A little bit off topic here, but do you ever worry that by pigeon-hole'ing people like that you may be inadvertently creating certain behavior in your customers? If you see the PITA come in, and treat him like a PITA, then he'll always act like a PITA. And the person with a historically small basket and lots of questions may go somewhere else when they grow up, buy a house, and and start making larger and larger purchases for home projects; and they won't think of you 'cause you treated him as a 'low value' customer until then. I know that White Plains is a big market, but can you really afford to run a one-shop-hardware-store on metrics like that? Do people really care that little about service?
OH no you didn't just pull out the "n" word on him... really, name calling? Your argument is the conservative equivalent of "well, YOU'RE a poopy-face!" I thought that the FCC ruling for net neutrality was good because it ensured a level playing field where real competition could take place; you know, one where companies could compete on the merits of their product and service and people could select the choice that fit them best. Now Comcast can give priority to their VOIP product while dropping Skype calls, and stream their video while blocking HULU, and all on a network that the gov't paid for with our taxes and no one can do anything about it.
Think about it. That's not spoofing, that's giving an alternate callback number for the same entity. Spoofing a callback is saying you're someone else; like, say, a car "warrantee" company using a little old ladies number as their callback. Again, your bank agent is not spoofing by giving his own company's 1-800 number. I'm pretty sure that all of the phone companies already know how to route calls between networks and who owns them. How the heck do you think calls are routed currently?
Since this law allows for blocking, it's actually pretty good. I can think of no legitimate reason to want to initiate a call and pretend to be someone else.
Was it also mean to be an argument? DRM is what enables use of the media (or keeps it disabled), duh.
This pricing scheme is rotten. At least with DLC you could say to yourself, " well, there wasn't room on the disk or it wasn't completed yet, so I'll pony up $5 to cover costs". This is completed content, already on a disk which you've paid a license to use the content on. The cost of creation is already set, the media and license to content has been purchased, so it shouldn't be extra to use what's already been paid for.
Glad you're not building it then since your standard is "should". The problem of storage is that the material being stored is dangerous over geologic time scales. It's not good to wrap it in concrete and forget about it if the mountain that it's in is going to uplift or erode during the time that the sequestered material is still dangerous. That doesn't mean that we should abandon nuke plants, just that we need to understand and act reasonably about them. Cheerleaders like you hurt the rational arguments for them, and distract from the real business of dealing with the issues which arise from the use of nuclear fuel.
And I saw a bull SERVICING a cow the other day, too. The fraud is in the misrepresentation of the risk/benefit of being part of the "risk pool". In short, if you buy the insurance every time, you lose in the long run unless a ridiculously high number of products which you buy fail. If you don't get the insurance, then you win overall unless, again, a ridiculously high number of products which you buy fail. Salesmen prey on the fact that people, as a whole, are demonstrably bad at assessing real risk.
Thanks for making my later point that most people don't get/read the UI messages that pop up constantly. I know you do, it's the average Joe that doesn't; and sorry to tell you that there are a lot more of them than us. I only picked on Windows as it's both the object of the discussion and the worst offender at "alert me about everything". Remember that little story about the boy who cried wolf?
Bingo. If there's any story here, it's that Microsoft's reputation is so bad that people won't believe them even when they're right. That and that people aren't very technically minded. I once told my father to us a piece of software to monitor the SMART status on his HDD since it was "making a lot of noise". He just told me that he'd been doing it. About a year later he said that his laptop would barely run so I visited and noticed that the SMART was telling him that the HDD had irrecoverable errors and should be backed up and replaced immediately. When I asked how long it had been saying that, he replied that it had always said that (or something like it) since he first checked (at my encouragement). He just didn't think that it could be a real problem since the computer still ran at that time. Let's face it here, if a person is running Windows, they aren't going to believe that there's a problem until they can't work 'cause Windows gives alert after alert after alert and how can you know which ones to believe unless you're a "techie"? Sure if, you're reading here, you'll know, but 98% of people just don't.
What the NFL is "losing out on" is a share of the profits from the bar. They are just upset that they don't make even more money off of their schlock. Of course, if we're really to buy the reasoning that a bar profits more by showing the superbowl, then we may as well say that grocery stores should have to keep track of what you're buying food for and have to share with the NFL their "extra" profits from sales of beer and chips destined to be watched while the game is on. Heck, this could be a whole new revenue stream for media companies; going to watch the news while eating dinner? $$$ to local news channel. Like to have the today show on with your ham and eggs? Those pig and chicken farmers better pony up to NBC.
