Considering how frequently unintended consequences of regulation (when we
have yet to see any true problems with the current internet system) wreak
havoc on things I don't see the rush to go into giving FCC the power over
the internet. It is non-centralized at the core, and we should keep it that
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:38 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Considering how frequently unintended consequences of regulation (when we
have yet to see any true problems with the current internet system) wreak
havoc on things I don't see the rush to go into giving FCC the power over
the
On 03/15/2010 02:38 AM, mike wrote:
Considering how frequently unintended consequences of regulation (when we
have yet to see any true problems with the current internet system) wreak
havoc on things I don't see the rush to go into giving FCC the power over
the internet. It is non-centralized
I have installed AVG free on my computer and my wife's computer.
Several days ago, I saw a prompt similar to what you see when Windows
installs a critical update, saying that I had received an update and
would need to restart the computer to complete installation. The
prompt had an AVG logo, so
This implies there is no cost of government provided services in the real
world.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Art Clemons artclem...@aol.com wrote:
The US disdain for government provided services has a cost in the real
world.
IS NOT!!
This site links to Google Maps, http://maps.google.com/, and does a poor
job of showing your house.
I'm not sure whether Google deliberately points to the
house/building/lot next door to whatever you seek. I checked an old
address in Philly and the marker points to our former
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Art Clemons artclem...@aol.com wrote:
The US disdain for government provided services has a cost in the real
world.
I have been under the belief that there have been proposals put
forth providing for federal subsidies to be used to help pay for costs
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:40 PM, John Emmerling jpemmerl...@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed AVG free on my computer and my wife's computer.
Several days ago, I saw a prompt similar to what you see when Windows
installs a critical update, saying that I had received an update and
would need
On 3/15/10, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:40 PM, John Emmerling jpemmerl...@gmail.com
wrote:
...
Several days ago, I saw a prompt similar to what you see when Windows
installs a critical update, saying that I had received an update and
would need
On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:21 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Google is doing us a favor for when someone sends out a hitman--he
goes to the wrong house.
Google has a prominent notice that street addressees are approximate.
Notice that you can type in a non-existent address and still find
yourself at the
The US disdain for government provided services has a cost in the real
world.
This implies there is no cost of government provided services in the real
world.
No, it doesn't. It states that there's a cost, typically unacknowledged, of NOT
having the services. There's no implication that
On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:16 PM, mike wrote:
This implies there is no cost of government provided services in the
real
world.
Not by a long shot. But this is yet another great example of how your
faulty logic leads to absurd conclusions.
On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Art Clemons wrote:
The US disdain for government provided services has a cost in the real
world.
I suspect these woefully ignorant wing nuts have no idea who paid for
the development of the Internet.
I didn't mean cost as in some monthly bill, i meant in the larger scheme.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
The US disdain for government provided services has a cost in the real
world.
This implies there is no cost of government provided services
I know of an older gentleman in his 80's who is moving in a few months and has
about
25 older Windows PC's with old CRT monitors and a bunch of BIG laser printers.
He lives in Laurel, MD.
Is there any organization or club that will go to his home and pick them up
and recycle them, as in fix
On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:34 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
I have been under the belief that there have been proposals put
forth providing for federal subsidies to be used to help pay for costs
associated with increasing broadband internet penetration into
currently unserved or under served areas
I didn't mean cost as in some monthly bill, i meant in the larger scheme.
I didn't mean that either, and it still didn't imply what you said...
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I thought it was jut my area.
They went through a major readdressing change when E911 came in.
My church has had at least three physical street addresses over the
history of 50 years, but it has never moved.
Stewart
At 12:21 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:
IS NOT!!
This site links to Google
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:59 PM, John Emmerling jpemmerl...@gmail.com wrote:
No argument, but in this case, do you think the update was
legitimate (actually originating with AVG, etc.)?
Dunno. That is sometimes the question one is left with after an auto-update.
Steve
On Mar 15, 2010, at 2:22 PM, mike wrote:
I didn't mean cost as in some monthly bill, i meant in the larger
scheme.
You mean like being in the state of grace is a bad thing.
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Considering how frequently unintended consequences of regulation (when we
have yet to see any true problems with the current internet system) wreak
havoc on things I don't see the rush to go into giving FCC the power over
the internet. It is non-centralized at the core, and we should keep it that
Sorry, some of us actually like the Contsitution.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:06 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
The stupidest and one of the most dangerous comments by any recent
president was by Ronnie Raygun when he said, The nine most terrifying words
in the English language are:
Holding something the size of a poptart to your face to talk is one
thing...holding something the size of a pan of lasagna is another.
Palm is also on the brink, as noted in that email I sent a few days
ago...Palm is even brinkier even.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:59 AM, tjp t...@tjpa.com wrote:
The problem is sometimes it is true.
Anyone want to talk about New Orleans and the aftermath of
Katrina. (Problems essentially caused by fouled up Corps of
Engineers projects.)
Now I am not saying that they always mess up, but when they do it
tends to be spectacular.
Stewart
At 02:06
Not if you want to make phone calls.
