This is simply not true, at least in America. I lived in the middle of nowhere for more than 10 years. With the rise of the Internet during this time, I fought and fought and struggled with both Phone and Cable companies to provide me with a higher speed internet access than the crappy 56k modem (that, given I was so far out really only turned out to be 20k, and yes, that's KILOBITS).
Not only did the cable company do NOTHING (except inform me that I would have service by approximately 2016, no joke) but the phone company HAD to provide at least the minimal service I had, as it was a "regulated resource." YET they charged me MORE for my phone line as I was the only one in the general area requiring their service (130$ a month for a standard line with NO long distance service, the price you pay for living in the country!)
Moral of the story: I bought a satellite dish for my internet and a cell phone for everything else. Both combined are cheaper than the single ($#!TTY) phone service! Screw cable AND phone companies!
Thank you. Ignorance makes my blood boil but your post was concise, informative and a well put response to my potential bane. I've only seen good things about the rebounding of our economy recently (if for no other good example, gas prices are at their lowest since 9/11), and people who complain about tax cuts are obviously not educated about economics or are not a part of the middle class (or so I can only assume). I am interested though, do you have any links for these figures?
100% agreed. For those that don't know, both of these are plugins for firefox that can be easily downloaded from the Firefox Extensions website:
NoScript: This is based on a white list, which means that until you specify that a site is safe, no scripts (including Javascript, Flash, VBScripts, ActiveX, anything embedded...) will run. A simple box sits in your browser letting you know if the site you are on is blocked, if only part of it is blocked (for instance the site itself is allowed, but advertising.com was blocked) or if the site was deemed safe by you. You can choose to allow or disallow sites, entire domains, subdomains, or temporarily allow any of the above. The default is to disallow, so unless you specify otherwise, all sites will be blocked from running scripts.
AdBlock: This is based off of a black list, which means that it doesn't block anything until you tell it to. This is nice though because it also allows you to use filters which can include wildcards. For instance, you can choose to block: "*advert*" which implies any image (including background images), script, flash object, frame, iframe, or even div tag that contains the phrase "advert" would not be rendered in your browser. This allows you to block individual images and though it can occasionally cause a page to look messy, it certainly unclutters the window from advertisements and is very easy to use.
The only gripes I have about both of these plugins for firefox is that for the average / beginning user, they might be a bit above their heads. They are very easy to use, but someone sitting down to get on the internet who goes to their favorite porn site, only to find that it won't load properly won't take the time to realize that it's NoScript preventing the site from operating, they generally will say "screw it" and open Internet Explorer anyway (because it WORKS in IE). For security purposes, I highly recommend teaching your entire family how to use a Firefox browser with these plugins (my own mother now uses this after only a few minutes of me sitting down with her to walk her through it!) as you will never run into a nasty ActiveX or javascript again!
Eh different thing altogether, it helps if I read TFA! The anion's were the first negatively charged objects found in interstellar space via radio waves. These axion's are very tiny, no charge and don't seem to be very stable (let alone having to be created in a lab vs. space!)
Speaking of "no charge" I'm fairly sure I read that the particle discovered was actually a chain of carbons trailed by a hydrogen (a metaphoric "caboose"). That would make the particle NEGATIVE in nature! I might be wrong about this, as what I'm reading is called an anion and you guys are all talking axion's (and probably AM wrong about this, I've been out of particle physics now for a solid 6 years and my brain has moved on to less complex tasks...) Anyway, interesting read if you haven't already:
Yet it is still a choice. I'm as proud as hell for our boys over there, and am thankful that they made the choice to do so (regardless of the circumstances surrounding said choice).
Your metaphor between Napoleon and Bush is interesting though... I'll have to think more about that!
I agree. I used to own a specific.com that I used as my personal homepage. It expired as I went to transfer hosting services and some squatter stole it right out from under me, and asked me for 400$ to get it back. Whatever happened to those lawsuits anyway? I thought they were getting the pants sued off them for monopolistic tendencies?
According to [the prosecutions] lawyer, Jesse Markham Jr:
"ICANN has vacated its government-mandated obligation to maintain competition and prevent discrimination in markets related to internet domain names by succumbing to VeriSign's strong arm tactic and allowing it to leverage its limited-duration contractual control over.com and.net into a permanent control over those registries and over adjacent markets segments for various domain name services."
aaaaaand RIGHT THERE is where it turns into overkill.
I must admit though, there are some impressive grammatical skillz (including this parent and above) going on! One question though. If "screwed" turns to "scrod" and inherently "scrodded," what was that young Atlantic Haddock I had for lunch today? Scurred? Now this is just getting all Chingy!
A) Grow up Martin, you're better than that.
B) If you choose to use the example of low pre-orders set by retail then you are explicitely dealing with supply, not demand. Fine, I understand that. If you choose to say the words:
The total number of available PS3 preorders is tiny, because there is so much confusion over how many units will be available.
