull in far more views, but then again it's the same as the politicians below and for the same reason: The politicians do compromise, but only to their constituents - which have shifted from those who vote to those who write their effectively larger paycheck via lobbying. So unless there is significant outrage the politicians don't tend to do anything.
Follow the money. All of broadcast news comes from 1 or 2 sources, so the rest is just posturing for funding.
So let me get this straight, you're asking me to prove a negative but taking his own anecdotes at face value? Do you realize the idiocy in such a claim? Corn subsidies are why we have such ethanol production.
I do not need to waste my time digging up studies, a single google search will find evidence as it's been discussed throughout the fucking thread. Waste of my fucking time to even post this reply.
To be truthful the anon comment was correct, and you are 100% wrong and your examples are anecdotal. The stuff is indeed harmful to cars. Any damage to the vehicle mitigates savings from E10 - and yet, we pay to produce E10 with gov't subsidies - so it's a double whammy to the taxpayer. No thanks!
E10 (and corn subsidies in general) are a load of shit that has resulted in diabetes, cancer, and all sorts of other wonderful things. Remind me how that high fructose corn syrup in every product that exists (as a result of subsidies) is working out for you?
In the US, corporatism does not follow specific political lines. It's not even specific to CBS. From a political groups perspective Tea Party, Libertarians, and Republicans are all in the exact same boat - with each denouncing eachother, yet having extremely similar right-leaning views.
So no, it's not about specifics - because it covers them all. Remember that our NSA is also a corporation itself, and thus plays both sides of the political field.
Left and Right parties don't really exist in the USA. Both sides are basically moderate with some takes on eachother's side. It's a misnomer to think that they are any different than tea party or libertarians, either. Some people believe there's a divide, but when it comes to corporatism all sides are willing to sell out to the same sources.
Any news source associated with the above will out tea party messages, it's just a question of how obfuscated. Is it that CBS re-broadcasts's faux news, or is it that they just quote some random person who quoted the original tea party person? This is not unheard of. see http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/10/1035294/-Creepy-15-Media-Outlets-Use-Exact-Same-Phrase for an example.
CBS has never been anything other than sucking at the teat of corporatism. It's not an accident they didn't cover the arab spring, OWS or anything other than pro-us government leaning views until they were widely broadcast everywhere else.
In short - if it's affiliated with any TV network public or private, then you're not the customer. The corporations are.
Whether the guns are banned or not, whether 3d printable guns are banned or not, we're simply not going to end up in a movie fantasyland scenario, which is what Mad Maxx is. Stop watching movies and predicating reality on them. It's usually the other way around for people who aren't complete morons.
I do agree that this isn't significant at all, but all of them are american corporations and three of the 8 have been pretty honest with their marketing.
Not only that, but ebay is probably the worst offender when it comes to online shopping. The risks involved with ebay purchases are numerous and range from the "fuck you" you get from paypal to buyers demanding extra money and other ridiculous payment disputes.
Amazon's return policies are much, much clearer and subject to many less questions. They may have a bigger fee involved but they also don't subject you to terrible support, either.
Ebay vs craigslist vs amazon = amazon to sell things every time, hands down.
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And meanwhile, total linux usage has remained as it always has, being the most widely used OS on the planet across all devices.
Of course you have to fuck with the extensions thing, that's a Microsoft issue. Is it their fault they assumed you'd want to use their default handling just like they did in Windows 7? Same shit happens there too. Click an image? Open *windows* image viewer. Play an MP3? Default: open windows media player.
I don't like the behavior regardless but you can't say that they haven't been consistent.
8.1 actually does fix some things, although classic shell fixes much more. Does that mean I want Windows 8 for anything other than a lazy home PC for gaming? Absolutely not.
Actually you know more people using *nix* than ubuntu, mint, or windows due to Android and because people were always using more nix than windows, they just never realized because it was mostly in background appliances, etc.
sup lazy NSA troll.
He's not even in exile, but we thanks for letting us know you're an idiot.
You have no idea just how much money he has saved us from expanding even further on completely fucking useless NSA programs with nothing to show for them. In a sense he has added significant economic value/efficiency to the US.
Hahaha. Trust me, if you think Chicago is bad you should see New York and LA.
Hollywood and New York are the original crony capitalism groups, by definition. Look at the NY judge that made up his own rules just to rule in the NSA's favor yesterday! Those rules and facts that he used don't even exist! If that's not a clear "I am sucking at the government teat" then I don't know what is.
Chicago's corruption is the police force, but not the legal system itself. New York's is 100% regulatory capture.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131230/11062925713/judge-who-ruled-favor-nsa-relied-911-report-that-doesnt-even-mention-what-he-claims-it-does.shtml
What makes you think it takes Chicago to be corrupt? The irony is the second he came in office he started trying to do good things on occasion and mostly tried to not do anything to change, well, anything. Which is a big problem considering some very bad things that have come along in his presidency and continued during it (such as our illegal war camps, fueling more wars, not repealing the patriot act, etc) - obamacare not actually being an illegal thing or entirely terrible concept, although allowing other politicians to have obamacare coverage for free being 100% BS.
