"excessive government intervention" These sound like weasel words that are logically useless. Isn't Excessive by definition, more than the required amount? Or did you mean that no government intervention is preferable?
I'm curious, just when was the golden age of television? I seem to recall plenty of ignorant shows during my youth such as The Lone Ranger, Gilligan's Island, The Love Boat. If anything, some of the more recent sci-fi like stargate, and battlestar galactica, are much better than anything 30 years ago.
It's my understanding that the phrases are interchangeable right now as they both get the point across, however the "could care less" version is definitely slang.
There’s a close link between the stress pattern of I could care less and the kind that appears in certain sarcastic or self-deprecatory phrases that are associated with the Yiddish heritage and (especially) New York Jewish speech. Perhaps the best known is I should be so lucky!, in which the real sense is often “I have no hope of being so lucky”, a closely similar stress pattern with the same sarcastic inversion of meaning. There’s no evidence to suggest that I could care less came directly from Yiddish, but the similarity is suggestive. There are other American expressions that have a similar sarcastic inversion of apparent sense, such as Tell me about it!, which usually means “Don’t tell me about it, because I know all about it already”. These may come from similar sources.
I would say that even "experts" in the field should not be blindly listened to. There is a reason that people should get second and third opinions on major procedures, and in most fields, there are controversies where even the experts are on different sides of the debates.
The problem is that if even experts can be mistaken, what chance does the average person have of being able to tell the correct experts from the incorrect or even more so from the outright frauds who are attempting to profit from misinformation.
One big example I can think of are the mattress ads claiming that your mattresses weight doubles in 7 years from dust and mites. As this is being reported as fact from a firm that specializes in mattresses, an average person may well believe it instead of using their common sense and realizing that the mattress firm would profit from spreading such lies.
City of Heroes - this game actually had some really interesting things going on, in that you had storylines to do (though they were grindy as hell and *incredibly* repetitive through *incredibly* repetitive environments, and were *incredibly* stupid for superheroes to be doing). But the whole "repetitive" thing and the whole "dumb for superheroes" thing made it wretched - why, for example, would Spider-Man be asked by (some random person) to deliver something halfway across town? The game mechanics were fun (and the base game still can be from time to time) but it can't really draw the crowds in because once you've run 4-5 missions, you really have done most of what that game has to offer, from a "seeing new and interesting things" standpoint.
I will admit that from a certain perspective, CoH is repetitive as hell. But as a fairly long time CoH/V player, I find it to be somewhat tactically varied what with all the varied powers, abilities, group members, and the mission's NPCs. It also helps when you have some 40 different characters on your account that all play differently.
I'll agree about 24 influencing people, though at least Jack Bauer was willing to pay the price of his illegal actions by fleeing the country. Also interesting that the show seemed to condemn a Blackwater-esque paramilitary group, so not exactly only pro-republican propaganda.
They don't need to throttle anything - that would be legally dubious. It's much safer for them to just do nothing, neglecting to upgrade the connection. They will still be providing a 'best effort' service, but just making sure that the best they can do isn't too good.
I'm pretty sure this is what Time Warner / Road Runner are doing in my Kansas City neighborhood right now. Every evening I get to see my DL rate drop to.8-2mbps and my pings rise to about 100 with occasional packet loss. It's sad when my 1mbps UL is greater than my DL.
I tend to agree about the exaggerated fears of ESD, though a lot of that could be environmental. I know that there are rare days where you get zapped over and over on anything from grocery carts to doorknobs. I would be very careful during such a day.
I'll also nominate the Dell D6xx series as being rather robust laptops. I work at a non-profit and we received a number of these second hand -- and a surprising number of them work quite well -- which is rather unusual for donations.
Granted that graph shows a spam drop, but that is only *detected* spam. It is at least possible that there is more spam making it through the filter undetected. Whether that is the case, I have no idea, but I am definitely hoping that spam is going away!
I honestly believe that Obama really does have the countries welfare in mind, but that doesn't help when the majorities in the senate and house don't. I wonder what percentage of corrupt politicians it requires to kill a typical bill - especially as divisive as party lines are lately.
Insightful?
Are you only 2 years old? That would be an excuse for your response.
Please please please do more than watch MTV for news.
There is such a long history of this that you response truly saddens me, but getting that comment modded insightful is frighting.
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Posted Anonymously because of the vitriolic replies when I don't follow the liberal line.
Don't know why I'm replying to this, but it was just too funny.
1. I don't grade my own posts.
2. You're seriously calling me 2 years old? What does that imply of yourself?
3. Does MTV have a news program? Haven't watched it in years, actually I don't have cable either.
4. Your claimed knowledge of underhanded tactical history seems impressive, sorry if I don't study such things.
5. Posted anonymously because of "not following the liberal line?" What part of my post was some sort of liberal line? I don't even know what that is. Just because all of the republican news outlets seem to have a unilateral agenda doesn't mean everyone does.
