If potential thieves think you haven't got an iPhone, you are less of a target. It has the added advantage of not making to look like a "wannabe beautiful person" whilst being a jerk.
I have a Nexus 7 tablet which has no removable storage. This is a pain. I keep all my music in Google play but that is not all I want storage for..
I have a Galaxy GS2 and put a high capacity battery in it after a few months. Yes, it made it thicker. No, that did not make it any less excellent in any way. In fact, it made it easier to hold!
I will now call on the power of the free market and buy something else instead.
This has to be one of the most unsurprising revelations that I have ever come across. I am thinking hard of anything I know that came to me as a less surprising fact but I am drawing a blank here.
The only people who say that human made greenhouse gasses are not the cause of what we used to call global warming are either misled by, under the control of the polluters or the polluters themselves. I also have my suspicions about many of the people who say that there is not enough evidence.There is plenty of evidence behind what has got more scientific consensus than the theory of evolution. (I am talking global consensus on that not just the USA.)
Will this persuade a single follower of this big money? I doubts it will have much immediate effect. We all suspected it anyway and these "think" tanks will continue denying the facts and will probably get even more money to continue proving that black=purple and Pi=3.00.
BTW, I wonder how the average EU CITIZEN thinks of all this?
Sounds like they are doing what they are supposed to do. One of the jobs of a government is to protect the people from those richer and more powerful.
You don't get much richer and more powerful than Apple.
At least apple supports their hardware for more than 12 months....
If that was a dell model not only couldn't you get service or parts, but you would have to buy another one as it would be cheaper than replacing the power supply.
We get 3 year warranties for all our new Dells. When they get towards the end of this time, and afterwards, the PSUs often fail because of our dodgy mains. If they are inside that 3 years, dell relpaces them. No problem.
We just bought a load of replacement power supplies got our out of warranty GX760s Much cheaper than replaceing them and it takes less than 10 minutes to do it.
I saw a news article that asked a lot of people what they thought about eating horsemeat. A lot of them were not against the idea. I am not against it either. I have hunted for food and in my past, I did army survival training and some of the things in that are not generally thought of as food.
What everyone is cross at is horsemeat in the food chain unannounced. I agree with this.
The virtues or not of horsemeat are an entirely different matter and not the problem. As a civilised country, we have rules about what is in our food. Any cow, sheep, pig etc in the food chain is supposed to be from a farm where certain things are done and other ones are not. If horsemeat is in there, have we perhaps got cow meat from farms that pump them full of growth hormones and other profitable chemicals - like people in the USA are subjected to?
The customer pays for data and that is all the ISP is for. We don't need them to give us "free" things like email, search, VOIP, hosting, filtering or anything else we can get for free or as much as we want to pay.
All they need to give us is a router with a working external IP address. If people want a "one stop shop" they can tell the ISP and they can pay extra.
So instead, they charge for stuff I don't want, give a poor connection, try to control my browsing and want to charge websites for what I have already paid for?
Listen very carefully, for I shall say this only once
Gmail is not free.Google rakes in a nice sum of money from it.
You do not pay them cash directly, but they make money by selling advertising etc. . I am willing to pay this price. This gives me the same rights as any other customer of a large corporation.
I assure you I am. I was trained to use a rifle, amongst other things while wearing a uniform. Hence my wariness of armed civilians.
A) having a gun doesn't automatically make a person stupid, evil, or dangerous. Nearly all advocates of right-to-carry are also advocates of mandatory training courses, too.
The (law abiding) people around here who would most like to have "personal protection" would not tolerate someone who acted like any of my instructors. Wanting to carry a gun seems related to a well developed sense of entitlement. That would not include non commissioned officers telling you what to do.
B) Criminals seek easy targets. If there is risk that a target (or group of targets) may resist with lethal force, the criminals move on to other targets.
Alternatively, they may start shooting from a greater range and not even bother telling you to put your hands up.
Your armed neighbors make you safer because they discourage violent crime in the area as a whole, just by virtue of having guns, even if they never use them.
They do, however, encourage people to break in and steal the guns after shooting the residents first. Keep your guns in your house and make sure that your bullets stay within your property.
People with an irrational fear of guns tell themselves very strange stories about how self-defense situations play out and where the benefits come from. The truth is simple, and the value of a well-armed society is real.
