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| Re: cant wait till monday said by hayabusa3303  :last night of class Edit: Have a good one everyone. My classes start Monday. How odd! | |
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my stepdaughter starts monday also. | |
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| Netflix scuppered by technical error Geeze, no wonder I haven't gotten any discs the last few days.
I hope they extend my subscription by x days.
Edit: An email was waiting in my in box:
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We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. If your DVD shipment is delayed, we will be issuing a credit to your account in the next few days. You don't need to do anything. The credit will be automatically applied to your next billing statement.
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| 26k Dialup Sucks but the more I read about Hughesnet & satellite net in general the better it becomes in comparison.
Compare:
Data that can be downloaded in 24 hours:
26k: 234mb
Hughesnet: 300mb
Verdict: Hughesnet wins, but not by very much.
Latency:
26k: 167ms+
Hughesnet: 1100ms+
Verdict: 26k wins.
Price:
26k: $10/month(For my second phone line; add $18/month)
Hughesnet: $60/month (lowest priced package.)
Verdict: 26k wins. even with a second phone line added.
Set-up/Install fees:
26k: None
Hughesnet: $400
Verdict: 26k wins.
Speed conditions:
26k: Always constant.
Hughesnet: Slows to a crawl during peak times.
Verdict: Tied I'd say; Because the constant dialup speed is pretty equivalent to Hughesnet's crawl speed.
Reliability:
26k: Only line conditions or modem problems knock it out. And in my experience those are pretty rare. (I've had dialup for 10 years in various rural spots, and I've been in this 26k spot for a year.)
Hughesnet: Gets knocked out by rain, fog, snow, clouds, wind, random passing birds and planes.
Verdict: 26k wins.
Can it game?
26k: Yes (Tested with: CoD2 MP; CoD4 MP; Wii WiFi; Guild Wars; Battlefield 2 and various other online games.)
Hughesnet: No
Verdict: 26k wins.
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26k: 5
Hughesnet: 1
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| Re: Spricket24... said by John Galt :(youtube clip) "bare ass" thing she mentions!  Oh...what? NEVER MIND!  She's 6 out of 10 for the "week?"
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| Re: Spricket24... said by Matt :Wow, must have been a slow week. Well, it is G4TV...
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|  The top 50 web destinations
It should come as no surprise, but Google sites officially continued to dominate the Web landscape in July, drawing more than 141 million unique visitors and placing Yahoo and Microsoft at second and third place, according to analyst group ComScore Media Metrix.
AOL took fourth behind the top sites, all of which were enveloped in discussions about acquisitions or partnerships this summer.
Fox Interactive Media, parent company of MySpace, was the fifth most visited group of sites, with a registered 88 million unique visitors. Facebook, on the other hand, landed at No. 16 with 39 million visitors
The top 10 U.S. Web properties in July were rounded out by the big names in search, retail, and media: eBay, Ask Network, Amazon, Wikipedia, and CBS sites. The full press release from Comscore:
»www.comscore.com/press/release.a···ess=2399
And here are the top 50 web properties:
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| Copyright Infringement now spreading to magazines
A fledgling Web site called Mygazines.com encourages people to copy and upload popular magazines that are currently on newsstands. Visitors can read high-quality digital copies of dozens of current titles, including People, Men's Health and The Economist, in their entirety.
The site, with some 16,000 registered users as of Friday, is a "flagrant" violation of copyright laws, according to legal experts — but it is run by an offshore company of specious origin, making it difficult to shut down.
"It's pretty hard to see how it's anything other than a straightforward set of copyright violations," said Jeffrey Cunard, an intellectual property lawyer with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in Washington. "There are entire magazines with no commentary, no criticism — clearly not a case of classic fair use."
The challenge for the magazine publishers is that Mygazines's domain name is registered in the Caribbean island nation of Anguilla, which is a British overseas territory, and thus outside of the jurisdiction of U.S. copyright law.
Publishers could have recourse if the company uses servers physically in the United States. They also could sue the company in U.S. courts because content is available to Americans, but they would not be able to force Mygazines representatives to show up — nor collect any damages for any ruling made in absentia.
Repeated attempts to contact representatives of Mygazines.com went unanswered.
It's not clear how Mygazines would make money. There are no advertisements, and users can register for free.
Nonetheless, that's irrelevant to whether the site would be liable for copyright infringement, Cunard said. Publishers can claim damage because at least a few people will read the content on Mygazines.com instead of going out to buy a copy.
