Ultimately, I can't blame them. Way too many sites require a log in for no particular reason. I've got several hundred passwords for various sites over the years, and I don't have time to change them on a regular basis. I've got a password manager which allows me to have unique passwords for each site, but without that there's no way that I'd be able to remember all those passwords unless they were the same, or the same for a particular type of site.
I was with Sprint, the actual service was quite good, I just got kind of pissed off by them wanting me to opt into a 2 year contract for only a one year contract worth of rebate. And failing to give me accurate information about what the fees were going to be until I was in the store actually trying to make the changes. Plus putting through changes to the account before I was finished. Plus, I dislike having to buy a new phone just because I change carriers.
But in terms of actually having coverage where I needed it, they beat the snot out of AT&T.
Next time I change carriers it will probably be to Boost Mobile, and they use the Sprint network, so I'd expect to get the advantages of that as far as that goes. But we definitely don't have anywhere near enough competition for AT&T's proposed buy out of T-Mobile to not violated Clayton.
It's the abysmal telecommunications sector. Around here I've got 5 choices, 3 of them would require me to buy a new phone, and only T-Mobile and AT&T allow the use of random phones with a SIM. Sprint won't activate a phone that doesn't have it's logo silk screened on it, and none of the major providers competes for anything other than being somewhat less sucky than the others and depending upon inertia to carry them through.
It's been getting progressively worse over the years. Even with GSM, AT&T uses a different portion of the spectrum for 3G than T-Mobile does, meaning that there's going to be a lot of people without 3G or having to buy new phones prematurely if this goes through.
And yet that's more or less what happened when AT&T acquired Cingular. Pretty quickly the quality of reception diminished and even places which had decent reception got worse.
Additionally, T-Mobile and AT&T don't use the same spectrum for 3G which means that anybody who had a phone for the T-Mobile network suddenly won't be getting 3G.
Right, because we all know that's what happened when AT&T merged with Cingular. Oh, wait, you say that the service got a lot worse when that happened? How could that possibly be, I mean it's not like AT&T would use the gains in efficiency to line its pockets while providing substandard service.
Around here the problem is a lack of providers. I'd like to sign up with US Cellular, but they aren't available here. Around here we've got Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T. I think that Boost might be available, but that's it. If this isn't a violation of Clayton, I'm really curious what it takes to get flagged as violating that.
I've heard good things about Boost mobile, but the CDMA carriers have their own issues, like Sprint refusing to activate phones which don't have their insignia on them, even if the phone is the same model that they normally allow.
You can, the issue is that they don't use the same spectrum for 3G. You can talk just fine and get data over edge, but you're not going to get 3G speed.
OTOH, it's AT&T you're not going to bet 3G speed anyways, even if your phone can handle it. Or at least that was the case when I had a phone capable of using AT&T 3G service.
The problem there is at the federal level. Locally in order to be awarded damages you have to prove them. At the federal level there's all sorts of silliness like statutory damages and AFAIK there is no requirement that one demonstrate that one was damaged for other types either.
Not necessarily, perhaps for the crew that might be true, but there's a surprising amount of talent out there that hasn't for one reason or another been spotted. The reality is that only a very small fraction of actors, directors or writers ever get a shot in hollywood, and as a result, there's plenty of decent and even brilliant ones available for this sort of project.
Unless you're connected, the chances of ever being seen is pretty small, you might luck out with an open casting call, but even there you're talking about only a fraction of a percent that succeed that way. And if you happen to have a bad day, you're screwed.
And yet, even he was able to make a good film. Postal, was actually pretty good as far as films go, if only for the portion that he dedicates to mocking himself on camera. If he stopped taking his films so seriously and chose ones which were better suited for dark comedy, I think we'd have a different opinion of his talent.
A lot of it depends upon the creativity of the crew in terms of costume and set design. Corman was a master when it came to making sets look really expensive while spending practically nothing on it. And take a look at what Mel Bibby was able to do towards the end of the Red Dwarf series. There was basically no increase in set allowance, but each season the sets looked better and better, and it wasn't just a matter of less to do.
