Sold out over the holidays? Haha you think they lasted that long? My store sold out a month before christmas... Still can't get more than a handful of consoles in at any gven time and they sell out the same day...
You do realize that on a $15 DVD about $0.50 is the add on for the store right (at least that's what the store I work for gets from a single DVD)? & most big name publishers liek MGM are their own distributors to major retail outlets... So uh that means what.. $14.50 was the take in for the publisher of most major titles...
Huh? My ever growing downloaded video collection is at least half done in Xvid... It & Divx are practically standards for decent quality... People are always asking why they can't play the files (mostly windows users) & in shortorder we have links all over for different codec packs so they can use them...
Right about now I should mention half this collection is comprised of AMV (take a look at AMV.org to understand what I'm talking about) and AMV in general has alot of half baked WMV stuff, but the quality tends to be so damn poor I won't keep many of those...
Well a while back MS decided that my key is a pirated key (or whatever else they are using to tell) & my system has been locked down as tight as you can make Win XP Pro... I'd assume smart pirates would do the same (probably better if they could get higher end security tools than I did).
Btw since my copy came from them directly (through their retail 'training' site) I'd like them to explain who mine isn't a 'legal' copy anymore...
Here is another point... Why exactly would the US National Weather Service be looking carefully at asian weather? Now I know in a vague sense they look at weather around the world, but uh... Somehow I don't think a significant portion of US weather originates in southern asia. Hurricanes tend to form along northwestern africa so we look at that, certain weather patterns exist right along the great lakes and border canada specifically so we look at those... I'm sure there is some specific weather caused near mexico to so we probably look at that as well, but I doubt anyone could possibly say that NWS should have been teh first to spot a south asian tsunami...Not exactly in the job description there...
"I doubt robots can make the kinds of determinations that are needed as effectively as human beings, though, at least at the present time."
Uh these are drones... Repeat after me: Drones. That means they are controlled by human beings remotely...
"I think it'd be better if fewer people had died, period."
Frankly at this point (& I'm not speaking for the original poster here) I don't care how many people in the middle east die period. You do understand that the point of view of the major and minor islamic extremists/fundamentalists is basically "Kill tehm all and let Allah sort them out!", right? As in if some crazy (& by very nature I think we can safely count most islamic extremists are crazy) guy with a gun was in front of you and since you (most likely) look nothing like him he'd shoot you dead and then praise Allah for his skill in battle (whether your armed or not).
I'm probably in a extreme minority, but I'm tired of people brazenly deciding which gods people can believe in or what behavors are exceptable and then killing everyone who doesn't believe like they do... Fine if they want to visit Allah so bad and if they want to either kill or be killed I'll give 'em what they want. I'd drop a fricking ton of nukes across the whole place (not dirty nukes they much much cleaner modern variety where the radioactives die out fairly quickly so it doesn't pollute the entire face of the earth) and flatten the whole place. Blam! Have fun with Allah, hope he agrees with you or your going to have alot more fun in hell. Though I gotta say unless he protects your ass from the utter nuclear holocost I doubt it's likely he agrees... Theirs their genecide for them, wrapped up and over with so the rest of the world can move on.
Fine fine... Don't want to kill all the civvies to? Ok well tell people we are going to do that, then invite people who wish to live within a modern system of government can live with us... They've been coming over in small groups of refugees for years and some even have useful skills. Add a decent screenign process and we'll catch most of the less fanatical terrorists and otehr extremists as they try to flee the rats nest. Then nuke what's left once were done.
I could care less about people who think I'm evil because I don't worship Allah, believe women are my equals, and feel that stoning a woman to death for giving birth to a child of the man who raped her (& therefor having had sex without maraige even though it was rape and she was forced to do it) is wrong and would sooner shot me than look at me has no right to live anymore.
Actually it all depends on what part of which armed service you look at...
British Special Forces can require as much as $250,000 per soldier to train and equip... On the other hand actual terrorists will probably continue to use humans as shields for their Robots err... 'masterminds' err... Religous zealot leader people? Well whatevers, because they spend pennies on the dollar training and equiping their soldiers...
