Oh my God, the *last* thing you want to do is give me any real power. I'd wind up turning the world into radioactive rubble, and that's just if I won a city council seat.
Well, they are losing my $40 a month AND my intention to get DSL. I'll stick with Charter Cable and upgrade to their new VOIP/3 Mbps package. *They* haven't scammed me (yet), and their uptime in my area is about 99.9%.
But you illustrate what I mean. I have to file something with the FCC for a $20 phone charge.
I'm generally libertarain minded, too, but the problem is that it just doesn't work in this day and age. These companies are too big. I got charged for a collect call I never accepted (never even received it) last month. Verizon would do nothing and just passed the buck. The original collect call company is difficult to reach and just stands by their "you accepted the call" story. Complaints to anyone in a regulatory agency or government offices produces nothing.
How am I supposed to fight this? It has nothing to do with being "stupidly passive". I tried to fight it, but it reaches the point where my time invested worth more than the original fake bill, and the scammers know that. They know a person will only fight for X number of hours per Y dollars of fake charge.
My idea of libertarianism is that you don't have many laws, but when you do break them, you are hit so hard that the example to others is loud and clear.
I'm dropping Verizon land line service in favor of VOIP in a week or so. I got an expensive collect call charged to my bill last month, a call I never accepted, and the date/time stamp showed it supposed ocurred when I was at work (and I live alone). Verizon's response was "Oh, we just poass those charges from the original collect call company." Contacting the other company produced nothing, and a quick online investigation shows that they are the source of many phone line scams.
Fuck you, Verizon. By passing on the charges and doing NOTHING for your customers, you are an enabler, and just as guilty as the other company. Fuck you, fuck the cocksucking MBAs who made you what you are, and kiss my lilly white ass.
If they were real scientists, they'd accept the new designation. That's how science works. You modify your model of the universe as new information becomes available. Clyde Tombaugh found the first of an unknown class of objects because Pluto happened to be the closest and easiest to see. They just called it a planet because they lacked the information we have. But now we know about the Kuiper Belt, and have adjusted the definition of Pluto accordingly. Mode me a troll, but stop with the sentimental bullshit. Rather than:losing" a planet we've gained a whole new neighborhood of the Solar System to explore.
The top-ten list of party schools published by the Princeton Review every year has always been a popular metric among prospective American college students for determining the 'most compatible' university to attend.
Any correlation with the decline of the sciences in the USA?
"The Internet connection at the dorms is ****ing amazing."
Nice to see college is really enhancing his vocabulary.
We had a whistleblower where I work a few years back. He claimed some sort of technical problem in one of our products.
The problem was, and I was in a position to know, he was absolutely, completely wrong. But he kept up and kept up like it was a mental illness or something.
So I tend not to automatically side with the so called whistleblowers until I have better info.
We have to regularly lynch a random member of our IT department as a message to the rest to keep those Microsoft-loving bastards in line. We used to put their heads on pikes but the county health inspector told us to quit it.
Can we stop letting religious fundamentalists who do not have an ounce of scientific understanding (or deliberately practice ignorance) on the matter frame the debate?
Not if they keep managing to get elected to high office, no.
The point is that some of us would like to see the basic service (phone calls) made more reliable before they try to obfuscate the issue with silly frills. Is that such an outlandish request? I'm sorry, but I'm just flat out immune to the "ooo, shiny!" meme.
And the point of the ruggedness of my phone is that it survives those little "oops" events that send fancier phones to the trash heap.
1. The actual function of the phone call is still shit poor. I live in a HUGE metropolitan area, and there's still random and inexplicable dead zones. If they can't deliver an audio stream, how are they going to deliver a video stream?
2. More features means more to break. There's a car analogy lurking about. They either have to stream the video, which I'll believe when I see, or it needs to be stored locally, and now I need either a iPod-style hard drive, or gobs of Flash RAM. There's more than raw processing power required- each feature can add significant ancillary hardware requirements.
3. Lots of workplaces simply ban pnones with cameras or any sort of recording ability, so it becomes a moot issue anyway.
The only features you list I can see as practical are email (or text messaging), and the calendar/notes (PDA-level functions).
I have a basic Motorola no-frills phone built to MIL-SPEC standards. It may not take pictures and has a pedestrian ring sound, but I can bounce it off a concrete wall and it still works fine.
I never understood that attitude. Who wants a show to be the same thing all the time? Periodic changes are a necessity, IMHO. Look at 24. How many characters are still there that were in season 1, but it is still a great show. Even Keifer Sutherland could be replaced at some point if he decided to call it quits (I'd vote for Christain Bale).
