Bought it on eBay. Had crappy Verizon firmware on it that wouldn't allow any kind of audio streaming (web page streaming or TuneIn). Loaded Cyanogen on it and it worked fine but still wouldn't stream due to some remnants of Verizon FW.

Backdated Cyanogen to older mod and that mod was corrupt. It destroyed the boot loader so I couldn't flash another copy of non-corrupt OS.

I still have the phone but no way to get an OS on it without a boot loader on it.

Shall we remove the (then) pro slavery Democratic Party?

My router has electrolytes.

Electrolytes are good.

Bwando!

I also like the Chinese character tattoos on white folk. Often, I wonder if the "ink artist" isn't pranking them and actually tattooing "broccoli beef" on them.

I can send you to a place where there are many uncovered tattoos for testing.

The local water slide park at Cal Expo in Sacramento.

I've never seen so many bad tattoos in my life there. It's as if someone gave a 4 year old child a tattoo machine and a line of people a mile long.

It's quite comical.

Same here. I have never used my ISP's email service. Many moons ago, I had another ISP (defunct now) and I was pelted with Russian ads and other crap. Now I use gmail (for stuff that doesn't matter) and Fastmail (Australian email provider, paid account) . I get almost no spam with gmail and have not received a single spam message on Fastmail.

I also have an old Yahoo email account that has been around for about 25 years. I get a lot of crap on it but use it as a "don't care" email address. Adrianna has the hots for me :-^

Someone on my Yahoo email also thinks I need larger body parts.

I suspect that we've become desensitized due to too much "crying wolf" by people in political and politically-driven scientific positions.

Add to that the propensity to believe sound bites in the news with little supporting scientific evidence.

If someone in outer space is listening to our radio and television, they'll likely conclude there is little intelligent life on the planet.

Not true in California. Just take college level general education then transfer. The U.C. system has a guaranteed acceptance program for some disciplines (engineering) if a 3.0 to 3.2 GPA is maintained and prerequisite courses are taken.

Single digit course numbers are typically transferable. Two digit course numbers are "remedial courses" and are not.

I'll second the great value of community colleges. My local C.C. charges $45/unit which is a great bargain. The C.C. also has a guaranteed transfer acceptance to the 4 year university if one chooses certain degrees, takes the prerequisite courses and maintains a 3.0 to 3.2 GPA.

I went the C.C. route and transferred to a state university. It was the best "bang for the buck" one could imagine (I graduated in E.E.) I just retired and my peak salary was about $130K.

My son will go the same way. Who the hell needs to spend $30K/year to take general education during the first 2 years? It's just plain stupid to waste that much money on common courses. The Community Colleges also have smaller class sizes and better interaction between the teacher/student.

Last, as others have mentioned, get a degree that will allow one to earn a living. Not a liberal arts piece of crap (unless one wants to teach school or flip burgers or work for the government).

Marissa is to Yahoo as Carly is to HP.

Both couldn't leave anything alone and both failed.

I removed Yahoo news from my bookmarks. When I saw how much overhead was downloaded and how long it took (I'm in a rural area on satellite internet) I just got fed up with it and canned the link.

I have a grandfathered yahoo paid email account but don't use it for anything serious.

When one judges "effectiveness" by the quarterly report, ya get CEOs that will do anything to meet the numbers. Often, at the risk of the long term health of the company.

Remember the days when "pay TV" (cable) didn't have advertising?

If Netflix forces me to watch ads, I will do as you have suggested. Heck, that reminds me. I need to suspend my Netflix account.

I disagree.

My former employer (the second largest computer company) only granted domestic partner medical insurance to *same sex* couples. Opposite sex medical insurance wasn't permitted.

They bowed to a politically-organized group that was able to get privileges beyond equality.

At the same time, they advertised that they didn't discriminate on the basis of gender or gender identity.

You have a point there.

I have straight and gay friends. I can't decide why people want to get married anymore. It just gives our blessed "government" more control over one's life when the marriage fails (and it fails a lot). The government reduces the failed relationship to an issue of money. That wasn't the original intent of marriage from the multiple religious perspectives.

I was married once and got raped in a divorce. I am now happily with my partner with no legal joining. We are together because we simply wish to be together (6 years so far). I have other friends that have been in similar relationships for over 20 years.

A marriage can be ended with a walk to a courthouse (and paying attorneys, in some cases, tens of thousands).

If these folks want marriages, well fine. Along with that comes divorces and all of the crap that goes with it.

I hear ya.. I'm not a "digital native".

However, I designed CPUs, I/O boards, power supplies, and RF circuits.

I am "obsolete" because I don't like Facebook or Twitter (and refuse to get involved with them).

Mark Dsaulnier. Congress critter from Contra Costa County.

He's worried that better fuel efficiency will take its toll on tax income for the state. He too is proposing a "tax by the mile" scam.

So here we have it folks. The land yacht gets taxed as much as the Honda Civic that may get twice or more per mile.

Why don't we vote these people out of office?