I don't know who the singer is, but I have in my mind the chorus, "I sold mah soul to the Company Store". Toured an old mine once....they showed the ledger books and yes, you could live on the salary, but it was rigged that with holidays, major life events, etc, that you couldn't not be in debt.
Remove net neutrality.
Packet sniff and de-prioritze anything that doesn't toss a rent back to the ISP.
Pirate streams are not on the ISP whitelist.
Profit !!!
US Headlight regs have always sucked. Back in the day, we'd toss the US DOT lights and insert E code lights. A 55/60 H4 plus a 100 watt H1 on a separate relay and switch took you from city to the ability to spot deer on farm roads.
Today I am convinced the base lights on most normal cars are like the base stereo. It is designed to make up buy the upgrade. US headlight regs still suck but unless you get the HID option, you still aren't as good as the H4 setup I bolted on back in the 80's. My current car has HID which swivel with the steering wheel. I thought it was a gimmick at first, but now, miss it in other cars. The only problem with current headlights is you cannot replace them easily....I"m told Corvette guys still retrofit E Code lights to their cars on the C6 and C5 models......
I draft everything in Pages, but are stuck exporting to word for the "rest of the world". Word is so caught up in multiple functions for huge groups collaborating (or whatever the fuck big companies do) that it sucks for basic word-smithery.
Travelling, I have learned that US Copyright ends at our borders...Mexico City ? All programs all day $5 before haggling.
Any military base ? Please fill the group hard drive with whatever movies or music you have.
The demise of Net Neutrality is a gift to content providers...once an ISP is responsible for your russian downloads that hole can be plugged.
I recall WriteNow 4.0, which was a willing companion to word smithery. At some point I ended up with Word, which just sucks as it over thinks everything you do. I don't want to change the paragraph style and fonts if I backspace too many times, don't want to auto number paragraphs, etc.
I'm using Pages now, and only convert to Word if the client needs it. I've so far avoided the "pay us 365 days" model.
I can't imagine how it is if you have formats you can't convert easily...
Naah, willful planned obsolescence. Battery replacement isn't rocket science, and any gadget that does not allow replacement of the first most likely to fail component will have a short service life. Making a device with a tough to replace battery ? Thanks guys !
I write for a living, so I "open" "save" and sometimes even "Print". The most video I'll ever use is Thunderbolt to a 1080 monitor. I bought an 11 inch Air, and pounded on it every day for five years. When it died (J and K didn't work any more, and the screen joint was loose), I tossed it and bought a 13 inch...the 11 being out of production. I was disappointed to see I was buying basically the same machine with a bigger screen and a touch more memory......but it was a bit cheaper, and for open-save-print, still great. The alternative in Windows is half the price, but the time spent keeping Windows 10 running, removing malware, etc pays back quickly. I didn't consider the new Pro, only because the USB was missing. There was room for a USB port, guys....
My work is the Apple walled garden/prison, but since my use is open/save/print, look at web page, the lack of time spent removing Hacker Crap is money well spent. Twice the price but not hassles later.
My son has a gaming machine. We recently upgraded the video card, I tossed in a 256 ssd, and a better screen. We didn't break four figures, even close. If I ran windoze for the office, I'd save half, but pay it back in removal of hacker crap.
It is clear there is no money left in the PC market, what I've bought for the Gamer in the last few weeks is AMAZING for the price.
All of this tells me that I'm not crazy. The phone becoming slow, clunky, and such wasn't "compared to the new one", nor was it "the apps you are running" or is it "the new OS has crazy hardware needs"...no...
It was simply they are buggering YOUR phone to make you buy a new one.
Fire Island, NY is a sand barrier island near NYC. It is covered with vacation homes, and is a nice place to spend a weekend on a beach. When a hurricane took out the existing wireline phone network, Verizon worked very hard to replace it with a cellular network. Same thing here. No messy union employees. No real estate issues. Just a tower put up by contract monkeys.
I almost never go to the movies anymore...why ? Not overpriced popcorn, sticky floors, or blabbing kids...no, ads.
I paid for the film, don't mind a few promos, but the long reel of ads before the long reel of ads that come with the feature turn me off so much that I don't think of going to the movies unless I REALLY want to see the film...otherwise I'll just wait till it comes out on disc or stream.