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/8-reasons-to-hate-ipad/
http://www.funnyordie.co.uk/videos/d2b714361c/hello
Stewart
At 01:59 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:
40% of Blackberry users willing to trade in for an iPhone
I have seriously looked at Palms new phones. Just not sure what I
want to do right now.
Stewart
At 02:18 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:
Holding something the size of a poptart to your face to talk is one
thing...holding something the size of a pan of lasagna is another.
Palm is also on the
Who knows. These days I use and recommend MS Security Essentials. It too has
to update occasionally, but it's nowhere near as annoying as any of the
other free AVs that try to use the occasion for advertising.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:40 PM, John Emmerling jpemmerl...@gmail.comwrote:
I have
This implies there is no cost of government provided services in the real
world.
No. That's a big DUH!
Of course there are costs to government services, but consider this.
How much of your income is disposable income? In countries with free
democratic socialist governments like Sweden or
On 03/15/2010 01:16 PM, mike wrote:
This implies there is no cost of government provided services in the real
world.
No, I stated that there is a cost to disdaining government being
involved in the provision of services. You're trying to produce a
binary situation where there isn't one.
Not
I have a friend who got a palm when they came out...he's had 3 due to faulty
screens, lockups and general bad luck.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
I have seriously looked at Palms new phones. Just not sure what I want to
do right now.
Well I am on Verizon so they have been out for a little while.
Plus these are beefed up versions with a lot more memory than the
Spint cousins. (8 GB)
Stewart
At 03:10 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:
I have a friend who got a palm when they came out...he's had 3 due to faulty
screens, lockups and
The OS is pretty nice, although my friend has lost his contacts several
times because of Palm outages...but other than that pretty robust. I've
thought since they were released that the pixi and pre were both horridly
designed phones, sharp edges on the pre and the small screen on the pixi,
no
I will not buy a touch screen only phone. I want a physical keyboard.
Not because I like keyboards that much but when you start having
problems with the screen it is nice to have a physical backup.
Stewart
At 03:51 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:
The OS is pretty nice, although my friend has
A good plan, consider how usable or unusable the palm will be if the phone
does have a screen problem. I think most of the interaction is tied to the
screen so you may not be able to do much without the screen on that one
either.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
At 12:40 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:
Does anybody know if the AVG update prompt was legitimate? It seems
to me that if this was an actual attack, work would have spread by now
(I haven't heard anything about it). I am suspicious because I
haven't experienced AVG presenting this type of prompt in
I've showed my wife how to use PDF Creator, it seems
to have at least a few limitations:
- has to be run as an Administrator
- it only will print one page, there's no error
message, it's just that nothing happens until
you cancel the print job and get a dialog and
get a single page
I
On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:20 PM, mike wrote:
Sorry, some of us actually like the Contsitution.
Expressing a preference over Charmin?
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:53 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:20 PM, mike wrote:
Sorry, some of us actually like the Contsitution.
Expressing a preference over Charmin?
On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:18 PM, mike wrote:
Holding something the size of a poptart to your face to talk is one
thing...holding something the size of a pan of lasagna is another.
My iMac 27 is a heck of a lot larger than an iPad yet we find it is
terrific for phone calls.
No, I do not walk
The problem is sometimes it is true.
Careful, now Mike is going to say that this implies that it's never not true.
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Open Office lets you print directly to PDF and it is free.
www.openoffice.org/
On Mar 15, 2010 5:45pm, Wayne Dernoncourt way...@panix.com wrote:
I've showed my wife how to use PDF Creator, it seems
to have at least a few limitations:
- has to be run as an Administrator
- it only will
Sun OpenOffice.
Mike
Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
I've showed my wife how to use PDF Creator, it seems
to have at least a few limitations:
- has to be run as an Administrator
- it only will print one page, there's no error
message, it's just that nothing happens until
you cancel the print
Well of course not, there is no proximity sensor! I do wonder how you see
where you are going or go grocery shopping when you are out talking on the
thing though...
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:18 PM, mike wrote:
Holding something the size
Don't misquote the jab. I never said never..
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is sometimes it is true.
Careful, now Mike is going to say that this implies that it's never not
true.
Wing nuts want to provide broad band via those stinkin' ugly wires around
all over the place. Finally, all that hardware gets jammed up with every
neighbor downloadin' his daily dose of porn. The way to get broadband out
is multivalent approaches where some get wires, some get over the electric
Mac or PC?
I use Software 995. (Paid version.) PC
Stewart
At 04:45 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:
I've showed my wife how to use PDF Creator, it seems
to have at least a few limitations:
- has to be run as an Administrator
- it only will print one page, there's no error
message, it's just
Don't blame it all on wingnuts.
I lived in LA for years. NO was a corrupt cesspool and everything
was under funded but over paid, due to graft and pay offs. Nothing
could get done without the right connections.
Plus the response of both the Governor and the Mayor were
spectacularly
I use this frequently
http://download.cnet.com/PDF995-Printer-Driver/3000-6675_4-10068482.html .
It just puts a pdf printer on your list and you print to it. It, for the
freeware, opens an ad to view in a browser window each time. It is no
biggie for me and you can just close the ad right away.
