MetroPCS has an even better deal. For $30 a month, you get unlimited incoming and outgoing local calls. That is almost competitive with landlines. For $35 you get unlimited nationwide calling, and for $40, your local area becomes nationwide and you get unlimited texting. Now, the down side is that if you are in South Dakota, you are not going to get coverage at all, but if you live in a heavily populated area, and you want city use of your phone, MetroPCS is hard to beat price wise.
So, the option is there for a good portion of the country to get much lower rates than they are currently paying. You just have to be willing to have smaller coverage areas.
If I have to choose between having women/peeing in the closet, or not having women/peeing in the toilet, I'll just pee in the closet. Luckily, my good aim and unwillingness to pee all over the floor has not played a factor in getting women. Oddly enough, when I say, has not played a factor, I mean that it also has not helped. Women seem perfectly fine with men peeing all over the floor. I've even had a few explain that it is OK, because there isn't anything the guy can do about it. Bizarre? Yes.
My son installed his first copy of Ubuntu 2 years old. Linux has been brain dead easy to install for at least 3 or 4 years. Being able to install Ubuntu, and understanding privacy concerns, are not even on the same scale. Particularly when the data mining is undisclosed.
Since the poster was responding to my statement that iTunes add no value to the iPod for me, having an iPod and iTunes is already a given as a prerequisite. Without the assumption of having an iPod and iTunes, the scenario being discussed makes no sense.
That is good to hear. I still prefer to have my backup media in the higher quality pressed CD than to do the manufacturing of my backup disk myself with the far lower quality CD-Rs. That is just a personal preference though.
I just got my G1 yesterday, but as far as I can tell it is a perfectly capable MP3 player. Since I don't rent music, iTunes adds no value. Given that the G1 has a MicroSD slot, so can be cheaply upgraded to a 32GB model, I would say that the G1 just might be a better MP3 player than the iPod touch.
Again, this is with only one day to play with it, so I might change my mind. There is no question that Google is involved in the MP3 player market, even if they don't push that angle.
A library purchases X copies and supplies it to Y people so that the Y people don't pay the creator.
Piracy involves a non-library purchasing X copies and supplying it to Y people so that the Y people don't pay the creator
No, I don't see the difference. Certainly you are not going to claim that it is the 'replicating' part that is wrong. You can't seriously be claiming that a library lending out a copy has any less impact on the sales of media than Joe Bluebeard replicating a copy for his pal. In both cases, both people get to use the media and in both cases one is not paying the creator.
I am thinking that you seem to fall into the confused category.
People that see 'piracy' as wrong, but support libraries always seemed to be confused to me. Unless your stance is that the law is the law, right wrong or otherwise, you should always follow the law, and it should never be questioned, how can you be against piracy, yet support the distribution of other peoples works without their consent?
I think the part you are thinking of is the part where, any criticism of the system by pointing out that it doesn't do a job well is countered by "that isn't what the system was designed for". I can't count the number of times that the failings of the OLPC as a 'learn to program' platform was countered with claims that it was never intended to be a tool to teach programming. In fact, the OLPC website never really said what they were really trying to accomplish. Just a bunch of marketing buzzwords.
Well, obviously the way you get the Mars mission to keep it's funding is to lunch it with a bunch of 8 year olds on board. That way we can 'Think of the Children'. It wouldn't hurt to make sure that Al-Queda (or even someone in a Hollywood sound stage claiming to be Al-Queda) got a ship on the same flight path and a declaration that they are claiming Mars in the name of Islam to save it from the evil Americans. Then you could get some of that tasty tasty military money.
A) A starter failing 8 years in is not going to be considered defective, just as if 1st Gen iPods were having their user replacable batteries fail 8 years in, no one is going to claim they are defective, and you would NOT be hearing stories about iPod problems.
B) Dodge has in no way attempted to prevent me from replacing the tires on my truck myself. You are also wrong. I can go to the store and buy a new tire. Yes it will be on a new rim, but I can still buy the tire. I can then take it home and put it on my truck. The same goes for a replaceable battery. I can take the battery out of a properly designed device and replace it with another battery. I wouldn't be replacing the wires, or the casing of the battery, or putting new Lithium into the battery, but I would still be replacing it. OR, I can take the battery out and have the cells replaced by a professional. This is often known as refurbishing a battery. Just as I can take the wheel off of my truck and have a professional replace the tire part of it. All of this can also be done without voiding the warranty.
While I don't change my tires myself, I certainly can, and have. I also don't change my own oil, but I think we can all agree that oil is a user replaceable part.
I think we can all also agree that any car that requires you to take it back to the dealership to get the tires changes is defective by design.
Absolute BS. If the batteries that are currently being put into iPods were sufficient to last the lifetime of an iPod, then the consumer would never need to replace it, even if they could. Thus, there wouldn't be third party batteries busting into flames in iPods. So, for your theory to be correct, you would have to admit that the iPod was being sold as a known defective product due to inadequate battery design.