There is NO way in hell that a vehicle, for which I've paid at least 25k for, has to serve me ads. Period. It's not a free product like radio or OTA TV or even a web page where the ads pay the bills....no, I bought this car.
All you marketers working on this...let me be very clear....die...in...a...fire....
Uber just amazed me.
Cabs are regulated for insurance, inspection and drivers. While there are problems like the old NYC Medallion restraint of trade, there are many legit reasons for the public to be sure a car for hire meets some standards. Uber tosses all this. To paraphrase:
I intend to sell cannabis in mid town...it would sell.
I am tossing out all my rent controlled tenants...because freedom
My tavern isn't participating in food inspections or any kind of zoning restrictions.
That's the Uber business model. You have laws, we don't care, come get us.
Everyone's getting nuts over speeds, and money. The real problem is that eventually it will result in a whitelist, where sites need to be approved by the service provider......
BPL was used as an experiment a few years ago in a community nearby. The interference to HF ham radio and the CB frequencies extended about a block or so in each direction.
The problem works both ways though. If you keyed up a transmitter on CB or Ham at the 50-100 watt level, the BPL would overload, quit, be silent for a few seconds, then recommence.
When I was told that I had to pay my witholding on line (small business), that was the day the internet became a Utiltiy.
I could not pay at my bank...who used to take tax deposit. I cannot pay by check to a mail address. No, I must, must, must pay on line.
If I have to pay on line, then it is a utility, like the post office, or a common carrier, like the Bell System. Back in the day when they couldn't monitor traffic, the phone co wanted immunity for any illegal acts for which the phone was used....so common carrier helped them. Now that they expect to packet sniff every transaction, they are greedy for fast and slow lanes.
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I don't know who the singer is, but I have in my mind the chorus, "I sold mah soul to the Company Store". Toured an old mine once....they showed the ledger books and yes, you could live on the salary, but it was rigged that with holidays, major life events, etc, that you couldn't not be in debt.
an I wish ah could have furrin hot chicks and porn stars hangin on mah junk, too.
Remove net neutrality. Packet sniff and de-prioritze anything that doesn't toss a rent back to the ISP. Pirate streams are not on the ISP whitelist. Profit !!!
US Headlight regs have always sucked. Back in the day, we'd toss the US DOT lights and insert E code lights. A 55/60 H4 plus a 100 watt H1 on a separate relay and switch took you from city to the ability to spot deer on farm roads. Today I am convinced the base lights on most normal cars are like the base stereo. It is designed to make up buy the upgrade. US headlight regs still suck but unless you get the HID option, you still aren't as good as the H4 setup I bolted on back in the 80's. My current car has HID which swivel with the steering wheel. I thought it was a gimmick at first, but now, miss it in other cars. The only problem with current headlights is you cannot replace them easily....I"m told Corvette guys still retrofit E Code lights to their cars on the C6 and C5 models......
My 60 watt bulbs are now all 8-12 watts. The TV has gone from a power eating tube to a backlit LCD. Major Appliances have all gone on a diet.
Something about gay black people, I think... or it is about goats being intimate....i've been here too long.
Sayeth the russian bot
I draft everything in Pages, but are stuck exporting to word for the "rest of the world". Word is so caught up in multiple functions for huge groups collaborating (or whatever the fuck big companies do) that it sucks for basic word-smithery.
Travelling, I have learned that US Copyright ends at our borders...Mexico City ? All programs all day $5 before haggling. Any military base ? Please fill the group hard drive with whatever movies or music you have. The demise of Net Neutrality is a gift to content providers...once an ISP is responsible for your russian downloads that hole can be plugged.
I recall WriteNow 4.0, which was a willing companion to word smithery. At some point I ended up with Word, which just sucks as it over thinks everything you do. I don't want to change the paragraph style and fonts if I backspace too many times, don't want to auto number paragraphs, etc. I'm using Pages now, and only convert to Word if the client needs it. I've so far avoided the "pay us 365 days" model. I can't imagine how it is if you have formats you can't convert easily...
from your lips, to God's ears...