We could still fuck it up. The question is how we handle it if they win. If we largely stay out of it beyond providing training and resources to conduct their elections we'll have an opportunity to help fight the view that we're complete bastards that will play nice with dictators for our own well being. But, if we don't respect the outcome of free and fair elections because we don't like the outcome, it's going to be basically just another episode to reinforce the terrorist point of view that we're the enemy.
I'm not generally a supporter of military intervention to solve problems, however there are cases such as this where it is genuinely the only way. Qaddafi is sufficiently dangerous to himself and the people living in the region such as to justify our throwing our weight behind the pro-democracy forces. The thing we need to be exceedingly careful about is if they do win, we need to stand behind whomever the Libyan people choose in their elections.
It might mean standing behind some questionable characters, but so long as the process is fair and represents the will of the people we're just going to cause problems for ourselves and the rest of the world if we don't stand behind free and fair elections.
The rebels will still have to win their war, but they'll at least have a much more even fight on their hands if they don't have loyalist air power to worry about.
You do realize that both the UN and the Arab League requested the intervention, right? The Secretary of State was very clear that we wouldn't barge in without the international community's approval. And, I have yet to hear any talk directly of how this is in any way our best interest. Which wasn't the case previously.
This isn't Iraq or Vietnam, we've got a clear objective and one that is relatively straightforward to understand. When it's over we'll be able to assess whether or not it was a success, which hasn't always been the case in the past.
Ultimately, Apple let them have the rating. You do realize that in the past Apple has gone to extremes to find reasons to deny applications because they can be used for things that aren't family friendly, even if the application requires the end user to specifically look for smut to find it.
There's two issues, one that they allowed it into the Appstore when they've banned many apps for less. The second issue is that they gave it a rating which implies that it's OK for everybody, rather than deeply offensive to a substantial group of people. They could've given it a more appropriate rating, as in for adults only, but they opted to give it the equivalent of a "G" rating.
That's my understanding of the 4 stars they gave it, I don't have an iPhone so I'm not positive if the summary is correct.
It doesn't change, you'd be surprised how far repression can get you. Until I realized that I might not be straight I had no idea that I wasn't. Then within about 10 minutes a lot of my life started to make sense. Anybody who is in their 40s and claims to suddenly be gay is either lying or was massively repressed previously.
Sexual orientation does not change to that extent over time. Even fetishes which are known to not be innate are borderline impossible to extinguish once one has one, and sometimes expand to related interests as time goes by.
That's a tad different. I don't have an iPhone so I can't look, but those are hardly objectionable to any reasonable person. Unlike sexual orientation one can change ones religious affiliations as frequently as one likes. Which makes it at least potentially productive, or at worst as productive as those people who think it's their job in life to save everybody, whether they want it or not.
It's not useless, it's there to ensure that there is at least one delivery service which will deliver a given package anywhere in the US for the same price regardless of cost of providing the service. It's a little bit more complicated now, but basically still true. But fundamentally they could solve their budget problems by cutting service to the portion of the population that chooses to live in a place that requires them to use helicopters and such to deliver the mail.
Is it really that worthwhile though? I've got street view coverage of my neighborhood, but I rarely if ever look at it, same goes for places I'm going, I usually just stick to the aerial photos because they're far more useful for typical purposes.
Reasonable or not, I'd prefer to at least have some modicum of privacy rather than being caught on tape daily by the USPS vehicles.
We don't have the Yakuza to help keep the order here. That's not to say that the Japanese are as disorderly as we are, but let's be honest, having organized crime figure out that widespread looting and such is bad for business goes a long way towards maintained civility. Even in the US during prohibition, the mob figured out pretty quickly how to make nice with the people when it was profitable to do so.
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Ultimately, I can't blame them. Way too many sites require a log in for no particular reason. I've got several hundred passwords for various sites over the years, and I don't have time to change them on a regular basis. I've got a password manager which allows me to have unique passwords for each site, but without that there's no way that I'd be able to remember all those passwords unless they were the same, or the same for a particular type of site.
