Actually I think you missed the point of 'peak oil' as well. Peak oil is the point where you can't pull anymore out of the ground and the *supply* is starting to dwindle, not the demand. The reason the grandparent is reacting the way they are is because 'peak oil' has been declared multiple times only to be pushed back by a technological innovation or the discovery of a new oil reserve that once again increases potential oil production beyond demand.
Artificial restrictions by OPEC that dwindle supply below demand do not a 'peak oil' make.
I use to spend vacations with my family and sleep in the back of the truck while driving across country. In the back of this truck there was bundles of rope (never know when you'll need it), shovels (ditto), and an unconscious kid (driving thousands of miles made me sleepy when I was 8). I don't see anything wrong with that.
Your absolutely right. Which is why an amendment was passed to limit it to 2 terms, so the persons example stands. After all you don't think its We The People who elect our President or amend our Constitution? It's Congress.
I know you guys are different than over here but I *strongly* doubt the UK only have one Tier 1 carrier. No matter how big BT is, there is redundancy, and any single homed ISP should go belly up if BT goes into bankruptcy.
Your point has merit if all of BT's fiber is maxed out with 10gbps equipment and its just impossible for them to get more fiber. Strangely I doubt they've done that as any company with the foresight and willingness to upgrade their entire infrastructure to 10gbps would figure out how to get more fiber where its needed. These guys are just greedy and poor planners.
Why should the BBC cut them off? If BT doesn't want their users accessing the video content THEY should block it. Once their clients realize that they can't get what their paying for over BT it will quickly lose its status as 'largest'. Market forces are at work and BT is plugging its ears and going nya nya nya nya, let them go the way of the Dodo.
Actually, I'm pretty sure you could do that. Oh you wouldn't have a snow balls chance in hell to collect it since anyone stupid enough to sign a huge contract without reading it wouldn't have a million on hand. But I don't see why your example couldn't exist, after all the million dollars could be compensation for representing them in a managerial/agent capacity or a very interesting prenuptial agreement.
You sound a lot like a friend of mine who loved his Q and made many of the points you made. I believe this is just a matter of personal taste. The Q's one handed typing ability isn't a selling point for me. If I'm driving and have to text I just use my knee to hold the steering wheel and look straight ahead. Since I'm using two hands all my practiced blind qwerty typing experience transfers over perfectly and I rarely make mistakes. And for all those naysayes, if I suddenly had to brake its really easy to toss my phone and grab the wheel, no different than if you were driving one handed.
As for the email issues, they didn't bother me. I used an HTC Tytn for years and was perfectly happy with it.
>Really, the 'textbooks are obsolete' deal is a swindle by the publishers.
Wouldn't it be great to get rid of them then? Make their entire industry obsolete? Instead of spending a few billion dollars (for the entire USA textbook industry). Wouldn't it be better to instead spend a billion the first year and a few hundred million a year thereafter hiring experts in the field to notate and write the textbooks and make them freely available? With a 'national' textbook as the basis each state could then spend a 1/10 of their normal book buying budget modifying it for their particular state? Yeah it might mean its easier for creationists to add their spin on a science textbook but if that means my kids get a better education because the school I send them to removes that bs, all the better.
While my love of freedom agrees with you and I believe a person should have the *legal* right to unlock a phone/console/whatever. I also believe that a company like apple or at&t has the right to make it a royal bitch for you to do it. It should be up to the market to decide if DRM/proprietary things should survive, it shouldn't be legislated in or out.
I can't speak for your local area but out here in California we were able to sell iPhones at full retail price to people who were still within their 2 year agreement. I have been on the sales side and I can say the subsidy IS for a person to sign up to a longer agreement. Otherwise why did they offer $100 off for 1 year and $200 off for 2 year? Or was the sales person you talked to one of the slimey bastards who lied left and right?
You say you were unable to purchase the phone with a $200 discount AND were forced to sign a two year agreement. Now I can't say 100% but I strongly lean towards you getting cheated. It's possible your location had very few iPhones and a dishonest manager chose to take advantage of that. Again I can't speak for your specific situation but having been one of the people to sell them I know that your experience wasn't universal.
I've never owned an iPhone, personally I'm saving up for the HTC Touch HD. I just use to sell cellphones and have always been annoyed at people who whine about why they can't get the $200 discount 6 months into their 2 year agreement.
The pros you offered outweigh the cons to such an extent that even if it was twice the cost (which i sincerely doubt) it would warrant the transition. Although personally I don't like the idea of purchasing netbooks for class learning, I'd rather lean towards something like the bebook.
If you get books once in a decade wouldn't it be nice to be able to have a new book every year? Instead paying $100+ per book that becomes out dated in 2 years and isn't replaced in 10 years you spend ~$10/year on a new book handed to each student at the beginning of the year? When I was going to school there were classes where we weren't allowed to take the books home because there was a shortage of them, if the books were available online or with a simple materials cost I could have had my very own copy which I could markup and put notes in without a care. I'd think if anything you should be the first person in line supporting the transition.