The advantage of living in an unarmed society here (UK) is pretty real too. I am much less likely to get shot than you now that I am a civilian. I would be curious to know how the % chance of being shot varies between within the USA and our service personnel in Afghanistan.
Also, freedom is important. And lastly, the way Hollywood portrays shootings is ludicrous, but unless you have been trained you have no idea what is realistic and what isn't.
I have seen people loose their freedom and anyone who watches the international news has seen people regain it. I Understand that Afghanistan has always had more guns than people. How come they lost their freedom? If both sides are armed, it makes little difference if one side is mean and ready to use them and the people trying to defend their freedom are not. That is why we have mean rough people wearing uniform. Their job is to defend you and all your gun club friends. They do not want you getting in the way when the nasties come over the hills.
Incorrect. If you have a valid reason for them, you will be fine.
I had my bagful of tools etc stolen out of my office. The first I knew about it was a call from the police asking me if I had lost anything.
I went to the police station and confirmed that this was indeed my backpack. I was then asked if it contained things like wire strippers, tweezers, a (fake) leatherman etc. I said yes. The police officer seemed disappointed and I asked if I was in trouble.
I was told that as I had valid reason for having them, I was fine but they now would not be able to charge the theif with "going equipped" to commit all sorts of other crimes. I suspect that was the note of disappointment I noticed.
They just have not had the same amount of opportunities to show their unsuitability. Even if some parts are not controlled by the same vested interests as the existing "authorities" (possible), they soon will be.
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If potential thieves think you haven't got an iPhone, you are less of a target. It has the added advantage of not making to look like a "wannabe beautiful person" whilst being a jerk.
2 Deal killers in 1 deal? Impressive!
I have a Nexus 7 tablet which has no removable storage. This is a pain. I keep all my music in Google play but that is not all I want storage for..
I have a Galaxy GS2 and put a high capacity battery in it after a few months. Yes, it made it thicker. No, that did not make it any less excellent in any way. In fact, it made it easier to hold!
I will now call on the power of the free market and buy something else instead.
This has to be one of the most unsurprising revelations that I have ever come across. I am thinking hard of anything I know that came to me as a less surprising fact but I am drawing a blank here.
The only people who say that human made greenhouse gasses are not the cause of what we used to call global warming are either misled by, under the control of the polluters or the polluters themselves. I also have my suspicions about many of the people who say that there is not enough evidence.There is plenty of evidence behind what has got more scientific consensus than the theory of evolution. (I am talking global consensus on that not just the USA.)
Will this persuade a single follower of this big money? I doubts it will have much immediate effect. We all suspected it anyway and these "think" tanks will continue denying the facts and will probably get even more money to continue proving that black=purple and Pi=3.00.
Seriously people in the EU, WAKE UP!!! Your governments are NOT your friends!!!
Correct. On this side of the Atlantic, they are our servants.
BTW, I wonder how the average EU CITIZEN thinks of all this?
Sounds like they are doing what they are supposed to do. One of the jobs of a government is to protect the people from those richer and more powerful.
You don't get much richer and more powerful than Apple.
At least apple supports their hardware for more than 12 months....
If that was a dell model not only couldn't you get service or parts, but you would have to buy another one as it would be cheaper than replacing the power supply.
We get 3 year warranties for all our new Dells. When they get towards the end of this time, and afterwards, the PSUs often fail because of our dodgy mains. If they are inside that 3 years, dell relpaces them. No problem.
We just bought a load of replacement power supplies got our out of warranty GX760s Much cheaper than replaceing them and it takes less than 10 minutes to do it.
AC may like eating rat turds and growing breasts but I will continue to include monitoring food suppliers as a good use of my tax money.
I have done this in the past but most people live in cities.
I saw a news article that asked a lot of people what they thought about eating horsemeat. A lot of them were not against the idea. I am not against it either. I have hunted for food and in my past, I did army survival training and some of the things in that are not generally thought of as food.
What everyone is cross at is horsemeat in the food chain unannounced. I agree with this.
The virtues or not of horsemeat are an entirely different matter and not the problem. As a civilised country, we have rules about what is in our food. Any cow, sheep, pig etc in the food chain is supposed to be from a farm where certain things are done and other ones are not. If horsemeat is in there, have we perhaps got cow meat from farms that pump them full of growth hormones and other profitable chemicals - like people in the USA are subjected to?
