The government enforces what is decided in civil court.
It it correct they will not send soldiers. They will send police. but they will still have guns, and have been known to offer the occasional out of hand beat-down.
I don't understand. They didn't force the photographer to create that ad. As well, perhaps the photographer has more business sense that the poster, and has figured out a way to do this at a profit.
Either way. This is an undeserved dig at groupon. It is simply a business arrangement! If you don't like it, you should be able to tell that before using them.
Of course, the other option is the photographer is an idiot, like a lot of people out to make money quick, and did not think about the consequences of this particular play.
It just seems that after you've figured out the basics of food production, housing, metals/commodities, transportation, there's nothing left except for group-brainstorming ethereal "value-adds" like the above.
//rant on
No, the fact is that there are entire groups of people out there who would rather do the easy things - the ethereal "value adds", such as (much of) management, derivatives, marketing, lawyers, politicians, middle men and the like than try to actually *do something themselves*.
The only problem is these always seem to create a heavier burden than a lighter one. Why is that?
"Idea men", except unlike scientists, they aren't trying to understand The Idea,they are trying to push their ideas on others, to have others act for them. Or they may wiggle their way in between actual productive members of society, extracting a transaction tax. If you want it to move, pay up.
Now, how do we get rid of that behaviour? Hah, this is just the rant! I'm all ears.//rant off
Maybe those very smart people should have thought what the difference between an "availability zone" and a region was besides cost, and what that might connote.
It seems like some other very smart people got that right - e.g. Netflix.
While having this outage is a black eye for Amazon, the service tiers seemed to have worked - people who did not pay for regional redundancy did not get it, while people who did were fine.
Now, all of those smart people can ask themselves if ponying up the cash is worth it or if they need some other solution. I would hope that this time they try to understand what they are actually buying, though.
So, instead of taxing people, why not get rid of the subsidies for HFC's?
We already know that they are bad for you. It's almost as if the government decided to give subsities that are designed to produce more fat people.
It seems to me this would either make foods with HFC's more expensive (thus foods not containing them cheaper) or manufacturers would stop putting that crap into foods.
That way you end up changing both the producer and consumer choices leading to a more healthy overall country.
But of course that would be bad for business, and everyone knows that it's better that we have a obesity epidemic than comporate profits go down.
Which, of course, makes the service incorrect as RFC 2396 says [/?] are valid authority delimiters and just makes it their "requirement"... Just sayin'.
And then you can complain to them and try to make them fix their implementation (which of course will probably break some large set of people who are using their interface as they requested). I'd like to see how that goes...
Or you can implement the interface per their spec and have it work.
This is the issue once we get to services. If you use a service that you didn't build, you use their interface, or not at all. You can certainly try to get them to change it, but unless they see a business opportunity (or the service is open source) you might have a devil of a time convincing them that you are "right" (in the fact that they NEED to change).
What matters is that it can happen in startling and unconventional groups. Everyone expects that those who have real power to be abusive on a large scale (if not in person). It's the way things currently are run.
What is interesting is that a random bunch of people exhibit this.
You might say - "But it wasn't random! It was a bunch of college kids that selected themselves for the experiment!"
Yes, as I said, a random bunch of people, thrown into a situational complex. The results of this 1 experiment are this:
It can happen, anywhere. To any ${groups}.
Weird, huh?
Key task is identification and dissipation of the energy or structural patterns underlying the trends.
If you give people the illusion of choice, and then poke and prod them into the direction you want them to go, eventually all of the stimulus and subtle controls allow the person to be much more free than they were.
If that makes sense to you, please subscribe to my newsletterQ!
A smart and logical student will plunk a stone done in the middle of his opponent's territory and point out that it takes 4 stones for their opponent to kill the stone, thus causing the opponent to lose points.
Perhaps, perhaps not.
If that stone is unable to kill anything, or make shape, and I pass, then I have just gained a point, as White. In fact there are a number of scenarios where all stones you play I can just pass.
It may be that after enough passes I actually have to act. In that case, I am only up by the number of stones up until my action.
However, there are worse things to do than try and cause trouble, even if you don't read out the situation. It is surprising how much trouble a "stubborn" player who "doesn't know when they are beat" can be.
When the spectrum in TFA was bought from the US government for $125 million and then sold by the company for $1.95 billion, this seems to be a bit more of a travesty than the China connection.
I recall at the time many people speculating that "we the people" were giving away our spectrum for pennies on the dollar. Turns out that they were right.
You are trying to be facetious, but this is exactly the model modern basketball now operates. The only reason (american) football does not is that steroids are illegal. If they could fatten/muscle up those kids earlier, like feedlot veal, so they had the muscle mass you would see a lot there too.
In fact, there was something of a stir a while ago because in basketball has started poaching highschool seniors, and it is routine for kids not to finish college if they have star qualities.
