4. Stop hearing about new shows except for word of mouth and watch your list dwindle over time
5. Start researching things to watch
I actually watch several shows that I never would have if it wasn't for TiVo. If I see a spot or read about a new show I just add it to my Season Pass List and when I get time I watch it. I don't miss any episodes and when I get around to watching it, if I don't like it, I just delete the eps and the season pass.
Just once I'd like to see a story run on/. that involves MS that starts a discussion of the issue in the story and not just collection of attacks on MS.
I'm not a big MS fan but it does get old.
It would be helpful if that Tue in Nov. was a holiday that all employers were required to give off. Even if they were required to only give half a day.
It would be of very little help. There are NO holidays that are required to be given off. There are No holidays that are required to even be paid time and a half if you work during them. To require that the economy shut down for a day so people can vote is silly. Most people would use the day for something that would move them further away from the polls. Louisiana holds most of their elections on Saturday. Turn out is no better.
Lets also not forget that there are simply too many issues which shouldn't even be discussed at a federal level, and yet there they are. Why should the feds tell people what the drinking age is? Speed limits? Or what may or may not be said on the radio or tv? That should be up to the states, which you have much more control over.
Damn straight, I couldn't agree more. But as far as the drinking age and speed limit is concerned all the states had to do was not accept federal highway funding and they could have 12 year olds driving 100 mph with a beer in their hands.
As far as what may or may not be said it would be kinda hard for the networks to censor for each individual state. The very nature of the networks make them interstate commerce and very clearly within the realm of interstate commerce which the Constitution does give control of to the Federal government.
That should be up to the states, which you have much more control over. As it is, there aren't really any state candidates that really represent my views, let alone federal.
Well then get off your ass an run for something. If enough people agree I guess we'll call you Senator Plague.
In the Unites States, a majority does not get to vote away individual rights. If we let that happen, then America's dead already.
Here's the problem. The left has been allowing the majority and in many cases the minority to vote away individual rights for years and has been happy as a clam.
Some rights that have been voted away include my right to keep what I earn and not have it distributed to those that choose not to work and the 2nd amendment, the list goes on an on. When the left does it, it is progressive. When the right does it, it is fascist.
Go ahead I know I'll be moded flamebait. It just proves my point.
Yahoo isn't a news gathering organization and doesn't report anything. They relay and reprint but they don't report. In this case they are reprinting an AP article and that is very clear if you follow the link to TFA.
The first line of that story could have wasily have read, "The Buttfuck Times..."
Except, for some odd reason, these days our defense budget is higher than it ever was during the Cold War. Go figure on that one, where we for some reason need to spend more money defending ourselves from a few thousand terrorists than we did against a country aiming 16,000 nuclear missiles at us.
Not by any meaningful comparison we're not.
Let's take a nice peaceful year from the past, say 1958. Defense spending was 10.2% of the US GDP. In 2003 the year we invaded Iraq it soared to a staggering 3.7% of the GDP.
Get a clue the military isn't where our money get spent.
If I've gotten this straight.
He is asking for a grant to prove that ID is bad and he doesn't, in the grant application, give sufficient evidence that the other theory is right. Logically then the researcher who turns in an application that does show that evolution is right will get the money.
I have no problem with this.
There's nothing to see here. Move along.
I'm just waiting for the stories of people who don't get hired for jobs because they have been blogging for the last couple of years about how the earth was created by a giant spaghetti monster.
Well the NY airspace is very complex because of the large number of busy airports. Take the airports away and there is nothing that says I can't fly 2000 ft above Wall St. Just glancing at the sectional it looks like 7001 would be OK and 1800 ft. But with the towers and other obstructions the below 1800 might not be legal for a whole other set of reasons none of which have a thing to do with the fact that the NYSE is there.
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$400 billion for the Iraq war. All of it pissed away...
You say pissed away but it's not like that money was burned. I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of the money is still right here in the US. It's called redistribution of wealth.
With Democrats it goes to their friends and the poor. With Republicans it goes to their friends and defense contractors. Really not a lot of difference between the two other than defense contractors usually pay their employees better than do the poor.
Right next to cheaper ones that look much the same. Yet Wal-Mart shoppers who are known for wanting CHEAP still buy the ipod.
2) Average joe walks into CE shop & asks for an 'ipod' meaning 'generic mp3 player' - what do you think he's going to get?
Before he gets to ask anyone for anything he wanders around the mp3 department a sees the same thing the Wal-Mart shopper saw and still buys the ipod even after the sales punk tells him that the Upper Scale Brand X is just as good and costs 25% less.
3) Advertising. To average joe, a brand you've heard of is better then any other brand.
Sure advertising has a lot to do with it. It is how Apple promotes that somthing special I mentioned before.
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Go to Radio Shack and run a patch cord from your soundcard to the soundcard of your friends computer.
I think you are making a huge and probably false assumption that people reading this have friends.
Please help entering the code: 2,2,7,6,6,4 [xccr.com]
What the hell is that?
4. Stop hearing about new shows except for word of mouth and watch your list dwindle over time
5. Start researching things to watch
I actually watch several shows that I never would have if it wasn't for TiVo. If I see a spot or read about a new show I just add it to my Season Pass List and when I get time I watch it. I don't miss any episodes and when I get around to watching it, if I don't like it, I just delete the eps and the season pass.
Just once I'd like to see a story run on /. that involves MS that starts a discussion of the issue in the story and not just collection of attacks on MS.
I'm not a big MS fan but it does get old.
Why isn't there a RTFA/Clueless MOD?
