In fact, with netflix, the prices have -DROPPED- since.
Netflix hasn't always been all that consumer-friendly of a company, but in the movie rental business, they're light years ahead of everyone else in service to the consumer.
Reread parent. Exchange "alternatives" are not enough... you need an app that significantly matches exchanges feature set... and to convince enterprises to switch over, it should beat it.
You do realize the problem here, right?
Our electoral system is how we were supposed to make changes.
It's only been considered fucked for the past decade or so.
There's not a lot of options here. What do you propose - revolution? Our military is the strongest in the world. Our citizens are not allowed to own weapons even in the same ballpark as our military maintains.
We can't vote 'em out, we can't push 'em out... what do you propose we do?
"It really is a lost art, because it took real finesse for DJ's to get it sounding right with vinyl."
-->It's not a lost art at all; djs in clubs do it every night, with much greater technical skill. Many match beats, some even match key, others even use various tricks with the mixer to provide greater range of blending options.
Really, the art is not dead; in fact, it's come a long, long way.
If you can cite the times when the democrats encouraged warrantless wiretaps and administrations based on war profiteering - by far the biggest examples of a stronger and more intrusive government - then I'll mod you insightful.
I used to feel the same way; until I bought some last year.
New rechargables are awesome. The ones I own (energizer 2500mAh) have _dramatically_ outlived and outpriced buying new alkalines all the time. They're only about 3x the price; but they (a) perform better than alkalines (b) live long enough to pay for themselves many times over and (c) are smarter for the environment.
If christians actually read the bible and applied it to politics, they would have thrown Bush Sr. out for attempting to build his "New World Order" - the one world government prophesized in Revelations.
The very fact that Christians haven't attempted to remove either Bush is evidence that they don't apply the prophesies in their bible to anything they perceive suits their cause.
Which is ironic, because if you believe in the bible (I don't, but have read it quite a bit) the "anti-christ", the "great deciever" sounds a lot like Dictator Bush, more and more every day.
"No where in a political move do you directly destroy or cripple services. "
-->Interesting. There's QUITE a few dictators that have been overthrown by covert meddling that would not agree.
"The current administration plays all the same games"
-->Note that no where did I suggest they don't; simply that bush has lost the flair that his predecessors once had for the covert and the underhanded. Reagan... Clinton... Even Bush sr., were all tremendous at 'cheating' at the world game. Bush lacks a fundamental appreciation and understanding of subtlety and would rather drive a truck through the building rather than infest it with termites.
"The key difference is that sanctions and traditional methods are (generally) open and aboveboard"
-->Oh boy.
Countries (including the US) raid and detain maritime vessels - shipping, scientific, etc - for a wide variety of reasons... not all of them overt.
I see a number of parallels from a cyberattack on a country to the US detaining money from shipments of sugar from brazil to russia calling it suspect for the drug trade. We can call it "Social Engineering", if you will, but the picture remains the same - countries have a variety of ways to wage war - economic, sociopolitical, psychological, even religious - without ever pulling a trigger or killing a soul.
Sadly the Bush Administration has nearly forgotten how to continue that fine, delicate art form, but there was once a time where we waged war entirely out of the realm of above board and open - not to say that the latest endeavours have been such either, but at least everyone knows it's the Americans killing people.
If impact is merely economic - how then does it differ from other games countries play to crush economic interests?
I mean, where you see "Denial of Service", I see "Sanctions" and wonder, in the grand scheme of things, what's the difference?
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"I will never forget sitting in reading class with my classmates watching it go up, up, up, and then kablueeee! All our mouths dropped."
-->I share that exact memory. And the teachers trying hard to figure out how to explain all that to the students.
Aside from finding out that Vader was Luke's Father, that may have been the biggest WTF! moment of childhood.
In fact, with netflix, the prices have -DROPPED- since.
Netflix hasn't always been all that consumer-friendly of a company, but in the movie rental business, they're light years ahead of everyone else in service to the consumer.
Even this assumes intelligent life has the ability to use tools precise enough to create such signals.
A floating super-smart brain still would have no means to send radio signals, now would it?
"And there's the problem. He's stuck in his ways, and the internet is a threat to those ways."
-->Let's be even clearer.
Music has always been about rebelling against the established ways of writing music.
Mr. B. Thoven was rebellious because he wrote music using his thumbs. The church found his music sinful.