Then you're flat out wrong. There IS no confusion over how many will be available, and your quote should read:
The total number of available PS3 preorders is tiny because there are so few units that will be available.
So yeah, you should learn to speak-eh zee English before bashing someone with your Spanglesh.
Please stop with the Penny Arcade links! I've never found a single strip funny, and it's now basically one giant cliche.
Also, what was wrong with Black and White? I loved that game! I played it for months as I had nothing else to do, but didn't need anything else to do, it was that great!
And as for the hype, I'm psyched for Spore. I can't think of any other game that gives you that much control over building your own character, I have a feeling this will attract a lot more than the hardcore gamer!
The quantity of preorders has nothing to do with demand. It's dictated strictly by retail, and what any given store feels is a safe bet to allow [one to put money down] for. If a chain is only receiving 5 units max, they might take 3 preorders and give 2 to employees. That doesn't mean that there aren't 500 or 50,000 people that WANT them...
and not only given the problems Hubble has had in its lifetime, it's also hard to take this 'evidence' as credible given the nature of the measurements!
I'll give an example: Give a thumbs up, and stick your arm out in front of you as far as it will go. Close your right eye and notice where your thumb is against the background. Now close your left, open your right and do the same thing. Notice your thumb moved relative to what's behind it?
...now imagine this with your "eyes" being replaced by the earth on each side of the sun (Jan 1st compared to July 1st) and your "thumb" being the stars in that cluster.
The amount of shift is so incredibly small (again, 1/100th of a pixel) that (according to TFA): The crowded conditions, however, have made it difficult for astronomers to pinpoint with any accuracy individual stars, let alone their velocities.
I think I'll wait for this Hubble Replacement before making any reservations...
Well put, and in fact, it was because of this story that I went to my local Best Buy on my lunch today! I'm now the proud new owner of a fire-spitting, banshee screaming Jack Thompson!
FYI: On lunch I successfully beat Carl "CJ" Johnson but got my ass handed to me by a bully of sorts...
I know this is an older link, but mod the parent up: (a bit of proof)
He's exactly right. You might argue they make their money from their investors...but most specifically it's received by getting companies like Dell and HPQ (notice the text: "HP recommends Windows® XP Professional!") to purchase boatloads of licenses...
On a related note: try to build your own PC on the Dell or HPQ websites (see above links). You won't even be given the option for "no OS," let alone Linux, you MUST buy Windows!
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This is simply not true, at least in America. I lived in the middle of nowhere for more than 10 years. With the rise of the Internet during this time, I fought and fought and struggled with both Phone and Cable companies to provide me with a higher speed internet access than the crappy 56k modem (that, given I was so far out really only turned out to be 20k, and yes, that's KILOBITS).
Not only did the cable company do NOTHING (except inform me that I would have service by approximately 2016, no joke) but the phone company HAD to provide at least the minimal service I had, as it was a "regulated resource." YET they charged me MORE for my phone line as I was the only one in the general area requiring their service (130$ a month for a standard line with NO long distance service, the price you pay for living in the country!)
Moral of the story: I bought a satellite dish for my internet and a cell phone for everything else. Both combined are cheaper than the single ($#!TTY) phone service! Screw cable AND phone companies!
Can you get me a job?
Thank you. Ignorance makes my blood boil but your post was concise, informative and a well put response to my potential bane. I've only seen good things about the rebounding of our economy recently (if for no other good example, gas prices are at their lowest since 9/11), and people who complain about tax cuts are obviously not educated about economics or are not a part of the middle class (or so I can only assume). I am interested though, do you have any links for these figures?
See:
http://www.virgingalactic.com/
Isn't that the point? BAH DUM BUM TING!
Firefox: http://getfirefox.com/
Adblock: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/10/
NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/
100% agreed. For those that don't know, both of these are plugins for firefox that can be easily downloaded from the Firefox Extensions website:
NoScript: This is based on a white list, which means that until you specify that a site is safe, no scripts (including Javascript, Flash, VBScripts, ActiveX, anything embedded...) will run. A simple box sits in your browser letting you know if the site you are on is blocked, if only part of it is blocked (for instance the site itself is allowed, but advertising.com was blocked) or if the site was deemed safe by you. You can choose to allow or disallow sites, entire domains, subdomains, or temporarily allow any of the above. The default is to disallow, so unless you specify otherwise, all sites will be blocked from running scripts.
AdBlock: This is based off of a black list, which means that it doesn't block anything until you tell it to. This is nice though because it also allows you to use filters which can include wildcards. For instance, you can choose to block: "*advert*" which implies any image (including background images), script, flash object, frame, iframe, or even div tag that contains the phrase "advert" would not be rendered in your browser. This allows you to block individual images and though it can occasionally cause a page to look messy, it certainly unclutters the window from advertisements and is very easy to use.