I was thinking the same thing. I figure the odds between a group of malicious republicans and a group of stupid democrats being 50/50. Since my own mother - whose been an environmentalist and green partier for decades - is slowly being brainwashed by fox news, nothing surprises me anymore.
I thought it was rather embarrassing for the republicans when they tried these tactics against Obama. It saddens me that apparently some democrats are sinking to their level. Really, I can't imagine this being successful anyway.
The flaw in your argument is that if the government does nothing, then your ISP will use its monopoly / near monopoly to provide poor service to any web services (like Netflix) that compete against what the ISP is also selling (cable tv). This is already occurring, and the only way for us citizens to fight back is to pass laws preventing their schemes.
My cats look directly and intently at my face every day
Maybe your cats are just waiting for you to pass on so they can eat you? Actually, I do wonder what they are thinking at such times... maybe something as simple as love.
They don't have to lose money to provide rated services with government supervision. For examples, see gas, electric, water and every other utility to your house.
I see your point, but an even fairer option would be to charge everyone according to a flat maintenance fee plus, their usage, and a fair profit, much like how gas or electricity is billed.
This would not only help lower bills for everyone who uses the internet less, but will reduce wasteful traffic, like illegal bittorrenting, which should free up a fair bit of capacity.
Parent post is quite correct in pointing out the flaws in simple comparisons with modern video cards. Definitely do lots of research, but you also have to make sure you aren't looking at biased sites. I happen to trust www.hardocp.com to be fairly neutral and accurate in their methodologies.
This is why they make thicker wires. They can handle more current before heating up to dangerous levels, otherwise we'd all be running inexpensive 16 gauge with high-temp insulation.
I have a hard time believing any but the cheapest jumper cables would overheat handling 60 amps at 120v for standard jumper cable lengths. A standard 4 gage jumper cable has 10 times the cross-sectional area of a 15amp rated 14 gage power line.
Of course they are, that's the way the FCC works. Make a definition that everyone can follow then change it and put out a report that says 2/3rds of the vendors are wrong. Standard government regulation encroachment tactic.
Yes, how dare they strong-arm ISPs into releasing faster service!
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Is it that easy to diagnose which capacitor(s) failed? Unless there is obvious damage on a motherboard like burn marks, I wouldn't know where to look, other than googling for common failure modes for the particular device.
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"excessive government intervention" These sound like weasel words that are logically useless. Isn't Excessive by definition, more than the required amount? Or did you mean that no government intervention is preferable?
I'm curious, just when was the golden age of television? I seem to recall plenty of ignorant shows during my youth such as The Lone Ranger, Gilligan's Island, The Love Boat. If anything, some of the more recent sci-fi like stargate, and battlestar galactica, are much better than anything 30 years ago.
From http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm
There’s a close link between the stress pattern of I could care less and the kind that appears in certain sarcastic or self-deprecatory phrases that are associated with the Yiddish heritage and (especially) New York Jewish speech. Perhaps the best known is I should be so lucky!, in which the real sense is often “I have no hope of being so lucky”, a closely similar stress pattern with the same sarcastic inversion of meaning. There’s no evidence to suggest that I could care less came directly from Yiddish, but the similarity is suggestive. There are other American expressions that have a similar sarcastic inversion of apparent sense, such as Tell me about it!, which usually means “Don’t tell me about it, because I know all about it already”. These may come from similar sources.
I would say that even "experts" in the field should not be blindly listened to. There is a reason that people should get second and third opinions on major procedures, and in most fields, there are controversies where even the experts are on different sides of the debates.
The problem is that if even experts can be mistaken, what chance does the average person have of being able to tell the correct experts from the incorrect or even more so from the outright frauds who are attempting to profit from misinformation.
One big example I can think of are the mattress ads claiming that your mattresses weight doubles in 7 years from dust and mites. As this is being reported as fact from a firm that specializes in mattresses, an average person may well believe it instead of using their common sense and realizing that the mattress firm would profit from spreading such lies.
City of Heroes - this game actually had some really interesting things going on, in that you had storylines to do (though they were grindy as hell and *incredibly* repetitive through *incredibly* repetitive environments, and were *incredibly* stupid for superheroes to be doing). But the whole "repetitive" thing and the whole "dumb for superheroes" thing made it wretched - why, for example, would Spider-Man be asked by (some random person) to deliver something halfway across town? The game mechanics were fun (and the base game still can be from time to time) but it can't really draw the crowds in because once you've run 4-5 missions, you really have done most of what that game has to offer, from a "seeing new and interesting things" standpoint.
I will admit that from a certain perspective, CoH is repetitive as hell. But as a fairly long time CoH/V player, I find it to be somewhat tactically varied what with all the varied powers, abilities, group members, and the mission's NPCs. It also helps when you have some 40 different characters on your account that all play differently.