They can, it's just cheaper to buy somebody that's already put the effort into it, that way the risk is being paid by somebody else.
I was with Sprint, the actual service was quite good, I just got kind of pissed off by them wanting me to opt into a 2 year contract for only a one year contract worth of rebate. And failing to give me accurate information about what the fees were going to be until I was in the store actually trying to make the changes. Plus putting through changes to the account before I was finished. Plus, I dislike having to buy a new phone just because I change carriers.
But in terms of actually having coverage where I needed it, they beat the snot out of AT&T.
Next time I change carriers it will probably be to Boost Mobile, and they use the Sprint network, so I'd expect to get the advantages of that as far as that goes. But we definitely don't have anywhere near enough competition for AT&T's proposed buy out of T-Mobile to not violated Clayton.
It's the abysmal telecommunications sector. Around here I've got 5 choices, 3 of them would require me to buy a new phone, and only T-Mobile and AT&T allow the use of random phones with a SIM. Sprint won't activate a phone that doesn't have it's logo silk screened on it, and none of the major providers competes for anything other than being somewhat less sucky than the others and depending upon inertia to carry them through.
It's been getting progressively worse over the years. Even with GSM, AT&T uses a different portion of the spectrum for 3G than T-Mobile does, meaning that there's going to be a lot of people without 3G or having to buy new phones prematurely if this goes through.
And yet that's more or less what happened when AT&T acquired Cingular. Pretty quickly the quality of reception diminished and even places which had decent reception got worse.
Additionally, T-Mobile and AT&T don't use the same spectrum for 3G which means that anybody who had a phone for the T-Mobile network suddenly won't be getting 3G.
Right, because we all know that's what happened when AT&T merged with Cingular. Oh, wait, you say that the service got a lot worse when that happened? How could that possibly be, I mean it's not like AT&T would use the gains in efficiency to line its pockets while providing substandard service.
Around here the problem is a lack of providers. I'd like to sign up with US Cellular, but they aren't available here. Around here we've got Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T. I think that Boost might be available, but that's it. If this isn't a violation of Clayton, I'm really curious what it takes to get flagged as violating that.
I've heard good things about Boost mobile, but the CDMA carriers have their own issues, like Sprint refusing to activate phones which don't have their insignia on them, even if the phone is the same model that they normally allow.
You can, the issue is that they don't use the same spectrum for 3G. You can talk just fine and get data over edge, but you're not going to get 3G speed.
OTOH, it's AT&T you're not going to bet 3G speed anyways, even if your phone can handle it. Or at least that was the case when I had a phone capable of using AT&T 3G service.
Jesus? What has he ever done for me?
The problem there is at the federal level. Locally in order to be awarded damages you have to prove them. At the federal level there's all sorts of silliness like statutory damages and AFAIK there is no requirement that one demonstrate that one was damaged for other types either.
Not necessarily, perhaps for the crew that might be true, but there's a surprising amount of talent out there that hasn't for one reason or another been spotted. The reality is that only a very small fraction of actors, directors or writers ever get a shot in hollywood, and as a result, there's plenty of decent and even brilliant ones available for this sort of project.
Unless you're connected, the chances of ever being seen is pretty small, you might luck out with an open casting call, but even there you're talking about only a fraction of a percent that succeed that way. And if you happen to have a bad day, you're screwed.
And yet, even he was able to make a good film. Postal, was actually pretty good as far as films go, if only for the portion that he dedicates to mocking himself on camera. If he stopped taking his films so seriously and chose ones which were better suited for dark comedy, I think we'd have a different opinion of his talent.
A lot of it depends upon the creativity of the crew in terms of costume and set design. Corman was a master when it came to making sets look really expensive while spending practically nothing on it. And take a look at what Mel Bibby was able to do towards the end of the Red Dwarf series. There was basically no increase in set allowance, but each season the sets looked better and better, and it wasn't just a matter of less to do.