The U.S. Supreme Court already found Grokster, a file-sharing site, liable for intentionally inducing infringement. Mygazines's home page Friday featured plenty of copyright-protected works, and the company's tag line — "upload. share. archive." — encourages their digital reproduction. 1st music; then movies; and now magazines. Lack of any morals from the internet generation is appalling.
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| Re: Copyright Infringement now spreading to magazines said by TK Junk Mail :1st music; then movies; and now magazines. Lack of any morals from the internet generation is appalling. Well, just to be fair...the lack of any morals from the OLDER generation is just appalling as well.
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| You forgot books, software, tv shows, pretty much ANYTHING that is digital can be copied. It's not a moral problem, it's a fundamental problem with information. INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!
Ahh, well, at least you and mccain can sit in your lawn chairs and yell 'hey, you kids get off my lawn!".
Leave the internet for the younger generation. They know how to use it. (p.s., thanks for the link, never heard of them before, I'll be sure to check it out).
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Santa Cruz, CA | Re: Copyright Infringement now spreading to magazines It's "Hey you little bastards, get the hell off my lawn!" | |
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| Re: Copyright Infringement now spreading to magazines I'm with all of ya, time to check out another new "free" site of stuff.
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| Re: Copyright Infringement now spreading to magazines This site just soared to my top 5 fav sites after using it, lol.
Defiantly going to visit it often until the RIAA/MPAA of the publishing world gets it shut down | |
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| Big surprise - the scum group "The Pirate Bay" is involved in this pirate site.
»news.yahoo.com/s/cnet/20080816/t···01846238
Mygazines is registered in the Caribbean island of Anguilla and hosted in Sweden, by the notorious PRQ. The Stockholm-based PRQ is owned by the founders of BitTorrent tracker site Pirate Bay and is known for hosting other dubious sites.
So if Time and other publishers are looking to thwart Mygazines and its more than 16,000 users, it may have to go after VeriSign, which maintains the master .com database.
Or, it could look across the Atlantic. It's not an impossible task: in February 2008, a Swedish prosecutor charged four men connected to Pirate Bay with conspiracy to violate copyright law; a week later, a Danish ISP was ordered to block Pirate Bay. Sooner or later the criminals that run the Pirate Bay will end up in jail or be bumped off by the CIA.
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| I checked out Mygazines.com and I have to say I think it's quite an innovative spin on an old medium.
If you take their Auto Tour you'll see that all advertising in the magazines is kept intact, thus the site is potentially increasing revenue for the magazine AND users cannot download or print copies of the articles.
Also, it's convenient not only for the user because they don't have to keep physical copies of magazines lying around, but it also helps publishers keep their costs down by not having to actually print and mail as many copies.
Granted, they could probably have a more equitable business model for publishers. Perhaps some kind of tiered pricing system that would depend on how many magazines that a user would like to read on a regular basis, but all-in-all I really think it's a pretty innovative spin on an old medium. | |
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| VZ Contract Questioned? I see a War in 2011 "If the contract is so great.
Do you think that the company and the Union will put the actual contract on line,before the members vote? You know, post the new contract on the Company and CWA sites for the employees to see. This is of course a Communications company and union they can do it, if they want to be open. One has to ask why they would keep their employees / members in the dark and only share talking points before they vote on the contract. What would they want to hide from the employees.
As time goes on, you see that the COLA is only at the third year of the contract. Employees did not even match the inflation rate for the past year, they are already behind on inflation now. This aggrement does not even bring them up to being even with inflation. 3.25% gain in the first year, is no where close. I guess you could call this a negative gain to put a positive spin on the contact. You see that the contract seems to be weighted more to the future. Waiting for more of the older work force to leave.
Does anyone know about the letters of understanding? Or even if we have such letters. It seems to be that this contract sold out the newer employees. Stockholders can see reduced benefits for the future of the Company, which is a positive for the Company. HR,well, I think they are starting to chill the Champagne for a post approval party, after the members vote on the contract. I would expect bonuses in that department." -Union Employee
»messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stock···=2&off=1
Apparently, VZ union members will vote on a contract they won't see first. The HMO is gone for BC/BS PPO. BC/BS couldn't pay me for their crappy insurance.
You can go to: »www.unionvoice.org/cwa_unity_ver···19877776
Or: »www.cwa-union.org/verizon/
Summary:
Following is a summary of the tentative agreement.