I was took printshop when I was in highschool. I'm sure just about all school districts have access to a printshop or a neighbor school district does so your right on the money. High school students these days if I recall *have* to do community service to graduate. So have them help print the school books for the district and count that time towards the community service.
Simple answer, go with a different carrier. MetroPCS for instance is cheap with unlimited calls, no contracts, and inexpensive phones (compared to the major carriers undiscounted price). Oh yeah you can't use the phone coast to coast with a whole bunch of dead spots. You also don't have the option of purchasing phones directly from them with any decent features, they're all rather basic unless you transfer a sprint/verizon phone. Thats the sacrifice for going with a carrier that doesn't screw you. They aren't as good, but I prefer paying them and dealing with their short comings than paying cingular/at&t/verizon/sprint greater prices with annoying contracts.
This is perfectly normal, they give a $200 discount so people sign a 2 year agreement. A few give reduced discounts before the contract is up but a majority only give discount prices when your out of contract. Anyone who doesn't understand this and feels its a 'slap in the face' should grow up, it's not like they hide this fact at signup.
Umm no. There is no way your going to build a multi million dollar manufacturing facility that has 2000-3000 employees and have them worked by illegal immigrants. For one, a single call to immigration causes all your production to stop and then the fines will take every cent the investors put into the enterprise. We aren't losing our house keeping and lawn care to the Chinese, we're losing major manufacturing jobs.
I don't think Obama has anything to do with that. I doubt sane taxes will come about until we have some major catastrophe thats a result of our tax system. So microsoft moving over seas would be great, you get a couple hundred other heavy hitters leaving it might generate enough horror that some Change actually occurs.
Yeah, permaculture is extremely dense and gives great variety of crops. It may or may not ever replace large farming industries like wheat farming. But a few acres of community farming? Easily done with the right training and now you've got a population that can feed itself with a whole variety of different fods, even have chickens/ducks for protein.
Although personally I like the idea of aquaponics, not as dense but simpler and I love the idea of feeding fish who feed bacteria who then feed fruits, herbs, and veggies all in your backyard.
You may have run across a similar issue a friend of mine did. He had the same model # drives and swapped the board with no luck. He checked for any differences and they had different build dates and different firmware versions. He went and found a 100% identical model/month/firmware and it worked just fine. I know from personal experience that different firmware versions in the same model can also have different physical properties. Had fun trying to rebuild an array once where the version I had was a few megs smaller than the ones in use so it refused to rebuild itself.
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Actually I think you missed the point of 'peak oil' as well. Peak oil is the point where you can't pull anymore out of the ground and the *supply* is starting to dwindle, not the demand. The reason the grandparent is reacting the way they are is because 'peak oil' has been declared multiple times only to be pushed back by a technological innovation or the discovery of a new oil reserve that once again increases potential oil production beyond demand.
Artificial restrictions by OPEC that dwindle supply below demand do not a 'peak oil' make.
Think of it as a luxury expense from the cash we save building our own systems.
I use to spend vacations with my family and sleep in the back of the truck while driving across country. In the back of this truck there was bundles of rope (never know when you'll need it), shovels (ditto), and an unconscious kid (driving thousands of miles made me sleepy when I was 8). I don't see anything wrong with that.
Your absolutely right. Which is why an amendment was passed to limit it to 2 terms, so the persons example stands. After all you don't think its We The People who elect our President or amend our Constitution? It's Congress.
I know you guys are different than over here but I *strongly* doubt the UK only have one Tier 1 carrier. No matter how big BT is, there is redundancy, and any single homed ISP should go belly up if BT goes into bankruptcy.
Your point has merit if all of BT's fiber is maxed out with 10gbps equipment and its just impossible for them to get more fiber. Strangely I doubt they've done that as any company with the foresight and willingness to upgrade their entire infrastructure to 10gbps would figure out how to get more fiber where its needed. These guys are just greedy and poor planners.
Why should the BBC cut them off? If BT doesn't want their users accessing the video content THEY should block it. Once their clients realize that they can't get what their paying for over BT it will quickly lose its status as 'largest'. Market forces are at work and BT is plugging its ears and going nya nya nya nya, let them go the way of the Dodo.
Actually, I'm pretty sure you could do that. Oh you wouldn't have a snow balls chance in hell to collect it since anyone stupid enough to sign a huge contract without reading it wouldn't have a million on hand. But I don't see why your example couldn't exist, after all the million dollars could be compensation for representing them in a managerial/agent capacity or a very interesting prenuptial agreement.
Absolutely agreed. Which is why I see no moral dilemma when it comes to hacking a phone for any personal purpose you want to put it towards.
You sound a lot like a friend of mine who loved his Q and made many of the points you made. I believe this is just a matter of personal taste. The Q's one handed typing ability isn't a selling point for me. If I'm driving and have to text I just use my knee to hold the steering wheel and look straight ahead. Since I'm using two hands all my practiced blind qwerty typing experience transfers over perfectly and I rarely make mistakes. And for all those naysayes, if I suddenly had to brake its really easy to toss my phone and grab the wheel, no different than if you were driving one handed.
As for the email issues, they didn't bother me. I used an HTC Tytn for years and was perfectly happy with it.
