I've been using vonage for 9 months now, service has been pretty good... not good enough to run a business on (like the commercials suggest.) But overall I've been happy with the $20/month deal. Previously I was paying $60-$75/month with Bell Canada, not even a year and I've saved a lot of money. But it has me wondering.. this is all about a patent in the united states, it probably doesn't mean much for the vonage in Canada except that the technology that makes the vonage system work is so intertwined between the two countries that I'll be paying $50/month pretty soon, when whichever competitor gobbles up vonage for the lowest bid.
It surprises the hell out of me because one of the reasons I voted for bush in 2000 were the promises that the Bush administration would bring back honesty, integrity and decency to the white house.:~(
next thing you know google will be showing pictures of iraq and blaming bush for the disaster that happened there, fukken democrats. you google people need to show patriotism and stop blaming bush, all you libs got is hate for bush. cut & run is not a strategy.
but how much do legal copies of dvd's sell for? Or rather, how much does the riaa/mpaa want to charge chinese consumers for a DVD ? $20? Maybe it's time for the riaa/mpaa to lower prices and compete with the blackmarket.. there is still money to be made, just don't expect chinese consumers to fork over 15% of their annual income for a lousy hollywood movie.
been to myspace lately? That place is a fucking wasteland of annoying webpages that push shit onto the viewer, it's a throwback to the 90's and when geocities was in it's heyday, except now it's 10x more annoying... god damn pages with mp3's, flash ads, animated background images, "this person has 15,234 friends, and here is an image of every fucking one of them.." and then comments from those "friends" that make no sense, sometimes they're spam... sometimes jackasses post a million images just to fuck with with your browser memory limit... and then there are contests about who has the most "friends" on myspace..
fuck that, nobody has friends or "buddies" on myspace.. just middle-aged men that are dumb enough to add all these teenage girls to their myspace friends list and jerk off to the private images that 15,234 friends have access to while listening to a duran duran "girls on film" mp3 that they didn't choose to play, it was fucking forced on them by myspace.
I am calling on all blackhats to do their part and take that steaming pile of shit off the internet... take it down boys, you have a go.
It looks worrying but it's completely normal for a big airplane like this double decker monstrosity. If you ever get a chance to see the B52 landing/take-off you'll get to see the same thing happening, such much more that they have retractable "bogie wheels" on the tips of the wings.
time to move on and exploit another nation for billions of dollars and thousands of lives. They've done their job here, very well I might add, kudos. Looks like they'll looking at armies of other countries to do their dirty work.
yet... I went browsing today and found that the kingdom of loathing items were still available (even an auction up near $800 for a virtual outfit in the game..)
I take exception to that remark because Cringely is just a tool whereas most people recognize Art Bell as a serious investigator of the paranormal, a professional respected by collegues in his field. Art Bell has uncovered and revealed many dark secrets about google on his show, including their plans to harvest energy from the unborn. A caller to the show who only identified himself as "Mr. X" claimed to have been part of a team that designed the amorphous bio-pod that the unborn would be stored in, in a semi-concious state of dreaming stasis whereby quantum energy guides would capture excess xeon particles for current generation. I'm sorry if you missed it because the truth about google's plans will blow the lid off of civilization once it's known.
and it's gonna get us killed, whether you like it or not. We are more vulnerable now that investigators have to wade through the legal system. If you've seen the latest episode of 24, you'll know what I'm talking about, a nuclear attack on an american city. With the appropriate monitoring systems in place, that would have never happened on the show but they were hamstrung like the FBI and NSA is today. Blame the leftists and the god damn liberals for the terror that will befall us:(
So if an employee comes in to drive a fork-lift truck, but his eyes are glazed over and he stinks of weed breath reeks of whiskey, and you going to let him do his job?
Do DARE honor graduates have something just against weed? I'm curious if they teach anything about general impairment in those propaganda classes.
interesting resume you have from what I can gather in your previous posts... you worked for Barclay's of England, you were also a network admin for 3500 nodes in a big corporation, now you're an accountant at google.. Nice work.
