Been there with my first local ISP which was a great little company. The service remained fine through the first two take overs, but the third was a major PITA, so I was pushed by their stupidity to DSL. I’m on the third iteration for my DSL account, and may end up on satellite to avoid this garbage.
]]>It’s indeed a very sad World where greed has become the primary virtue Bryan.
OT: You may remember Bryan that I had said that I had signed up with WestHost and that they seemed very good. Well they *were*. Before being taken over by the UK2 Group. It seems that it’s their intention to do a little *strip mining* of their own. My client has now terminated the agreement and demanded a refund (under the 30-day money back guarantee). The very short story is that they have decided to reneg on the 2 year plan we paid for and have dumped all their VPS plans, using completely bogus claims, and are forcing the clients to a brand new sister company where the VPS plans are about 4 times the prices and for fewer facilities. So, a warning to anyone who read my initial post that WestHost are good. They were before the UK2 takeover, now they are simply a fraud. Stay away, they cannot be trusted.
So, it’s back to square one for me. Oh well. *shrug* 🙂 Life truly is a bitch. 😉
]]>I hate to think what all of that stuff would cost if the person doing it was receiving even minimum wage.
People who can’t see beyond the next quarter have no business being in charge of anything, even themselves. If you live for today and look to the future you’ll see what has to be done. If you don’t look ahead, you will never see the walls before you run into them.
Your grandmother gave the world her descendants and their memories of her. That really is the one sure path to immortality as the rest of it is just a hope.
]]>My grandmother had nothing to leave her descendants, but she did leave me a plethora of needlework and a precious collection of doilies , potholders, aprons,etc. with intricate embroidery and yes – beautifully tatted PANSIES. Many, many pansies. There was even a pansied baby “burp pad”. I would have been terrified to let my baby barf on the thing.
Kryten, regardless of what the preachers and Good Books tell us about a better world coming beyond the grave, THIS flesh is the only reality we really know. I say that accounts for far too much short term, get it while you can type thinking.
I hope for a better world somewhere, but want to do my part to make it so for those who will actually be living in it.
]]>It is will past time to make those who profit pay for the pollution. I didn’t take them to raise, and I’m heartily sick of cleaning up after them.
The easiest way of dealing with it is to remove “limited liability” from corporations and make every stockholder personally responsible for any mess that is made. Profit is supposed to entail risk – that’s how capitalism works.
]]>You can look at the land and tell whether or not there will be quakes at some point. If you live in area with mountains and volcanoes, and earthquake is guaranteed.
There are ways of mitigating the damage, but none of them were used in L’Aquila, and as a protected heritage site, rebuilding wasn’t an option.
According to a reporter on the scene, the 5.6 was a roller. I really hate those. The ground isn’t supposed to ripple like a pond.
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]]>Italy and Switzerland just had to adjust their border because a glacier that was part of it is melting and the land underneath isn’t contoured the way they assumed.
The Horn of Africa will separate with the line running up the appropriately named Rift Valley.
The world is constantly changing and most borders should be drawn in pencil.
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