But Tom you have the right connectors on it for that.
Stewart
At 05:00 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:
My iMac 27 is a heck of a lot larger than an iPad yet we find it is
terrific for phone calls.
No, I do not walk around with it pressed to my ear. We do not have to
continue to use telephones
Rev. Stewart Marshall
Mac or PC?
I use Software 995. (Paid version.) PC
Valerie insists on a PC with WordPerfect. Me, I
use a Mac that includes PDF creation as a service.
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Me
John Duncan Yoyo
Open Office lets you print directly to PDF and it
is free.
I shoulda mentioned that she's firmly stuck in the 1980's
and uses WordPerfect. She's talking about moving to Word
but _really_ doesn't want to. She uses WP for everything
including file management.
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Take care |
PDF995 (Part of Software995 Suite)
Installs as a print drive and when you click print select PDF and you have it.
Love the program. It is not expensive and you get some nice utilities with it.
It will work out of any program even Word Perfect.
Stewart
At 06:32 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:
I have only had one palm device ...a Palm IIIc ...wonderful device ...very
nice for carrying around a database I needed professionally ...had good
battery life ...could be backed up via an aftermarket thing that plugged
into its port and had a storage subroutine ...had a snap on camera ...it was
I use avast ...it works fine ...no ads ...updates are unobtrusive, but the
voice that announces it was annoying so I edited the .wav file to keep just
the ding and it works great...
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Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 3:56 PM
Subject:
I loved wp... had such cool features ...like (of course in the late 1980s)
could do delete from here to end of sentence which was a revelation back
then...
-Original Message-
From: Wayne Dernoncourt [mailto:way...@panix.com]
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: PDF creation
Upgrade to the new version and it has a pleasant voice, plus the
registration is easy, right in the program, no longer need to go to
web and have them email you number.
Still the same nice price, FREE.
Stewart
At 07:02 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:
I use avast ...it works fine ...no ads
The apple offer to replace the ipad with another one if the battery
doesn't hold a charge for $100 is a joke .so you get some refurb someone
else slimed upon .why does everything else accommodate a battery change that
you can get from china via ebay for around $5 and apple needs to have their
Baby talk os?
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:55 PM, rleesimon rleesi...@gmail.com wrote:
I have only had one palm device ...a Palm IIIc ...wonderful device ...very
nice for carrying around a database I needed professionally ...had good
battery life ...could be backed up via an aftermarket thing
Nice to see that Apple continues to find ways to make their users pay even
after the sale.
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On Mar 15, 2010, at 6:36 PM, rleesimon wrote:
Wing nuts want to provide broad band via those stinkin' ugly wires
around
all over the place. Finally, all that hardware gets jammed up with
every
neighbor downloadin' his daily dose of porn. The way to get
broadband out
is multivalent
On Mar 15, 2010, at 8:24 PM, rleesimon wrote:
The apple offer to replace the ipad with another one if the battery
doesn't hold a charge for $100 is a joke .so you get some refurb
someone
else slimed upon .why does everything else accommodate a battery
change that
you can get from china via
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
Nice to see that Apple continues to find ways to make their users pay even
after the sale.
Someone decided that most computer users are not smart enough to
replace batteries. They may be right!
Steve
There is another reason behind this.
Every manufacture is stuck with units that get returned, have minor
problems and need fixes. What do you do with all these refurbished
items? You can sell them on the secondary market, or you can recycle
them by requiring units with dead batteries get
Tom most governmental positions that are not controlled by Civil
Service law are filled with pols frat boys and sorority sisters.
That is how government works, unfortunately.
I cant remember how many positions that are filled when a new
administration comes in, but it is huge.
I just read
Rev. Stewart Marshall
PDF995 (Part of Software995 Suite)
Installs as a print drive and when you click print
select PDF and you have it.
Love the program. It is not expensive and you get
some nice utilities with it.
It will work out of any program even Word Perfect.
I looked at the
And Obama promoted the key wingnuts from Bush for the economy..that worked
well! And how about them wildfires? Those environmental policies of
leaving nice highly flammable dead wood and brush year after year really
helped us get some good fires in.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:38 PM, tjpa
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:05 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
When do these new batteries get into laptops?
Is it only rumor that the newest MacBook Pro computers contain
batteries that are not serviceable by the user?
Steve
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:54 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
And Obama promoted the key wingnuts from Bush for the economy..that worked
well!
I think we all know who pretty much runs the show. The individual
players may change, but the entities remain the same.
Steve
I mean this new battery tech that Tom was mentioning, not just batteries
that are non-user replaceable. When will they arrive in laptops?
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:33 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:05 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
When do
This is easy. The iPad is a giant iPod Touch. We can open up the Touch
to change the battery. Why not the iPad? The biggest problem is finding
a source for the right battery, instead of a cheap copy. The battery
could cost $50 [the $5 one is worth 90% less], spudger is less than $5,
and you
If memory and my history books are correct this has been a problem for eons.
How do you think Pontius Pilate got his appointment as Procurator in
Palestine? It was a political appointment.
He certainly had some problems. (Not just from a religious standpoint.)
To the victor goes the
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