RDA left for personal family reasons. Browder and Black are doing fine. Vala is a fun character. The Ori make the System Lords look like piker. Change is good. This whole getting infatuated with a single character always mystified me.
Outside the rabid fanboy clique, Stargate was always an ensemble show with four strong main characters and an extensive regular supporting cast. Hell, I know people who didn't like Daniel Jackson and even preferred Corin Nemic's run. I know others who felt the character of O'Neil had become a self parody mainly through the acting of RDA, and thought it was high time for him to leave anyway.
Unlike some of the wniney phanbois who couldn't get over the fact that Richard Dean Anderson left the show of his own accord, I have enjoyed the show through all the seasons. I was *glad* they finally resolved the System Lords storyline. Those guys were getting old, and the Ori are a nice new uber-enemy. I guess it helps that I was a Farscape fan, and Browder and Black seem to be having fun with their current roles.
But it's good for them to end on their own terms. They can have a proper final episode and wrap up all the loose ends (unless they plan some movies down the road).
Are they claiming creation of energy from nothing, like a typical perpetual motion machine, or tapping some previously unrecognized source, like a zero point energy module?
I haven't checked in with the fringe energy crowd in a while, but that was my impression: they're not trying to break physical laws... just trying to tap reservoirs of energy no one has tapped yet, like vacuum energy.
The problem with ZPE is that it always just struck me as a mathematical abstraction someone cooked up to balance some quantum theory equations, and that string theory sort of smooths out the need for all those itty bitty virtual fluctuations.
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To paraphrase: If the **AA starts suing soldiers on the front, I will *persoanlly* lead the mob that takes down the **AA offices wherever they may stand.
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Oh my God, the *last* thing you want to do is give me any real power. I'd wind up turning the world into radioactive rubble, and that's just if I won a city council seat.
Well, they are losing my $40 a month AND my intention to get DSL. I'll stick with Charter Cable and upgrade to their new VOIP/3 Mbps package. *They* haven't scammed me (yet), and their uptime in my area is about 99.9%.
But you illustrate what I mean. I have to file something with the FCC for a $20 phone charge.
Uh ... as the article explained, this is not about science ... it's about terminology.
*shrug* I guess I just consider the act of classification as part of the overall scientific picture.
I'm generally libertarain minded, too, but the problem is that it just doesn't work in this day and age. These companies are too big. I got charged for a collect call I never accepted (never even received it) last month. Verizon would do nothing and just passed the buck. The original collect call company is difficult to reach and just stands by their "you accepted the call" story. Complaints to anyone in a regulatory agency or government offices produces nothing.
How am I supposed to fight this? It has nothing to do with being "stupidly passive". I tried to fight it, but it reaches the point where my time invested worth more than the original fake bill, and the scammers know that. They know a person will only fight for X number of hours per Y dollars of fake charge.
My idea of libertarianism is that you don't have many laws, but when you do break them, you are hit so hard that the example to others is loud and clear.
I'm dropping Verizon land line service in favor of VOIP in a week or so. I got an expensive collect call charged to my bill last month, a call I never accepted, and the date/time stamp showed it supposed ocurred when I was at work (and I live alone). Verizon's response was "Oh, we just poass those charges from the original collect call company." Contacting the other company produced nothing, and a quick online investigation shows that they are the source of many phone line scams.
Fuck you, Verizon. By passing on the charges and doing NOTHING for your customers, you are an enabler, and just as guilty as the other company. Fuck you, fuck the cocksucking MBAs who made you what you are, and kiss my lilly white ass.
Well, I've known some young curmudgeons. And an oxymoron means an opposite, like "jumbo shrimp".
If they were real scientists, they'd accept the new designation. That's how science works. You modify your model of the universe as new information becomes available. Clyde Tombaugh found the first of an unknown class of objects because Pluto happened to be the closest and easiest to see. They just called it a planet because they lacked the information we have. But now we know about the Kuiper Belt, and have adjusted the definition of Pluto accordingly. Mode me a troll, but stop with the sentimental bullshit. Rather than :losing" a planet we've gained a whole new neighborhood of the Solar System to explore.
The top-ten list of party schools published by the Princeton Review every year has always been a popular metric among prospective American college students for determining the 'most compatible' university to attend.
Any correlation with the decline of the sciences in the USA?
"The Internet connection at the dorms is ****ing amazing."
Nice to see college is really enhancing his vocabulary.
Don't mind me. I've become and old curmudgeon.
Science has been politicized since the year dot. This is nothing new.
We had a whistleblower where I work a few years back. He claimed some sort of technical problem in one of our products.
