* Designed with the new mobile lifestyle in mind * More background designs and colors * Enhanced Bing search * A beautifully redesigned store. * Deep cloud integration with OneDrive.
With reasons like that I can't imagine why XP users aren't rushing out to drop $500 on a new PC, $100 on a new monitor and another $300 on a new printer/scanner then replacing/reinstalling all their software and trying to get everything working like it already was...
I am always amazed how much people are willing to spend on a hand held device for making roaming phone calls.
I've never paid for a smart phone in my life* and I'm on my third one now. The latest one is Android 4.2 with 5" screen, dual core CPU, 5MP camera. Not an iPhone, I know, but a pretty decent phone.
[*] Unless you count signing up for a $10-a-month plan with unlimited-talk and unlimited data as "paying" for a phone...
I just piggy-back the phone account on top of my $25-a-month fiber optic Internet connection (200Mbit up/down) and they usually give me a new phone to sweeten the deal.
I'm assuming this will also allow officials to kill all the nearby smartphones when there are protests to stop people showing police violence. Of course they'll say its so they cant text for more people to show up.
Why would they do that? They can use the phones to identify the owners (and track them afterwards).
Yeah, right. What they want to do is be able to shut down everyone's line of communications just in case the hoi polloi get too uppity.
It it's done right you could have a little scratch card with a secret number on it. You need the number to kill the phone and the Men In Black don't know it.
I have a friend who has gone through a sort of endless circle of creating a facebook account, getting bored/fed up/anxious and deleting his account
Have you told him that Facebook doesn't really delete anything. Ever. They just hide it from public view.
Also that by creating/deleting accounts he's revealing even more about himself than just not using it. By leaving an account idle you let them know that Facebook isn't your thing (ergo, you're not the sort who responds to adverts!) By deleting/creating/deleting you let them know you're an obsessive compulsive who needs brain-meds.
Foreshortening probably give a more accurate view of Scotland's prowess. There's not much of anything except sheep and heather in the top half of Scotland. And some bearded people who need subtitles when they appear on English television.
Filtered, yes, to remove sand. Refined? Not so much. Some plants have UV light treatments to kill microorganisms but no chemical separation is done. What's dissolved in the water is what you get.
AFAIK, Whole Foods main business is not quack snake oil - it's organic produce.
Ummm...that's the same thing.
(Or is it? I mean, it's been so long since I entered one of these over-priced supermarket...)
I promise you that the chemicals in even the most "industrially farmed" produce are 100% organic.
I can also tell you that some of the traditional "organic" pesticides are far more unhealthy than the modern, scientifically produced ones. eg. "Bordeaux mixture" which sounds oldey-worldy-homeopathic but is really strip-mined copper sulfate that wrecks the soil, poisons water and even poisons you if you ingest it.
Yes , it's widely used in "organic" farming. Make sure you thoroughly wash those organically grown grapes, mmmmkay?
Either they need to admit that nitrates are OK to eat, or they need to stop selling things that defeat the point of their own restriction.
They can't admit that because a lot of their customers are idiots who shop there because of the "no nitrates" stickers.
Nitrates from celery are obviously more natural than the industrial chemical nitrates used in bacon, right?
And that's the point of the summary: Why do seemingly-sensible people believe that sort of crap?
Me? I don't want sea salt. Not with all the mercury and PCBs floating around in the ocean. You think they refine it or anything? Nope, they just evaporate the water and package it.
I want the stuff that's been underground for millions of years, unmolested by humans until they dig it out. Give me the most refined, chemically pure salt they can possibly manufacture. Sodium and chlorine in equal amounts, that's it (well, maybe a bit of iodine as well).
You try telling one of the people in the store that sea salt may not be better. They'll chase you out of the shop with a slab of tofu!
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You're saying they should just hand over the keys to anybody who calls claiming "grandma died"?
Yep. That sounds like a working security model.
That's Inception, right there.
Except that a lot of their software will stop working and probably their printers, etc.
No problem at all with doing that really.
Microsoft's list of reasons to upgrade include:
* Designed with the new mobile lifestyle in mind
* More background designs and colors
* Enhanced Bing search
* A beautifully redesigned store.
* Deep cloud integration with OneDrive.
With reasons like that I can't imagine why XP users aren't rushing out to drop $500 on a new PC, $100 on a new monitor and another $300 on a new printer/scanner then replacing/reinstalling all their software and trying to get everything working like it already was...
Because it's a shitty law that has too many dangerous drawbacks
Huh? Why would they be against it if it means they get to sell more phones?
What if it needs a secret number on a scratch card to disable it?
Would that work...?
I am always amazed how much people are willing to spend on a hand held device for making roaming phone calls.
I've never paid for a smart phone in my life* and I'm on my third one now. The latest one is Android 4.2 with 5" screen, dual core CPU, 5MP camera. Not an iPhone, I know, but a pretty decent phone.