Well for comparison as it stands with my less than $20k/year I have the following:
~$50k student loans (combining all three seperate loan entities into one and if I was made to pay them I would owe >$700/month) 1 car loan (I don't have the gf/wide or kids, so I have no reason for more than 1 car & I of course didn't pick a BMW or anything either, but my car would work well as a family vehicle... In case your curious I got a really really good deal on a Chrysler LHS) Insurance eats up most of the rest of my money Rent takes anything not used for food or gas... I do however own 3 computers (one of which is currently in pieces until tax season and upgrading comes around), but I also build them myself.
That all said I should also mention I pay $2000 in taxes... Or about 10% of my total yearly income... Why am I paying a higher rate than you did at $130k? 130k/10=13k. I know I'm complaining about $3000 but that is more than I have to pay altogehter and about a third of my yearly income so it seems a heck of alot larger to me... & all that is estimated from the actually which was less...
Now I have no idea about houses, I will probably never be able to own one unless things change significantly. The IT field here never got up to speed equal to the rest of the country and when I finished school it was into a market that decided they didn't need IT people after they say the mess that was the fallout of the rest of the country... ~5 years ago & halted all further efforts toward using IT...
If I'd ever make $60k/year (even if it was for only a couple years) I could pay back my student loans, pay off my car, get rid of any other debts I have and still make a tidy bit of money to put in the bank... If I ever made 130k I could do that all in a year... Taxes included...
Maybe it's because my family has never really had money, but I have no problems living within my means... To me making $130k even if it was only for a year would mean the end of any financial issues and leave me with more left over...
Anyways, what I meant was that given the same amount I wouldn't have had a crisis that would have left me reeling til I would say things like "enjoying the freedom that comes from having a much simpler existence". I would have been banking on that 'simpler existance' from the start and given that much money to play with would have made sure a future problem wouldn't leave me in trouble... Which it seems to have done for you...
It's like those people that say a million dollars isn't anything... Well a million dollars would mean I could comfortably never have to work another day in my life or pretty darn close to it... I guess it's all just a perspective thing...
Yeah that could be... But to that I'll add that I can't contribute to such things and I'll be working til I drop dead because I couldn't live on even $1000 less a year so I cna't save anything... Well ok I could cut out my entertainment budget, which is something like $50/3 months & my PC budget which is my $300 tax refund every year... But doing so would suck any little bits of fun left out of my life, so I can enjoy a couple years as an old man hoping I don't fall apart til after I've spent my little tiny nest egg...
Oh & I never said it wasn't wise to sell the house... I'll never have the option of owning a house myself (well it's sure looking like that at 26), but the intent was to point out the lack of sense that someone who has to make do with alot less would hoepfully have avoided in the first palce... It would be like me winning 120k on millionaire (the daytime version), then blowing it left and right because it all seemed so endless versus what I would really do which is pay off my debts and secure a flow of savings at a bank for when times aren't so good...
How could you not have a nest egg when making a combined $130k a year?!?!? I mean I manage to get by on less than $20k/year, and with even double that I wouldn't need a roomate anymore... If I had $130k/year coming in I'd never use more than maybe $60k/year of it... The rest would sit and rot in a bank somewhere cause I wouldn't need it... Heck in one year of that my college loans I can't repay on less than $20k/year would be paid off in less than a year...
I'm guessing you live in one of those places with some sort of insane cost of living... Cuz here by the city of Erie PA (in the US) that's the salary to live like a king...
Err... They make plenty of college football games... I take it you haven't visited a game store recently?
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I got news for ya, most of the 'people' doing this are not individuals but companies... Often companies in foreign countries, with US 'contact points'...
I played Lineage 2 for quite awhile and you really couldn't help encountering these grous of (mostly) chinese people with US contact points (web and a few personel for delivery purposes).
Now I bring this up for two reasons: A) They make quite enough money that the could defend themselves in court just fine. B) They will never go to court because they don't live in the US, nor are the contact points actually bussiness style branches.