That wasn't favoritism, that was corporatism. Apple was a big donor to Obama's campaign and Samsung wasn't as big a donor.
It's no better in any form, but put the blame where the blame is due.
So, is the solution then that consumers themselves need a way to store some of the energy they generate? Or is that (in comparison to generating the electricity) prohibitively expensive?
Unfortunately I don't have a good way to not put you on the spot, but I'm curious - what are your thoughts for how to make this more fair? Are you saying the utility shouldn't be paying the consumer for the electricity? Or just that consumers + utility need to meet in the middle regarding fees, etc? I don't really know anything about the real cost to benefit ratios of solar myself.
I said county, not country. Reading fail.
Guess which of those locations is more likely to house fires?
That should sum up the potential of whether it's likely the Tesla was faulted or not. Whether that's idle speculation or not at this point, the fact that the county appears ready to speculate with no confirmed facts is actually very concerning.
So that you have to replace your entire phone if you have a bad sim.
I'm not sure how that's a good thing, but I'm guessing the carriers didn't think about that.
Not only that, but imagine what happens when they refuse to assist you in switching?
When you have a physical sim you can swap it yourself. You have no such choice if you don't have control over the sim.
This is actually a very large loss to phone users unless you can reprogram it yourself.
Techdirt covers a lot of the shit that is going on from a strongly unbiased (and fact driven) perspective. I strongly suggest reading their articles in coverage of the NSA, Apple, and really anything technology. That is the true informed US view which some people share, not this kind of blatant propaganda. Some, not all. Lawrence Lessig's rootstrikers is a movement focused on fixing the whole american politics problem at it's source - lobbying money.
I do unfortunately agree that misinformed inflammatory coverage does always pull in far more views, but then again it's the same as the politicians below and for the same reason: The politicians do compromise, but only to their constituents - which have shifted from those who vote to those who write their effectively larger paycheck via lobbying. So unless there is significant outrage the politicians don't tend to do anything.
Follow the money. All of broadcast news comes from 1 or 2 sources, so the rest is just posturing for funding.
So let me get this straight, you're asking me to prove a negative but taking his own anecdotes at face value? Do you realize the idiocy in such a claim? Corn subsidies are why we have such ethanol production.
I do not need to waste my time digging up studies, a single google search will find evidence as it's been discussed throughout the fucking thread. Waste of my fucking time to even post this reply.
To be truthful the anon comment was correct, and you are 100% wrong and your examples are anecdotal. The stuff is indeed harmful to cars. Any damage to the vehicle mitigates savings from E10 - and yet, we pay to produce E10 with gov't subsidies - so it's a double whammy to the taxpayer. No thanks!
E10 (and corn subsidies in general) are a load of shit that has resulted in diabetes, cancer, and all sorts of other wonderful things. Remind me how that high fructose corn syrup in every product that exists (as a result of subsidies) is working out for you?
In the US, corporatism does not follow specific political lines. It's not even specific to CBS. From a political groups perspective Tea Party, Libertarians, and Republicans are all in the exact same boat - with each denouncing eachother, yet having extremely similar right-leaning views.
So no, it's not about specifics - because it covers them all. Remember that our NSA is also a corporation itself, and thus plays both sides of the political field.
Left and Right parties don't really exist in the USA. Both sides are basically moderate with some takes on eachother's side. It's a misnomer to think that they are any different than tea party or libertarians, either. Some people believe there's a divide, but when it comes to corporatism all sides are willing to sell out to the same sources.
Any news source associated with the above will out tea party messages, it's just a question of how obfuscated. Is it that CBS re-broadcasts's faux news, or is it that they just quote some random person who quoted the original tea party person? This is not unheard of. see http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/10/1035294/-Creepy-15-Media-Outlets-Use-Exact-Same-Phrase for an example.
Democrats and republicans.
Since when did you think it was any answer other than "all of the above"?
CBS has never been anything other than sucking at the teat of corporatism. It's not an accident they didn't cover the arab spring, OWS or anything other than pro-us government leaning views until they were widely broadcast everywhere else.
In short - if it's affiliated with any TV network public or private, then you're not the customer. The corporations are.
*are the*. Sorry, typo.
You hinted on the cause. Lamar and Dianne are the who MPAA/RIAA sponsored politicians.
It's highly likely some recording exec is fearful of phonecalls during movies on airplanes or some other idiotic pretense.
Hey guess what?
Whether the guns are banned or not, whether 3d printable guns are banned or not, we're simply not going to end up in a movie fantasyland scenario, which is what Mad Maxx is. Stop watching movies and predicating reality on them. It's usually the other way around for people who aren't complete morons.
5? How do you get "these 5" from 8?
I do agree that this isn't significant at all, but all of them are american corporations and three of the 8 have been pretty honest with their marketing.
Not only that, but ebay is probably the worst offender when it comes to online shopping. The risks involved with ebay purchases are numerous and range from the "fuck you" you get from paypal to buyers demanding extra money and other ridiculous payment disputes.
Amazon's return policies are much, much clearer and subject to many less questions. They may have a bigger fee involved but they also don't subject you to terrible support, either.
Ebay vs craigslist vs amazon = amazon to sell things every time, hands down.