Leave it in reverse, that's as good as a brick. I never used the parking brake, just stuck it in reverse. When I first got it I always used the brake until I discovered that shut off and in reverse held better than the brake.
I don't understand why anyone would install an FB mobile app in the first place, their web site works fine on a phone. FB Messenger? That's just teenage stupidity; every phone that will run FB Messenger already has texting.
I also don't understand how nobody seems to understand that the more crap on your phone is turned on, the faster the battery will run down. That alone is reason enough to keep "location services" shut off unless you need to use it; likewise bluetooth and wi-fi.
I do know one guy who had a temporary need for FB's messenger; he had no phone, only an iPod. Thankfully, he has a phone now.
How is radio comparable? It plays the same songs (good or bad) over and over again -- no variety/small playlist.
I see you've never heard KSHE. They have a HUGE play list (they've not changed formats in half a century), don't play the same song twice in a day (unless you listen on the internet, on the internet local-only ads for St Louis businesses are replaced by music). Sunday nights they play a half dozen full albums front to back (here's the list for this Sunday and past Sundays).
Been listening to them since 1967 when they changed from easy listening (my dad listened then, not me) to "real rock radio".
Today's copyright laws bear no resemblance whatever to early US copyright laws. It was originally enacted to protect writers from publishers. It lasted fourteen years, today's is the life of the artist plus ninety five years. Sheet music was covered but the songs themselves were not.
When people hear "drugs in the workplace" they mean drugs that can cause accidents, including alcohol -- but not coffee, It's a drug, but improves performance.
The problem here is they say "drugs" and mean "marijuana". If you get high once a month on a Friday night you won't be impaired at work but you won't pass a drug test. Snort coke or smoke crack first thing Friday morning and you'll be impaired, but any test given after the following Monday you'll pass.
Get drunk at work Monday morning and there will be no trace by Tuesday.
Sadly, I saw a few people become cocaine addicts because of drug testing. Their employers started testing, so they switched from pot to crack, They're all now homeless, but finctioned in society fine with pot.
I used quantum entanglement in a SF story I posted in my journal (a better copy without/.'s patented smart quote mangler is here). I called them "jump radio" in the story.
Jerry Was a Man was, according to wilipedia, published in 1947, five years before I was born and fifteen before I was reading Heinlein. But that story's not just far right wing, but blatantly racist.
Huckleberry Finn was an anti-slavery abolitionist book written by an abolitionist. Jerry Was a Man was written by a racist who used a talking monkey in place of a black man.
The Oscars are like the Nebulas, in that you have to be in the industry in the case of the Oscars and a writer in the case of the Nebulas. Fans can't vote for an Oscar or a Nebula, they can for a Hugo.
And not all of us have to grub for money, some of us don't need the money and do it because we love doing it.
Of course! All taxes and other costs of any good or service us ultimately paid by the person at the end transaction. And as to corporate taxes, this is the US, corporations don't pay taxes. They only pretend to.
As to cigarette taxes, I'm happy to have vices I don't do taxed.
Lazy? I know people who are working more than two jobs a week, with 2+ sharing a one bedroom apartment just so they can pay rent and get food on the table.
I wish the above AC had an account, or I had mod points today. My youngest and her fiancee both work full time and go to college full time. She's an honors student. I could have never accomplished that.
And that only applies to Federal tax. The poor pay gasoline taxes, sales taxes, state income taxes (in Illinois at the same rate as a billionaire), cigarette taxes, and their landlord's property tax on the property they live in (you don't believe landlords exist out of the goodness of their hearts, do you?).
We do seem to have too many people at the bottom who are inherently lazy (all people are lazy to some extent)
If you're an American You're ignorant. Welfare ended in 1996. Unless you're disabled you get no check unless you can PROVE you're looking for work. Oh, were it not for Britain's generous welfare, there would be no Harry Potter.
But you just keep listening to that drug-addled rich hypocrite Rush Limbaugh, fool.
"The Cultural Marxist Subversion of the Free World has resulted in..."
Free health care for everyone except Americans, free higher education in many nations, and the socialist Switzerland has the world's happiest people.
In the US it resulted in the 40 hour work week and weekends off, which you Fascists are presently TAKING AWAY FROM US, Social Security that I would be in dire poverty without, Mediacre that I'm eligible for next year... in fact EVERYTHING THAT MAKES A 99%ER'S LIFE WORTHWHILE.
I have three words in closing for you: FUCK YOU FASCISTS! You're either extremely rich or extremely STUPID.
The government healthcare bureaucracy has drastically impeded the research necessary for prolonging life and restoring youthful characteristics and will most certainly spike any such treatment, at least until most of us boomers are safely killed off.
