We must be talking about different things. There are free ebooks on amazon but afaik that's not a prime benefit the Kindle Owners' Lending Library which is a prime benefit does require you to have a kindle.
I see they now offer something called kindle first which has no such restriction that lets you pick from one of 6 books each month. That must be what you were talking about.
I was thinking of the kindle owners lending library sorry I was not more clear.
I check amazon prime, ebay, amazon non prime and then google search. (and if i'm really desperate bing) in that order and yes I mean google search google shopping has been worthless ever since they switched to promoted listings.
Not sure what you're referring to exactly. Here in the US the example often provided is remember what happened to the native americans (aka indians)?
No it didn't work out well at all which is partly why every country AFAIK has their own immigration system to limit the number of additional people moving in from other countries. but if you need an extra 30,000 300,000 people a year it's pretty easy to just let them in and you get to cherry pick who you let in for the skills you want backgrounds whatever.
I really don't like how the current system is not enforced in the US as the song goes "come to the USA there's no penalty to pay should you get caught illegally immigratin"
That doesn't bother me near like what articles like this: "Europe needs many more babies to avert a population disaster" https://amp.theguardian.com/wo...
World wide we have a shitload of extra people that would love to have a job. It's not necessary to go oh crap we aren't going to have enough people in 20 years because that is NOT what's happening. Just increase immigration to compensate and better outcomes for all.
No I haven't changed my yahoo password since sometime around Y2K it says "Make sure your account is secure! To secure your account, change your password and update your mobile number.
And it gives me two options "Yes, secure my account" and "I'll secure my account later"
It may just not care because I have 2FA enabled but still.
Whoo! I can get a T1 if I just spend a few thousand dollars for installation and then a few hundred a month for a measly 1.5Mbps that might be able to do a single 480P youtube stream.
Not all of us have options If I could get any type of wired/fiber connection at home I'd have that instead.
That sounds like a good idea up until the point where you expect people to return it......And that no children will happen upon it and assume it's a toy because none has ever explained to them that guns are dangerous.
Otherwise yeah great idea especially in areas with lots of snakes and/or other deadly pests.
We have a rather large area that's covered with open wifi at work.
We have had problems with abuse. The people that were loitering around the building after dark were leaving litter everywhere. So wifi now gets switched off at dark. The wifi is still open the rest of the time. We actually had not noticed just how many people were using it until we started shutting it off at dark and then people started walking up to the building with their phone trying to get a signal.
I feel it's a public service there are a few others in town that still run free wifi 24/7 like the library, walmart and mcdonalds.
Not sure how ours got to be so popular. It's only got a 12 Mbps dsl line attached.
Reminds me of what the city does here AOG would like to run gas lines by the new apartment complexes and homes here but the city prefers that they get paid for electricity via electric heat instead so no gas lines. (Since the city sells water/sewer/garbage collection/electric/cable/phone/internet)
But the city does not sell gas.
Forget to pay your cable bill they shut your electric off.
I seem to remember the last Lenovo laptop I used had a UEFI firmware bug http://xen.markmail.org/messag... that made setting up zen more of a pita than it needed to be.
The package was lost somewhere between amazon and UPS it showed that it was sent to UPS but it never arrived at UPS to be shipped.
There only company that is both large and has stuff I actually buy is amazon the only other I can think of that I might even consider is walmarts shipping pass.
Anymore most of the electronic equipment I buy is used. I got a used 802.3at poe splitter a couple weeks ago on ebay for $20 had to make my own power adapter for but I still saved $20
I don't know of any schools in my area that require uniforms (other than for things like band or sports or something like that) They do have a dress code however. IIRC no skin showing above the knee no tube tops, ect.
I probably still have a couple of old copies of the school handbook somewhere. I figure they are probably a bit out of date now though.
No it was quite well known you could ask any student back when I was in school the teachers did not care.
And nobody seems to have any common sense. It should be obvious just from looking at it how a pipe wrench works but some people insist on trying to use it backward and then complaining it doesn't work.
How all new gas cans today are so flow limited due to the safety valves and not being properly vented you can't get 5Gallons of gas out of a 5 gallon tank in 10 minutes
How well this one actually makes some sense lighters have intentionally hard to use safety to prevent their use by children and the elderly.
And how a 100 year old can not get their pills in containers that they themselves are able to open the pharmacy has pill bottles that can be converted to nonchild safe but they will not provide them pre-converted.
And It is my understanding that the school nurse will not check students blood pressure if a problem arises due to liability reasons.
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We must be talking about different things. There are free ebooks on amazon but afaik that's not a prime benefit
the Kindle Owners' Lending Library which is a prime benefit does require you to have a kindle.
I see they now offer something called kindle first which has no such restriction that lets you pick from one of 6 books each month. That must be what you were talking about.
I was thinking of the kindle owners lending library sorry I was not more clear.
IIRC you have to have a kindle to be able to read a free ebook. The kindle app does not qualify.
I check amazon prime, ebay, amazon non prime and then google search. (and if i'm really desperate bing) in that order
and yes I mean google search google shopping has been worthless ever since they switched to promoted listings.