So this will do nothing except put the person trying sell their character off when they leave the game (Which I did for Lin2) in the potential line of fire...
"That quote says it all -- the implication is clearly that all p2p software is used exclusively or nearly exlusively for illegal filesharing of copyrighted media. What frightens me about the idea of using DRM or other crippled technology for media is when that becomes standard, where does it leave an independent filmmaker like myself? Those fat cats in Hollywood never stop to think that some of us actually produce content, as opposed to simply consuming it."
What you didn't get the memo? You aren't supposed to produce anything... That's their job and they'll sick the commercials of you stealing the food out of the script writers babies mouth if you find a way around them... Just wait and see...
"Here's a better idea. People could stop voting for candidates who's agenda starts and stops with business interests. They could start voting for people who are actually interested in representing the, well, people."
Hahahaha good luck finding those people... Since I gained my right to vote I havent' found anybody who didn't get where they are by sucking up to the 'right' business interests... The average person also could care less about such things... I mean I remember catchign a glimpse of a 20/20 segment were a congressman who was retiring flat out admitted that bussiness buys the government and that's how they really get where they are... Yet I didn't hear any big issues come from that... So again... Good luck finding those people who can ignore big bussiness and actually have a snowballs chance in hell of winning an election...
Well first most people I seem to encounter (aka the average user) don't want and generally have no idea where to find software online... Heck I'm normally the first time most of them hear about programs like Firefox or Open Office... & Some flat out distrust them because they are from the net...
Now since you want to argue about common people being better off using a Mac and then using yourself as the common man example here is a real world example for you:
Sold a Palm Tungsten T3 to a customer about 4 months ago (last one of those we carried btw since Palm moved to the T5), well they used a G4 Mac runnign OS X and since last I knew their was software for linking to a Mac and people like yourself who always claim you never have any problems... So I told them they should be fine... Well not even a week later they came back claiming zero success using their new PDA, and to top it off they supposedly called Palm and were told by them that their was no way to use the PDA with a Mac...
Gee that is such great compatability... I could go on with examples from whenever I still see people using Macs try to use general purpose external devices, but I doubt you'd listen anyways... Oh & after I spent a few years fixing Macs (which do indeed break just as often as PC's if not more so), I get feed up with them and their stinginess with parts and won't touch another... The atitude of the average Mac user and the stories I still hear keep me from regretting it...
Unless & until Macs have software that they can just go to a store and pickup (and while Apple does have Apple stores, the nearest to me is 120 miles away, not really an option for this) I still can't recommend them... Not to mention issues with hardware they may want to use, not so much upgrades as little accessories like digital camera docks/memory card readers... Or non-Ipod mp3 players (I know alot of people with flash based mp3 players because they were cheap and effective, none are designed to work with Macs)...
Lately I keep having people suggest Macs as an option and I still have to say it isn't... Until the 'fix' this sort of issue I can't siggest them no matter how 'user friendly' they may be and to a degree virus and spyware free...
Ya know I like that idea.... Alot... I endlessly seem to tell people:
Switch to Firefox or another good alternative web browser (same for email) Install a firewall (preferably Zone Alarm) Install an anti-virus program (AVG if their cheap, Norton or Mcafee if they aren't) Get some Anti-spyware (Adaware, Spy Bot, heck even MS's free beta if you won't grab those for some reason) Then run windows update regularly...
Soem people get the point, some don't... heck most don't... They just want to know the least they can do...
Well the big mistake assumed in teh New Battlestar series is that humanity created a race of robots with intelligence to act as slaves... If we have learned nothing else by now it's that slaves don't want to be slaves regardless of how intelligent they are (even pets can't really be counted as slaves, treat a pet badly and it will literally bite the hand that feeds it)...
Personnally I take that to mean that we leave robots doing manual tasks as remote controlled devices with no real intelligence and we won't have that problem...
In point of fact I meant per month and make about $16,000 odd dollars a year... Which is the exact average for my area: North Western Pennsylvania, which is basically an area surrounded by big cities (Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo) with the third largest city in Pennsylvania (the city of Erie, like the lake it sits next to). The average yearly income is ~$16,000 per year.