We could still fuck it up. The question is how we handle it if they win. If we largely stay out of it beyond providing training and resources to conduct their elections we'll have an opportunity to help fight the view that we're complete bastards that will play nice with dictators for our own well being. But, if we don't respect the outcome of free and fair elections because we don't like the outcome, it's going to be basically just another episode to reinforce the terrorist point of view that we're the enemy.
I'm not generally a supporter of military intervention to solve problems, however there are cases such as this where it is genuinely the only way. Qaddafi is sufficiently dangerous to himself and the people living in the region such as to justify our throwing our weight behind the pro-democracy forces. The thing we need to be exceedingly careful about is if they do win, we need to stand behind whomever the Libyan people choose in their elections.
It might mean standing behind some questionable characters, but so long as the process is fair and represents the will of the people we're just going to cause problems for ourselves and the rest of the world if we don't stand behind free and fair elections.
The rebels will still have to win their war, but they'll at least have a much more even fight on their hands if they don't have loyalist air power to worry about.
You do realize that both the UN and the Arab League requested the intervention, right? The Secretary of State was very clear that we wouldn't barge in without the international community's approval. And, I have yet to hear any talk directly of how this is in any way our best interest. Which wasn't the case previously.
This isn't Iraq or Vietnam, we've got a clear objective and one that is relatively straightforward to understand. When it's over we'll be able to assess whether or not it was a success, which hasn't always been the case in the past.
Ultimately, Apple let them have the rating. You do realize that in the past Apple has gone to extremes to find reasons to deny applications because they can be used for things that aren't family friendly, even if the application requires the end user to specifically look for smut to find it.
There's two issues, one that they allowed it into the Appstore when they've banned many apps for less. The second issue is that they gave it a rating which implies that it's OK for everybody, rather than deeply offensive to a substantial group of people. They could've given it a more appropriate rating, as in for adults only, but they opted to give it the equivalent of a "G" rating.
That's my understanding of the 4 stars they gave it, I don't have an iPhone so I'm not positive if the summary is correct.
Looking at Bieber's ass gets you plenty of dates in prison. Looking at a pair of tits hardly results in more sex.
It doesn't change, you'd be surprised how far repression can get you. Until I realized that I might not be straight I had no idea that I wasn't. Then within about 10 minutes a lot of my life started to make sense. Anybody who is in their 40s and claims to suddenly be gay is either lying or was massively repressed previously.
Sexual orientation does not change to that extent over time. Even fetishes which are known to not be innate are borderline impossible to extinguish once one has one, and sometimes expand to related interests as time goes by.
That's a tad different. I don't have an iPhone so I can't look, but those are hardly objectionable to any reasonable person. Unlike sexual orientation one can change ones religious affiliations as frequently as one likes. Which makes it at least potentially productive, or at worst as productive as those people who think it's their job in life to save everybody, whether they want it or not.
It's not useless, it's there to ensure that there is at least one delivery service which will deliver a given package anywhere in the US for the same price regardless of cost of providing the service. It's a little bit more complicated now, but basically still true. But fundamentally they could solve their budget problems by cutting service to the portion of the population that chooses to live in a place that requires them to use helicopters and such to deliver the mail.
I should remember to thank my letter carrier for always dropping the mail at random houses.
Is it really that worthwhile though? I've got street view coverage of my neighborhood, but I rarely if ever look at it, same goes for places I'm going, I usually just stick to the aerial photos because they're far more useful for typical purposes.
Reasonable or not, I'd prefer to at least have some modicum of privacy rather than being caught on tape daily by the USPS vehicles.
We don't have the Yakuza to help keep the order here. That's not to say that the Japanese are as disorderly as we are, but let's be honest, having organized crime figure out that widespread looting and such is bad for business goes a long way towards maintained civility. Even in the US during prohibition, the mob figured out pretty quickly how to make nice with the people when it was profitable to do so.