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Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 36

What do you mean a "host provider"? Hosting? Google certainly provides that. Or do you mean registrar?

Yes, that is a good question. A domain registrar handles DNS. A hosting provider handles web traffic. There is NOTHING between the two. To make the obligatory car analogy, it is like a muffler shop also selling auto insurance.

Comment Re:Yeah, nope you fool. (Score 1) 227

Yeah, Gif may be slower and take up too much space, but so what.

It depends. I will often grab a funny image to save for later. Very often it is a PNG that is half a meg. For no good reason. Before I send it on, I use gimp to reduce it. Sometimes JPEG wins at 80 to 100 K, sometimes GIF wins, and I reduce the color palette to 16 or less if possible.

Comment Is this really an issue? (Score 1, Troll) 19

I got my private pilot certificate some decades ago. My altitude instruments were my gauge and my eyes. Now there is GPS, which I understand is very good. So these are three very good references. I believe that the commercial planes also have radar altimeters. So they have one more reference.

But they claim that there is a "radio altimeter" that may be adversely affected by 5G radio? Okay, present the evidence. What exactly is this altimeter and what frequency does it use? And how is 5G adversely affecting it? Details, please. Without evidence, your claim is SHIT.

I do not favor 5G, as I do not see the need, but I will not oppose it just because some agency has some agenda.

Comment Re: seems to skip one of the main points (Score 1) 131

I've thought about LASIK but the "dirty secret" is that you will very likely require reading glasses afterwards.

I had LASIK in my thirties. I was nearsighted, and it was the best decision I ever made. Two decades later, my vision is still excellent from three feet to infinity. But I absolutely need reading glasses (1.25 to 1.5) to use my monitor one foot away.

Luckily, I can buy a lot of reading glasses at the dollar store and have a pair pretty much everywhere in the house.

And there's also a fair chance that it won't fully correct your vision and may need to be repeated at some point.

That is a valid point. My wife also had LASIK, and something changed over the years. She now has to use prescription glasses. Roll the dice, and hope for the best...

Comment It does not have to be expensive (Score 1) 18

We have been using Consumer Cellular for years now. Our bill was usually $25 to $27 or so. Some months ago, our phone had problems and my wife called to buy a new phone. It cost about $35 and they reduced our monthly rate to $18.89 for unlimited calls. And maybe texts, but we do not send or receive SMS.

Comment This makes sense (Score 2) 135

I think the way people use libraries has changed over the last N decades. When I was young, the library was THE place to get information on anything and everything. There were late fees, and they were a bit of a stick to get me to return the books, but I usually returned them promptly when I was done with them. I paid the twenty-five cents now and then when I was "late".

One big example was when I checked out Sam's 8080 Bugbook from the college library, and just forgot about it for a while. Then they sent me a bill for $$ (twenty or more??) for late fees. I found out that the replacement cost was lower, so I told them I lost it and paid the lower amount.

I agree with the story. A city provides funds to run a library. I expect that the payroll for the staff is a big part of that. I also expect that the late fees are a minor revenue. Do the late fees actually slow down stolen books? I think not. I think nagging reminders would be more effective.

Comment Re:Oh God no (Score 1) 89

If you are competing on the same level as H1Bs, you're doing it wrong.

Okay, I don't disagree. But there are still the worthless HR assholes that delight in tossing well-written letters that detail personal achievements. Because they are stupid. They are too stupid to evaluate the skills and experience of a programmer with decades of proven code. What the hell, some code is public on github. It's not my greatest example, but it's decent, and should be enough for a hiring manager to say, "This is pretty good code. Hire this guy!"

Comment Re: bye bye civil liberties (Score 1) 87

Just to be clear and to avoid a load of clarity messages, I consider Islam to be a really destructive cult,

And it is, but so is Catholicism and 2/3 of the supremes are Catholic. And so it goes.

I have to type out tags just to agree with you. But I agree with you. My post against Islam is by no means agreement with some other $$$ collecting religion.

Comment Re:Is this hews? (Score 1) 73

Yeah, we used to have a higher class of troll around here.

Hello.

I am a very sick little boy. My mother is typing this for me, because I can't. She is crying. Don't cry, Mommy! Mommy is always sad, but she says it's not my fault. I asked her if it was God's fault, but she didn't answer; only started crying harder. I don't ask her that anymore.

The reason she is so sad is because I'm so sick. I was born without a body. It doesn't hurt, except when I try to breathe. The doctors gave me an artificial body. It is a burlap bag filled with leaves. The doctors said that was the best they could do on account of us having no money or insurance. I would like to have a body transplant, but we need more money.

Mommy doesn't work because she said nobody hires crying people. I said, "Don't cry, Mommy," and she hugged my burlap bag. Mommy always gives me hugs, even though she's allergic to burlap and it makes her sneeze and chafes her really bad.

I hope you will help me. You can help me if you forward this email to everyone you know. Forward it to people you don't know, too. The doctor said that for every person you forward this email to, Bill Gates will team up with AOL and send a nickel to NASA.

NASA will collect prayers from school children all over America and have the astronauts take them up into space so that the angels can hear them better. The prayers will come back to earth and go to the Pope. He will take up a collection in church and send all the money to the doctors. The doctors could help me get better then. Maybe one day I will be able to play baseball. Right now I can only be third base.

Every time you forward this letter, the astronauts can take another prayer to the angels and my dream will be closer to coming true. Please help me. Mommy is so sad, and I want a body. I don't want my leaves to rot before I am ten.

If you don't forward this email, that's okay. Mommy says you're a mean and heartless person without a known father, who doesn't care about a poor little boy with only a head and a sack of leaves for a body. She says that if you don't stew in the raw pit of your own guilt-ridden stomach, she hopes you die a long slow, horrible death and then burn forever in hell. What kind of cruel person are you that you can't take five freakin' minutes to forward this to everyone in your address book. They too can feel guilt and shame about ignoring a poor, bodiless nine-year-old boy?

Please help me. I try to be happy, but it's hard. I wish I had a kitty. I wish I could hold a kitty. I wish I could hold a kitty that wouldn't chew on me and try to bury its business in the leaves of my burlap body. I wish that very much.

Thank You,
Billy "Smile" Evans
(the boy with just a head, and a burlap sack for a body)

Comment Re: bye bye civil liberties (Score 1) 87

Cat Stephens found himself on there in 2005.

Is this true? I liked his old music, but am sorry that he embraced islam. Even that shameful act should not put him on a Federal list.

Just to be clear and to avoid a load of clarity messages, I consider Islam to be a really destructive cult, and similar emotions to the US PATRIOT ACT and its airport restrictions. It used to be, my boss would give me an airline ticket to go (with my mule's burden of equipment) to the customer's airport. I just had to answer to the call for my boss's name.

The airlines hated the fact that a buyer of a ticket could give the ticket to someone else. And that is the start of the "War on Terror". It is not ... blah blah blah. It is the airlines stopping their big payers from selling to the lower payers.

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