Your just supporting my wish for that industry to become obsolete. I just focused on the paper side as its the easiest to calculate cost for.
>Really, the 'textbooks are obsolete' deal is a swindle by the publishers.
Wouldn't it be great to get rid of them then? Make their entire industry obsolete? Instead of spending a few billion dollars (for the entire USA textbook industry). Wouldn't it be better to instead spend a billion the first year and a few hundred million a year thereafter hiring experts in the field to notate and write the textbooks and make them freely available? With a 'national' textbook as the basis each state could then spend a 1/10 of their normal book buying budget modifying it for their particular state? Yeah it might mean its easier for creationists to add their spin on a science textbook but if that means my kids get a better education because the school I send them to removes that bs, all the better.
While my love of freedom agrees with you and I believe a person should have the *legal* right to unlock a phone/console/whatever. I also believe that a company like apple or at&t has the right to make it a royal bitch for you to do it. It should be up to the market to decide if DRM/proprietary things should survive, it shouldn't be legislated in or out.
I can't speak for your local area but out here in California we were able to sell iPhones at full retail price to people who were still within their 2 year agreement. I have been on the sales side and I can say the subsidy IS for a person to sign up to a longer agreement. Otherwise why did they offer $100 off for 1 year and $200 off for 2 year? Or was the sales person you talked to one of the slimey bastards who lied left and right?
You say you were unable to purchase the phone with a $200 discount AND were forced to sign a two year agreement. Now I can't say 100% but I strongly lean towards you getting cheated. It's possible your location had very few iPhones and a dishonest manager chose to take advantage of that. Again I can't speak for your specific situation but having been one of the people to sell them I know that your experience wasn't universal.
I've never owned an iPhone, personally I'm saving up for the HTC Touch HD. I just use to sell cellphones and have always been annoyed at people who whine about why they can't get the $200 discount 6 months into their 2 year agreement.
The pros you offered outweigh the cons to such an extent that even if it was twice the cost (which i sincerely doubt) it would warrant the transition. Although personally I don't like the idea of purchasing netbooks for class learning, I'd rather lean towards something like the bebook.
If you get books once in a decade wouldn't it be nice to be able to have a new book every year? Instead paying $100+ per book that becomes out dated in 2 years and isn't replaced in 10 years you spend ~$10/year on a new book handed to each student at the beginning of the year? When I was going to school there were classes where we weren't allowed to take the books home because there was a shortage of them, if the books were available online or with a simple materials cost I could have had my very own copy which I could markup and put notes in without a care. I'd think if anything you should be the first person in line supporting the transition.
I was took printshop when I was in highschool. I'm sure just about all school districts have access to a printshop or a neighbor school district does so your right on the money. High school students these days if I recall *have* to do community service to graduate. So have them help print the school books for the district and count that time towards the community service.
Simple answer, go with a different carrier. MetroPCS for instance is cheap with unlimited calls, no contracts, and inexpensive phones (compared to the major carriers undiscounted price). Oh yeah you can't use the phone coast to coast with a whole bunch of dead spots. You also don't have the option of purchasing phones directly from them with any decent features, they're all rather basic unless you transfer a sprint/verizon phone. Thats the sacrifice for going with a carrier that doesn't screw you. They aren't as good, but I prefer paying them and dealing with their short comings than paying cingular/at&t/verizon/sprint greater prices with annoying contracts.
This is perfectly normal, they give a $200 discount so people sign a 2 year agreement. A few give reduced discounts before the contract is up but a majority only give discount prices when your out of contract. Anyone who doesn't understand this and feels its a 'slap in the face' should grow up, it's not like they hide this fact at signup.
Umm no. There is no way your going to build a multi million dollar manufacturing facility that has 2000-3000 employees and have them worked by illegal immigrants. For one, a single call to immigration causes all your production to stop and then the fines will take every cent the investors put into the enterprise. We aren't losing our house keeping and lawn care to the Chinese, we're losing major manufacturing jobs.
I don't think Obama has anything to do with that. I doubt sane taxes will come about until we have some major catastrophe thats a result of our tax system. So microsoft moving over seas would be great, you get a couple hundred other heavy hitters leaving it might generate enough horror that some Change actually occurs.
You my friend are the copper top.
Yeah, permaculture is extremely dense and gives great variety of crops. It may or may not ever replace large farming industries like wheat farming. But a few acres of community farming? Easily done with the right training and now you've got a population that can feed itself with a whole variety of different fods, even have chickens/ducks for protein.
Although personally I like the idea of aquaponics, not as dense but simpler and I love the idea of feeding fish who feed bacteria who then feed fruits, herbs, and veggies all in your backyard.
You may have run across a similar issue a friend of mine did. He had the same model # drives and swapped the board with no luck. He checked for any differences and they had different build dates and different firmware versions. He went and found a 100% identical model/month/firmware and it worked just fine. I know from personal experience that different firmware versions in the same model can also have different physical properties. Had fun trying to rebuild an array once where the version I had was a few megs smaller than the ones in use so it refused to rebuild itself.