Quit being a douchebag. Did you see the part where they're capable of sending out billions of emails per day? That they cleared $400,000 in a month? Do the math. If they used.1% of that capacity, it's not even pennies per email. In a way you're right that people should stop sending money to spammers. However, at the numbers we're talking about, people with IQ's less than 75 alone could make these schemes profitable.
Says the obvious democrat. But seriously, I think you're wrong.
My point, of course, is that whining about agenda is a symptom of feeling the need crying bias about other people's ideas/opinions
Right, just like Einstein's theory of relativity is a symptom of his hatred of Newton. The other option is that the nobel committee has a clear bias towards what Americans view as the left, and people who point that out are doing so in an attempt to find the truth. Or, in other words, you're showing your own bias by your attack. If he's wrong, point it out, but the fact that he's crying "bias" just implies that he's of the opinion that they're biased, not that he feels insecure.
They've got a point. These projects are letting themselves be manipulated in any way that these nerds can imagine. No wonder they've got such a bad reputation.
Actually, I would expect that they would have a demo of the actual application set up, and there are only so many things you can lie about. In addition, if all three of the salespeople are there at once, they'll be sure to point out the lies of the other salespeople.
Questions that are tailored to your specific needs. Things about ease of administration, scaling, storage space, etc. I don't see that there are any general questions to be asked that aren't painfully obvious. The questioner didn't even specify whether the software was running on their own servers or on Yagoosoft's servers (I'm guessing the latter, since I haven't heard of a yahoo on-site solution). In the end, only you know what's most important to the university and, therefore, the things you need to ask about.
I've read articles about trying to find algorithms for beauty from plastic surgeons who do reconstructive surgeries. They're not striving to turn everyone into beauty queens, they're striving to take people with horribly mangled looks and turn them into someone who looks a little above average.
Other applications would include seeding several instances of the program with different cultures' opinions of beautiful photos and then comparing the results. Finding patterns in what people consider beautiful could be very valuable to social scientists.
As for the rest of your post, individuality and being different than everyone else is one of the defining attributes of many sub cultures, at least here in the US. I have never seen someone who was different being treated with abhorrence for their differences unless they were also correspondingly being dicks.
Wow, someone actually uses an internet standard email solution and everyone complains...This state of affairs is incredible! I mean.. what is the world coming to? Excuse me while I slit my wrists.
When it comes down to it, the best defense is to have nothing on the laptop that you don't want them to have access to. It's the same as not carrying anything in your briefcase you wouldn't want them to see. Full disk encryption will work, but then they could force you to type in the password, etc. If you want to fight the intrusiveness and fight for your privacy, then good for you, full disk encryption and refusing to type in the password will work for you. If you just want to get through fast without getting hassled, then bring a laptop with nothing on it but the essentials (assuming your business won't get you landed in jail), let them do their thing, and go through.
Bullshit. You can copy portions of the work for a scholarly work (which a documentary is, or at least attempting to be) for the intent to criticize it as long as it doesn't take too much of the work or take away from the original works market. So, in this case, it's at least attempting to be a scholarly work that's criticizing 15 seconds of one of the most famous songs from the most famous band in US history. For some reason I don't think that this 15 second clip is going to undermine their attempts to sell the song.
Don't agree with the film all you want, but this is clearly fair use.
So fair use is only applicable when it's a view you agree with? Or do rights extend to people you don't agree with too? I thought the whole point of defending people found with child pornography and such was that if you don't let the evil scum have a right, you won't have the right either.
You're on the wrong forum for that line of reasoning. You'll want to find a site that's either anti-censorship or pro-porn. Good luck finding something like that on the internet.
he's being punished for making Sarah Palin and thus the GOP look bad.
He's being punished for breaking the law in a high-profile way. Millions of people get away with speeding every day, yet if I were to speed past a vigil for children killed by reckless drivers, and TV cameras caught it and it became a big news story, I'd expect to get busted for it. High profile crimes are typically prosecuted in a high profile way.
As for the assertion that it made the GOP look bad, how so? There was nothing incriminating there, he even commented himself on how disappointed he was when he was unable to find something to use against her. If anything, it's a net positive for the GOP since they've been victimized by a crime from Obama's supporters without any damage being done in the long run.