The only gripes I have about both of these plugins for firefox is that for the average / beginning user, they might be a bit above their heads. They are very easy to use, but someone sitting down to get on the internet who goes to their favorite porn site, only to find that it won't load properly won't take the time to realize that it's NoScript preventing the site from operating, they generally will say "screw it" and open Internet Explorer anyway (because it WORKS in IE). For security purposes, I highly recommend teaching your entire family how to use a Firefox browser with these plugins (my own mother now uses this after only a few minutes of me sitting down with her to walk her through it!) as you will never run into a nasty ActiveX or javascript again!
...it's a fuckin' LION!
Eh different thing altogether, it helps if I read TFA! The anion's were the first negatively charged objects found in interstellar space via radio waves. These axion's are very tiny, no charge and don't seem to be very stable (let alone having to be created in a lab vs. space!)
Speaking of "no charge" I'm fairly sure I read that the particle discovered was actually a chain of carbons trailed by a hydrogen (a metaphoric "caboose"). That would make the particle NEGATIVE in nature! I might be wrong about this, as what I'm reading is called an anion and you guys are all talking axion's (and probably AM wrong about this, I've been out of particle physics now for a solid 6 years and my brain has moved on to less complex tasks...) Anyway, interesting read if you haven't already:
http://dsc.discovery.com/
Yet it is still a choice. I'm as proud as hell for our boys over there, and am thankful that they made the choice to do so (regardless of the circumstances surrounding said choice).
Your metaphor between Napoleon and Bush is interesting though... I'll have to think more about that!
omg if that's not the funniest thing I've read this month it's damn close.
Welcome to......[drum roll please!]....... THE POINT!!! :-) Congrats, you finally made it!
More likely the other way around.
aaaaaand RIGHT THERE is where it turns into overkill.
I must admit though, there are some impressive grammatical skillz (including this parent and above) going on! One question though. If "screwed" turns to "scrod" and inherently "scrodded," what was that young Atlantic Haddock I had for lunch today? Scurred? Now this is just getting all Chingy!
if by "Japanese uniformity" you mean "post-modern erotic art"
Alright... THIS was the final post I read before saying "enough." This is way too "Silence of the Lambs" for me...
B) If you choose to use the example of low pre-orders set by retail then you are explicitely dealing with supply, not demand. Fine, I understand that. If you choose to say the words:
Then you're flat out wrong. There IS no confusion over how many will be available, and your quote should read:
So yeah, you should learn to speak-eh zee English before bashing someone with your Spanglesh.
Please stop with the Penny Arcade links! I've never found a single strip funny, and it's now basically one giant cliche.
Also, what was wrong with Black and White? I loved that game! I played it for months as I had nothing else to do, but didn't need anything else to do, it was that great!
And as for the hype, I'm psyched for Spore. I can't think of any other game that gives you that much control over building your own character, I have a feeling this will attract a lot more than the hardcore gamer!
The quantity of preorders has nothing to do with demand. It's dictated strictly by retail, and what any given store feels is a safe bet to allow [one to put money down] for. If a chain is only receiving 5 units max, they might take 3 preorders and give 2 to employees. That doesn't mean that there aren't 500 or 50,000 people that WANT them...
and not only given the problems Hubble has had in its lifetime, it's also hard to take this 'evidence' as credible given the nature of the measurements!
...now imagine this with your "eyes" being replaced by the earth on each side of the sun (Jan 1st compared to July 1st) and your "thumb" being the stars in that cluster.
I'll give an example: Give a thumbs up, and stick your arm out in front of you as far as it will go. Close your right eye and notice where your thumb is against the background. Now close your left, open your right and do the same thing. Notice your thumb moved relative to what's behind it?
The amount of shift is so incredibly small (again, 1/100th of a pixel) that (according to TFA):
The crowded conditions, however, have made it difficult for astronomers to pinpoint with any accuracy individual stars, let alone their velocities.
I think I'll wait for this Hubble Replacement before making any reservations...
Well put, and in fact, it was because of this story that I went to my local Best Buy on my lunch today! I'm now the proud new owner of a fire-spitting, banshee screaming Jack Thompson!
FYI: On lunch I successfully beat Carl "CJ" Johnson but got my ass handed to me by a bully of sorts...
I know this is an older link, but mod the parent up: (a bit of proof)
He's exactly right. You might argue they make their money from their investors...but most specifically it's received by getting companies like Dell and HPQ (notice the text: "HP recommends Windows® XP Professional!") to purchase boatloads of licenses...
On a related note: try to build your own PC on the Dell or HPQ websites (see above links). You won't even be given the option for "no OS," let alone Linux, you MUST buy Windows!
Google + Veeker = Geeker! The ultimate tool for 12 year olds and up-skirt pedophiles. ...oh crap, isn't that called myspace?