Encyclopedia Britannica is not really a valid source of information for a research paper anyway. Quite often the articles are out-of-date or represent the most conservative views in a given field. Your high school might allow you to quote EB (especially if all the original sources are in journals that the school can't afford to buy) but you shouldn't get into that habit, as after high school, you'll get your ass kicked if you try to quote EB as a primary source.
Right. Because I'm sure you reported all of your income on your tax returns for the last two years, right?
Do you really think that if a politician were taking illegal bribes from telecom companies (and I'm not saying that McCain is or isn't) that he would have either the braggadocio or the stupidity (depending on how you look at it, I guess) to report on his fscking tax return?
I'm sorry, but this argument doesn't pass the 'thought for five seconds' test. Here, let me fix that for you.
Because of course, all people who take bribes report them on their Income taxes...
I don't know if McCain does or does not accept cash for votes, but I do know that if finding evidence of bribery were as easy as checking out income tax records, all the lobby groups in Washington would be out of business.
vista has made MS a bunch of money This is true, but success/failure depends on how much money was made, and whether it was enough to justify the expense and/or unintended consequences.
[Vista] has given them a great wake-up call to shape up or ship out. People usually say this about failures.
It'll only be a failure if they never release another version of Windows, and don't learn from their mistakes. MS will probably release another (newer, as opposed to just updating XP) version of Windows, but it's not obvious that they will learn from their Vista mistakes. Either way, it's certainly too early to tell if it's been a total failure. I think it's safe to say that from a marketing standpoint, it's been a failure.
Leftism is bad because it takes from those who earned and gives to those who don't deserve. I would say that conservatism does exactly the same thing. The only difference is whether the non-working poor or the filthy rich are getting what they don't "deserve". In the mean time, the working folk keep getting paid less than their labour is worth, to fund welfare, whether that welfare is corporate or personal. Though in my view, the filthy rich are getting far more than they deserve than the folk who have no jobs.
(note that although this view sounds *horrors* communist, I don't believe that government intervention is the best way for working people to get fair value for their labour -- I'm more left-libertarian.)
Disclaimer: I've very much oversimplified my actual views here for the sake of brevity.
Net neutrality isn't just about how much bandwidth the guy down the street is using, it's about control over the content providers as well as the consumers. throttling traffic from p2p clients is just low-hanging fruit. If Bell (for example) gets away with shaping p2p traffic, next they'll claim that VoIP traffic is clogging their tubes, and start to throttle that. Note that VoIP is a direct competitor to Bell's land-line and long distance offerings.
Similarly, cable companies may decide to throttle traffic from any site providing streaming video, whether it's legitimate or not. Is it fair that your cable company should be able to throttle NBC? Youtube? AppleTV?
If you allow shaping of one type of traffic, everything becomes fair game. Not having enforceable Net Neutrailty is leaving not just consumers, but all Internet content producers, completely vulnerable to coercion by the major ISPs.
Hrm, I thought WoW used a built-in torrent client to distribute patches, surely that would reduce the number of players downloading from Blizzard's servers?
Mods, this isn't funny, and could end up being a determining factor in global geopolitics for the foreseeable future. What happens to all those lonely men who can't get women for themselves? Why, they join the Army of course. And what do you do with an army? Why, go get yourself some women of course.
9 pounds in 6 weeks is A LOT...most non-quack diet and exercise regimens instruct you to expect between 1 and 3 pounds a month weight loss as being health.
Indeed. Of course in Canada, between 30-50 percent of a person's pay ends up back in government coffers, between income tax, sales tax, and other hidden taxes in the various industries.
I do understand that it's harder to live in the US on minimum wage than it is in Canada (and I'm not saying that minimum wage is a bad idea), but it's no piece of cake here either. Free health care does no good if you can't afford to eat.
For the most part, I agree with your post. I would say that yes, we should have one standard. I don't think that means that ISO should be restricted to looking at one standard. Clearly, in this specific case, the OOXML standard is a steaming pile of...well anyway. That doesn't mean someone else won't come up with a much better idea in the future.
I would take Winston Churchill a step further and say that a bad fanatic is one who can't change his mind, but essentially your point is correct.