No, that means being able to rip the disc/compress it/play on it on his laptop.. or do some resizing so it can play on his ipod, or maybe his mythtv media playing box doesn't have much disk space... There are plenty of reasons why the consumer loses with digital restriction management.
Instead of having the television on the dashboard of the car you'll be able to watch your favourite dvd displayed on the windshield, think virtual 52" television.
And most of all, what about the hated drug companies who make a profit from this? How dare they expect to make a little money when all their drug does is cure diabetes? Greedy corporate bastards.
Hrm, the article mentions a toronto hospital, the "Hospital for Sick Children." The hospital page says they are affiliated with the University of toronto and that their funding has two sources,
"Funding for research activities and operations comes from two sources. Internal funding -- roughly one third of the Research Institute's budget -- comes from community donors through SickKids Foundation. Founded in 1972 to support research and education at The Hospital for Sick Children, the Foundation has granted more than $225 million to the hospital for research.
External funding comes from peer-reviewed grants awarded to our researchers, as well as from research contracts with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, government agencies and non-profit foundations."
It's not clear who funded the research into this project, if it was sponsored by a BioTech company or if it was funded through the general hospital funds.
Let's not automatically assign credit to the scorched-earth biotech companies of this world just because we're biased in their favor. It would be nice if we could make a profit from this discovery but it looks like the socialist canadian health care system should be given credit for this one.
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I've been using vonage for 9 months now, service has been pretty good... not good enough to run a business on (like the commercials suggest.) But overall I've been happy with the $20/month deal. Previously I was paying $60-$75/month with Bell Canada, not even a year and I've saved a lot of money. But it has me wondering.. this is all about a patent in the united states, it probably doesn't mean much for the vonage in Canada except that the technology that makes the vonage system work is so intertwined between the two countries that I'll be paying $50/month pretty soon, when whichever competitor gobbles up vonage for the lowest bid.
and on top of that the accountants have to be sure they're not infringing on patented tax strategies :-P
I can't think of no better way to refute this sort of spew than to quote one if its finest purveyors back at you. Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2005:
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And here is follow-up to that article (from April, 8th) of the same interest,
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.h
It surprises the hell out of me because one of the reasons I voted for bush in 2000 were the promises that the Bush administration would bring back honesty, integrity and decency to the white house. :~(
next thing you know google will be showing pictures of iraq and blaming bush for the disaster that happened there, fukken democrats. you google people need to show patriotism and stop blaming bush, all you libs got is hate for bush. cut & run is not a strategy.
The south will rise again, let freedom reign!!
but how much do legal copies of dvd's sell for? Or rather, how much does the riaa/mpaa want to charge chinese consumers for a DVD ? $20? Maybe it's time for the riaa/mpaa to lower prices and compete with the blackmarket.. there is still money to be made, just don't expect chinese consumers to fork over 15% of their annual income for a lousy hollywood movie.
been to myspace lately? That place is a fucking wasteland of annoying webpages that push shit onto the viewer, it's a throwback to the 90's and when geocities was in it's heyday, except now it's 10x more annoying... god damn pages with mp3's, flash ads, animated background images, "this person has 15,234 friends, and here is an image of every fucking one of them.." and then comments from those "friends" that make no sense, sometimes they're spam... sometimes jackasses post a million images just to fuck with with your browser memory limit... and then there are contests about who has the most "friends" on myspace.. fuck that, nobody has friends or "buddies" on myspace.. just middle-aged men that are dumb enough to add all these teenage girls to their myspace friends list and jerk off to the private images that 15,234 friends have access to while listening to a duran duran "girls on film" mp3 that they didn't choose to play, it was fucking forced on them by myspace. I am calling on all blackhats to do their part and take that steaming pile of shit off the internet... take it down boys, you have a go.
It looks worrying but it's completely normal for a big airplane like this double decker monstrosity. If you ever get a chance to see the B52 landing/take-off you'll get to see the same thing happening, such much more that they have retractable "bogie wheels" on the tips of the wings.
time to move on and exploit another nation for billions of dollars and thousands of lives. They've done their job here, very well I might add, kudos. Looks like they'll looking at armies of other countries to do their dirty work.