In 1900 you were lucky to reach 50, my dad died at age 84 and my mom still goes bowling twice a week at age 88. Her brother is in his late nineties. That was almost unheard of a century ago.
When you're faced with limited remaining life in a fragile body on miniscule after-ripoffs savings, with a healthcare system that looks to be dedicated to killing you while retaining plausible deniability
Funny, my mom says Medicare is the best health insurance she's ever had. I'm looking forward to being eligible next year because my insurance REALLY sucks.
You're crazy, Louie. See a doctor about that early onset Alzheimer's.
It's not meaningless if you're a reader, a writer, an agent, or a publisher.
ESPECIALLY if you're a writer.
For new writers especially, a Hugo award can help open a lot of doors to publishers who might not have time to sort through the slush pile on their desks.
A Hugo will certainly help one get more easily published, but you're not going to win one unless you've already been published. The slush piles are indeed huge, a magazine like Asimov's or F&SF gets a thousand submissions a month and print half a dozen. But they do read them. I've only submitted one to Analog because it took six months for them to get to it. Some reply in a day or two.
Indeed, the more money you have the more votes you can LITERALLY buy. I bought two and gave one to my daughter (we're going to Worldcon in August). They're damned expensive, too.
The Nebulas are chosen by critics, the Hugos by fans.
INCORRECT. The Nebulas are chosen by SFWA members. The requirements for membership are that you have to have sold three 1000 word or longer stories at a nickle apiece or earned three grand from a novel.
The Nebulas are not chosen by critics. They're chosen by professional science fiction and fantasy WRITERS.
Someone please mod that incorrect post down, it's bullshit as you can see from SFWA's site that lgw has obviously never visited.
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What religion? Devil worshiper? Money worshiper? Hindu? Christian? What if that Muslim were an atheist who also did it because he hated hookers?
I swear, you FSM worshipers are worse fanatics than an Alabama Christian evangelist.
Fools, all. BTW, Christians consider the guy's actions sinful.
Leave it in reverse, that's as good as a brick. I never used the parking brake, just stuck it in reverse. When I first got it I always used the brake until I discovered that shut off and in reverse held better than the brake.
I don't understand why anyone would install an FB mobile app in the first place, their web site works fine on a phone. FB Messenger? That's just teenage stupidity; every phone that will run FB Messenger already has texting.
I also don't understand how nobody seems to understand that the more crap on your phone is turned on, the faster the battery will run down. That alone is reason enough to keep "location services" shut off unless you need to use it; likewise bluetooth and wi-fi.
I do know one guy who had a temporary need for FB's messenger; he had no phone, only an iPod. Thankfully, he has a phone now.
Well, Mister Coward, you seem to have a reading comprehension problem. I've written four books already, dumbass.
How is radio comparable? It plays the same songs (good or bad) over and over again -- no variety/small playlist.
I see you've never heard KSHE. They have a HUGE play list (they've not changed formats in half a century), don't play the same song twice in a day (unless you listen on the internet, on the internet local-only ads for St Louis businesses are replaced by music). Sunday nights they play a half dozen full albums front to back (here's the list for this Sunday and past Sundays).
Been listening to them since 1967 when they changed from easy listening (my dad listened then, not me) to "real rock radio".
But yes, they are one of the few exceptions.
1789 Copyright is obsolete in 2016
Today's copyright laws bear no resemblance whatever to early US copyright laws. It was originally enacted to protect writers from publishers. It lasted fourteen years, today's is the life of the artist plus ninety five years. Sheet music was covered but the songs themselves were not.
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Man, fuck getting old. Happy freakin' birthday.
Birthdays are like boogers. The more you have, the harder it is to breathe.
He must hate people like Cory Doctorow and me, who encourage noncommercial sharing of our digital material (but physical copies you have to pay for).
Not every "content creator" is a selfish, greedy asshole.
When people hear "drugs in the workplace" they mean drugs that can cause accidents, including alcohol -- but not coffee, It's a drug, but improves performance.
The problem here is they say "drugs" and mean "marijuana". If you get high once a month on a Friday night you won't be impaired at work but you won't pass a drug test. Snort coke or smoke crack first thing Friday morning and you'll be impaired, but any test given after the following Monday you'll pass.
Get drunk at work Monday morning and there will be no trace by Tuesday.
Sadly, I saw a few people become cocaine addicts because of drug testing. Their employers started testing, so they switched from pot to crack, They're all now homeless, but finctioned in society fine with pot.
I used quantum entanglement in a SF story I posted in my journal (a better copy without /.'s patented smart quote mangler is here). I called them "jump radio" in the story.
TL;DR=="I'm aliterate. I hate to read.
Jerry Was a Man was, according to wilipedia, published in 1947, five years before I was born and fifteen before I was reading Heinlein. But that story's not just far right wing, but blatantly racist.