Seriously. This BS that driving drunk is safer than driving while on a cell phone is just plain dumb. The reason these "studies" say that cell phones are so dangerous is because that is what they are designed to do. Yes, if you have the police ask every driver that gets in an accident if they were doing an extremely common activity when they got in an accident, you will find that lots of people are doing an extremely common activity. If they put a check box that said "wearing pants" next to the box that says "cell phone in use", you would come up with even more damning numbers to show that wearing pants while driving is dangerous. If it was really about "distracted drivers" stereos would have been banned from cars a very long time ago.
I think it has more to do with the fact that they no longer have to. Men will do the cooking, and like all people, women have a tendency to do the least amount of work to get what they want.
I think I've known more phychotic people than sane ones. An easy place to spot it is to look at people with their pets. The vast majority of them have anthropomorphized them to the point that they have lost the distinction between human and dog (or cat).
Forgetting that they didn't have carmeras... If someone popped up with a bunch of photos from little Octavius's birthday party from the height of the Roman Empire, TONS of people would be interested in seeing it. From the way they were dressed, to the kinds of gifts they gave, to the way they had their home decorated. Many people really are intersted in the past, and the past is often lost because only extrodinary situation get recorded for the ages. Day to day life is much harder to get a view of.
A) Your link does NOT in any way say that a low carb diet can kill you.
B) A low carb diet is not in any way related to being a dehydrated diabetic.
Your logic that being a dehydrated diabetic is deadly means that cutting most of the sugar from your diet is also deadly is simply bizarre. It is like saying that if A+B=C Then X+Y Must equal chicken.
So, yes. The claim that cutting sugar out of your diet will kill you is an urban myth. Conversely, I have met many people who have become very ill from an all carb diet. Usually, combined with a low calorie diet. You know, exactly what is commonly recommended by the "Eat Less, Exercise More" crowd.
Sure, 44% of them are "obese" or "overweight", but a good portion of them might have less than %16 body fat. I have considered "overweight" using the standard metrics at 16% body fat. These same groups are telling people with 2% body fat that they are "Normal" weight. Using the BMI charts (which is what gets used in these "studies") I am still in a "Normal" weight range if I have 0% body fat, and have hacked off a limb or two. (As long as it isn't both legs, because then I would be shorter and "obese" again.
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MetroPCS has an even better deal. For $30 a month, you get unlimited incoming and outgoing local calls. That is almost competitive with landlines. For $35 you get unlimited nationwide calling, and for $40, your local area becomes nationwide and you get unlimited texting. Now, the down side is that if you are in South Dakota, you are not going to get coverage at all, but if you live in a heavily populated area, and you want city use of your phone, MetroPCS is hard to beat price wise.
So, the option is there for a good portion of the country to get much lower rates than they are currently paying. You just have to be willing to have smaller coverage areas.
If I have to choose between having women/peeing in the closet, or not having women/peeing in the toilet, I'll just pee in the closet. Luckily, my good aim and unwillingness to pee all over the floor has not played a factor in getting women. Oddly enough, when I say, has not played a factor, I mean that it also has not helped. Women seem perfectly fine with men peeing all over the floor. I've even had a few explain that it is OK, because there isn't anything the guy can do about it. Bizarre? Yes.
My son installed his first copy of Ubuntu 2 years old. Linux has been brain dead easy to install for at least 3 or 4 years. Being able to install Ubuntu, and understanding privacy concerns, are not even on the same scale. Particularly when the data mining is undisclosed.
The same thing that prevents house dogs from evolving back to wolves, and farm turkeys from evolving smaller breasts.
Since the poster was responding to my statement that iTunes add no value to the iPod for me, having an iPod and iTunes is already a given as a prerequisite. Without the assumption of having an iPod and iTunes, the scenario being discussed makes no sense.
That is good to hear. I still prefer to have my backup media in the higher quality pressed CD than to do the manufacturing of my backup disk myself with the far lower quality CD-Rs. That is just a personal preference though.
I just got my G1 yesterday, but as far as I can tell it is a perfectly capable MP3 player. Since I don't rent music, iTunes adds no value. Given that the G1 has a MicroSD slot, so can be cheaply upgraded to a 32GB model, I would say that the G1 just might be a better MP3 player than the iPod touch.
Again, this is with only one day to play with it, so I might change my mind. There is no question that Google is involved in the MP3 player market, even if they don't push that angle.
A library purchases X copies and supplies it to Y people so that the Y people don't pay the creator.
Piracy involves a non-library purchasing X copies and supplying it to Y people so that the Y people don't pay the creator
No, I don't see the difference. Certainly you are not going to claim that it is the 'replicating' part that is wrong. You can't seriously be claiming that a library lending out a copy has any less impact on the sales of media than Joe Bluebeard replicating a copy for his pal. In both cases, both people get to use the media and in both cases one is not paying the creator.
I am thinking that you seem to fall into the confused category.
