This is another reason why I won't get cable until I can select each channel individually. Otherwise I am guaranteed to paying for Sumner Redstone's MTV Networks (including Jersey Shore), The Golf Channel, and other stuff that I don't watch. Why should I pay Disney's ESPN 4 bucks a month when I really don't care what they have to say? It's not enough for me to see commercials when I'm watching, but to pay monthly too?
Let's not forget the importance the state of Iowa plays in American Presidential primary process. Being the first poll, each politician courts the state months or even years in advance. A few will skip the state, but most will make sure they do not vote against anything the voters there will be concerned with, and that includes corn.
The way your body handles food (burn/save) now is different than it will in ten years. Keep up the bad habits and most likely you will be overweight rather than under.
WebMD's article on testosterone is interesting. Basically, your testosterone levels peak at around 25 and decline gradually until death.
That does make sense considering that Greyhound and other bus companies are lobbying for breakdown lane access on the main highway north of Boston to NH. These same breakdown lanes are open to all traffic during rush hour, so this would likely make traffic even worse.
Traffic around Boston is a nightmare, so much so that I won't even consider commuting from just-inside-the-outer-belt (495) to downtown. We have a train station in town, but the lot is entirely full by 6:45AM, and the private parking nearby is 250 dollars a month. And with 8 stops on the way in I can't imagine it is timely at all.
We never built the Inner Belt nor extended the NW and SW highways into Boston, so there are only 3.5 main routes in.
The Big Dig mostly functional now, but the traffic jams have just moved to the middle belt (Rt128/95) and other suburban areas. For example, we have the northern 4 line highway connected to the 4 lane east/west highway by a single lane offramp that has a speed limit of only 20MPH since it was designed in the 1950s for the east/west highway being only 2 lanes then. It would be possible to put raised ramps in, but during commute hours it wouldn't help anyway.
No wonder this state is losing population, all the traffic of NYC and LA, but almost none of the cachet.
They've been on my HOSTS block for years, ever since one of those annoying GIF popups damn near gave me a seizure bouncing in its frame. Have they improved since?
They are almost exclusively in the girls sets though. Since the late 90s LEGO seems to believe girls can't build anything but 50 piece mansions so those sets are almost useless to make anything else.:(
Also, while the kernel of NT was based on VMS when David Cutler stole his old work from DEC, it was forced to integrate numerous historical poor choices of DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows 95 to provide backwards compatibility.
Windows NT was released well before Windows 95 was, and did not include DOS.
People pull over all the time on the highway for emergencies such as flat tires.
Wouldn't a significant increase in breakdown lane usage increase accidents and deaths?
The number of lane changes required would also slow down traffic. There would certainly be people rushing to pull over suddenly to answer calls as well. And then add the rubberneckers looking to see why someone is pulled over.
One of the local highways, Interstate 93 north of Boston, has sanctioned use of the breakdown lanes during rush hour to add a 5th lane. So people in on that road wouldn't be able to pull over for that, unless they're driving off the road completely.
Rather than have the police target and fine people for this, why not have them go after distracted and poor driving in general?
These are things I see on a regular basis on Massachusetts highways:
Slow merging onto the highway, partially due to short merge areas.
2/3 of drivers do not use turn signals to change lanes.
Passing lane hogs who are not aware the vehicles behind them who wish to pass.
Would-be NASCAR drivers who do 8 lane changes in a mile to get ahead of everyone - by 4 car-lengths worth.
Idiots who believe CSI is going to show up over their fender-bender and so they don't move their vehicles out of the way. These people should be fined if they don't move.
Breakdown lanes not being used to keep traffic moving when roadwork is being done. There's no reason it can't be used, especially multiple State Police are used on significant projects.
The Big Dig just moved the bottlenecks from Boston to elsewhere.
Yes, it is, in way - it forces shame on certain people/groups. I can't imagine an Irish Catholic immigrant girl being willing to tell her parents the full details of why she was being so abused by others.
When I was unemployed about 2 years back, I looked into getting catastrophic health insurance in case anything big happened. Not looking for coverage for a cold or gym membership reimbursement, but I couldn't find anything. Apparently my own state government of Massachusetts, in its infinite wisdom, declared it illegal!
So much for helping the down-on-their-luck and the poor, huh?
If car insurance worked like health insurance, we'd never see the real costs of things like oil changes because we'd only pay the co-pays. And the costs would rise since every shop would need an extra person to handle the paperwork and claims.
This isn't anything new, either. Exchange Server's RCs (2000, I think) used to crash the service several times a day, by design, after one year from the install date. One small businessman that I knew used to just reload his mail server then, so this change would have affected his behavior (or he'd set his date back:).
I'll bite. I once had a friend who attended the Northeastern University School of Journalism and not only could she not tell the difference between "news" and "opinion" but could not understand why dividing the two is important. Her thought was people are inherently biased and so a good journalist, rather than elevating stories above one's bias, should tell the story the way one sees and feels it.
Facts seem to be secondary to most outlets these days, regardless of their political leanings.
How about the incredibly overrated Conficker / Kido / Downadup worm that was going to cause the end of the Internet on April 1st 2009? Big media blew it out of proportion considering Microsoft had patched the flaw and all major AV vendors had protected against it months before April 1st. The only people really affected by it were the patch-avoiders.
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Protest by having all the kids use the same PIN.
This is another reason why I won't get cable until I can select each channel individually. Otherwise I am guaranteed to paying for Sumner Redstone's MTV Networks (including Jersey Shore), The Golf Channel, and other stuff that I don't watch. Why should I pay Disney's ESPN 4 bucks a month when I really don't care what they have to say? It's not enough for me to see commercials when I'm watching, but to pay monthly too?