Not sure what you're referring to exactly. Here in the US the example often provided is remember what happened to the native americans (aka indians)?
No it didn't work out well at all which is partly why every country AFAIK has their own immigration system to limit the number of additional people moving in from other countries.
but if you need an extra 30,000 300,000 people a year it's pretty easy to just let them in and you get to cherry pick who you let in for the skills you want backgrounds whatever.
I really don't like how the current system is not enforced in the US as the song goes "come to the USA there's no penalty to pay should you get caught illegally immigratin"
Wow thats crazy!
That doesn't bother me near like what articles like this: "Europe needs many more babies to avert a population disaster" https://amp.theguardian.com/wo...
World wide we have a shitload of extra people that would love to have a job. It's not necessary to go oh crap we aren't going to have enough people in 20 years because that is NOT what's happening. Just increase immigration to compensate and better outcomes for all.
Why not just 5 apps per page like we had back on ios 5?
Instead of this 1 app per page crap we've been stuck with since ios 6 on the iphone and ipod touch.
No I haven't changed my yahoo password since sometime around Y2K it says "Make sure your account is secure!
To secure your account, change your password and update your mobile number.
And it gives me two options
"Yes, secure my account"
and
"I'll secure my account later"
It may just not care because I have 2FA enabled but still.
They could start forcing password resets like ebay did.
That would be a start.
So when do the forced Yahoo password changes start?
So it's not ok for our own US citizens or our allies to have unmonitored mass communications but we are just going to give them to our enemies?
IIRC their 1st gen ipod touch didn't even have a built in speaker but it did have a headphone jack.
ergo being able to hear it was more important than being able to kinda hear it or atleast it was at one point in time.
I was surprised that It still worked (the phone not the jack) but considering it did they apparently didn't do anything with the space they saved.
I was considering buying a echo dot but discovered it couldn't control the fire tv.
Will apple have better luck making their own stuff work together?
Sallisaw oklahoma home of the states first munifiber network. It doesn't go over 50MBps synchronous but hey it was the first.
It doesn't reach out of the city limits though.
ime cellular speeds are better out of town.
But we have that here in the US too. 45Mbps in the garage 75mbps if I go stand on top of the propane tank.
That's pretty quick. What do you consider lightning fast?
Whoo! I can get a T1 if I just spend a few thousand dollars for installation and then a few hundred a month for a measly 1.5Mbps that might be able to do a single 480P youtube stream.
Not all of us have options If I could get any type of wired/fiber connection at home I'd have that instead.
That sounds like a good idea up until the point where you expect people to return it......And that no children will happen upon it and assume it's a toy because none has ever explained to them that guns are dangerous.
Otherwise yeah great idea especially in areas with lots of snakes and/or other deadly pests.
We have a rather large area that's covered with open wifi at work.
We have had problems with abuse. The people that were loitering around the building after dark were leaving litter everywhere. So wifi now gets switched off at dark.
The wifi is still open the rest of the time. We actually had not noticed just how many people were using it until we started shutting it off at dark and then people started walking up to the building with their phone trying to get a signal.
I feel it's a public service there are a few others in town that still run free wifi 24/7 like the library, walmart and mcdonalds.
Not sure how ours got to be so popular. It's only got a 12 Mbps dsl line attached.
But other than that we've never had any issues.
Reminds me of what the city does here AOG would like to run gas lines by the new apartment complexes and homes here but the city prefers that they get paid for electricity via electric heat instead so no gas lines. (Since the city sells water/sewer/garbage collection/electric/cable/phone/internet)
But the city does not sell gas.
Forget to pay your cable bill they shut your electric off.
I seem to remember the last Lenovo laptop I used had a UEFI firmware bug http://xen.markmail.org/messag... that made setting up zen more of a pita than it needed to be.
The package was lost somewhere between amazon and UPS it showed that it was sent to UPS but it never arrived at UPS to be shipped.
There only company that is both large and has stuff I actually buy is amazon the only other I can think of that I might even consider is walmarts shipping pass.
Researcher Translation.
https://xkcd.com/678/
Anymore most of the electronic equipment I buy is used. I got a used 802.3at poe splitter a couple weeks ago on ebay for $20 had to make my own power adapter for but I still saved $20
I don't know of any schools in my area that require uniforms (other than for things like band or sports or something like that)
They do have a dress code however. IIRC no skin showing above the knee no tube tops, ect.
I probably still have a couple of old copies of the school handbook somewhere. I figure they are probably a bit out of date now though.
No it was quite well known you could ask any student back when I was in school the teachers did not care.
And nobody seems to have any common sense. It should be obvious just from looking at it how a pipe wrench works but some people insist on trying to use it backward and then complaining it doesn't work.
How all new gas cans today are so flow limited due to the safety valves and not being properly vented you can't get 5Gallons of gas out of a 5 gallon tank in 10 minutes
How well this one actually makes some sense lighters have intentionally hard to use safety to prevent their use by children and the elderly.
And how a 100 year old can not get their pills in containers that they themselves are able to open the pharmacy has pill bottles that can be converted to nonchild safe but they will not provide them pre-converted.
And It is my understanding that the school nurse will not check students blood pressure if a problem arises due to liability reasons.