In case your wondering you almost can't find a job around here that isn't about selling something in retail in one form or another... & if you know anything about retail, you know they don't want to pay you anything...
& every time I've ever mentioned income on/. someone says I should move... Well moving takes money, and it's a bitch to find a job that isn't within about 100 miles (which is my maximum reasonable driving distance for a interview). So we don't need to mention the whoel topic ok...?
Uh what the hell chocie do I have? My options consist of cable... and just cable... DSL is provided 1000 feet from me, but my neighborhood woudl need it's lines upgraded to support DSL and the phone company won't invest that kind of money...
So while out their somewhere are more carries I still have a chocie of one and some people have a chocie of none...
"That will never happen in the US as long as a republican is in office."
Don't you mean 'While we let out politicains be bought and sold by big bussiness interests'? Cause last time I looked both sides took money from just about any interest and in turn voted the way those interests wanted...
I pay about what you do (though actually I seem to pay slightly more for the same exact se4rvice), though I must make about 3 times less, because when I do the math I'm almost exactly at 5% of my monthly income going to my broadband fees... Though for my area I make the exact average monthly income, if I wasn't a net phreak (& have been for years) I probably wouldn't get broadband right now the percent of my income seems awfully high compared to other bills (electric is $80/month for instance)...
If you look at that map it states in the fine print that even satelite service is coutned as broadband... and most of the country is covered by one satelite service or another, which probably coutns for a very very large portion of that single provider coverage area...
I think you missed the point, I was showing the difference between US and Europian cell providers... & I'm not suprised my mom has problems using pin codes with her phone... Their are 6 menus to go through to find the sub menu for adding time via a pin number... Then their is still a few more steps... & she never really has figured out how to use the internet which is far far easier than doing it via the phone...
But anyways I was saying Pre-paid phones are much harder to use in the US, that was my whole point... That's why fewer people use them here...
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Sold out over the holidays? Haha you think they lasted that long? My store sold out a month before christmas... Still can't get more than a handful of consoles in at any gven time and they sell out the same day...
You do realize that on a $15 DVD about $0.50 is the add on for the store right (at least that's what the store I work for gets from a single DVD)? & most big name publishers liek MGM are their own distributors to major retail outlets... So uh that means what.. $14.50 was the take in for the publisher of most major titles...
Huh? My ever growing downloaded video collection is at least half done in Xvid... It & Divx are practically standards for decent quality... People are always asking why they can't play the files (mostly windows users) & in shortorder we have links all over for different codec packs so they can use them...
Right about now I should mention half this collection is comprised of AMV (take a look at AMV.org to understand what I'm talking about) and AMV in general has alot of half baked WMV stuff, but the quality tends to be so damn poor I won't keep many of those...
Well a while back MS decided that my key is a pirated key (or whatever else they are using to tell) & my system has been locked down as tight as you can make Win XP Pro... I'd assume smart pirates would do the same (probably better if they could get higher end security tools than I did).
Btw since my copy came from them directly (through their retail 'training' site) I'd like them to explain who mine isn't a 'legal' copy anymore...
Here is another point... Why exactly would the US National Weather Service be looking carefully at asian weather? Now I know in a vague sense they look at weather around the world, but uh... Somehow I don't think a significant portion of US weather originates in southern asia. Hurricanes tend to form along northwestern africa so we look at that, certain weather patterns exist right along the great lakes and border canada specifically so we look at those... I'm sure there is some specific weather caused near mexico to so we probably look at that as well, but I doubt anyone could possibly say that NWS should have been teh first to spot a south asian tsunami...Not exactly in the job description there...
"I doubt robots can make the kinds of determinations that are needed as effectively as human beings, though, at least at the present time."
Uh these are drones... Repeat after me: Drones. That means they are controlled by human beings remotely...
"I think it'd be better if fewer people had died, period."