The customer pays for data and that is all the ISP is for. We don't need them to give us "free" things like email, search, VOIP, hosting, filtering or anything else we can get for free or as much as we want to pay. All they need to give us is a router with a working external IP address. If people want a "one stop shop" they can tell the ISP and they can pay extra. So instead, they charge for stuff I don't want, give a poor connection, try to control my browsing and want to charge websites for what I have already paid for?
That will be most of them then?
Say what you want about Microsoft's shoddy products, at least they're consistent.
yeah... consistently shoddy
They are also consistently badly licenced and over priced. People are still using them,,,
Listen very carefully, for I shall say this only once
Gmail is not free.Google rakes in a nice sum of money from it.
You do not pay them cash directly, but they make money by selling advertising etc. . I am willing to pay this price. This gives me the same rights as any other customer of a large corporation.
I use 60Hz you insensitive clod!
In that case you probably are in North America.
Now they know where you are and when. Other information will be available shortly and you won't be anonymous for much longer...
You aren't thinking it through, then.
I assure you I am. I was trained to use a rifle, amongst other things while wearing a uniform. Hence my wariness of armed civilians .
A) having a gun doesn't automatically make a person stupid, evil, or dangerous. Nearly all advocates of right-to-carry are also advocates of mandatory training courses, too.
The (law abiding) people around here who would most like to have "personal protection" would not tolerate someone who acted like any of my instructors. Wanting to carry a gun seems related to a well developed sense of entitlement. That would not include non commissioned officers telling you what to do.
B) Criminals seek easy targets. If there is risk that a target (or group of targets) may resist with lethal force, the criminals move on to other targets.
Alternatively, they may start shooting from a greater range and not even bother telling you to put your hands up.
Your armed neighbors make you safer because they discourage violent crime in the area as a whole, just by virtue of having guns, even if they never use them.
They do, however, encourage people to break in and steal the guns after shooting the residents first. Keep your guns in your house and make sure that your bullets stay within your property.
People with an irrational fear of guns tell themselves very strange stories about how self-defense situations play out and where the benefits come from. The truth is simple, and the value of a well-armed society is real.
The advantage of living in an unarmed society here (UK) is pretty real too. I am much less likely to get shot than you now that I am a civilian. I would be curious to know how the % chance of being shot varies between within the USA and our service personnel in Afghanistan.
Also, freedom is important. And lastly, the way Hollywood portrays shootings is ludicrous, but unless you have been trained you have no idea what is realistic and what isn't.
I have seen people loose their freedom and anyone who watches the international news has seen people regain it. I Understand that Afghanistan has always had more guns than people. How come they lost their freedom? If both sides are armed, it makes little difference if one side is mean and ready to use them and the people trying to defend their freedom are not. That is why we have mean rough people wearing uniform. Their job is to defend you and all your gun club friends. They do not want you getting in the way when the nasties come over the hills.
More likely, as opposed to in Europe. .
Take away people's ability to defend themselves,..
I am not sure how having a load of armed civilians around me would make me feel freer. They certainly would not make me feel safer!
People who have a clue.
Wrench is the term that is used in North America for what much (most?) of the world calls a spanner.
Don't blame the British. Blame Webster for most of the differences between what you speak and "International" English.
toner buttset cage nut ......
cage nuts
Somebody please make a Butt Plug joke then?
For playing rounders?
Incorrect. If you have a valid reason for them, you will be fine.
I had my bagful of tools etc stolen out of my office. The first I knew about it was a call from the police asking me if I had lost anything.
I went to the police station and confirmed that this was indeed my backpack. I was then asked if it contained things like wire strippers, tweezers, a (fake) leatherman etc. I said yes. The police officer seemed disappointed and I asked if I was in trouble.
I was told that as I had valid reason for having them, I was fine but they now would not be able to charge the theif with "going equipped" to commit all sorts of other crimes. I suspect that was the note of disappointment I noticed.
The US government does not have a monopoly on Gambling.
That monopoly belongs to the governments corporate owners, some of who are the Mafia.
They just have not had the same amount of opportunities to show their unsuitability. Even if some parts are not controlled by the same vested interests as the existing "authorities" (possible), they soon will be.
proof that the US government and its corporate owners are completely unfit to have any control of any part of the internet.