[*] Unless you count signing up for a $10-a-month plan with unlimited-talk and unlimited data as "paying" for a phone...
I just piggy-back the phone account on top of my $25-a-month fiber optic Internet connection (200Mbit up/down) and they usually give me a new phone to sweeten the deal.
I'm assuming this will also allow officials to kill all the nearby smartphones when there are protests to stop people showing police violence.
Of course they'll say its so they cant text for more people to show up.
Why would they do that? They can use the phones to identify the owners (and track them afterwards).
Yeah, right. What they want to do is be able to shut down everyone's line of communications just in case the hoi polloi get too uppity.
It it's done right you could have a little scratch card with a secret number on it. You need the number to kill the phone and the Men In Black don't know it.
I suspect the point of the cartoon was a thing called "crowdfunding"
(And to draw attention to the approaching window for actually doing something...)
If the only reason she's there is your money then you're doing it wrong.
Spend it on hookers until you find The One. It's far cheaper. And more fun.
Remember: Women are sneaky and knowing when she's The One is difficult (doubly so when you've got money).
I have a friend who has gone through a sort of endless circle of creating a facebook account, getting bored/fed up/anxious and deleting his account
Have you told him that Facebook doesn't really delete anything. Ever. They just hide it from public view.
Also that by creating/deleting accounts he's revealing even more about himself than just not using it. By leaving an account idle you let them know that Facebook isn't your thing (ergo, you're not the sort who responds to adverts!) By deleting/creating/deleting you let them know you're an obsessive compulsive who needs brain-meds.
...or some sort of electronic substitute?
Don't like it? You're free to leave. Nobody's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to stay.
Welcome to the real world.
I'm not looking forward to garbage lots filled to the sky with used batteries.
Is it as bad is the air being filled to the sky with CO2?
So yes... we are almost there.
Apart from the recharge time...
If recharge time was a minute or two then a car with 200 miles range would probably be good enough, and we already have that.
It's the "overnight" part that's keeping electric cars off the road right now.
It's as if the internet's full of wack job's. Do you not know when to use its? Do you know it exist's, its?
FTFY.
Let us assume that the example about the "Bordeaux mixture" is true.
You could always click the link I provided ... or type "Bordeaux mixture" into google.
Foreshortening probably give a more accurate view of Scotland's prowess. There's not much of anything except sheep and heather in the top half of Scotland. And some bearded people who need subtitles when they appear on English television.
Actually sea salt IS filtered and refined.
Filtered, yes, to remove sand. Refined? Not so much. Some plants have UV light treatments to kill microorganisms but no chemical separation is done. What's dissolved in the water is what you get.
And in many places they just fish it out of the sea and sell it. How do you know what you're getting when your manufacturer puts "sea salt" on the packet?
what salt is not sea salt? Do you think "non sea salt" just spontaneously appeared. All salt are from evaporated sea !!!!!
Pedant!
The point is: Some of it evaporated before we started dumping toxic crap into the oceans. OK?
AFAIK, Whole Foods main business is not quack snake oil - it's organic produce.
Ummm...that's the same thing.
(Or is it? I mean, it's been so long since I entered one of these over-priced supermarket...)
I promise you that the chemicals in even the most "industrially farmed" produce are 100% organic.
I can also tell you that some of the traditional "organic" pesticides are far more unhealthy than the modern, scientifically produced ones. eg. "Bordeaux mixture" which sounds oldey-worldy-homeopathic but is really strip-mined copper sulfate that wrecks the soil, poisons water and even poisons you if you ingest it.
Yes , it's widely used in "organic" farming. Make sure you thoroughly wash those organically grown grapes, mmmmkay?
Most of these consumers are not zealots, whereas most creationists are zealots.
No, but they are wasting their money on this stuff. Sure, it's their money, but the sellers are con artists and shouldn't be allowed to prey on them.
Either they need to admit that nitrates are OK to eat, or they need to stop selling things that defeat the point of their own restriction.
They can't admit that because a lot of their customers are idiots who shop there because of the "no nitrates" stickers.
Nitrates from celery are obviously more natural than the industrial chemical nitrates used in bacon, right?
And that's the point of the summary: Why do seemingly-sensible people believe that sort of crap?
Me? I don't want sea salt. Not with all the mercury and PCBs floating around in the ocean. You think they refine it or anything? Nope, they just evaporate the water and package it.
I want the stuff that's been underground for millions of years, unmolested by humans until they dig it out. Give me the most refined, chemically pure salt they can possibly manufacture. Sodium and chlorine in equal amounts, that's it (well, maybe a bit of iodine as well).
You try telling one of the people in the store that sea salt may not be better. They'll chase you out of the shop with a slab of tofu!