I'm pretty sure the Chinese would agree with me. If you trace the stack: Shinto had nothing to do with 9/11, it did have something to do with events in the 1940s. If you have a different understanding of events I would be interested in the details.

You seem to be suffering from delusions. You should get help.

Not really.

The simple fact is that they came to America to practice their faith. Your post is nonsense.

If you move to an on-demand model, there is no such thing as leaving on the TV and the meter keeps running.

I suppose they could try to keep the outdated "scheduled" way of showing movies or other programming and stream that, but why would you do that? And if you aren't doing that, how are you going to monitor usage?

Just charge a premium for a scheduled non-stop stream and be done with it.

Not quite so much in a Tesla. With their latest software, you put in your destination and it will plan your route based on supercharger locations. They're adding more all the time to make efficient routes. But wait ... there's more! Not only do they route you to superchargers, the route planner tells you how long you have to spend at each location charging to get to the next charger.

At the rate they're installing superchargers and combined with any future battery improvements, range anxiety won't be any worse than it is for gasoline vehicles. Possibly less so.

I seriously doubt that's where it's headed at least not in the way you describe. The trend is towards on demand streaming. Even HBO who I thought would be the last is one of the first with their no landline subscription needed access to their on demand service.

There may be usage based billing, but a set fee makes more sense so that even if people get really busy and barely watch anything for a while, companies still make their money.

Some cable companies are looking into turning essentially every channel into nearly on-demand with features such as rewinding any show back to the beginning even if you didn't record it on your DVR or have it playing with the real-time buffer to go back on.

The future is trending towards what customers want and when they want it. The holdouts run the risk of having an upstart that full-on embraces new tech replace them.

Sure, I mean it could be as simple as they're looking for a way to transport their workers and/or goods and maybe hope to make some additional money off broader sales. Could also be that they have a whiteboard in a room somewhere with tons of "what if" written down on future projects that could be tied into their own transportation infrastructure.

Driverless cars are prime real estate for ads. If it's for-hire, then you know at least one of the passengers and where they are going. Combined with whatever other data metrics they have on that person, ads practically write themselves.

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I'm not saying it's a good usenet service; there are rumors that it's been outsourced to Highwinds anyway. Even so, it's still under their name, and it's plenty for people like me who use Usenet for things other than alt.binaries.

Hi Gary....,

Interesting theory, but it leaves some ground uncovered:
2014 was an off year election and turnout for them is pretty much always lower.
There were many democrats that were more than a little disenchanted with the Obama admin.
Obamacare was already starting to give people sticker shock, and it will get worse.
With the Republicans back in control of the House they could engage in meaninful oversight, especially on things that were "uninteresting " to the Dems. The IRS scandal is one of those. (I consider that one far more dangerous to the Republic than the NSA stuff.)
2014 was far enough along that Obama began to own his administrations record - no more Bush!!

Hard to say how 2016 will turn out. I can't believe the Democratic party will really run Hillary. New scandals emerge daily - Clinton Foundations funding, fudged tax records, foreign doners, Uranium for Russia, more to come .....

Thanks, you too.
That Gatorade is great stuff.
Cheers

You seem to be drunk-blogging. Can I ask what your beverage of choice is?

Microsoft Office 2003. Now, to be fair, this does indeed depend on how you count. Office 2003 is still feature complete for most Office users. Office 2007/2010/2013 has a fresh coat of paint, and Sparklines are nice and all, but functionally speaking, it may fit your criteria. Alternatively, we can point to the fact that most Office clones (Open/LibreOffice, AbiWord, iWork) have a very similar layout and functionality.

But, let's assume that we're talking about current iterations. eBay and Paypal are still very recognizable from 2005. Amazon still sells books. The iTunes Music Store hasn't changed much. My ISP still offers Usenet access, and Yahoo mail is still quite popular; hell "e-mail" is quite possibly the longest lived digital communication protocol ever created. Google's search page hasn't changed significantly in ten years.

Now, to be fair to your point, this is certainly a list of exceptions that took a bit of time to come up with. However, I'll also point out that the reason why Office 2003 was my primary example is that it's still possible for users to install it on a computer purchased today as long as they have their installation discs. Google discontinues products when they're no longer viable for Google, and that's their prerogative. However, I submit that if Google is going to devise a means of facilitating the generation of data, to which they have the exclusive means by which to make that data useful, that the onus should be on them to ensure that the users receive copies of that data if the service is to go down. Now yes, I understand that the users are the product, not the customers, but that then lends credence to the grandparent's point. Office 2003 may long be discontinued, but Microsoft didn't take my data with them when Office 2007 was released. Google's "everything on Google's servers" philosophy has its merit, but its caveats are clear as well. I have AIM conversations from 1999 that are still stored as HTML files. I cannot say the same for discussions in Google Wave.

Thanks kind of funny since the Russian army stil uses the goose step, and the US military never has. Interesting symbolism.

Kind of fits in with Russia invading Ukraine to steal Crimea (and was willing to use nuclear weapons to do it). Now Russia is sending troops into Ukraine's border regions to try to steal that away. Russia just openly threatened Denmark with nuclear weapons. Russia is also threatening Moldova, and the Baltic nations. Finland is concerned. Poland considers itself under threat. Russia has been sending bombers and naval vessels, and submarines to probe Sweden, the UK, and US.

And certainly Snowden is a hero in Russia for making millions of Top Secret documents on US intelligence systems available to Russia.

Wouldn't it be a pity if someday the goose stepping is outside your window? Maybe that will be sauce for the goose as well.

You'll have to be more specific than that if you want to arrive at a useful understanding. I'm pretty sure that Shinto has nothing to do with it, unlike events in the 1940s. It makes a difference.