People that see 'piracy' as wrong, but support libraries always seemed to be confused to me. Unless your stance is that the law is the law, right wrong or otherwise, you should always follow the law, and it should never be questioned, how can you be against piracy, yet support the distribution of other peoples works without their consent?
I think the part you are thinking of is the part where, any criticism of the system by pointing out that it doesn't do a job well is countered by "that isn't what the system was designed for". I can't count the number of times that the failings of the OLPC as a 'learn to program' platform was countered with claims that it was never intended to be a tool to teach programming. In fact, the OLPC website never really said what they were really trying to accomplish. Just a bunch of marketing buzzwords.
Sure you can. You just need to learn how to properly use your writing instrument.
Well, obviously the way you get the Mars mission to keep it's funding is to lunch it with a bunch of 8 year olds on board. That way we can 'Think of the Children'. It wouldn't hurt to make sure that Al-Queda (or even someone in a Hollywood sound stage claiming to be Al-Queda) got a ship on the same flight path and a declaration that they are claiming Mars in the name of Islam to save it from the evil Americans. Then you could get some of that tasty tasty military money.
With a tire, your car does not lose its warranty. With an ipod it does.
A) A starter failing 8 years in is not going to be considered defective, just as if 1st Gen iPods were having their user replacable batteries fail 8 years in, no one is going to claim they are defective, and you would NOT be hearing stories about iPod problems.
B) Dodge has in no way attempted to prevent me from replacing the tires on my truck myself. You are also wrong. I can go to the store and buy a new tire. Yes it will be on a new rim, but I can still buy the tire. I can then take it home and put it on my truck. The same goes for a replaceable battery. I can take the battery out of a properly designed device and replace it with another battery. I wouldn't be replacing the wires, or the casing of the battery, or putting new Lithium into the battery, but I would still be replacing it. OR, I can take the battery out and have the cells replaced by a professional. This is often known as refurbishing a battery. Just as I can take the wheel off of my truck and have a professional replace the tire part of it. All of this can also be done without voiding the warranty.
While I don't change my tires myself, I certainly can, and have. I also don't change my own oil, but I think we can all agree that oil is a user replaceable part.
I think we can all also agree that any car that requires you to take it back to the dealership to get the tires changes is defective by design.
Absolute BS. If the batteries that are currently being put into iPods were sufficient to last the lifetime of an iPod, then the consumer would never need to replace it, even if they could. Thus, there wouldn't be third party batteries busting into flames in iPods. So, for your theory to be correct, you would have to admit that the iPod was being sold as a known defective product due to inadequate battery design.
Seriously. This BS that driving drunk is safer than driving while on a cell phone is just plain dumb. The reason these "studies" say that cell phones are so dangerous is because that is what they are designed to do. Yes, if you have the police ask every driver that gets in an accident if they were doing an extremely common activity when they got in an accident, you will find that lots of people are doing an extremely common activity. If they put a check box that said "wearing pants" next to the box that says "cell phone in use", you would come up with even more damning numbers to show that wearing pants while driving is dangerous. If it was really about "distracted drivers" stereos would have been banned from cars a very long time ago.
I think it has more to do with the fact that they no longer have to. Men will do the cooking, and like all people, women have a tendency to do the least amount of work to get what they want.
You THINK you can tell the difference. Your posts clearly states otherwise.
Thank you for helping make my point.
I think I've known more phychotic people than sane ones. An easy place to spot it is to look at people with their pets. The vast majority of them have anthropomorphized them to the point that they have lost the distinction between human and dog (or cat).
Forgetting that they didn't have carmeras... If someone popped up with a bunch of photos from little Octavius's birthday party from the height of the Roman Empire, TONS of people would be interested in seeing it. From the way they were dressed, to the kinds of gifts they gave, to the way they had their home decorated. Many people really are intersted in the past, and the past is often lost because only extrodinary situation get recorded for the ages. Day to day life is much harder to get a view of.
He was moded flamebait because he talks like a fag, and his shit's all retarded.
A) Your link does NOT in any way say that a low carb diet can kill you.
B) A low carb diet is not in any way related to being a dehydrated diabetic.
Your logic that being a dehydrated diabetic is deadly means that cutting most of the sugar from your diet is also deadly is simply bizarre. It is like saying that if A+B=C Then X+Y Must equal chicken.
So, yes. The claim that cutting sugar out of your diet will kill you is an urban myth. Conversely, I have met many people who have become very ill from an all carb diet. Usually, combined with a low calorie diet. You know, exactly what is commonly recommended by the "Eat Less, Exercise More" crowd.
That is what we call an urban myth.
Sure, 44% of them are "obese" or "overweight", but a good portion of them might have less than %16 body fat. I have considered "overweight" using the standard metrics at 16% body fat. These same groups are telling people with 2% body fat that they are "Normal" weight. Using the BMI charts (which is what gets used in these "studies") I am still in a "Normal" weight range if I have 0% body fat, and have hacked off a limb or two. (As long as it isn't both legs, because then I would be shorter and "obese" again.