Frankly at this point (& I'm not speaking for the original poster here) I don't care how many people in the middle east die period. You do understand that the point of view of the major and minor islamic extremists/fundamentalists is basically "Kill tehm all and let Allah sort them out!", right? As in if some crazy (& by very nature I think we can safely count most islamic extremists are crazy) guy with a gun was in front of you and since you (most likely) look nothing like him he'd shoot you dead and then praise Allah for his skill in battle (whether your armed or not).
I'm probably in a extreme minority, but I'm tired of people brazenly deciding which gods people can believe in or what behavors are exceptable and then killing everyone who doesn't believe like they do... Fine if they want to visit Allah so bad and if they want to either kill or be killed I'll give 'em what they want. I'd drop a fricking ton of nukes across the whole place (not dirty nukes they much much cleaner modern variety where the radioactives die out fairly quickly so it doesn't pollute the entire face of the earth) and flatten the whole place. Blam! Have fun with Allah, hope he agrees with you or your going to have alot more fun in hell. Though I gotta say unless he protects your ass from the utter nuclear holocost I doubt it's likely he agrees... Theirs their genecide for them, wrapped up and over with so the rest of the world can move on.
Fine fine... Don't want to kill all the civvies to? Ok well tell people we are going to do that, then invite people who wish to live within a modern system of government can live with us... They've been coming over in small groups of refugees for years and some even have useful skills. Add a decent screenign process and we'll catch most of the less fanatical terrorists and otehr extremists as they try to flee the rats nest. Then nuke what's left once were done.
I could care less about people who think I'm evil because I don't worship Allah, believe women are my equals, and feel that stoning a woman to death for giving birth to a child of the man who raped her (& therefor having had sex without maraige even though it was rape and she was forced to do it) is wrong and would sooner shot me than look at me has no right to live anymore.
Actually it all depends on what part of which armed service you look at...
British Special Forces can require as much as $250,000 per soldier to train and equip... On the other hand actual terrorists will probably continue to use humans as shields for their Robots err... 'masterminds' err... Religous zealot leader people? Well whatevers, because they spend pennies on the dollar training and equiping their soldiers...
Well for comparison as it stands with my less than $20k/year I have the following:
~$50k student loans (combining all three seperate loan entities into one and if I was made to pay them I would owe >$700/month)
1 car loan (I don't have the gf/wide or kids, so I have no reason for more than 1 car & I of course didn't pick a BMW or anything either, but my car would work well as a family vehicle... In case your curious I got a really really good deal on a Chrysler LHS)
Insurance eats up most of the rest of my money
Rent takes anything not used for food or gas...
I do however own 3 computers (one of which is currently in pieces until tax season and upgrading comes around), but I also build them myself.
That all said I should also mention I pay $2000 in taxes... Or about 10% of my total yearly income... Why am I paying a higher rate than you did at $130k? 130k/10=13k. I know I'm complaining about $3000 but that is more than I have to pay altogehter and about a third of my yearly income so it seems a heck of alot larger to me... & all that is estimated from the actually which was less...
Now I have no idea about houses, I will probably never be able to own one unless things change significantly. The IT field here never got up to speed equal to the rest of the country and when I finished school it was into a market that decided they didn't need IT people after they say the mess that was the fallout of the rest of the country... ~5 years ago & halted all further efforts toward using IT...
If I'd ever make $60k/year (even if it was for only a couple years) I could pay back my student loans, pay off my car, get rid of any other debts I have and still make a tidy bit of money to put in the bank... If I ever made 130k I could do that all in a year... Taxes included...
Maybe it's because my family has never really had money, but I have no problems living within my means... To me making $130k even if it was only for a year would mean the end of any financial issues and leave me with more left over...
Anyways, what I meant was that given the same amount I wouldn't have had a crisis that would have left me reeling til I would say things like "enjoying the freedom that comes from having a much simpler existence". I would have been banking on that 'simpler existance' from the start and given that much money to play with would have made sure a future problem wouldn't leave me in trouble... Which it seems to have done for you...
It's like those people that say a million dollars isn't anything... Well a million dollars would mean I could comfortably never have to work another day in my life or pretty darn close to it... I guess it's all just a perspective thing...