You know, this has been tried before and it still doesn't sound like a very good idea.
For academic detours into business, maybe not. But you shouldn't use a sports analogy to make your point because that has become SOP in sports. If this did not have success, then it would have been abandoned.
I'm just saying I think your points don't address the central observable tendency of humans to use 100% of anything they like/want/need and then ask for more yet.
I think that the root of this behaviour also lies in the concepts of scarcity, funnily enough.
Do you recall reading any holocaust survivor stories where even decades later it was found that some people still hoarded food in their sock drawers, etc.?
Scarcity has so permeated our concept of life that with this model, of course enough isn't enough, because you will "lose" in some contest over energy (in the case you are making) eventually. But this points out the fact that the model is still scarcity.
That is why I called for a needed paradigm shift. Abundance through technological means does not mean that the underlying psychological makeup has changed from a scarcity model, unless one sets about changing it. Anything and everything is a possible psychological state for individuals as well as societies. One can see that observable tendency throughout history. I propose that scarcity is just one such state and should be viewed as a hurdle not a brick wall.
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You should always live through the effects a bad breakup (unless you kill yourself or your partner does).
Not so with a boot to the head.
That solid kick to the head may cause lasting bodily damage - spinal injury, brain damage, death, etc.
Don't underestimate a boot to the head - it could be the last thing you do.
Most colleges do require transcripts.
Most colleges also require that they be sent directly from the reporting school.
No (decent) college will accept a paper copy of transcripts that you hand them. It's just way too easy these days to creatively edit.
Regards.
And then what happens?
Well, let's see...
The government enforces what is decided in civil court.
It it correct they will not send soldiers. They will send police. but they will still have guns, and have been known to offer the occasional out of hand beat-down.
I believe this is where you were going?
Regards.
Does anyone know of any drawbacks to installing Prey?
The possibility of a truly fubar'd situation, should you try to be a vigilante.
Everything from ending up dead to the criminal bleeding you dry in civil court.
Regards.
How can this be groupon's fault?
I don't understand. They didn't force the photographer to create that ad. As well, perhaps the photographer has more business sense that the poster, and has figured out a way to do this at a profit.
Either way. This is an undeserved dig at groupon. It is simply a business arrangement! If you don't like it, you should be able to tell that before using them.
Of course, the other option is the photographer is an idiot, like a lot of people out to make money quick, and did not think about the consequences of this particular play.
Regards.
It just seems that after you've figured out the basics of food production, housing, metals/commodities, transportation, there's nothing left except for group-brainstorming ethereal "value-adds" like the above.
//rant on
No, the fact is that there are entire groups of people out there who would rather do the easy things - the ethereal "value adds", such as (much of) management, derivatives, marketing, lawyers, politicians, middle men and the like than try to actually *do something themselves*.
The only problem is these always seem to create a heavier burden than a lighter one. Why is that?
"Idea men", except unlike scientists, they aren't trying to understand The Idea,they are trying to push their ideas on others, to have others act for them. Or they may wiggle their way in between actual productive members of society, extracting a transaction tax. If you want it to move, pay up.
Now, how do we get rid of that behaviour? Hah, this is just the rant! I'm all ears. //rant off
Regards
I'm not sure why people think this is so unpossible.
Mainly because at a certain point in the dark ages, it was considered somewhat of a Black Art, and many people created may coasters in the attempts.
They seem to still find it unimaginable it can be done now so with almost no effort.
Regards
it's clear they're non-voting, non-sellable shares, and are only good for getting free money.
Yeah, I would hate to have someone scam me by giving me free money! That bastard!
Regards
Maybe those very smart people should have thought what the difference between an "availability zone" and a region was besides cost, and what that might connote.
It seems like some other very smart people got that right - e.g. Netflix.
While having this outage is a black eye for Amazon, the service tiers seemed to have worked - people who did not pay for regional redundancy did not get it, while people who did were fine.
Now, all of those smart people can ask themselves if ponying up the cash is worth it or if they need some other solution. I would hope that this time they try to understand what they are actually buying, though.
Regards.
So, instead of taxing people, why not get rid of the subsidies for HFC's?
We already know that they are bad for you. It's almost as if the government decided to give subsities that are designed to produce more fat people.
It seems to me this would either make foods with HFC's more expensive (thus foods not containing them cheaper) or manufacturers would stop putting that crap into foods.
That way you end up changing both the producer and consumer choices leading to a more healthy overall country.
But of course that would be bad for business, and everyone knows that it's better that we have a obesity epidemic than comporate profits go down.
Regards
So, now you want to add DRM to tweets, too?
Gah.
Twitter is an information sharing service. Let's try to keep anything we can able to be shared, ok?
Perhaps all posters to /. default to sub-genius unless specified? //mroe slack!