The parent (which is complete bullshit) and it's inclusion of a boingboing url reminded me of this,
http://www.xkcd.com/c202.html
yet... I went browsing today and found that the kingdom of loathing items were still available (even an auction up near $800 for a virtual outfit in the game..)
b s&sbrftog=1&from=R10&satitle=kingdom+of+loathing
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=
guess it's just a matter of time before they find everything out.. too bad ebay execs are a bunch of anal fucks.
I take exception to that remark because Cringely is just a tool whereas most people recognize Art Bell as a serious investigator of the paranormal, a professional respected by collegues in his field. Art Bell has uncovered and revealed many dark secrets about google on his show, including their plans to harvest energy from the unborn. A caller to the show who only identified himself as "Mr. X" claimed to have been part of a team that designed the amorphous bio-pod that the unborn would be stored in, in a semi-concious state of dreaming stasis whereby quantum energy guides would capture excess xeon particles for current generation. I'm sorry if you missed it because the truth about google's plans will blow the lid off of civilization once it's known.
and it's gonna get us killed, whether you like it or not. We are more vulnerable now that investigators have to wade through the legal system. If you've seen the latest episode of 24, you'll know what I'm talking about, a nuclear attack on an american city. With the appropriate monitoring systems in place, that would have never happened on the show but they were hamstrung like the FBI and NSA is today. Blame the leftists and the god damn liberals for the terror that will befall us :(
Let me correct this for you,
So if an employee comes in to drive a fork-lift truck, but his eyes are glazed over and he stinks of weed breath reeks of whiskey, and you going to let him do his job?
Do DARE honor graduates have something just against weed? I'm curious if they teach anything about general impairment in those propaganda classes.
fucking my gf, wanna watch me on cam? I'll masturbate afterwards for an encore.
Ya, that is definitely a lot quicker than going through his posting history manually..
+ trisexualpuppy+site%3Aslashdot.org&btnG=Google+Sea rch&meta=
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22I+work%22
interesting resume you have from what I can gather in your previous posts... you worked for Barclay's of England, you were also a network admin for 3500 nodes in a big corporation, now you're an accountant at google.. Nice work.
Well, like Bush says, the iraq adventure will only be a comma in the history books... his choice of adjective, not mine.
No, that means being able to rip the disc/compress it/play on it on his laptop.. or do some resizing so it can play on his ipod, or maybe his mythtv media playing box doesn't have much disk space... There are plenty of reasons why the consumer loses with digital restriction management.
Sipple was invited to the White House. The invitation was withdrawn when it was learned that Sipple was gay.
Thanks some thanks for saving his life..
The CEO's of big oil come first, the cogs that make the machine work should remember that it's the giving that's important, not the receiving.
Instead of having the television on the dashboard of the car you'll be able to watch your favourite dvd displayed on the windshield, think virtual 52" television.
Is Cannibal Holocaust or The Dreamers on high-def discs yet? I'd prefer the latter but either might be worth upgrading the television equipment for.
Tough to keep a signal at 500 kts and 36000 ft.
Shouldn't be a problem, all the people hijacked on 9/11 were making calls with their cellphones, wasn't a problem for them.
And most of all, what about the hated drug companies who make a profit from this? How dare they expect to make a little money when all their drug does is cure diabetes? Greedy corporate bastards.
Hrm, the article mentions a toronto hospital, the "Hospital for Sick Children." The hospital page says they are affiliated with the University of toronto and that their funding has two sources,
"Funding for research activities and operations comes from two sources. Internal funding -- roughly one third of the Research Institute's budget -- comes from community donors through SickKids Foundation. Founded in 1972 to support research and education at The Hospital for Sick Children, the Foundation has granted more than $225 million to the hospital for research.
External funding comes from peer-reviewed grants awarded to our researchers, as well as from research contracts with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, government agencies and non-profit foundations."
Hospital for Sick Children link
It's not clear who funded the research into this project, if it was sponsored by a BioTech company or if it was funded through the general hospital funds.
Let's not automatically assign credit to the scorched-earth biotech companies of this world just because we're biased in their favor. It would be nice if we could make a profit from this discovery but it looks like the socialist canadian health care system should be given credit for this one.