California's economy is essentially the same size as China.
Maybe later- but for now all China could do was lose a Trillion dollars; 50% of their export market (crashing their economy); and really hurt themselves badly while inflicting modest pain on the U.S.
Give then 20 years and they will be more capable. But not yet.
Give them 40 years and the situation will probably be reversed and the U.S. economy will be 1/3 the size of china's.
If china does everything perfectly for 40 years and has no civil unrest; over turn of the government; etc.
And actually I graduated in 1993 (didn't feeling like posting to correct that) so the drive was pre 1993- and probably pre 1991.
I don't clearly recall events that happened over 20 years ago (tho I can still see the house I bought the drive at- it was on a corner with a bayou behind it).
I was a teetotalar back then but I had cancer in 91-92 and the chemo noticeably affected my brain. These days I'm a social drinker.
But for the nitpickers...
The oldest drive I remember was a 5MB for the apple 2 a friend bought for several hundred dollars. Capacity rapidly doubled after (while price dropped) that so 5-10-20-40-80-used 80 was probably about 6 years after the invention of mass market hard drives.
I bought an IDE enclosure and i'm going over my drives...
The oldest- which still spun up was only 8 GB. I had a really hard time throwing it away since it still works. But i looked at the memory sticks on the desk... which cost $4.99 to $15.99 and had the same or higher storage.. and I put it in the trash.
Same for the 80GB drive from 2003.
Debating on the 120GB drive. It might actually be big enough to keep.
My first drive... cost me $88 and held... 88 megabytes. That was sometime in the mid to late 80's I think.
Don't forget the roughly 25% pre-tax subsidy for employer provided insurance.
If they gave the same tax deductions to individuals- it would lower premiums by your highest marginal tax rate. For most people about 20%. For the wealthy by 39.6%.
My silver plan was $373 from BCBS of texas and the drug copay is much lower and my annual deductible is $1500.
It's better than my old corporate plan. And now I can get my drugs from local pharmacies again instead of Medco.
Medco was pretty bad. I would occasionally get bottles with 1 or 2 less pills (never 1 or 2 more). And they sent a lot of mail- if you didnt' read every single one; you might miss a rules procedure and that would cost you 10-15 days of pills while things got straightened out.
I already signed up and paid for my ACA policy, and love what it does for me.
But I recognize the challenge for people with families. They've been subsidized by corporations at the expense of childless couples and single people for years.
I think a better fix would be for people like me to pay $50 more per month so policies for people with kids would be less. We want to encourage people to have children.
I wouldn't count on that subsidy from corporations continuing-- my last corporations had cut benefits every year of the last seven years AND rates for children and spouses had increased for at least the last three years.
In my case; the ACA has allowed me to retire and start several small businesses instead of working another 16 years (despite not needing the money) because of my preexisting conditions. Since I don't think it's likely I would have been able to find employment with insurance all the way- an uncovered period was probably in my future.
There is natural human variation tho. Some humans can see near infra read and some can see near ultraviolet. Some humans are super genius's. Not even really measurable on the IQ scale.
It's reasonable that some can hear a little more music.
I used to video game with a guy who could see and was bothered by 58fps vs 60fps. For most of us 30fps felt glass smooth.
He was an incredible athlete with lightning fast reflexes and did amazing things in sports. Clearly far end of the bell curve.
However, while there are human exceptions like this- for most (the vast majority of) people- what are you saving is completely valid.
I'm starting to have problems with differing rules at different sites.
I.e. one REQUIRES a special character. Another disallows special characters.
One has a maximum length of 8 (crazy short) while others have a minimum length of 8 characters.
And all of them won't let you reuse a recent password so if you can't remember the password, then your new password can't follow your own password rule set.
It's reached a point that now i have a sticky pad with coded passwords written down.
Netflix has been a pain because it's non-standard as a result of resets and you need to reenter the password on every device (and I'm up to five now).
So when I have to reset the password, I have to reset the password on all my devices. And on some the password screen only comes up when it checks the password- which isn't apparently every time you use the device. I guess they get a token that's good for a month or more.
If you look at the lessons of history- every time the 1% pushes the 99% hard enough- it ends badly in mass quantities of blood for the 1% as well as the 99%.
So, the 1% better consider it part of their responsibility to care about the 99% or they'll find their heads in baskets, or in brainwashing reeducation camps while they make left shoes 12 hours a day.
A friend of mine- who's an executive- actually has a name for it. He calls it a shit sandwich. It's part of the training and part of the job to deliver them so well people eat them without noticing.