The problem was, and I was in a position to know, he was absolutely, completely wrong. But he kept up and kept up like it was a mental illness or something.
So I tend not to automatically side with the so called whistleblowers until I have better info.
Which printer maker is not a patent-enforcing-drm-encoding bastard, so that I can toss out my current printers and buy theirs instead?
Bic.
Here's their latest non DRM-ed model: Printer with sample printout
I do hope the public isn't so easily fooled
Well, they bought the digital shitpile from Redmond in droves, so I think you might be out of luck.
We have to regularly lynch a random member of our IT department as a message to the rest to keep those Microsoft-loving bastards in line. We used to put their heads on pikes but the county health inspector told us to quit it.
Aren't there plenty of other languages there? Arabic? All the colonial languages? Afrikaans?
Cripes, to watch those Michael Palin travel shows, you'd think English and French were the official languages. :)
What we really need is a Coptic Wikipedia. Just because.
our most famous avenue, Av. Paulista in Sao Paulo, is full of guys selling pirated software, music, etc,
Among other things...
I'm planning a mission to Mars to be launched from my backyard in 2012.
*Anyone* can *plan* a mission.
Can we stop letting religious fundamentalists who do not have an ounce of scientific understanding (or deliberately practice ignorance) on the matter frame the debate?
Not if they keep managing to get elected to high office, no.
The point is that some of us would like to see the basic service (phone calls) made more reliable before they try to obfuscate the issue with silly frills. Is that such an outlandish request? I'm sorry, but I'm just flat out immune to the "ooo, shiny!" meme.
And the point of the ruggedness of my phone is that it survives those little "oops" events that send fancier phones to the trash heap.
There's some fair points to be raised, though.
1. The actual function of the phone call is still shit poor. I live in a HUGE metropolitan area, and there's still random and inexplicable dead zones. If they can't deliver an audio stream, how are they going to deliver a video stream?
2. More features means more to break. There's a car analogy lurking about. They either have to stream the video, which I'll believe when I see, or it needs to be stored locally, and now I need either a iPod-style hard drive, or gobs of Flash RAM. There's more than raw processing power required- each feature can add significant ancillary hardware requirements.
3. Lots of workplaces simply ban pnones with cameras or any sort of recording ability, so it becomes a moot issue anyway.
The only features you list I can see as practical are email (or text messaging), and the calendar/notes (PDA-level functions).
I have a basic Motorola no-frills phone built to MIL-SPEC standards. It may not take pictures and has a pedestrian ring sound, but I can bounce it off a concrete wall and it still works fine.
I never understood that attitude. Who wants a show to be the same thing all the time? Periodic changes are a necessity, IMHO. Look at 24. How many characters are still there that were in season 1, but it is still a great show. Even Keifer Sutherland could be replaced at some point if he decided to call it quits (I'd vote for Christain Bale).
RDA left for personal family reasons. Browder and Black are doing fine. Vala is a fun character. The Ori make the System Lords look like piker. Change is good. This whole getting infatuated with a single character always mystified me.
Outside the rabid fanboy clique, Stargate was always an ensemble show with four strong main characters and an extensive regular supporting cast. Hell, I know people who didn't like Daniel Jackson and even preferred Corin Nemic's run. I know others who felt the character of O'Neil had become a self parody mainly through the acting of RDA, and thought it was high time for him to leave anyway.
Unlike some of the wniney phanbois who couldn't get over the fact that Richard Dean Anderson left the show of his own accord, I have enjoyed the show through all the seasons. I was *glad* they finally resolved the System Lords storyline. Those guys were getting old, and the Ori are a nice new uber-enemy. I guess it helps that I was a Farscape fan, and Browder and Black seem to be having fun with their current roles.
But it's good for them to end on their own terms. They can have a proper final episode and wrap up all the loose ends (unless they plan some movies down the road).
Why are so many posters referring to "Maureen Govern" as "he"?
It's /= in VHDL. Not everyone programs in C.
Are they claiming creation of energy from nothing, like a typical perpetual motion machine, or tapping some previously unrecognized source, like a zero point energy module?
I haven't checked in with the fringe energy crowd in a while, but that was my impression: they're not trying to break physical laws... just trying to tap reservoirs of energy no one has tapped yet, like vacuum energy.
The problem with ZPE is that it always just struck me as a mathematical abstraction someone cooked up to balance some quantum theory equations, and that string theory sort of smooths out the need for all those itty bitty virtual fluctuations.
in the animated Superman to two supervillians that seemed to dispatch Superman.
To paraphrase: If the **AA starts suing soldiers on the front, I will *persoanlly* lead the mob that takes down the **AA offices wherever they may stand.