Huckleberry Finn was an anti-slavery abolitionist book written by an abolitionist. Jerry Was a Man was written by a racist who used a talking monkey in place of a black man.
The Oscars are like the Nebulas, in that you have to be in the industry in the case of the Oscars and a writer in the case of the Nebulas. Fans can't vote for an Oscar or a Nebula, they can for a Hugo.
And not all of us have to grub for money, some of us don't need the money and do it because we love doing it.
Of course! All taxes and other costs of any good or service us ultimately paid by the person at the end transaction. And as to corporate taxes, this is the US, corporations don't pay taxes. They only pretend to.
As to cigarette taxes, I'm happy to have vices I don't do taxed.
Lazy? I know people who are working more than two jobs a week, with 2+ sharing a one bedroom apartment just so they can pay rent and get food on the table.
I wish the above AC had an account, or I had mod points today. My youngest and her fiancee both work full time and go to college full time. She's an honors student. I could have never accomplished that.
And that only applies to Federal tax. The poor pay gasoline taxes, sales taxes, state income taxes (in Illinois at the same rate as a billionaire), cigarette taxes, and their landlord's property tax on the property they live in (you don't believe landlords exist out of the goodness of their hearts, do you?).
We do seem to have too many people at the bottom who are inherently lazy (all people are lazy to some extent)
If you're an American You're ignorant. Welfare ended in 1996. Unless you're disabled you get no check unless you can PROVE you're looking for work. Oh, were it not for Britain's generous welfare, there would be no Harry Potter.
But you just keep listening to that drug-addled rich hypocrite Rush Limbaugh, fool.
"The Cultural Marxist Subversion of the Free World has resulted in..."
Free health care for everyone except Americans, free higher education in many nations, and the socialist Switzerland has the world's happiest people.
In the US it resulted in the 40 hour work week and weekends off, which you Fascists are presently TAKING AWAY FROM US, Social Security that I would be in dire poverty without, Mediacre that I'm eligible for next year... in fact EVERYTHING THAT MAKES A 99%ER'S LIFE WORTHWHILE.
I have three words in closing for you: FUCK YOU FASCISTS! You're either extremely rich or extremely STUPID.
Many of the SF writers of that era wrote erotica even early in life, they had bills to pay
Indeed insightful. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says âoeSturgeon was a central contributor to and shaper of John W Campbell Jrâ(TM)s so-called Golden Age of SF, though less comfortably than his colleagues, as even in those early years, while obeying the generic commands governing the creation of Campbellian technological or Hard SF, he was also writing sexually threatening, explorative tales, which he found difficult to publish domestically; Bianca's Hands (May 1947 Argosy), for instance, never appeared in an American magazine.â
Phillip K. Dick was a poor man during most of his writing career, despite the fact that he was very prolific, publishing forty four books and well over a hundred short stories.
Lester del Rey worked as a short order cook, among other jobs, when his writing wasnâ(TM)t selling well.
The government healthcare bureaucracy has drastically impeded the research necessary for prolonging life and restoring youthful characteristics and will most certainly spike any such treatment, at least until most of us boomers are safely killed off.
In 1900 you were lucky to reach 50, my dad died at age 84 and my mom still goes bowling twice a week at age 88. Her brother is in his late nineties. That was almost unheard of a century ago.
When you're faced with limited remaining life in a fragile body on miniscule after-ripoffs savings, with a healthcare system that looks to be dedicated to killing you while retaining plausible deniability
Funny, my mom says Medicare is the best health insurance she's ever had. I'm looking forward to being eligible next year because my insurance REALLY sucks.
You're crazy, Louie. See a doctor about that early onset Alzheimer's.
It's not meaningless if you're a reader, a writer, an agent, or a publisher.
ESPECIALLY if you're a writer.
For new writers especially, a Hugo award can help open a lot of doors to publishers who might not have time to sort through the slush pile on their desks.
A Hugo will certainly help one get more easily published, but you're not going to win one unless you've already been published. The slush piles are indeed huge, a magazine like Asimov's or F&SF gets a thousand submissions a month and print half a dozen. But they do read them. I've only submitted one to Analog because it took six months for them to get to it. Some reply in a day or two.
Indeed, the more money you have the more votes you can LITERALLY buy. I bought two and gave one to my daughter (we're going to Worldcon in August). They're damned expensive, too.
The Nebulas are chosen by critics, the Hugos by fans.
INCORRECT. The Nebulas are chosen by SFWA members. The requirements for membership are that you have to have sold three 1000 word or longer stories at a nickle apiece or earned three grand from a novel.
The Nebulas are not chosen by critics. They're chosen by professional science fiction and fantasy WRITERS.
Someone please mod that incorrect post down, it's bullshit as you can see from SFWA's site that lgw has obviously never visited.