Welcome to The Wasatch Front in Winter, where exceedingly high levels of PM 2.5 are known to increase all manner of disease, including:
asthma in children, heart disease and cancer in adults and early onset of dementia in the elderly.
1. Who encounters problems with voice calls?
There are parts of the Earths surface that have mountainous terrain. This mountainous terrain, which is more and more being used by mankind for habitation purposes, has a tendency to have less robust cell coverage. To those who live near or in mountainous terrain, cell coverage can be spotty and problematic.
2. Why make voice calls at all?
Voice calls are better at reflecting the true intention of the communicating parties. Texts and emails can leave out the true intentions of the message. Voice calls can make discussions much more precise between communicating parties where nuance may be critical.
3. Why the concern about the quality of voice calls via cell?
Ahh, now we come to it. Once upon a time there was a telephony network in the US that was mostly reliable and had high quality. Regardless of your phone, you could expect a high degree of audio communication, via talking(a communication technique pioneered several millennia ago). Communication via "talking" via cell now is akin to cb or walkie talkie in regard to quality.
Paul Giamatti: The DM
Marc Meron: Cunnilingun, the Elven BladeSinger
Melissa McCarthy: Dervich, the Dwarf War Priest
Adam Sandler: Sneechy, the Human Rogue
Forrest Whitaker: Sardonicus, Elf Wizard
Electric cars will be commodities like pc's and phones. Gone will be the days of thousand and thousands of dollars being drained away from car owners doing repairs, etc;
Mechanics, oil change places(Jiffy Lube, etc) will go out of business once the threshold is passed.
It is interesting to note that the average age of cars on the road in the US now is at an all time high. The "pundits" wring their hands trying to discover the cause of this "anomaly", when anyone with half a brain knows the answer:
People are sick and tired of car payments and insurance payments.
My best advice for any "young person" out there is to put off buying a card as long as possible. Car ownership, and the required financial hit, IMHO, is the biggest waste of money that anyone can have. Yet, there are amazing deals now to buy new cars. Zero down, low interest, etc. The automakers see what is happening, and they are stepping things up to make the most $ while they still can.
The future will be driverless cars, mass transit and bicycles in urban/suburban areas.
I have a relative who is a part owner of a truck stop. I have heard how low the profits/margins are for selling gas. He tells me all the profit at those places is from the junk food inside... Apparently the deals they make with the gasoline/diesel suppliers are so bad there is almost no profit in selling gas.
You're missing the point about Chrome and Google in general.
Chrome and it settings are setup to hide things from the general purpose user. It is all done deliberately, and none of how Chrome is set is due to being idiotic or third rate. If anything is diabolically genius, how their browser is setup to be a gaping hole to suck all private info from users to continue Googles quest for absolute power and control.
Example?
What happens when you run Chrome in "incognito" mode?
You get the cute "spy" image in the upper left corner and the usual "OMG you're running incognito! God help us!"
Interesting, Pro Gamers are now going to be subjected to the same scrutiny that Ice Fishers, Badmitton players, Critickers, Bowlers, Country Line Dancers and players in the NFL, MLB and NCAA are subjected to.
Obviously, players in the NFL are going to be subjected to different test panels than players in the NCAA or Olympics, but for your convenience, here is the WADA list of banned substances
You will find most of the usual things there, "street drugs", etc, and of course, gamers drug of choice, Amphetamines/Stimulants.
When I first saw the headline, I thought, like many here did, what about Adderall? Because we all know that Adderall, and other legal amphetamines like it, is the real question mark here.
Should pro gamers be worried? Only if they need it to play a video game...
I live in a relatively "safe" community, and the risk of mugging is always a possibility, however rare. I'm more worried about someone wanting to steal my phone...
I use a cc for some purchases.
I NEVER use a debit card...
Since the Target debacle, and many more like it, I have transitioned back to using cash almost exclusively.
It appears to me that a cashless system is less robust and more likely to be taken advantage of by criminals.
So yes, cashless apologists will whine about things like bank robberies, etc, but when it comes to what is best for me, not the bank, I choose cash please.
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Welcome to The Wasatch Front in Winter, where exceedingly high levels of PM 2.5 are known to increase all manner of disease, including:
asthma in children, heart disease and cancer in adults and early onset of dementia in the elderly.
Gentleman, start your engines!
1. Who encounters problems with voice calls?
There are parts of the Earths surface that have mountainous terrain. This mountainous terrain, which is more and more being used by mankind for habitation purposes, has a tendency to have less robust cell coverage. To those who live near or in mountainous terrain, cell coverage can be spotty and problematic.
2. Why make voice calls at all?
Voice calls are better at reflecting the true intention of the communicating parties. Texts and emails can leave out the true intentions of the message. Voice calls can make discussions much more precise between communicating parties where nuance may be critical.