I don't think anyone would complain about Microsoft submitting standards for approval. The objections come when the spec for the standard submitted is 6000 pages long and includes some nuggets as "implement this as it's implemented in Windows 95" and associated garbage.
The objections become bellows when the same company, impatient with the approval process, sets out to buy votes to get the "standard" approved with minimal change.
I for one have a great deal of distaste for fanatics of all stripes, and I'm afraid Stallman and his more opinionated supporters do qualify as fanatics, but the process to date of getting OOXML qualified as an ISO standard has been a farce, and no amount of whinging on slashdot by AC fanbois (or MS sockpuppets) is going to change that.
The US federal Minimum Wage is five hundred eighty five pennies per hour. They raised it last year. I'm sure glad I don't have to live on that! Though I don't mean to denigrate the American worker scraping by on minimum wage, the appropriate unit is still dollars ($5.85 is a better measure than 585 p.)
By the way, I've lived on the Canadian minimum wage (ontario) and it's not much, let me tell you. Though the free health care is nice, you can't eat an emergency room visit. Luckily dumpster diving is not only an American sport.
We now return this thread to its regularly scheduled subject...
That may be, and maybe you can even construct some legal theory out of that under which the borrower is the aggrieved party. It's not a matter of "constructing some legal theory", I work in a law office, and we defend brokers against their customers all the time, and believe me, there's a lot of case law on point regarding the duty of care owed to a person by their broker (in my field, it's insurance and not banking, but the concepts should be the same. They may not be, and it may vary by jurisdiction and nation).
The "some legal theory" behind it is that the independent broker (this doesn't apply to employees of the Insurer or Finance company) works for you, not for the corporation. They have a duty to look out for your best interest, and if they don't, you can sue them.
But the GP was holding the lenders and brokers morally responsible. I'm sorry, but you are an adult and have the legal right to vote and enter into contracts. If you got full disclosure of the APR and your monthly costs, it is your responsibility alone to figure out whether you can afford it. For what it's worth, I agree with you, but the law doesn't always work out that way. The key lies in the term "full disclosure". If a broker can prove they gave it, they probably will get off if it goes to Trial (more likely, the broker's E and OE insurer will settle before Trial). If the Broker didn't bend over backward to make sure the buyer knew what was going on, then they can expect to bend over forward for a little judicial schooling.
Probably for most users, Ubuntu is the best distribution for their situation (if they've fixed the wi-fi hassle, that is), or at least as good as any other options. Expert users will have a better idea what distro they need, but they're probably not looking for an alternative to Windows.
Since Ubuntu seems pretty serious about ushering in the Year of the Linux Desktop, yes, we may be soon seeing millions of clueless Ubuntu users.
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Encyclopedia Britannica is not really a valid source of information for a research paper anyway. Quite often the articles are out-of-date or represent the most conservative views in a given field. Your high school might allow you to quote EB (especially if all the original sources are in journals that the school can't afford to buy) but you shouldn't get into that habit, as after high school, you'll get your ass kicked if you try to quote EB as a primary source.
Do you really think that if a politician were taking illegal bribes from telecom companies (and I'm not saying that McCain is or isn't) that he would have either the braggadocio or the stupidity (depending on how you look at it, I guess) to report on his fscking tax return?
I'm sorry, but this argument doesn't pass the 'thought for five seconds' test. Here, let me fix that for you.
Because of course, all people who take bribes report them on their Income taxes...
I don't know if McCain does or does not accept cash for votes, but I do know that if finding evidence of bribery were as easy as checking out income tax records, all the lobby groups in Washington would be out of business.
(note that although this view sounds *horrors* communist, I don't believe that government intervention is the best way for working people to get fair value for their labour -- I'm more left-libertarian.)
Disclaimer: I've very much oversimplified my actual views here for the sake of brevity.
"What is mind? It doesn't matter.
What is matter? Never mind."
Homer
Except that the anti-particles would have negative mass -- we'd be looking for more dark matter, not less.
He's brought those deficit numbers back up where they belong!
Net neutrality isn't just about how much bandwidth the guy down the street is using, it's about control over the content providers as well as the consumers. throttling traffic from p2p clients is just low-hanging fruit. If Bell (for example) gets away with shaping p2p traffic, next they'll claim that VoIP traffic is clogging their tubes, and start to throttle that. Note that VoIP is a direct competitor to Bell's land-line and long distance offerings.