Let's not forget the importance the state of Iowa plays in American Presidential primary process. Being the first poll, each politician courts the state months or even years in advance. A few will skip the state, but most will make sure they do not vote against anything the voters there will be concerned with, and that includes corn.
The way your body handles food (burn/save) now is different than it will in ten years. Keep up the bad habits and most likely you will be overweight rather than under.
WebMD's article on testosterone is interesting. Basically, your testosterone levels peak at around 25 and decline gradually until death.
That won't be all that helpful to those who use the same email and password for everything.
Maybe it will use SMS?
That does make sense considering that Greyhound and other bus companies are lobbying for breakdown lane access on the main highway north of Boston to NH. These same breakdown lanes are open to all traffic during rush hour, so this would likely make traffic even worse.
Traffic around Boston is a nightmare, so much so that I won't even consider commuting from just-inside-the-outer-belt (495) to downtown. We have a train station in town, but the lot is entirely full by 6:45AM, and the private parking nearby is 250 dollars a month. And with 8 stops on the way in I can't imagine it is timely at all.
We never built the Inner Belt nor extended the NW and SW highways into Boston, so there are only 3.5 main routes in.
The Big Dig mostly functional now, but the traffic jams have just moved to the middle belt (Rt128/95) and other suburban areas. For example, we have the northern 4 line highway connected to the 4 lane east/west highway by a single lane offramp that has a speed limit of only 20MPH since it was designed in the 1950s for the east/west highway being only 2 lanes then. It would be possible to put raised ramps in, but during commute hours it wouldn't help anyway.
No wonder this state is losing population, all the traffic of NYC and LA, but almost none of the cachet.
C'mon, you'd open your wallet for another TIE Fighter game.
They've been on my HOSTS block for years, ever since one of those annoying GIF popups damn near gave me a seizure bouncing in its frame. Have they improved since?
They are almost exclusively in the girls sets though. Since the late 90s LEGO seems to believe girls can't build anything but 50 piece mansions so those sets are almost useless to make anything else. :(
As opposed to wasting HDD space instead?
Windows NT was released well before Windows 95 was, and did not include DOS.
The New York Times and Boston.com websites have been infected before. It's just a matter of time before these things become more like ransomware.
Wouldn't a significant increase in breakdown lane usage increase accidents and deaths?
The number of lane changes required would also slow down traffic. There would certainly be people rushing to pull over suddenly to answer calls as well. And then add the rubberneckers looking to see why someone is pulled over.
One of the local highways, Interstate 93 north of Boston, has sanctioned use of the breakdown lanes during rush hour to add a 5th lane. So people in on that road wouldn't be able to pull over for that, unless they're driving off the road completely.
Rather than have the police target and fine people for this, why not have them go after distracted and poor driving in general?
These are things I see on a regular basis on Massachusetts highways:
Slow merging onto the highway, partially due to short merge areas.
2/3 of drivers do not use turn signals to change lanes.
Passing lane hogs who are not aware the vehicles behind them who wish to pass.
Would-be NASCAR drivers who do 8 lane changes in a mile to get ahead of everyone - by 4 car-lengths worth.
Idiots who believe CSI is going to show up over their fender-bender and so they don't move their vehicles out of the way. These people should be fined if they don't move.
Breakdown lanes not being used to keep traffic moving when roadwork is being done. There's no reason it can't be used, especially multiple State Police are used on significant projects.
The Big Dig just moved the bottlenecks from Boston to elsewhere.
Yes, it is, in way - it forces shame on certain people/groups. I can't imagine an Irish Catholic immigrant girl being willing to tell her parents the full details of why she was being so abused by others.
Congratulations, Antique Geekmeister, you just referenced a show that's been over for more than 30 years.
Allows you to boot into Time Machine if Windows is so hosed that you cannot get to System Restore? Sounds like GoBack.
Child porn is the root password to the Constitution.
Not everyone wants to give away their code in a way that it can end up reused inside a proprietary closed source project.
When I was unemployed about 2 years back, I looked into getting catastrophic health insurance in case anything big happened. Not looking for coverage for a cold or gym membership reimbursement, but I couldn't find anything. Apparently my own state government of Massachusetts, in its infinite wisdom, declared it illegal!
So much for helping the down-on-their-luck and the poor, huh?
If car insurance worked like health insurance, we'd never see the real costs of things like oil changes because we'd only pay the co-pays. And the costs would rise since every shop would need an extra person to handle the paperwork and claims.
This isn't anything new, either. Exchange Server's RCs (2000, I think) used to crash the service several times a day, by design, after one year from the install date. One small businessman that I knew used to just reload his mail server then, so this change would have affected his behavior (or he'd set his date back :).
Sounds like public relations rather than journalism. Asking him what he is up to currently is a valid question.
Rather sad that copyright has allowed the talented gentleman to turn into the comic version of JD Salinger.
I can barely imagine the fail that would have caused that. What OS were they on? Windows 2000 included IE5, XP had IE6, so they are on NT or 9x?
That's a huge sacrifice of security to avoid paying for developers to modernize things.
Pontiac died when it it started selling minivans. It just lasted a long time on life support.
I'll bite. I once had a friend who attended the Northeastern University School of Journalism and not only could she not tell the difference between "news" and "opinion" but could not understand why dividing the two is important. Her thought was people are inherently biased and so a good journalist, rather than elevating stories above one's bias, should tell the story the way one sees and feels it.
Facts seem to be secondary to most outlets these days, regardless of their political leanings.
How about the incredibly overrated Conficker / Kido / Downadup worm that was going to cause the end of the Internet on April 1st 2009? Big media blew it out of proportion considering Microsoft had patched the flaw and all major AV vendors had protected against it months before April 1st. The only people really affected by it were the patch-avoiders.