Yeah that could be... But to that I'll add that I can't contribute to such things and I'll be working til I drop dead because I couldn't live on even $1000 less a year so I cna't save anything... Well ok I could cut out my entertainment budget, which is something like $50/3 months & my PC budget which is my $300 tax refund every year... But doing so would suck any little bits of fun left out of my life, so I can enjoy a couple years as an old man hoping I don't fall apart til after I've spent my little tiny nest egg...
Oh & I never said it wasn't wise to sell the house... I'll never have the option of owning a house myself (well it's sure looking like that at 26), but the intent was to point out the lack of sense that someone who has to make do with alot less would hoepfully have avoided in the first palce... It would be like me winning 120k on millionaire (the daytime version), then blowing it left and right because it all seemed so endless versus what I would really do which is pay off my debts and secure a flow of savings at a bank for when times aren't so good...
How could you not have a nest egg when making a combined $130k a year?!?!? I mean I manage to get by on less than $20k/year, and with even double that I wouldn't need a roomate anymore... If I had $130k/year coming in I'd never use more than maybe $60k/year of it... The rest would sit and rot in a bank somewhere cause I wouldn't need it... Heck in one year of that my college loans I can't repay on less than $20k/year would be paid off in less than a year...
I'm guessing you live in one of those places with some sort of insane cost of living... Cuz here by the city of Erie PA (in the US) that's the salary to live like a king...
Err... They make plenty of college football games... I take it you haven't visited a game store recently?
I got news for ya, most of the 'people' doing this are not individuals but companies... Often companies in foreign countries, with US 'contact points'...
I played Lineage 2 for quite awhile and you really couldn't help encountering these grous of (mostly) chinese people with US contact points (web and a few personel for delivery purposes).
Now I bring this up for two reasons:
A) They make quite enough money that the could defend themselves in court just fine.
B) They will never go to court because they don't live in the US, nor are the contact points actually bussiness style branches.
So this will do nothing except put the person trying sell their character off when they leave the game (Which I did for Lin2) in the potential line of fire...
"That quote says it all -- the implication is clearly that all p2p software is used exclusively or nearly exlusively for illegal filesharing of copyrighted media. What frightens me about the idea of using DRM or other crippled technology for media is when that becomes standard, where does it leave an independent filmmaker like myself? Those fat cats in Hollywood never stop to think that some of us actually produce content, as opposed to simply consuming it."
What you didn't get the memo? You aren't supposed to produce anything... That's their job and they'll sick the commercials of you stealing the food out of the script writers babies mouth if you find a way around them... Just wait and see...
"Here's a better idea. People could stop voting for candidates who's agenda starts and stops with business interests. They could start voting for people who are actually interested in representing the, well, people."
Hahahaha good luck finding those people... Since I gained my right to vote I havent' found anybody who didn't get where they are by sucking up to the 'right' business interests... The average person also could care less about such things... I mean I remember catchign a glimpse of a 20/20 segment were a congressman who was retiring flat out admitted that bussiness buys the government and that's how they really get where they are... Yet I didn't hear any big issues come from that... So again... Good luck finding those people who can ignore big bussiness and actually have a snowballs chance in hell of winning an election...
Well first most people I seem to encounter (aka the average user) don't want and generally have no idea where to find software online... Heck I'm normally the first time most of them hear about programs like Firefox or Open Office... & Some flat out distrust them because they are from the net...
Now since you want to argue about common people being better off using a Mac and then using yourself as the common man example here is a real world example for you:
Sold a Palm Tungsten T3 to a customer about 4 months ago (last one of those we carried btw since Palm moved to the T5), well they used a G4 Mac runnign OS X and since last I knew their was software for linking to a Mac and people like yourself who always claim you never have any problems... So I told them they should be fine... Well not even a week later they came back claiming zero success using their new PDA, and to top it off they supposedly called Palm and were told by them that their was no way to use the PDA with a Mac...
