Or you could just have a flat sales tax so its out in the open for everyone to see rather than this maze of tax code that's incomprehensible even to the people that write and maintain it.
That's hillarious... and the sign is the size of a post card. Apparently every time my wife wants me to pick up milk she's vandalizing our refrigerator.
Or politicians are money grubbing thieves and hope people wont notice a 20% tax because it's stuffed int their phone bill. But your theory could be correct to.
While I agree with you that it's extremely unlikely that a flare from either of these would hit us, I disagree with you on how serious it would be if they did. Relatively minor flares knock out satellites. Larger ones could easily cause a major extinction event. We have no scientific data regarding how often flares that larger happen, or how often they hit earth. But it is certainly within the realm of feasibility that one could be a very real problem for us in the future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooveshark kicks their ass all over the place. At first I thought Grooveshark would get sued out of existence, but it seems most record labels are signing deals with them now.
While I agree with you there, often Pandora will play stuff that's just ridiculous. I've got a progressive metal channel I listen to and at least once a day it throws in Justin Beiber or something equally insane.
I used to work with an "IT Professional" that had previously worked for the Geek Squad while he was in school. He bragged about all the money he got turning people in for illegal copies of Windows/Office. Microsoft would give him $100 for everyone he turned in and then call/threaten the person in question into buying a full copy of their software. I mentioned the fact that a lot of these people were probably totally unaware that someone had put illegal copies of windows on their computer (if they had the tech knowledge to be installing pirated copies of windows, they'd have little need for the geek squad) it was probably a relative or on the computer when they purchased it. His reply was "So?" at which point I decided he was a worthless excuse for a human being and stopped talking to him.
That said, turning in any business that's intentionally pirating software, even Microsofts, is morally legit in my book.
THIS could cinch it? The company I work for moves at the pace of a glacier. We're still running windows XP, office 2003 and and just got through a 2 year approval process to finally stop using IE6. But about a month after the first Androids were out they were approved and and deployed to nearly every manager in the company. It seems pretty cut and dry to me, Blackberry is dead and apple never really had a chance anyway. Whats sad is Microsoft could have had this market sewn up a decade ago but it seems like they've spent the past 10 years figuring out just how much fail they could stuff inside a PDA sized device. The fact that Palm Inc was kicking their ass back then with what could only be described as an OS slightly more sophisticated than an Atari 2600 (minus the color) should have told them something. Android, like all good ideas is something that you look at/use and then say "Oh yea, this is what everyone should have been doing all along." If I'm paying hundreds of dollars for a small device that I'm surely going to end up destroying in my washer at some point, the damned thing better do WHAT I want WHEN I want and HOW I want. I don't need Apple or Microsoft crawling up my ass, and for christs sake I don't need MS Office or iTunes on every god damned computer on earth. I know they make you guys a lot of money but for fucks sake, if I want that shit I'll put it on myself. Microsoft at least should have learned from their success, you make your software free, easy, unobtrusive until it becomes ubiquitous. Then when the whole world is dependent on you, you bring out the Vaseline and inform them that what follows will be just a tad less uncomfortable than what they'd have to go through to migrate away from your shit.
It used to be that people would hang out in diners and Perkins to read the paper, drink coffee, etc... Then kids started coming in with their fancy laptops and their wifi. What they hell do they think they're doing with their new fangled computer thingys!! So the coffee shops saw a niche, took advantage of it and dinners lost a lot of patrons... Now those kids have gotten older, and they themselves don't want kids coming in and annoying them... what are they doing bringing in those new fangeled tablets? Where's the keyboard?!? It's just not right! Get those kids outa here! These sorts of coffee shops will be on the way out the door as soon as the new "Hang out and show off my techno gadget" shop opens.
OR, the game is complete garbage and Crytek released it early intentionally so they could blame their failure on pirates and hackers. It's hard enough to have a development build leaked, but the master keys as well? Smells fishy to me. Even if they didn't release it intentionally, their security protocols must be completely lax for this sort of thing to have happened. Either way, it's completely Cryteks fault.
If Geohot is reading this, startup a donation website. I'm sure the world at large would be more than happy to send you replacement parts enough to build your own Beowulf cluster if you really wanted to.
If McAfee discovers your companies being hacked, you know your own security must be absolutely horrible. It's like Snooki uncovering a major terrorist plot.
Unfortunately the way in which your bank authenticates you would lead to revealing a level of detail about yourself that you'd rather not reveal to a throwaway email service you're going to be using for skulduggery against your own government. I think the real sollution here is for disidents to start usings more secure passwords. "RememberTiananmen69" ain't going to cut it anymore.
I used to work for Palm. They were idiots then and they're idiots now. Much like RadioShack they are a fixture that remains in business despite a business model should have driven them out of business decades ago. Every time I walk by an empty RadioShack in the mall with half a dozen "Salesmen" standing around bored, I think to myself "WTF?!?" Same goes for the empty Palm display at BestBuy.
I propose a plan in which politicians are no longer allowed to take any political contributions from anyone. They must advertise their campaigns by getting on the news with good ideas. Assuming Congress approves this plan, it could end political corruption once and for all!
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Or you could just have a flat sales tax so its out in the open for everyone to see rather than this maze of tax code that's incomprehensible even to the people that write and maintain it.
That's hillarious... and the sign is the size of a post card. Apparently every time my wife wants me to pick up milk she's vandalizing our refrigerator.
The funny thing is, you think the phone company hasn't already been doing everything you mention for years.