3. Why the concern about the quality of voice calls via cell?
Ahh, now we come to it. Once upon a time there was a telephony network in the US that was mostly reliable and had high quality. Regardless of your phone, you could expect a high degree of audio communication, via talking(a communication technique pioneered several millennia ago). Communication via "talking" via cell now is akin to cb or walkie talkie in regard to quality.
And so it begins.
I was given the dvd as a Xmas gift years ago.
Once a year I watch it with gaming friends.
The scenes in the WTC are interesting...
Paul Giamatti: The DM
Marc Meron: Cunnilingun, the Elven BladeSinger
Melissa McCarthy: Dervich, the Dwarf War Priest
Adam Sandler: Sneechy, the Human Rogue
Forrest Whitaker: Sardonicus, Elf Wizard
our judgement was so impaired, we got married. The damage was so severe, we have never recovered from this bad judgement and remain married.
An initial failed Wisdom check, and permanent loss of 2 Wisdom points.
Bad ScreenWriting.
I've been using Mint for about a year now and it kicks ass. Much easier interface than either iOS or Windows. Easier install of "apps", etc;
I've tried a lot of Linux Desktops and Mint is the winner.
I've been paranoid lately that they are going to screw it up somehow...
If I had the points...
Great post!
need far less servicing
This is the big one.
Electric cars will be commodities like pc's and phones. Gone will be the days of thousand and thousands of dollars being drained away from car owners doing repairs, etc;
Mechanics, oil change places(Jiffy Lube, etc) will go out of business once the threshold is passed.
It is interesting to note that the average age of cars on the road in the US now is at an all time high. The "pundits" wring their hands trying to discover the cause of this "anomaly", when anyone with half a brain knows the answer:
People are sick and tired of car payments and insurance payments.
My best advice for any "young person" out there is to put off buying a card as long as possible. Car ownership, and the required financial hit, IMHO, is the biggest waste of money that anyone can have. Yet, there are amazing deals now to buy new cars. Zero down, low interest, etc. The automakers see what is happening, and they are stepping things up to make the most $ while they still can.
The future will be driverless cars, mass transit and bicycles in urban/suburban areas.
I have a relative who is a part owner of a truck stop. I have heard how low the profits/margins are for selling gas. He tells me all the profit at those places is from the junk food inside... Apparently the deals they make with the gasoline/diesel suppliers are so bad there is almost no profit in selling gas.
Yea, the good old days, when it wasn't a logistical endeavor just to find a public bathroom in The City.
Since I am not California, indeed few people are, sounds like nothing to worry about.
I'm not California either, though I am from there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You're missing the point about Chrome and Google in general.
Chrome and it settings are setup to hide things from the general purpose user. It is all done deliberately, and none of how Chrome is set is due to being idiotic or third rate.
If anything is diabolically genius, how their browser is setup to be a gaping hole to suck all private info from users to continue Googles quest for absolute power and control.
Example?
What happens when you run Chrome in "incognito" mode?
You get the cute "spy" image in the upper left corner and the usual "OMG you're running incognito! God help us!"
Man Invents The Wheel!
TruDat
That we have a choice of either Hillary Clinton OR a rag-tag group of nincompoop Republicans for president?
What a joke.
Interesting, Pro Gamers are now going to be subjected to the same scrutiny that Ice Fishers, Badmitton players, Critickers, Bowlers, Country Line Dancers and players in the NFL, MLB and NCAA are subjected to.
Obviously, players in the NFL are going to be subjected to different test panels than players in the NCAA or Olympics, but for your convenience, here is the WADA list of banned substances
You will find most of the usual things there, "street drugs", etc, and of course, gamers drug of choice, Amphetamines/Stimulants.
When I first saw the headline, I thought, like many here did, what about Adderall? Because we all know that Adderall, and other legal amphetamines like it, is the real question mark here.
Should pro gamers be worried?
Only if they need it to play a video game...
As we've seen from other sports, Adderall, aka, legal speed, use/abuse is rampant.
Thats why The Gods require a hardy band of adventurers to stop the Fire Giants:
10th level Elven Rogue
9th level Dwarven Fighter
7/7/7 Half Elven Ftr/Mu/Th
10th level Druid
8/8 Half Elven Cleric/Mu
9th level Human Cleric
How do you know Cthulu isn't behind all this?
I live in a relatively "safe" community, and the risk of mugging is always a possibility, however rare. I'm more worried about someone wanting to steal my phone...
I use a cc for some purchases.
I NEVER use a debit card...
Since the Target debacle, and many more like it, I have transitioned back to using cash almost exclusively.
It appears to me that a cashless system is less robust and more likely to be taken advantage of by criminals.
So yes, cashless apologists will whine about things like bank robberies, etc, but when it comes to what is best for me, not the bank, I choose cash please.
You've got a little Monsanto around the corner of your mouth...