Depends on what you consider private, but I would put the Android phone last because of the tight Google integration. At least on the iPhone you can have everything local, not synced to the cloud.
The days of privacy are over for the most part. If you are using cloud services, you can be sure your data is being mined in some way.
I'm waiting to find out that I paid more than Google in taxes.
If only I could pull something so crazy off with my own income, shipping it to two different countries to avoid paying taxes.
Yes. Absolutely. It works.
contractors that are probably charging $300 an hour too.
My boiler broke this past winter and I had to run 2 space heaters a week until it was fixed.
Let me tell you, electrical heat is super expensive. Those space heaters for that week cost more than the 1955 natural gas boiler did in a month.
i forgot facebook should be added to that list too.
just another database tracking all my movements. like at&t, apple and google.
Just imagine how much cash we'd have for research if we would have forced the banks to do the same thing that GM was forced to do.
Declare bankruptcy, wipe out shareholders, and trim bond holders. Those are the people that invested in risky behavior and they should have paid the price.
The swedes did it and they recovered from their banking crisis.
I'd settle for more than
It doesn't matter if you know where the crimes will be occurring in a city like Detroit or Flint. You don't have enough cops to cover those areas, let alone the larger city. Less than 1 cop per 1,000 doesn't cut it in crime areas, which is what we have in the crappy parts of Michigan.
I couldn't agree more with strength_of_10_men. I love roundabouts when they are done right. The one near my house has saved me days in travel time in the two years I've been in the area.
The worst part of the example he cites above as being a fucked up roundabout was that it was the first one installed in the area, located next to a giant shopping center. So everyone's first encounter with a roundabout was pretty terrible.
You might have time to feed the trolls (the guy who wrote the article) and investigate every little thing they say, but I don't.
Hmm, the american thinker article seems pretty trollish, utilizing descriptions that I would generally find in political hate speech, blaming environmentalists for the flooding. The articles point isn't to find root cause, but to spread hate at environmental groups.
A quick google search reveals that the american thinker is indeed a conservative online magazine. I would hope that folks realize there is a war of information out there between extremes of the political spectrum and that we are better off not spreading those words of hate. The extremists are always going to be looking to enlist you in their war, by claiming the other side is outrageous.
Very interesting. Thanks for the link.
This reminds me of what the church used to do, which was sell indulgences to the rich so they didn't have to pray or spend as much time earning forgiveness. Everyone else had to pay the full penance. It was one of the reasons Martin Luther started the protestant revolution.
Except this time it's not the church, but some business selling forgiveness in the eyes of the public. Who knows what the money is actually used for.
I'm in the same boat. Cable comes out to a little over $100 a month for me.$40 for internet, $60 for hd cable + a dvr. If I drop the TV option, internet goes up to $60 or more. So cable is $40 more a month than internet alone. It's worth it for me to see college football, hockey and the occasional baseball game + all our shows are recorded. If more sports were broadcast over the air, I probably would try and ditch it.
Honestly I think they nailed the pricing model to get keep me hooked.
Internet & HD cable with ridiculous number of channels & DVR
$100
Internet
$60
Internet & basic cable
$60
Internet basic cable & DVR
$80
Internet HD cable with ridiculous number of channels & DVR
$100
At least I've got the option of two providers here. I have to call up and threaten to switch every few months.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