Wages
a. Effective 8/3/2008 3.25 %
b. Effective 8/2/2009 3.5 %
c. Effective 8/1/2010 3.75 %
COLA
a. Effective 8/1/2010
b. One half of the increase in the CPI-W in excess of 3.75% between May ‘09 and May ‘10
Corporate Profit Sharing
a. $700 minimum distribution
b. Paid in March of 2009, 2010, 2011
Pension Band Increases
a. Effective 10/1/2008 3.25%
b. Effective 10/1/2009 3.5 %
c. Effective 10/1/2010 3.75%
Pension Lump Sum Cash-Out
a. Pension Distribution Options remains in contract with no change in the language by which the amount is calculated
b. Available at any time, for the length of the contract
VZ Business
a. 445 Field Techs in plant contract with carveouts
b. 145 Inside Techs in plant contract with carve outs
c. Guarantee small and medium business exclusively for represented commercial
d. Bring new VZ-B work to CWA represented locations 100 at end of 2009 and 100 at end of 2010
Video Head End – Video Work. Approx. 75 in plant contracts with carve outs
Temps and terms to Perms (Approx 1,200)
Three times a year discussion on union jobs and efficiency/growth with top management
Active Health Care: Maintained full employer paid coverage with limited plan design changes
Retiree Health Benefits
a. Fully paid, no retiree pays during life of agreement
b. Any changes in future health benefit plans for retirees will be negotiated with the Union in the same manner as that for actives and for future retirees.
c. No current retiree will pay for health coverage through the end of 2011.
d. No active employee who retires during the term of this agreement will pay or health coverage through the end of 2011.
e. Caps on the Company’s contribution to the cost of retiree health coverage in 2012 and after have been raised as follows:
i. Prior to Age 65 and Medicare Eligibility
1. Retiree Only: $12,580
2. Retiree + 1 25,160
3. Retiree + Family 31,450
ii. Age 65 and after and Medicate Eligible
1. Retiree Only: $ 6,330
2. Retiree + 1 12,660
3. Retiree + Family 18,990
f. Employees hired after August 2, 2008 will be covered under a new retiree health program.
i. Once they retire (under the same eligibility requirements as currently required), they will receive an annual payment equal to $430 times years of service (to a maximum of 30 years).
ii. The parties will negotiate this amount in future years to reflect changes in the cost of health coverage.
Agreement to work for National Health Care Reform and provide $2 million a year during term of contract.
New Dispute Resolution for Faster resolution of grievances
Savings and Security Plan
a. Add a Roth option to the 401(k) plan
b. Allows investment of post tax dollars with no taxes applied to investment returns when assets are later distributed.
Retiree Life Insurance
a. Company-paid retiree life insurance benefits will be frozen at one-times the wage level attained on 8/2/2008.
b. The minimum amount to be paid to beneficiaries of retirees who retiree after 8/2/2008 will be $20,000, even after age 65.
Retirees who were hired after 8/2/2008 will be eligible for the minimum $20,000
Increase supplemental insurance with ability to purchase 5 times salary
Commercial Issues
a. Collection
b. Jt Marketing Letter
c. Local Presence Centers
d. NJ collection office issues
Extend all existing District and Local Agreements and adjust all dates.
»messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stock···=2&off=1
It seems the health care issue can be redone in future years. It looks like VZ didn't cave but the Union blew it. The Union certainly screwed new employees over.
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Tulsa, OK | Re: VZ Contract Questioned? I see a War in 2011 They should be glad they are union.
Most companies think a 3% raise is "generous" and they don't do it every year.. Plus they don't have any protection for increasing health care premiums and so on. | |
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| It is doubtful that the full text of the contract will be made public until it is fully ratified. If it runs anything like AT&T, there will be numerous local meetings where the union officers will explain the contract to the rank & file membership prior to the ratification vote.
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| Watching the olimpics online »www.nbcolympics.com/
I been watching some of the live streaming. Not bad I was hoping for this. The problem is I can not get the silverlight player to work on my xp box. The only problem is there not much on live when I get home. | |
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| Chinese fraud.. Well, first we find out that the fireworks televised during the opening games are a hybrid of actual footage and CGI...
Then we find out that the little girl who sang was actually lip syncing.
Then, we find out the "women" competing in the gymnastics portion of the games are underage.
Is there anything the Chinese won't fudge or fake to make their point?
Mark my words THE CHINESE ARE COMING....
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Musique non stop
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t2p-2j3 | The Olympics are stupid. There, i said it. | |
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USA | Re: Yes they are. bottom left.. why is the kid in the background chopped below the waist?
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| Re: Yes they are. said by amartinas :bottom left.. why is the kid in the background chopped below the waist? He's not, his feet are swinging out behind him.
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