I'm looking at these. They seem much less expensive with a payoff period of 3-4 months.
All my friends were on this last ski trip and had no problem at Denver Airport or Winter Park.
I'm currently on Sprint and had good service as well but there are three LARGE areas in houston that I travel through and there is essentially no service in those areas.
I get good service at my home and in galveston tho.
I recently cancelled AT&T basic line which was up to $40 (From $18 not that long ago)... and went with Magic Jack.
It worked flawlessly for about 35 days. Then Comcast went down for a couple hours and after that the MJ didn't work for a little under 3 days (giving a 3002 error).
I changed the ip, changed the cords, etc-- nothing worked. Then- it started working again and it's been flawless for a couple weeks.
Good for a second line- but not something I'd like to count on. Also- my credit card company could process the touchkeys on the menu- but not when I entered the credit card number! Wierd, eh?
But I mainly had the land line for long daytime 1-800 calls and to find my cell phone when I lost it. So MJ mostly works perfectly for that. Since I got it on a $20 off coupon- it cost me $29 total. I declined the 5 years for $19 per year until I know how the thing works. but $19 per year -- including long distance-- has got to put some pressure on AT&T and others.
There are other, mildly more expensive VOIP solutions like MJ to that might be more reliable.
The credit union does everything the bank does (including online bill pay) and is much less expensive unless you have a lot of money. If you have under $15,000 to sit around doing nothing (or in bonds doing something), you really should go with a credit union.
And their executives make a lot less- providing exactly the same service to members.
The catch is that a LOT of people are being robbed specifically for their phones. And (no idea why) there is a high rate of violence associated with the thefts.
If the only reason you were going to rob someone was for their phone, then knowing the phone will be worthless kills your incentive.
I'm dubious of "take this and in 6-12 weeks you'll be cured" but...
I can tell you from experience Tart Black Cherry works just like a medicine for gout.
Take it for 2 days and the pain stops and never comes back. Stop taking it (i.e. forget) and in a week or so, the pain comes back.
So don't discount everything. There are many herbs and natural remedies that have enough of an effect that you need your doctor to be aware of them.
I've not had any good experience with essential oils or homeopathy personally so I'm dubious of them.
But I have friends who drugs failed (especially for rosacia) and natural remedies worked-- and quickly.
I also know from experience that therapeutic massage (as opposed to fluff massage) can heal injuries traditional medicine want to cure with surgery (some of it fairly invasive). See the trigger point book by "Clair Davies". Awesome stuff.
As a result of these experiences- I can't totally discount homeopathy either. If it worked when nothing else did for me or someone else- I'd believe it. But it would have to actually work, not magical "believe it's working".
Yes, but I try to start out polite and then go downhill from there in the face of increasing willful stubbornness.
If thaylin simply said, I can see how many people are offended but I'm not and I wouldn't be if I were the target and I think it's okay. I'd be cool with that.
It's the assertion by glass/anti-privacy people that everyone else must agree with them that doesn't fly.
Clearly, a majority of people oppose the loss of their privacy and creepy surveillance by anti-privacy advocates. That might change. A lot has in the last 30 years. But most people still oppose it now.
I think you have the direction of protection wrong with regard to criminals.
You are an idiot if you take video or pictures of people who are already breaking the law. But that's the common thread with glass users isn't it?
They behave in really obnoxious, idiotic ways and then are stupid enough to wonder what happened afterwards.
It's a societal thing. If 95% of people come to accept glass, total lack of privacy, etc. Then it will be cool.. For now, well over half of people do not accept glass, do not accept the tremendous loss of privacy that's occurred over the last 20 years and so it's not cool.
I mean in theory- it's legal for you to stand in the street filming through my windows if I don't have the curtains closed.
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California's economy is essentially the same size as China.
Maybe later- but for now all China could do was lose a Trillion dollars; 50% of their export market (crashing their economy); and really hurt themselves badly while inflicting modest pain on the U.S.
Give then 20 years and they will be more capable. But not yet.
Give them 40 years and the situation will probably be reversed and the U.S. economy will be 1/3 the size of china's.
If china does everything perfectly for 40 years and has no civil unrest; over turn of the government; etc.
Actually I hadn't considered that.
Your helpful suggestion will result in up to 12 used hard drives going to best buy!
Grats! You made a difference!
I went to college for 11 years.
And actually I graduated in 1993 (didn't feeling like posting to correct that) so the drive was pre 1993- and probably pre 1991.
I don't clearly recall events that happened over 20 years ago (tho I can still see the house I bought the drive at- it was on a corner with a bayou behind it).