Blue Stater:tired of subsidy of the backwards Red States. Can I secede too
Naah, willful planned obsolescence. Battery replacement isn't rocket science, and any gadget that does not allow replacement of the first most likely to fail component will have a short service life. Making a device with a tough to replace battery ? Thanks guys !
All this time Apple has been gaslighting us....yes, boys and girls, the update DOES slow down your igadger....
I write for a living, so I "open" "save" and sometimes even "Print". The most video I'll ever use is Thunderbolt to a 1080 monitor. I bought an 11 inch Air, and pounded on it every day for five years. When it died (J and K didn't work any more, and the screen joint was loose), I tossed it and bought a 13 inch...the 11 being out of production. I was disappointed to see I was buying basically the same machine with a bigger screen and a touch more memory......but it was a bit cheaper, and for open-save-print, still great. The alternative in Windows is half the price, but the time spent keeping Windows 10 running, removing malware, etc pays back quickly. I didn't consider the new Pro, only because the USB was missing. There was room for a USB port, guys....
Those are clearly back doors that sat for a while until found by outsiders....I'm not a conspiracy guy, but these holes weren't an accident
My work is the Apple walled garden/prison, but since my use is open/save/print, look at web page, the lack of time spent removing Hacker Crap is money well spent. Twice the price but not hassles later. My son has a gaming machine. We recently upgraded the video card, I tossed in a 256 ssd, and a better screen. We didn't break four figures, even close. If I ran windoze for the office, I'd save half, but pay it back in removal of hacker crap. It is clear there is no money left in the PC market, what I've bought for the Gamer in the last few weeks is AMAZING for the price.
All of this tells me that I'm not crazy. The phone becoming slow, clunky, and such wasn't "compared to the new one", nor was it "the apps you are running" or is it "the new OS has crazy hardware needs"...no... It was simply they are buggering YOUR phone to make you buy a new one.
Fire Island, NY is a sand barrier island near NYC. It is covered with vacation homes, and is a nice place to spend a weekend on a beach. When a hurricane took out the existing wireline phone network, Verizon worked very hard to replace it with a cellular network. Same thing here. No messy union employees. No real estate issues. Just a tower put up by contract monkeys.
I almost never go to the movies anymore...why ? Not overpriced popcorn, sticky floors, or blabbing kids...no, ads. I paid for the film, don't mind a few promos, but the long reel of ads before the long reel of ads that come with the feature turn me off so much that I don't think of going to the movies unless I REALLY want to see the film...otherwise I'll just wait till it comes out on disc or stream. There is NO way in hell that a vehicle, for which I've paid at least 25k for, has to serve me ads. Period. It's not a free product like radio or OTA TV or even a web page where the ads pay the bills....no, I bought this car. All you marketers working on this...let me be very clear....die...in...a...fire....
Uber just amazed me. Cabs are regulated for insurance, inspection and drivers. While there are problems like the old NYC Medallion restraint of trade, there are many legit reasons for the public to be sure a car for hire meets some standards. Uber tosses all this. To paraphrase: I intend to sell cannabis in mid town...it would sell. I am tossing out all my rent controlled tenants...because freedom My tavern isn't participating in food inspections or any kind of zoning restrictions. That's the Uber business model. You have laws, we don't care, come get us.
Of Course, the fact that they have ABC to pitch SW in just about every show and segment doesn't hurt....
Everyone's getting nuts over speeds, and money. The real problem is that eventually it will result in a whitelist, where sites need to be approved by the service provider......
BPL was used as an experiment a few years ago in a community nearby. The interference to HF ham radio and the CB frequencies extended about a block or so in each direction. The problem works both ways though. If you keyed up a transmitter on CB or Ham at the 50-100 watt level, the BPL would overload, quit, be silent for a few seconds, then recommence.
When I was told that I had to pay my witholding on line (small business), that was the day the internet became a Utiltiy. I could not pay at my bank...who used to take tax deposit. I cannot pay by check to a mail address. No, I must, must, must pay on line. If I have to pay on line, then it is a utility, like the post office, or a common carrier, like the Bell System. Back in the day when they couldn't monitor traffic, the phone co wanted immunity for any illegal acts for which the phone was used....so common carrier helped them. Now that they expect to packet sniff every transaction, they are greedy for fast and slow lanes.