In theory, AC comments are buried. In reality, they often fair better than logged-in comments from people with Excellent karma. Why? Because of the first thing you mention -- trolls & haters often target individuals. There is no target on an AC's back.
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This realization has prompted me to recently start posting more AC comments than I used to. My points still get across but the karma attackers are powerless. Except in this post, of course.
Enough that Apple didn't volunteer to do it. They are trying to double up -- "pay us $22.99 + 22.99 for something you and we agreed you only had to pay $22.99 for." Classic lawsuit stuff.
Not only that. Apple is still breaking their contract. They agreed to provide a full season for a fixed price. That should be in their new offer -- everyone who signed up gets the full season for $22.99.
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The way this is being "resolved" is they jack up the price to everyone. No different than the original offer.
I made this comment about political threads some time back -- there should be no votes/mods on political threads. It tends to be a mosh pit anyway so let it be an every-voice-is-equal one.
Oxford professor class - cigarette lighter/pipe-cleaner, convertible, automatic transmission.
And more seriously how about a Roadworthy class -- minimum ground clearance, lights, mirrors, a door you can climb in and out from. And maybe batteries so you can drive it when the rains come.
the most absurd terms
The most ingenious terms, you mean. Create some ridiculous hoops to jump through, plenty of suckers try to make book, few make book, you profit from clicks _and_ not paying. Barnum & Bailey would be proud.
I prefer jigsaw puzzles: 1000 piece puzzle for $2 @ Goodwill, takes 12 hours (on average) to assemble - $0.16/hour ...and while doing that I can listen to an audio book, the news or "watch" a movie. Honey, does my gray beard need trimming?
There is a lot to be said for diagrammatic solutions. One of things I enjoyed about Engineering Drafting was the way you could design a road to go up a mountain using only geometry. Doing this with just math and 3D survey data would be incrediby tedious and require a high level of detailed calculation. I was sold on the course when I saw the results.
A doctor vacationing on the Riviera met an old lawyer friend and asked him what he was doing there. The lawyer replied, "Remember that lousy real estate I bought? Well, it caught fire, so here I am with the fire insurance proceeds. What are you doing here?" The doctor replied, "Remember that lousy real estate I had in Mississippi? Well, the river overflowed, and here I am with the flood insurance proceeds." The lawyer looked puzzled. "Gee," he asked, "How do you start a flood?"
Einstein's first paper on relativity was published three months after Poincare's short paper, but before Poincare's longer version. Einstein relied on the principle of relativity to derive the Lorentz transformations and used a similar clock synchronisation procedure (Einstein synchronisation) to the one that Poincare (1900) had described, but Einstein's was remarkable in that it contained no references at all. Poincare never acknowledged Einstein's work on special relativity. Einstein acknowledged Poincare posthumously in the text of a lecture in 1921 called Geometrie und Erfahrung in connection with non-Euclidean geometry, but not in connection with special relativity. A few years before his death, Einstein commented on Poincare as being one of the pioneers of relativity, saying "Lorentz had already recognised that the transformation named after him is essential for the analysis of Maxwell's equations, and Poincare deepened this insight still further...."
You sound like someone who has played the typing ball, Oglin. I started even earlier, with manual Olivettis in Jr. High, learning all aspects of their use but also their repair. (Teacher had to find something for me to do after I finished each assignment in one-third of the allotted time.) Anyone else repair manual typewriters? Love that 2 inches of travel on each key press. Not.
And conversely, when an advertiser has to tell you the bad news about their product, the visuals crank up/switch to something compelling so you won't register the bad news.
Nothing to do with "kill others who disagree with you". Everything to do with world conquest, then total control. Trillionaires want to stay trillionaires.
Your BBS is too slow for me using my 300bps modem .
So you provide eXpert mode -- they press X and get abbreviated menus. THIS is accomodating all users. Something YahooGroups have given the middle finger to.
I wasted half an hour figuring out how to post in the new YahooGroups. Turns out I can't, in Opera (my preferred browser) or in FireFox. So now I have to send an email instead of online posting. I publish to 6000+ a week and I'm none too happy about the downgrade.
I wonder what would happen if every time a company provided a new interface "upgrade" they also left an option to use the old interface...and they had their product report back to them...and they fired the head of new interface design if it wasn't more popular in a month.