It's all the same. Elton should recognize it for what it is.
Lemme know when they show up on counterstrike... I've been waiting a looonnnng time to play against a good T team.
Reread parent. Exchange "alternatives" are not enough... you need an app that significantly matches exchanges feature set... and to convince enterprises to switch over, it should beat it.
No we don't. If we had that, we might still have Free.
I think about all we got left is "The" and "of the"
You do realize the problem here, right? Our electoral system is how we were supposed to make changes. It's only been considered fucked for the past decade or so. There's not a lot of options here. What do you propose - revolution? Our military is the strongest in the world. Our citizens are not allowed to own weapons even in the same ballpark as our military maintains. We can't vote 'em out, we can't push 'em out... what do you propose we do?
I'm pretty sure the designers wanted to stay far away from any further progress towards the Brown Note.
"It really is a lost art, because it took real finesse for DJ's to get it sounding right with vinyl."
-->It's not a lost art at all; djs in clubs do it every night, with much greater technical skill. Many match beats, some even match key, others even use various tricks with the mixer to provide greater range of blending options.
Really, the art is not dead; in fact, it's come a long, long way.
"This 2015 Prius had a 60ct cell... but we've taken the rock outta Xibit's ear and given you a full 250ct cell!"
If you can cite the times when the democrats encouraged warrantless wiretaps and administrations based on war profiteering - by far the biggest examples of a stronger and more intrusive government - then I'll mod you insightful.
I used to feel the same way; until I bought some last year.
New rechargables are awesome. The ones I own (energizer 2500mAh) have _dramatically_ outlived and outpriced buying new alkalines all the time. They're only about 3x the price; but they (a) perform better than alkalines (b) live long enough to pay for themselves many times over and (c) are smarter for the environment.
Seriously, give them another chance.
Hell, I wouldn't even need a pacemaker to power.
"because at least then you only have to worry about former significant others..."
-->Right... the group of people who most want to do you harm.
Except cancer.
One can be powerful and still not be a bully.
If christians actually read the bible and applied it to politics, they would have thrown Bush Sr. out for attempting to build his "New World Order" - the one world government prophesized in Revelations. The very fact that Christians haven't attempted to remove either Bush is evidence that they don't apply the prophesies in their bible to anything they perceive suits their cause. Which is ironic, because if you believe in the bible (I don't, but have read it quite a bit) the "anti-christ", the "great deciever" sounds a lot like Dictator Bush, more and more every day.
So does light, but I can stop that with the sheer force of my hands.
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Damnit, bring back the tags.
And from the looks of that giant glass pipe lit by a blowtorch, my money's on the researchers being 100% Wasted while thinking this one up, too.
"As stated in Sun Tzu's "The Art of War","
-->Hasn't this become an addendum to Godwin yet?
"No where in a political move do you directly destroy or cripple services. "
-->Interesting. There's QUITE a few dictators that have been overthrown by covert meddling that would not agree.
"The current administration plays all the same games"
-->Note that no where did I suggest they don't; simply that bush has lost the flair that his predecessors once had for the covert and the underhanded. Reagan... Clinton... Even Bush sr., were all tremendous at 'cheating' at the world game. Bush lacks a fundamental appreciation and understanding of subtlety and would rather drive a truck through the building rather than infest it with termites.
"The key difference is that sanctions and traditional methods are (generally) open and aboveboard"
-->Oh boy.
Countries (including the US) raid and detain maritime vessels - shipping, scientific, etc - for a wide variety of reasons... not all of them overt.
I see a number of parallels from a cyberattack on a country to the US detaining money from shipments of sugar from brazil to russia calling it suspect for the drug trade. We can call it "Social Engineering", if you will, but the picture remains the same - countries have a variety of ways to wage war - economic, sociopolitical, psychological, even religious - without ever pulling a trigger or killing a soul.
Sadly the Bush Administration has nearly forgotten how to continue that fine, delicate art form, but there was once a time where we waged war entirely out of the realm of above board and open - not to say that the latest endeavours have been such either, but at least everyone knows it's the Americans killing people.
If impact is merely economic - how then does it differ from other games countries play to crush economic interests? I mean, where you see "Denial of Service", I see "Sanctions" and wonder, in the grand scheme of things, what's the difference?
No, no, Falwell has at least 20 more years of being a jackass than jack does. God doesn't always answer prayers on your timeframe.