said by backfeed :

How are you posting this then??...I am confused

said by backfeed :

How are you posting this then??...I am confused

said by PCInTech :

On this date in History, in 1779, my beloved home town of New Haven, CT, was raided by the British. Drunken Redcoats pillaged, raped and burned their way toward the center of the City.

said by Gizy :

And when you look at those battlefields, remember those still sacrificing for our Independence Day Celebrations.

Say thank you to a vet, current or retired, or if you don't know one, adopt one.

»anysoldier.com/

said by sonicmerlin :

Since this is technically an open thread... I thought I'd point out this interesting article from dslprime.com:

Hiawatha Broadband in Winona, Minnesota pays approximately $800 to pass a home, and another $750 to connect it, including one set-top box, according to an FTTH Council. The rural carrier costs are only slightly higher than Verizon, at $700 and 650 for similar. The home television hookup is several hundred dollars of each figure, so $1,000 - $1,300 is the right estimate for an efficient fiber installation in the U.S. today.

said by ronpin :

said by backfeed :

We probably would be speaking German..or Japanese

said by madden2k5 :

Well it just happens a piece of cox's equipment failed somewhere yesterday evening, and now i gotta wait till tomorrow between 3-5pm for a tech to come. Then once he sees the problem aint here, its no telling how long before they find the problem.

So atm no tv, and im surprised the modem is even running with such a low signal of 31db for SNR, which was 38 before problem, and my downstream power is now -9, it was +5 before yesterday. So all and all a shitty weekend for cable and all to screw up.

said by GOLFnSUN :

I have & pay for healthcare. What it should say is "I want you to pay for others healthcare".

said by GOLFnSUN :

If you have neighbors that also called, they may fix it BEFORE your appointment time.

said by amigo_boy :

Trust me, someone's paying for your health care today. It's just not as clear (to you) as removing $ from your wallet.

said by ronpin :

Only "Ron Paul" and the Libertarians would "step-over" a dying street-person "for the public good". The rest of us swallow-hard and allow our taxes to subsidize various "hospital districts" around the country -- 'cause we know God loves everybody -- and allows us to help others as we would like to be helped -- if it was our child in need.

We are in fact a very decent society -- just not very smart! (like all the other industrialized nations).

said by ronpin :

We are in fact a very decent society -- just not very smart! (like all the other industrialized nations).

said by Fox McCloud :

Ron Paul has specifically described that non-profit organizations and churches would help provide healthcare for those who couldn't afford it, which is the way it used to be until public funding crowded them out

said by Fox McCloud :

...Ron Paul has specifically described that non-profit organizations and churches would help provide healthcare for those who couldn't afford it, which is the way it used to be until public funding crowded them out (after all, why donate when you're forced into paying for it anyway?).

said by ronpin :

...you only proved my point!!! (...leave it up to God -- it's not my problem ("am I my brothers keeper?")

said by GOLFnSUN :

I have & pay for healthcare. What it should say is "I want you to pay for others healthcare".

said by dib22 :

let's hope you never get a condition that hurts your insurance companies profit margin.

said by Combat Chuck :

It's funny you all cry think of poor grandma who can't afford to pay to have the brain tumor removed; meanwhile grandma has the most to lose should socialized medicine come to town since she doesn't feed the machine.

Even the company suggests on its website that users disable some of the phone's most vaunted features, including the faster 3G network itself, to keep it from shutting down during the day.

Buyers are finding that the device has trouble making it through a workday without a rest stop at the electrical outlet. The new model is smaller and sleeker, however, and Apple may have sacrificed some battery capacity in favor of a lighter phone, analysts said.

"The screen is actually the biggest battery suck in the device," said wireless analyst Charles Golvin of Forrester Research Inc. "The fact that people are using their 3G iPhones to do a lot more stuff . . . means that the screen is on more."

said by KA3SGM :

I actually drove through Paoli the other day, and it looked fine to me.. :D

Just don't drive faster than 25mph, or the local police will write you up a nasty speeding ticket. :(

said by KrK :

Steve McNair, former NFL QB (Retired last year) has been found shot to death in his condo.... details are sketchy atm, but it looks so far like a murder suicide --- a 20 year-old woman who is a waitress at Dave and Busters and has apparently been seeing McNair was also found dead at the scene with a single gunshot to the head...... Steve was sitting on the couch and was shot repeatedly according to initial reports.

Damn....