I was a teetotalar back then but I had cancer in 91-92 and the chemo noticeably affected my brain. These days I'm a social drinker.
But for the nitpickers...
The oldest drive I remember was a 5MB for the apple 2 a friend bought for several hundred dollars. Capacity rapidly doubled after (while price dropped) that so 5-10-20-40-80-used 80 was probably about 6 years after the invention of mass market hard drives.
Per the WIKI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
Hard drives had the capacity I remember around 1988 to 1990 so that fits.
Hmm. I wonder how polite the romans were for 700 years of conquering.
700 years is a pretty good run.
I wonder how polite the old west and the gold rush area were?
I think Mr. Heinlein had on some thick rose colored glasses with regard to government and how people actually behave.
It was used. But it could have been the early 90's.
I was still in college and I graduated in 96 so it had to be pre-1996.
I bought an IDE enclosure and i'm going over my drives...
The oldest- which still spun up was only 8 GB. I had a really hard time throwing it away since it still works. But i looked at the memory sticks on the desk... which cost $4.99 to $15.99 and had the same or higher storage.. and I put it in the trash.
Same for the 80GB drive from 2003.
Debating on the 120GB drive. It might actually be big enough to keep.
My first drive... cost me $88 and held... 88 megabytes. That was sometime in the mid to late 80's I think.
Don't forget the roughly 25% pre-tax subsidy for employer provided insurance.
If they gave the same tax deductions to individuals- it would lower premiums by your highest marginal tax rate. For most people about 20%. For the wealthy by 39.6%.
My silver plan was $373 from BCBS of texas and the drug copay is much lower and my annual deductible is $1500.
It's better than my old corporate plan. And now I can get my drugs from local pharmacies again instead of Medco.
Medco was pretty bad. I would occasionally get bottles with 1 or 2 less pills (never 1 or 2 more). And they sent a lot of mail- if you didnt' read every single one; you might miss a rules procedure and that would cost you 10-15 days of pills while things got straightened out.
I already signed up and paid for my ACA policy, and love what it does for me.
But I recognize the challenge for people with families. They've been subsidized by corporations at the expense of childless couples and single people for years.
I think a better fix would be for people like me to pay $50 more per month so policies for people with kids would be less. We want to encourage people to have children.
I wouldn't count on that subsidy from corporations continuing-- my last corporations had cut benefits every year of the last seven years AND rates for children and spouses had increased for at least the last three years.
In my case; the ACA has allowed me to retire and start several small businesses instead of working another 16 years (despite not needing the money) because of my preexisting conditions. Since I don't think it's likely I would have been able to find employment with insurance all the way- an uncovered period was probably in my future.
There is natural human variation tho.
Some humans can see near infra read and some can see near ultraviolet.
Some humans are super genius's. Not even really measurable on the IQ scale.
It's reasonable that some can hear a little more music.
I used to video game with a guy who could see and was bothered by 58fps vs 60fps.
For most of us 30fps felt glass smooth.
He was an incredible athlete with lightning fast reflexes and did amazing things in sports. Clearly far end of the bell curve.
However, while there are human exceptions like this- for most (the vast majority of) people- what are you saving is completely valid.
I don't reuse the same password- but I can't even follow the same password generation rules/algorithm.
Which means I must write down the passwords at this point since i have over two dozen passwords- some at sites I visit only once every six months.
I will check out lastpass that the other poster recommended.
I'm starting to have problems with differing rules at different sites.
I.e. one REQUIRES a special character. Another disallows special characters.
One has a maximum length of 8 (crazy short) while others have a minimum length of 8 characters.
And all of them won't let you reuse a recent password so if you can't remember the password, then your new password can't follow your own password rule set.
It's reached a point that now i have a sticky pad with coded passwords written down.
Netflix has been a pain because it's non-standard as a result of resets and you need to reenter the password on every device (and I'm up to five now).
So when I have to reset the password, I have to reset the password on all my devices. And on some the password screen only comes up when it checks the password- which isn't apparently every time you use the device. I guess they get a token that's good for a month or more.
If you look at the lessons of history- every time the 1% pushes the 99% hard enough- it ends badly in mass quantities of blood for the 1% as well as the 99%.
So, the 1% better consider it part of their responsibility to care about the 99% or they'll find their heads in baskets, or in brainwashing reeducation camps while they make left shoes 12 hours a day.
A friend of mine- who's an executive- actually has a name for it. He calls it a shit sandwich. It's part of the training and part of the job to deliver them so well people eat them without noticing.