It would be helpful if that Tue in Nov. was a holiday that all employers were required to give off. Even if they were required to only give half a day.
It would be of very little help. There are NO holidays that are required to be given off. There are No holidays that are required to even be paid time and a half if you work during them. To require that the economy shut down for a day so people can vote is silly. Most people would use the day for something that would move them further away from the polls. Louisiana holds most of their elections on Saturday. Turn out is no better.
Lets also not forget that there are simply too many issues which shouldn't even be discussed at a federal level, and yet there they are. Why should the feds tell people what the drinking age is? Speed limits? Or what may or may not be said on the radio or tv? That should be up to the states, which you have much more control over.
Damn straight, I couldn't agree more. But as far as the drinking age and speed limit is concerned all the states had to do was not accept federal highway funding and they could have 12 year olds driving 100 mph with a beer in their hands.
As far as what may or may not be said it would be kinda hard for the networks to censor for each individual state. The very nature of the networks make them interstate commerce and very clearly within the realm of interstate commerce which the Constitution does give control of to the Federal government.
That should be up to the states, which you have much more control over. As it is, there aren't really any state candidates that really represent my views, let alone federal.
Well then get off your ass an run for something. If enough people agree I guess we'll call you Senator Plague.
In the Unites States, a majority does not get to vote away individual rights. If we let that happen, then America's dead already.
Here's the problem. The left has been allowing the majority and in many cases the minority to vote away individual rights for years and has been happy as a clam. Some rights that have been voted away include my right to keep what I earn and not have it distributed to those that choose not to work and the 2nd amendment, the list goes on an on. When the left does it, it is progressive. When the right does it, it is fascist.
Go ahead I know I'll be moded flamebait. It just proves my point.
Yahoo isn't a news gathering organization and doesn't report anything. They relay and reprint but they don't report. In this case they are reprinting an AP article and that is very clear if you follow the link to TFA. The first line of that story could have wasily have read, "The Buttfuck Times ..."
I suspect this will continue on into the arena of full 3-D sensoround technology, whenever that become available.
Just as long as Smellivision is never used in the porn industry they can do what they want as far as I'm concerned.
The system works for either problem.
They they haves?
Except, for some odd reason, these days our defense budget is higher than it ever was during the Cold War. Go figure on that one, where we for some reason need to spend more money defending ourselves from a few thousand terrorists than we did against a country aiming 16,000 nuclear missiles at us. Not by any meaningful comparison we're not.
Let's take a nice peaceful year from the past, say 1958. Defense spending was 10.2% of the US GDP. In 2003 the year we invaded Iraq it soared to a staggering 3.7% of the GDP. Get a clue the military isn't where our money get spent.
If you replace "Wal-Mart" with "people that shop at Wal-Mart" I'd mod you up for insightful.
If I've gotten this straight. He is asking for a grant to prove that ID is bad and he doesn't, in the grant application, give sufficient evidence that the other theory is right. Logically then the researcher who turns in an application that does show that evolution is right will get the money. I have no problem with this. There's nothing to see here. Move along.
Indeed, that hack is quite simple:
1. Go to the library.
2. Leave the library without the phone.
3. Afterwards, come to the library again, to fetch your phone.
Only problem is to make sure that no one steals your phone in the mean time. But then, who would be silly enough to steal a tracked phone?
One thing you are forgetting. A lot of the kids have not a clue as to where the library is in the first place.
The only people really communicating with the public now are those who deny global warming.
There really ought to be a MOD for "Are you crazy?"
The most popular hack will be the "At the Library" mod.
I'm just waiting for the stories of people who don't get hired for jobs because they have been blogging for the last couple of years about how the earth was created by a giant spaghetti monster.
Well the NY airspace is very complex because of the large number of busy airports. Take the airports away and there is nothing that says I can't fly 2000 ft above Wall St. Just glancing at the sectional it looks like 7001 would be OK and 1800 ft. But with the towers and other obstructions the below 1800 might not be legal for a whole other set of reasons none of which have a thing to do with the fact that the NYSE is there.
Part 121 Traffic = Scheduled Airlines
Part 135 Traffic = Commercial Charter
Class B Airspace = The airspace around the nation busiest airports.
I've been trying for over 2 weeks now to access pages.google.com and all I ever see is..
500 - Google Page Creator Oops! Google Page Creator is having a little trouble right now.
This is not because of anything you did; it's just a little hiccup in our system that will hopefully go away soon. We apologize for the inconvenience, and recommend you try reloading this page. error.metadata.read
I searched my name. Live Search 28 results. Google 6,350. I did it in "s and my name is uncommon.
$400 billion for the Iraq war. All of it pissed away...
You say pissed away but it's not like that money was burned. I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of the money is still right here in the US. It's called redistribution of wealth. With Democrats it goes to their friends and the poor. With Republicans it goes to their friends and defense contractors. Really not a lot of difference between the two other than defense contractors usually pay their employees better than do the poor.
1) Because walmart sells ipods.
Right next to cheaper ones that look much the same. Yet Wal-Mart shoppers who are known for wanting CHEAP still buy the ipod.
2) Average joe walks into CE shop & asks for an 'ipod' meaning 'generic mp3 player' - what do you think he's going to get?
Before he gets to ask anyone for anything he wanders around the mp3 department a sees the same thing the Wal-Mart shopper saw and still buys the ipod even after the sales punk tells him that the Upper Scale Brand X is just as good and costs 25% less.
3) Advertising. To average joe, a brand you've heard of is better then any other brand.
Sure advertising has a lot to do with it. It is how Apple promotes that somthing special I mentioned before.