So, is this the third of the three?

said by GOLFnSUN :

»www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-i···06.story
Style trumps function again. They could have made the phone a little thicker and put in a bigger battery, but it wouldn't have been as stylish.

said by ronpin :

Even Rush Limbaugh . . . he's just too frick'n dumb . . .

said by ncbill :

Jealous wife or Boy/Girlfriend discovers them and bam bam bam.

said by stevennb :

Getting laid?

said by FastiBook :

Smaller and sleeker? It's the same exact form factor as the 3G. I smell BS.

- A

Repair company IFixit.com, which specializes in Apple products, and other online gadget surgeons dismantled the 3GS on the day it was released and found that the phone's battery was about 15% smaller than the one in the original iPhone.

said by FastiBook :

The Pre can't function outside the usa.

said by FastiBook :

I use GPS to see where i am on the train, about an hour's worth of use right there using location services and usually wifi, since wifi augments the GPS, i also have speedometer, which uses GPS functionality, to see how fast my train is going.

said by MyDogHsFleas :

And yet, President Obama sides with Zelaya, calls this a "military coup", and wants him reinstated! How would he have reacted had Mr. Bush undertaken this course in 2008?

said by vinnie97 :

... the reckless spending don't come across as ideological concessions from where I'm sitting

said by vinnie97 :

...nor does the healthcare reform bill (penalizing anyone who doesn't buy in at $1000, I hope they're building new prisons in preparation.

said by vinnie97 :

Massachusetts only gives a similar program a 26% approval rating:

said by FastiBook :

Removal from power before term ends is also wrong.

- A

said by norton :

your beer glasses?
hehe

said by Shamayim :

Yeah, Rush Limbaugh is dumb like B. Hussein Obama is an American patriot.

said by amigo_boy :

I don't know if I'd compare us to other industrialized nations. Less developed nations don't regulate health care quality like we do. You can see a doctor for $5-$10. Prescriptions are cheap.

Developed nations have accepted the social responsibility that comes with setting social standards on health care (to create higher quality than a market of "willing buyers and sellers" would produce). They make goods and services available to those who can't afford the artificially-created high priced "market" which allows no lessor choices.

That's what's funny (in a perverse way) about opponents to health care reform. They complain that you'll have to wait for services. People wait today! If you can't afford the artificially- (socially-) created market, you'll wait until your illness is bad enough to be seen by an emergency-room physician.

I liked (in a perverse way) Rs speaking to the camera about how "if you like the DMV or Post Office, you'll love health care reform." That's an apples/oranges comparison. There is a sizeable portion of the public who can't buy any service. For them, there's not even a line to wait in.

Rs don't talk about that. All they do is act like a precedent is being set if their own ox is gored.

However, I agree with Rs that health care reform will create problems for many people. I'm not looking forward to waiting for services that I can afford today. But, the Rs strategy seems to be to ignore how many people have it far worse than simply waiting. Maybe when the problem is *everyone's* problem we'll look for better solutions.

Personally, I'd like to see competing medical associations. The AMA providing top-shelf accreditation for those willing to pay top-shelf prices. A PMA (Public Medical Association) for those willing to accept lower quality goods and services at a discount. Giving the AMA a monopoly has been bad (unless you are among the few who can afford to pay for these monopolized goods and services).

Mark

said by KA3SGM :

I actually drove through Paoli the other day, and it looked fine to me.. :D

said by amigo_boy :

Personally, I'd like to see competing medical associations. The AMA providing top-shelf accreditation for those willing to pay top-shelf prices. A PMA (Public Medical Association) for those willing to accept lower quality goods and services at a discount.

said by dumbamericans :

the US has the WORST overall health care system IN THE WORLD for its OWN PEOPLE.
try being elderly on ssi paying insurance premiums and prescriptions, or state funded ssi and state Medicaid with subsidized so called insurance.

said by pnh102 :

I think that provided that some basic standards were observed, you could make a distinction based on professional accreditation.

said by FastiBook :

The Pre can't function outside the usa. It isn't sold anywhere else, it gets worse battery time, is a clunky weakly designed product hiding inside a large cloud of hype lies and nonsense. If i had the funds i'd take palm and sprint to court over this. Boasting about real features and facts is one thing, but riding on a campaign of lies and smear tactics is another thing. Reminds me of comcast trying to tell people it also have fiber to the home...

- A

said by pnh102 :

The system you describe for pharmacies already exists in a way.