People watch Hulu because they don't want to pay for the equivalent cable channels
Actually, I'm just the opposite. The content that's on cable channels I can watch pretty easily, although sometimes I'll re-watch it on Hulu. I get my normal channel content through Hulu, because I don't have the time or the energy to keep track of when the next episode of something's going to show. I'll just take the one week wait and watch it on Hulu later.
There isn't anyone worth $35 million (or whatever it was) for 19 days of work. I'm not even sure there is anyone really worth $35 million a year, but that is my opinion.
Michael Jordan was probably worth that back in his prime for ads. Air Jordans were the most recognizable brand of shoe for a long time, and I can't imagine that Nike didn't make at least $1 billion off of it. 3.5% commission sounds downright small when you look at it that way.
How can you forget Obama's famous quote about people clinging to guns and xenophobia out of bitterness over lost jobs? What about the post on Slashdot that Palin should stop using the word "betcha"? Have you seen the furor over Palin's belief in creationism? What about people who oppose all religion? All of these things show that they think they know better than the people that they're talking about.
People think that conservatives are anti-intellectual, which isn't necessarily the case. It's that they're anti-elitism. The school district where I grew up put in a math program that was utterly and completely worthless. Math scores tanked, parents complained, and it was hard to believe that even 30% of the parents supported the new math program. However, the district stuck to their guns because some college professors thought it was the best thing in the world. Everyone who had children in the math program knew it was absolute shit, but some people with doctorates who'd never used it in the real world thought they knew better. That's not anti-intellectual, that's justified anger.
When it comes down to it, there are people in this country and in the world who think that if you hold a certain belief, you are instantly a moron and someone who isn't to be given respect. That's the very definition of condescension, and you can see it every day in Richard Dawkins, Slashdot, or almost any tech site.
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And ideally, I'd come home to find Alyson Hannigan oiled up and duct taped to my bed
You know you're pathetic when they're even unwilling in your fantasies.
The Aus economy would be in better hands if we threw the treasury at a 13yo girl in the mall
At least it would help Hot Topic through these rough times. At the very least the economy would look trendy.
Are you afraid that using software this complex and with such a bad interface will cripple them?
Quit being a douchebag. Did you see the part where they're capable of sending out billions of emails per day? That they cleared $400,000 in a month? Do the math. If they used .1% of that capacity, it's not even pennies per email. In a way you're right that people should stop sending money to spammers. However, at the numbers we're talking about, people with IQ's less than 75 alone could make these schemes profitable.
My point, of course, is that whining about agenda is a symptom of feeling the need crying bias about other people's ideas/opinions
Right, just like Einstein's theory of relativity is a symptom of his hatred of Newton. The other option is that the nobel committee has a clear bias towards what Americans view as the left, and people who point that out are doing so in an attempt to find the truth. Or, in other words, you're showing your own bias by your attack. If he's wrong, point it out, but the fact that he's crying "bias" just implies that he's of the opinion that they're biased, not that he feels insecure.
If it's coded properly, open sourced and widely scrutinized, electronic voting would be more resilient than pen and paper voting.
to create velociraptors by exposing frogs to
That could only lead to chaos.
They've got a point. These projects are letting themselves be manipulated in any way that these nerds can imagine. No wonder they've got such a bad reputation.
Yeah, but you don't make it publicly available via http, ftp and torrent.
I find your optimism amusing.
As opposed to writing horrible code that wouldn't even be able to pass the tests?
Actually, I would expect that they would have a demo of the actual application set up, and there are only so many things you can lie about. In addition, if all three of the salespeople are there at once, they'll be sure to point out the lies of the other salespeople.
Questions that are tailored to your specific needs. Things about ease of administration, scaling, storage space, etc. I don't see that there are any general questions to be asked that aren't painfully obvious. The questioner didn't even specify whether the software was running on their own servers or on Yagoosoft's servers (I'm guessing the latter, since I haven't heard of a yahoo on-site solution). In the end, only you know what's most important to the university and, therefore, the things you need to ask about.
I've read articles about trying to find algorithms for beauty from plastic surgeons who do reconstructive surgeries. They're not striving to turn everyone into beauty queens, they're striving to take people with horribly mangled looks and turn them into someone who looks a little above average.
Other applications would include seeding several instances of the program with different cultures' opinions of beautiful photos and then comparing the results. Finding patterns in what people consider beautiful could be very valuable to social scientists.