There are extensible interfaces, and then there are douchebags. Yahoo just became the douchebag of the month.
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The BH does not stop light. It changes the path light takes so it never leaves the black hole's event horizon.
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This realization has prompted me to recently start posting more AC comments than I used to. My points still get across but the karma attackers are powerless. Except in this post, of course.
Enough that Apple didn't volunteer to do it. They are trying to double up -- "pay us $22.99 + 22.99 for something you and we agreed you only had to pay $22.99 for." Classic lawsuit stuff.
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The way this is being "resolved" is they jack up the price to everyone. No different than the original offer.
The class action lawsuit should continue...
I made this comment about political threads some time back -- there should be no votes/mods on political threads. It tends to be a mosh pit anyway so let it be an every-voice-is-equal one.
Sounds like a job for Wikipedia
It's ok, icebike is giving incorrect advice -- you don't need to use quotes any more (they are ignored/invisible now).
Mother-in-law class - rumble seat, noise-cancelling headphones, dummy steering wheel & brakes.
Oxford professor class - cigarette lighter/pipe-cleaner, convertible, automatic transmission.
And more seriously how about a Roadworthy class -- minimum ground clearance, lights, mirrors, a door you can climb in and out from. And maybe batteries so you can drive it when the rains come.
the most absurd terms
The most ingenious terms, you mean. Create some ridiculous hoops to jump through, plenty of suckers try to make book, few make book, you profit from clicks _and_ not paying. Barnum & Bailey would be proud.
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I'm saving that sentiment for when Hef passes.
I prefer jigsaw puzzles: 1000 piece puzzle for $2 @ Goodwill, takes 12 hours (on average) to assemble - $0.16/hour
...and while doing that I can listen to an audio book, the news or "watch" a movie. Honey, does my gray beard need trimming?
There is a lot to be said for diagrammatic solutions. One of things I enjoyed about Engineering Drafting was the way you could design a road to go up a mountain using only geometry. Doing this with just math and 3D survey data would be incrediby tedious and require a high level of detailed calculation. I was sold on the course when I saw the results.
If hackers have found holes in Win XP, they will be saving and then using them after April, 2014.
FTFY
A doctor vacationing on the Riviera met an old lawyer friend and asked him what he was doing there. The lawyer replied, "Remember that lousy real estate I bought? Well, it caught fire, so here I am with the fire insurance proceeds. What are you doing here?" The doctor replied, "Remember that lousy real estate I had in Mississippi? Well, the river overflowed, and here I am with the flood insurance proceeds." The lawyer looked puzzled. "Gee," he asked, "How do you start a flood?"
Meat from a hundred, or even a thousand, cows ground up together and present in one patty equals "consistent"?
Nova: Australia's First 4 Billion Years. 4 hour mini-series that came out in 2013.
You sound like someone who has played the typing ball, Oglin. I started even earlier, with manual Olivettis in Jr. High, learning all aspects of their use but also their repair. (Teacher had to find something for me to do after I finished each assignment in one-third of the allotted time.) Anyone else repair manual typewriters? Love that 2 inches of travel on each key press. Not.
My five-year-old and worn all day every day Keens would disagree with you. Doc Martins are also superb. Depends what you buy.
And conversely, when an advertiser has to tell you the bad news about their product, the visuals crank up/switch to something compelling so you won't register the bad news.
Nothing to do with "kill others who disagree with you". Everything to do with world conquest, then total control. Trillionaires want to stay trillionaires.
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So you provide eXpert mode -- they press X and get abbreviated menus. THIS is accomodating all users. Something YahooGroups have given the middle finger to.
I wasted half an hour figuring out how to post in the new YahooGroups. Turns out I can't, in Opera (my preferred browser) or in FireFox. So now I have to send an email instead of online posting. I publish to 6000+ a week and I'm none too happy about the downgrade.
I wonder what would happen if every time a company provided a new interface "upgrade" they also left an option to use the old interface...and they had their product report back to them...and they fired the head of new interface design if it wasn't more popular in a month.
There are extensible interfaces, and then there are douchebags. Yahoo just became the douchebag of the month.
Amazing how just twice as much sun as normal will melt our world. This third rock is an uniquely hospitable, thank Dog.
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I'm not even going to dignify that with a reply.
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Ah, I was replying to someone saying what the problems were in Vista. Therefore we would be comparing Vista to XP not 7.