Gee that is such great compatability... I could go on with examples from whenever I still see people using Macs try to use general purpose external devices, but I doubt you'd listen anyways... Oh & after I spent a few years fixing Macs (which do indeed break just as often as PC's if not more so), I get feed up with them and their stinginess with parts and won't touch another... The atitude of the average Mac user and the stories I still hear keep me from regretting it...
Unless & until Macs have software that they can just go to a store and pickup (and while Apple does have Apple stores, the nearest to me is 120 miles away, not really an option for this) I still can't recommend them... Not to mention issues with hardware they may want to use, not so much upgrades as little accessories like digital camera docks/memory card readers... Or non-Ipod mp3 players (I know alot of people with flash based mp3 players because they were cheap and effective, none are designed to work with Macs)...
Lately I keep having people suggest Macs as an option and I still have to say it isn't... Until the 'fix' this sort of issue I can't siggest them no matter how 'user friendly' they may be and to a degree virus and spyware free...
Ya know I like that idea.... Alot... I endlessly seem to tell people:
Switch to Firefox or another good alternative web browser (same for email)
Install a firewall (preferably Zone Alarm)
Install an anti-virus program (AVG if their cheap, Norton or Mcafee if they aren't)
Get some Anti-spyware (Adaware, Spy Bot, heck even MS's free beta if you won't grab those for some reason)
Then run windows update regularly...
Soem people get the point, some don't... heck most don't... They just want to know the least they can do...
Well the big mistake assumed in teh New Battlestar series is that humanity created a race of robots with intelligence to act as slaves... If we have learned nothing else by now it's that slaves don't want to be slaves regardless of how intelligent they are (even pets can't really be counted as slaves, treat a pet badly and it will literally bite the hand that feeds it)...
Personnally I take that to mean that we leave robots doing manual tasks as remote controlled devices with no real intelligence and we won't have that problem...
"Is sex a religious, creative, or cultural activity?"
All of the above!
In point of fact I meant per month and make about $16,000 odd dollars a year... Which is the exact average for my area: North Western Pennsylvania, which is basically an area surrounded by big cities (Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo) with the third largest city in Pennsylvania (the city of Erie, like the lake it sits next to). The average yearly income is ~$16,000 per year.
/. someone says I should move... Well moving takes money, and it's a bitch to find a job that isn't within about 100 miles (which is my maximum reasonable driving distance for a interview). So we don't need to mention the whoel topic ok...?
In case your wondering you almost can't find a job around here that isn't about selling something in retail in one form or another... & if you know anything about retail, you know they don't want to pay you anything...
& every time I've ever mentioned income on
Uh what the hell chocie do I have? My options consist of cable... and just cable... DSL is provided 1000 feet from me, but my neighborhood woudl need it's lines upgraded to support DSL and the phone company won't invest that kind of money...
So while out their somewhere are more carries I still have a chocie of one and some people have a chocie of none...
"That will never happen in the US as long as a republican is in office."
Don't you mean 'While we let out politicains be bought and sold by big bussiness interests'? Cause last time I looked both sides took money from just about any interest and in turn voted the way those interests wanted...
I pay about what you do (though actually I seem to pay slightly more for the same exact se4rvice), though I must make about 3 times less, because when I do the math I'm almost exactly at 5% of my monthly income going to my broadband fees... Though for my area I make the exact average monthly income, if I wasn't a net phreak (& have been for years) I probably wouldn't get broadband right now the percent of my income seems awfully high compared to other bills (electric is $80/month for instance)...
If you look at that map it states in the fine print that even satelite service is coutned as broadband... and most of the country is covered by one satelite service or another, which probably coutns for a very very large portion of that single provider coverage area...
I think you missed the point, I was showing the difference between US and Europian cell providers... & I'm not suprised my mom has problems using pin codes with her phone... Their are 6 menus to go through to find the sub menu for adding time via a pin number... Then their is still a few more steps... & she never really has figured out how to use the internet which is far far easier than doing it via the phone...
But anyways I was saying Pre-paid phones are much harder to use in the US, that was my whole point... That's why fewer people use them here...