As for the rest of your post, individuality and being different than everyone else is one of the defining attributes of many sub cultures, at least here in the US. I have never seen someone who was different being treated with abhorrence for their differences unless they were also correspondingly being dicks.
Wow, someone actually uses an internet standard email solution and everyone complains...This state of affairs is incredible! I mean.. what is the world coming to? Excuse me while I slit my wrists.
You're right, they're clearly overreacting.
When it comes down to it, the best defense is to have nothing on the laptop that you don't want them to have access to. It's the same as not carrying anything in your briefcase you wouldn't want them to see. Full disk encryption will work, but then they could force you to type in the password, etc. If you want to fight the intrusiveness and fight for your privacy, then good for you, full disk encryption and refusing to type in the password will work for you. If you just want to get through fast without getting hassled, then bring a laptop with nothing on it but the essentials (assuming your business won't get you landed in jail), let them do their thing, and go through.
Bullshit. You can copy portions of the work for a scholarly work (which a documentary is, or at least attempting to be) for the intent to criticize it as long as it doesn't take too much of the work or take away from the original works market. So, in this case, it's at least attempting to be a scholarly work that's criticizing 15 seconds of one of the most famous songs from the most famous band in US history. For some reason I don't think that this 15 second clip is going to undermine their attempts to sell the song.
Don't agree with the film all you want, but this is clearly fair use.
So fair use is only applicable when it's a view you agree with? Or do rights extend to people you don't agree with too? I thought the whole point of defending people found with child pornography and such was that if you don't let the evil scum have a right, you won't have the right either.
You're on the wrong forum for that line of reasoning. You'll want to find a site that's either anti-censorship or pro-porn. Good luck finding something like that on the internet.
he's being punished for making Sarah Palin and thus the GOP look bad.
He's being punished for breaking the law in a high-profile way. Millions of people get away with speeding every day, yet if I were to speed past a vigil for children killed by reckless drivers, and TV cameras caught it and it became a big news story, I'd expect to get busted for it. High profile crimes are typically prosecuted in a high profile way.
As for the assertion that it made the GOP look bad, how so? There was nothing incriminating there, he even commented himself on how disappointed he was when he was unable to find something to use against her. If anything, it's a net positive for the GOP since they've been victimized by a crime from Obama's supporters without any damage being done in the long run.
People watch Hulu because they don't want to pay for the equivalent cable channels
Actually, I'm just the opposite. The content that's on cable channels I can watch pretty easily, although sometimes I'll re-watch it on Hulu. I get my normal channel content through Hulu, because I don't have the time or the energy to keep track of when the next episode of something's going to show. I'll just take the one week wait and watch it on Hulu later.
There isn't anyone worth $35 million (or whatever it was) for 19 days of work. I'm not even sure there is anyone really worth $35 million a year, but that is my opinion.
Michael Jordan was probably worth that back in his prime for ads. Air Jordans were the most recognizable brand of shoe for a long time, and I can't imagine that Nike didn't make at least $1 billion off of it. 3.5% commission sounds downright small when you look at it that way.
How can you forget Obama's famous quote about people clinging to guns and xenophobia out of bitterness over lost jobs? What about the post on Slashdot that Palin should stop using the word "betcha"? Have you seen the furor over Palin's belief in creationism? What about people who oppose all religion? All of these things show that they think they know better than the people that they're talking about.
People think that conservatives are anti-intellectual, which isn't necessarily the case. It's that they're anti-elitism. The school district where I grew up put in a math program that was utterly and completely worthless. Math scores tanked, parents complained, and it was hard to believe that even 30% of the parents supported the new math program. However, the district stuck to their guns because some college professors thought it was the best thing in the world. Everyone who had children in the math program knew it was absolute shit, but some people with doctorates who'd never used it in the real world thought they knew better. That's not anti-intellectual, that's justified anger.
When it comes down to it, there are people in this country and in the world who think that if you hold a certain belief, you are instantly a moron and someone who isn't to be given respect. That's the very definition of condescension, and you can see it every day in Richard Dawkins, Slashdot, or almost any tech site.
I propose a measure, call it the "Nixon Number"
That was very biased. Can we call it the "Freedom Number"?
Except the payoff for time invested is exponential, not linear. So even though you can't catch up, being a year behind means you're just 5% behind.
I believe you meant logarithmic.