I'll agree about 24 influencing people, though at least Jack Bauer was willing to pay the price of his illegal actions by fleeing the country. Also interesting that the show seemed to condemn a Blackwater-esque paramilitary group, so not exactly only pro-republican propaganda.
They don't need to throttle anything - that would be legally dubious. It's much safer for them to just do nothing, neglecting to upgrade the connection. They will still be providing a 'best effort' service, but just making sure that the best they can do isn't too good.
I'm pretty sure this is what Time Warner / Road Runner are doing in my Kansas City neighborhood right now. Every evening I get to see my DL rate drop to .8-2mbps and my pings rise to about 100 with occasional packet loss. It's sad when my 1mbps UL is greater than my DL.
I tend to agree about the exaggerated fears of ESD, though a lot of that could be environmental. I know that there are rare days where you get zapped over and over on anything from grocery carts to doorknobs. I would be very careful during such a day.
I'll also nominate the Dell D6xx series as being rather robust laptops. I work at a non-profit and we received a number of these second hand -- and a surprising number of them work quite well -- which is rather unusual for donations.
Granted that graph shows a spam drop, but that is only *detected* spam. It is at least possible that there is more spam making it through the filter undetected. Whether that is the case, I have no idea, but I am definitely hoping that spam is going away!
I honestly believe that Obama really does have the countries welfare in mind, but that doesn't help when the majorities in the senate and house don't. I wonder what percentage of corrupt politicians it requires to kill a typical bill - especially as divisive as party lines are lately.
Insightful? Are you only 2 years old? That would be an excuse for your response. Please please please do more than watch MTV for news. There is such a long history of this that you response truly saddens me, but getting that comment modded insightful is frighting. -- Posted Anonymously because of the vitriolic replies when I don't follow the liberal line.
Don't know why I'm replying to this, but it was just too funny.
1. I don't grade my own posts.
2. You're seriously calling me 2 years old? What does that imply of yourself?
3. Does MTV have a news program? Haven't watched it in years, actually I don't have cable either.
4. Your claimed knowledge of underhanded tactical history seems impressive, sorry if I don't study such things.
5. Posted anonymously because of "not following the liberal line?" What part of my post was some sort of liberal line? I don't even know what that is. Just because all of the republican news outlets seem to have a unilateral agenda doesn't mean everyone does.
I was thinking the same thing. I figure the odds between a group of malicious republicans and a group of stupid democrats being 50/50. Since my own mother - whose been an environmentalist and green partier for decades - is slowly being brainwashed by fox news, nothing surprises me anymore.
I thought it was rather embarrassing for the republicans when they tried these tactics against Obama. It saddens me that apparently some democrats are sinking to their level. Really, I can't imagine this being successful anyway.
The flaw in your argument is that if the government does nothing, then your ISP will use its monopoly / near monopoly to provide poor service to any web services (like Netflix) that compete against what the ISP is also selling (cable tv). This is already occurring, and the only way for us citizens to fight back is to pass laws preventing their schemes.
My cats look directly and intently at my face every day
Maybe your cats are just waiting for you to pass on so they can eat you? Actually, I do wonder what they are thinking at such times... maybe something as simple as love.
They don't have to lose money to provide rated services with government supervision. For examples, see gas, electric, water and every other utility to your house.
I see your point, but an even fairer option would be to charge everyone according to a flat maintenance fee plus, their usage, and a fair profit, much like how gas or electricity is billed. This would not only help lower bills for everyone who uses the internet less, but will reduce wasteful traffic, like illegal bittorrenting, which should free up a fair bit of capacity.
Wait, you're refuting the parent post with information that backs his argument?
Good luck getting around your ISPs conjesting of your shared download bandwidth and pings from all out-of-network providers to worthlessness.
Parent post is quite correct in pointing out the flaws in simple comparisons with modern video cards. Definitely do lots of research, but you also have to make sure you aren't looking at biased sites. I happen to trust www.hardocp.com to be fairly neutral and accurate in their methodologies.
This is why they make thicker wires. They can handle more current before heating up to dangerous levels, otherwise we'd all be running inexpensive 16 gauge with high-temp insulation.
I have a hard time believing any but the cheapest jumper cables would overheat handling 60 amps at 120v for standard jumper cable lengths. A standard 4 gage jumper cable has 10 times the cross-sectional area of a 15amp rated 14 gage power line.
Of course they are, that's the way the FCC works. Make a definition that everyone can follow then change it and put out a report that says 2/3rds of the vendors are wrong. Standard government regulation encroachment tactic.
Yes, how dare they strong-arm ISPs into releasing faster service!
Is it that easy to diagnose which capacitor(s) failed? Unless there is obvious damage on a motherboard like burn marks, I wouldn't know where to look, other than googling for common failure modes for the particular device.