Or politicians are money grubbing thieves and hope people wont notice a 20% tax because it's stuffed int their phone bill. But your theory could be correct to.
Wheres my mod points when I need them. It's funny because it's true!
After all these years, Apple is still as capable of cutting its own throat like it was in the 80s. Oh the nostalgia.
they could have just used Google maps and given the agents real towns they might encounter.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9462
There are at least a dozen others as well.
After 15 years someone finally throws Palm developers a bone... you're about 14years too late. Nice gesture but your OS was DOA.
While I agree with you that it's extremely unlikely that a flare from either of these would hit us, I disagree with you on how serious it would be if they did. Relatively minor flares knock out satellites. Larger ones could easily cause a major extinction event. We have no scientific data regarding how often flares that larger happen, or how often they hit earth. But it is certainly within the realm of feasibility that one could be a very real problem for us in the future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooveshark kicks their ass all over the place. At first I thought Grooveshark would get sued out of existence, but it seems most record labels are signing deals with them now.
While I agree with you there, often Pandora will play stuff that's just ridiculous. I've got a progressive metal channel I listen to and at least once a day it throws in Justin Beiber or something equally insane.
I used to work with an "IT Professional" that had previously worked for the Geek Squad while he was in school. He bragged about all the money he got turning people in for illegal copies of Windows/Office. Microsoft would give him $100 for everyone he turned in and then call/threaten the person in question into buying a full copy of their software. I mentioned the fact that a lot of these people were probably totally unaware that someone had put illegal copies of windows on their computer (if they had the tech knowledge to be installing pirated copies of windows, they'd have little need for the geek squad) it was probably a relative or on the computer when they purchased it. His reply was "So?" at which point I decided he was a worthless excuse for a human being and stopped talking to him.
That said, turning in any business that's intentionally pirating software, even Microsofts, is morally legit in my book.
You're honest in job interviews? You're insane.
THIS could cinch it? The company I work for moves at the pace of a glacier. We're still running windows XP, office 2003 and and just got through a 2 year approval process to finally stop using IE6. But about a month after the first Androids were out they were approved and and deployed to nearly every manager in the company. It seems pretty cut and dry to me, Blackberry is dead and apple never really had a chance anyway. Whats sad is Microsoft could have had this market sewn up a decade ago but it seems like they've spent the past 10 years figuring out just how much fail they could stuff inside a PDA sized device. The fact that Palm Inc was kicking their ass back then with what could only be described as an OS slightly more sophisticated than an Atari 2600 (minus the color) should have told them something. Android, like all good ideas is something that you look at/use and then say "Oh yea, this is what everyone should have been doing all along." If I'm paying hundreds of dollars for a small device that I'm surely going to end up destroying in my washer at some point, the damned thing better do WHAT I want WHEN I want and HOW I want. I don't need Apple or Microsoft crawling up my ass, and for christs sake I don't need MS Office or iTunes on every god damned computer on earth. I know they make you guys a lot of money but for fucks sake, if I want that shit I'll put it on myself. Microsoft at least should have learned from their success, you make your software free, easy, unobtrusive until it becomes ubiquitous. Then when the whole world is dependent on you, you bring out the Vaseline and inform them that what follows will be just a tad less uncomfortable than what they'd have to go through to migrate away from your shit.
It used to be that people would hang out in diners and Perkins to read the paper, drink coffee, etc... Then kids started coming in with their fancy laptops and their wifi. What they hell do they think they're doing with their new fangled computer thingys!! So the coffee shops saw a niche, took advantage of it and dinners lost a lot of patrons... Now those kids have gotten older, and they themselves don't want kids coming in and annoying them... what are they doing bringing in those new fangeled tablets? Where's the keyboard?!? It's just not right! Get those kids outa here! These sorts of coffee shops will be on the way out the door as soon as the new "Hang out and show off my techno gadget" shop opens.
OR, the game is complete garbage and Crytek released it early intentionally so they could blame their failure on pirates and hackers. It's hard enough to have a development build leaked, but the master keys as well? Smells fishy to me. Even if they didn't release it intentionally, their security protocols must be completely lax for this sort of thing to have happened. Either way, it's completely Cryteks fault.
If Geohot is reading this, startup a donation website. I'm sure the world at large would be more than happy to send you replacement parts enough to build your own Beowulf cluster if you really wanted to.
Because I'm fairly sure Sony is going to get Mr Hotz 10yr old laptop with a fresh install of Debian on it.
Cars are 90% horse carriages repackaged with some added features (an engine.) So really, carriages are still very much relevant.
If McAfee discovers your companies being hacked, you know your own security must be absolutely horrible. It's like Snooki uncovering a major terrorist plot.
Unfortunately the way in which your bank authenticates you would lead to revealing a level of detail about yourself that you'd rather not reveal to a throwaway email service you're going to be using for skulduggery against your own government. I think the real sollution here is for disidents to start usings more secure passwords. "RememberTiananmen69" ain't going to cut it anymore.
I believe Mr Byrons concern in his post was if it were to become mandatory, which is mentioned in the original post.
I used to work for Palm. They were idiots then and they're idiots now. Much like RadioShack they are a fixture that remains in business despite a business model should have driven them out of business decades ago. Every time I walk by an empty RadioShack in the mall with half a dozen "Salesmen" standing around bored, I think to myself "WTF?!?" Same goes for the empty Palm display at BestBuy.
I propose a plan in which politicians are no longer allowed to take any political contributions from anyone. They must advertise their campaigns by getting on the news with good ideas. Assuming Congress approves this plan, it could end political corruption once and for all!