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901.
by tunap 13y ago
Exactly what I thought when I read the headline. This feels like a red herring and a straw man out on a snipe hunt.
902.
by tunap 13y ago
Are all the improvements 'Public Works', say, highway/freeway construction? That was the feeling I got spending many months of the last two years in Austin & Dallas. Every freeway was being built, expanded or repaired...
903.
by tunap 13y ago
I drank Red's 4G flavor-aid early and gave up my unlimited plan. The map said I was in 4G range but my pricey modem disagreed. I switched to Tmo two years ago and love it...better than expected coverage in metro areas, 1/2 price a
904.
by tunap 13y ago
I for one would like to include the other players,Corporate & private industry, with their collusion/lobbying/takeover of lawmaking added to the discussion. Don't forget, when the [Pick-An-Acronym &/or Pick-A-Bra
905.
by tunap 13y ago
Not just mere lobbyists, they are 'insiders' who make the right people boatloads of money. They become "Board members" and/or consultants &/or get appointed to seats of power away from the cameras. Hell, th
906.
by tunap 13y ago
To be precise, since the FCC told Big Red to stop back in July 2012. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/tethering-apps-must-b...
907.
by tunap 13y ago
Smite thee, heretic!
908.
by tunap 13y ago
Of what I have read around none of these companies have denied harvesting the data themselves & selling it to "trusted partners". You know, the guys who pay for it, as per the EULA you agreed to, remember? The alphabet agencie
909.
by tunap 13y ago
Gutenberg.org is great. In the same vein, gotta give honorable mention to librivox.org & archive.org.
910.
by tunap 13y ago
"What's the point of being a human walking around the moon?" "Much of the reason for sending humans to the moon was as a politically motivated show of technological superiority." Haha, you answered your own question
911.
by tunap 13y ago
Ignore the denigrations to conform. Be generous and thankful all year long and skip the retail holidays.
912.
by tunap 13y ago
Long year with family, losses and bad news abound. For my 'celebration', I spent the last two days at a deserted lake in the desert. Was windy & cold the whole time, but it was solitude. A pair of bald eagles fished the shore
913.
by tunap 13y ago
Two words of agreement: Dr Mandelbrot
914.
by tunap 13y ago
Bell Labs was not setup like that, though. They were researching new materials to make their existing Monopoly run more efficiently. If ROI was the focus, IP would not have entered the public domain & people like Shannon & Shockley
915.
by tunap 13y ago
RSS Feeds saved me from a life of the bl-ews. I've got my hand-picked sites ranging from world news to space news to tech news with a little TIL and Adam Curtis mixed in. It takes me five minutes to see the state of things I am interes
916.
by tunap 13y ago
ABE, NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere, Blender. Run em all in Sandboxie for pr0n and spelunking. Like to point out what may be obvious to some but not others, when using NoScript you may want to remove Goog, Yahoo, etc from the default whitelist.
917.
by tunap 13y ago
Didn't RTA, but I have been told by 1st persons and reading that the high wages are slurped up by fantastically inflated prices for housing, food and other necessities. YMMV.
918.
by tunap 13y ago
The more things change the more they stay the same. https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket
919.
by tunap 13y ago
Pathetic & self serving. There would be a cessation of federal/State/Muni funds if any agency's focal issue(s) were eradicated, hence the popularity of "War On..." ideologies with unattainable objectives. What s
920.
by tunap 13y ago
Well, at least the parking break didn't fail and crush the neighbor's car. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2004-08-05/news/dog-day-after...
921.
by tunap 13y ago
If you can sneak up on it without triggering the proximity sensor I find pecking the screen with my nose works. If it's not wet & runny... I'll be skipping this Jolla iteration and I am sad b/c a 2nd is looking doubtful.
922.
by tunap 13y ago
They should have pinned a medal on him, instead they threw him in jail. Thanks for trying, Jack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavorkian
923.
by tunap 13y ago
Once demonization has eradicated tobacco from the public's grasp, these benefits may be sold back in pill form for an even greater margin of profit. Yay Capitalism!