Similarly, cable companies may decide to throttle traffic from any site providing streaming video, whether it's legitimate or not. Is it fair that your cable company should be able to throttle NBC? Youtube? AppleTV?
If you allow shaping of one type of traffic, everything becomes fair game. Not having enforceable Net Neutrailty is leaving not just consumers, but all Internet content producers, completely vulnerable to coercion by the major ISPs.
Hrm, I thought WoW used a built-in torrent client to distribute patches, surely that would reduce the number of players downloading from Blizzard's servers?
Mods, this isn't funny, and could end up being a determining factor in global geopolitics for the foreseeable future. What happens to all those lonely men who can't get women for themselves? Why, they join the Army of course. And what do you do with an army? Why, go get yourself some women of course.
Blue is the colour most often taken by the sky on a cloudless day.
9 pounds in 6 weeks is A LOT...most non-quack diet and exercise regimens instruct you to expect between 1 and 3 pounds a month weight loss as being health.
I know this great one! I've been using it for a while on my...hey, wait a minute!
Gee, that's great, too bad you only get one shot with people, to make that first impression.
Indeed. Of course in Canada, between 30-50 percent of a person's pay ends up back in government coffers, between income tax, sales tax, and other hidden taxes in the various industries.
I do understand that it's harder to live in the US on minimum wage than it is in Canada (and I'm not saying that minimum wage is a bad idea), but it's no piece of cake here either. Free health care does no good if you can't afford to eat.
Please read my original post in this thread.
For the most part, I agree with your post. I would say that yes, we should have one standard. I don't think that means that ISO should be restricted to looking at one standard. Clearly, in this specific case, the OOXML standard is a steaming pile of...well anyway. That doesn't mean someone else won't come up with a much better idea in the future.
I would take Winston Churchill a step further and say that a bad fanatic is one who can't change his mind, but essentially your point is correct.
I don't think anyone would complain about Microsoft submitting standards for approval. The objections come when the spec for the standard submitted is 6000 pages long and includes some nuggets as "implement this as it's implemented in Windows 95" and associated garbage.
The objections become bellows when the same company, impatient with the approval process, sets out to buy votes to get the "standard" approved with minimal change.
I for one have a great deal of distaste for fanatics of all stripes, and I'm afraid Stallman and his more opinionated supporters do qualify as fanatics, but the process to date of getting OOXML qualified as an ISO standard has been a farce, and no amount of whinging on slashdot by AC fanbois (or MS sockpuppets) is going to change that.
By the way, I've lived on the Canadian minimum wage (ontario) and it's not much, let me tell you. Though the free health care is nice, you can't eat an emergency room visit. Luckily dumpster diving is not only an American sport.
We now return this thread to its regularly scheduled subject...
The "some legal theory" behind it is that the independent broker (this doesn't apply to employees of the Insurer or Finance company) works for you, not for the corporation. They have a duty to look out for your best interest, and if they don't, you can sue them. But the GP was holding the lenders and brokers morally responsible. I'm sorry, but you are an adult and have the legal right to vote and enter into contracts. If you got full disclosure of the APR and your monthly costs, it is your responsibility alone to figure out whether you can afford it. For what it's worth, I agree with you, but the law doesn't always work out that way. The key lies in the term "full disclosure". If a broker can prove they gave it, they probably will get off if it goes to Trial (more likely, the broker's E and OE insurer will settle before Trial). If the Broker didn't bend over backward to make sure the buyer knew what was going on, then they can expect to bend over forward for a little judicial schooling.
Probably for most users, Ubuntu is the best distribution for their situation (if they've fixed the wi-fi hassle, that is), or at least as good as any other options. Expert users will have a better idea what distro they need, but they're probably not looking for an alternative to Windows.
Since Ubuntu seems pretty serious about ushering in the Year of the Linux Desktop, yes, we may be soon seeing millions of clueless Ubuntu users.
Indeed, my time can be measured in dollars, hundreds of dollars if I'm at work.
Only if your time is worth nothing to you. :-p
Where I am, brokers owe a fiduciary duty to the buyer, not the lender. ymmv