Regards
Which, of course, makes the service incorrect as RFC 2396 says [/?] are valid authority delimiters and just makes it their "requirement" ... Just sayin'.
And then you can complain to them and try to make them fix their implementation (which of course will probably break some large set of people who are using their interface as they requested). I'd like to see how that goes...
Or you can implement the interface per their spec and have it work.
This is the issue once we get to services. If you use a service that you didn't build, you use their interface, or not at all. You can certainly try to get them to change it, but unless they see a business opportunity (or the service is open source) you might have a devil of a time convincing them that you are "right" (in the fact that they NEED to change).
Regards.
It doesn't matter that the sample size was 1.
What matters is that it can happen in startling and unconventional groups. Everyone expects that those who have real power to be abusive on a large scale (if not in person). It's the way things currently are run.
What is interesting is that a random bunch of people exhibit this.
You might say - "But it wasn't random! It was a bunch of college kids that selected themselves for the experiment!"
Yes, as I said, a random bunch of people, thrown into a situational complex. The results of this 1 experiment are this:
It can happen, anywhere. To any ${groups}.
Weird, huh?
Key task is identification and dissipation of the energy or structural patterns underlying the trends.
Regards.
You cannot focus an image of a light source so as to make the intensity at that focus more intense than the light source itself.
What exactly do you believe a laser is, then?
I claim that it produces a beam of light at a much greater intensity than the input light source of the same wavelength.
What did you believe you were tyring to say with the statement?
Regards.
Well, it wraps around, though.
If you give people the illusion of choice, and then poke and prod them into the direction you want them to go, eventually all of the stimulus and subtle controls allow the person to be much more free than they were.
If that makes sense to you, please subscribe to my newsletterQ!
Regards.
I think the Biggest difference that I see between them is that D's are much less likely to blow up the world.
That's enough for me until real people start running, but that's about it, though.
Regards
You are incorrect.
The system is heavily machined. "Working within the system" only perpetuates it. That is the way it has been set up.
The fact that you refuse to take this into account only means you have not been rubbed against the sharp points you so heartily are defending.
Regards.
Who better than someone like that to hide government malfesance and argue *for* the boot stamping on people's faces: :/
What if searches for devious, undetectable methods of murder were in everyone's history?
Yes, lets create a cloud of false positives so murderers can hide in it!
What the hell?
Why doesn't everyone also just download some CP? Then when the cops come looking they won't know who the *real* pedophiles are!
Brilliant!
Regards
A smart and logical student will plunk a stone done in the middle of his opponent's territory and point out that it takes 4 stones for their opponent to kill the stone, thus causing the opponent to lose points.
Perhaps, perhaps not.
If that stone is unable to kill anything, or make shape, and I pass, then I have just gained a point, as White. In fact there are a number of scenarios where all stones you play I can just pass.
It may be that after enough passes I actually have to act. In that case, I am only up by the number of stones up until my action.
However, there are worse things to do than try and cause trouble, even if you don't read out the situation. It is surprising how much trouble a "stubborn" player who "doesn't know when they are beat" can be.
Regards.
When the spectrum in TFA was bought from the US government for $125 million and then sold by the company for $1.95 billion, this seems to be a bit more of a travesty than the China connection.
I recall at the time many people speculating that "we the people" were giving away our spectrum for pennies on the dollar. Turns out that they were right.
Regards.
You are trying to be facetious, but this is exactly the model modern basketball now operates. The only reason (american) football does not is that steroids are illegal. If they could fatten/muscle up those kids earlier, like feedlot veal, so they had the muscle mass you would see a lot there too.
In fact, there was something of a stir a while ago because in basketball has started poaching highschool seniors, and it is routine for kids not to finish college if they have star qualities.
You know, this has been tried before and it still doesn't sound like a very good idea.
For academic detours into business, maybe not. But you shouldn't use a sports analogy to make your point because that has become SOP in sports. If this did not have success, then it would have been abandoned.
Regards.
Millions in Russia were killed for "Progress".
Hope this helps.
Regards.
I'm just saying I think your points don't address the central observable tendency of humans to use 100% of anything they like/want/need and then ask for more yet.
I think that the root of this behaviour also lies in the concepts of scarcity, funnily enough.
Do you recall reading any holocaust survivor stories where even decades later it was found that some people still hoarded food in their sock drawers, etc.?
Scarcity has so permeated our concept of life that with this model, of course enough isn't enough, because you will "lose" in some contest over energy (in the case you are making) eventually. But this points out the fact that the model is still scarcity.
That is why I called for a needed paradigm shift. Abundance through technological means does not mean that the underlying psychological makeup has changed from a scarcity model, unless one sets about changing it. Anything and everything is a possible psychological state for individuals as well as societies. One can see that observable tendency throughout history. I propose that scarcity is just one such state and should be viewed as a hurdle not a brick wall.
Nice comment!
Regards.