I'm looking at these. They seem much less expensive with a payoff period of 3-4 months.
All my friends were on this last ski trip and had no problem at Denver Airport or Winter Park.
I'm currently on Sprint and had good service as well but there are three LARGE areas in houston that I travel through and there is essentially no service in those areas.
I get good service at my home and in galveston tho.
I recently cancelled AT&T basic line which was up to $40 (From $18 not that long ago)...
and went with Magic Jack.
It worked flawlessly for about 35 days. Then Comcast went down for a couple hours and after that the MJ didn't work for a little under 3 days (giving a 3002 error).
I changed the ip, changed the cords, etc-- nothing worked.
Then- it started working again and it's been flawless for a couple weeks.
Good for a second line- but not something I'd like to count on. Also- my credit card company could process the touchkeys on the menu- but not when I entered the credit card number! Wierd, eh?
But I mainly had the land line for long daytime 1-800 calls and to find my cell phone when I lost it. So MJ mostly works perfectly for that. Since I got it on a $20 off coupon- it cost me $29 total. I declined the 5 years for $19 per year until I know how the thing works. but $19 per year -- including long distance-- has got to put some pressure on AT&T and others.
There are other, mildly more expensive VOIP solutions like MJ to that might be more reliable.
also the length of the skirt in question.
and if the wind blows the skirt up while you are taking a picture already.
Or the lady in question falls down and exposes themselves.
That's very INFORMATIVE.
I'm going to let my friends know about it!
The dialing method worked on my android device.
Part of the challenge is that by changing an inexpensive SIM card- you basically make it a new phone.
They need a mixture of hard coded ID and SIM card id perhaps.
I have a bank account and a credit union account.
The credit union does everything the bank does (including online bill pay) and is much less expensive unless you have a lot of money. If you have under $15,000 to sit around doing nothing (or in bonds doing something), you really should go with a credit union.
And their executives make a lot less- providing exactly the same service to members.
Except you risk the car being lo-jacked.
However, I can see your point.
If phones had reliable loud alarms when stolen and had reliable lojack technology that might also be a viable solution.
However, it's easier to stick a phone in a soundproof faraday cage than a car.
When I was in my 20's cars were stolen a lot more than today. It's apparently harder to steal a car and get away with it today.
The catch is that a LOT of people are being robbed specifically for their phones.
And (no idea why) there is a high rate of violence associated with the thefts.
If the only reason you were going to rob someone was for their phone, then knowing the phone will be worthless kills your incentive.
I'm dubious of "take this and in 6-12 weeks you'll be cured" but...
I can tell you from experience Tart Black Cherry works just like a medicine for gout.
Take it for 2 days and the pain stops and never comes back.
Stop taking it (i.e. forget) and in a week or so, the pain comes back.
So don't discount everything. There are many herbs and natural remedies that have enough of an effect that you need your doctor to be aware of them.
I've not had any good experience with essential oils or homeopathy personally so I'm dubious of them.
But I have friends who drugs failed (especially for rosacia) and natural remedies worked-- and quickly.
I also know from experience that therapeutic massage (as opposed to fluff massage) can heal injuries traditional medicine want to cure with surgery (some of it fairly invasive). See the trigger point book by "Clair Davies". Awesome stuff.
As a result of these experiences- I can't totally discount homeopathy either. If it worked when nothing else did for me or someone else- I'd believe it. But it would have to actually work, not magical "believe it's working".
Hmmm. Given the entire history of the world, what's more likely?
People will stop cheating.
People will not stop cheating.
Yes, but I try to start out polite and then go downhill from there in the face of increasing willful stubbornness.
If thaylin simply said, I can see how many people are offended but I'm not and I wouldn't be if I were the target and I think it's okay. I'd be cool with that.
It's the assertion by glass/anti-privacy people that everyone else must agree with them that doesn't fly.
Clearly, a majority of people oppose the loss of their privacy and creepy surveillance by anti-privacy advocates. That might change. A lot has in the last 30 years. But most people still oppose it now.
I think you have the direction of protection wrong with regard to criminals.
You are an idiot if you take video or pictures of people who are already breaking the law. But that's the common thread with glass users isn't it?
They behave in really obnoxious, idiotic ways and then are stupid enough to wonder what happened afterwards.
It's a societal thing. If 95% of people come to accept glass, total lack of privacy, etc. Then it will be cool.. For now, well over half of people do not accept glass, do not accept the tremendous loss of privacy that's occurred over the last 20 years and so it's not cool.
I mean in theory- it's legal for you to stand in the street filming through my windows if I don't have the curtains closed.