Did you ever listen in anguish as the instructor taught the students something that you knew to be fundamentally incorrect? Did you do this in college? I know I had moments like this.
Well, I did. And I learned a valuable lesson about how to talk to authority figures while correcting them. I didn't have much anguish as I was able to articulate the problem and work with another person to correct the issue. As long as I could point to a line of reasoning or an authority (such as a textbook) to make my argument I never had any trouble. And I learned to do this with many different teachers and their personalities.
Thanks for making another point about how non-homeschooling prepares you better for life!
Yeah, the tests aren't very realistic. In real life the cones are moving, sometimes disobey the traffic laws, change speed, and are holding phone conversations of their own. So your point is?
I think you better take a hard look at how currency is currently issued by real governments. It's been a long time since the gold and silver standards made money even somewhat real, and even longer since a piece of eight made money ultimately real. Heck, an argument could be made that outside of barter we all use the equivalent of star trek type credits already. All the courts are really saying here is that online currency is a form of property like any other than can be bought and sold.
I don't know about where you live, but out here in the middle east (of the U.S.A.) there are plenty of people who would invade their grandmother if gas gets above $4/gallon again and someone sold them a line that they could make fuel out of old people. Heck, they'd invade Canada just for the fun of it. Don't underestimate the stupid shit that people will believe. Heck, you believe that Hussein not only gave away WMD technology but that no evidence of it has turned up in other countries by now...
Dude, only the idiots responded by demanding greater safeguards. I figured that even if terrorist crashed 10 more planes, my odds where better at flying than driving on vacation, so I booked a super-discounted fare for a long-awaiting vacation right after 9/11. Saved me a bundle.
If you really think that the only people affected by seat belt laws are the ones who choose not to wear them, then look at your tax withholdings next paycheck and just imagine what percent goes to paying inflated medicare expenses due to the idiots getting spinal surgery on the hospital's dime 'cause they didn't wear their safety belt. Not saying that that justifies the seatbelt laws neccisarily, but it makes me feel better about them a bit. The TSA pisses me off as it's a huge expense with very little pay off relative to its cost. At least seat belt laws bring in local law-enforcement revenue along with saving money for non-beneficiary payers of medical bills.
Yes, the many are wrong quite often and often quite painfully (see mortgage bubble). The questions that we all have to answer both for ourselves and for our society is where to draw the line between making something right and taking away the freedom to be wrong.
Yeah, I totally agree with you. It's way more civilized to kill someone rather than just have them investigated. It would solve soooo many problems! Hey, and you could marry their wife after you've killed them and take care of their kids so that the rest of society doesn't have to pick up the tab for your ego too! Or wait, if duelling is legal, then the winner gets to kill the losers family too!
Joking aside, maybe if it was legal to say to someone who's in your face "stop now or I WILL fuck you up!" and have the resulting fight not be prosecutable because they were warned... well, if we could stop people short of the hospital (I don't want to have to pay some uninsured jerks medical bills for a fight), then you might be on to something.
Ever get the feeling that the asshats trying to pass this type of legislation do all sorts of crazy shit, can't restrain themselves, and subconsciously want to protect us from them? Like this guy? I never trust a politician who wants to pass new laws to "protect" me from anything. Murder is illegal. Rape is illegal. Prosecute accordingly; do we really need more laws to clarify what's already illegal? We already HAVE laws against almost everything we should, I wish they'd stop grandstanding and just enforce them already. At least this guys is getting what he deserves, and will be getting it for 44 more years...
Only community peer pressure or other factors can really have an effect in improving behavior.
Uh, laws, government, and standard punishments are institutionalized community/peer pressure. We are the government; what it does, it does in our name.
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I wonder if this means that I can use copyright law to make a couple of my office mates STFU and stop telling me about every football game they saw this weekend.
At least a vacuum cleaner that dies won't kill anybody.
Yeah, if our targeting information was off and missile fell into the sea instead of hitting a house somewhere...oh, wait.
Really, how many did the Navy buy? When we take deliveries we don't pay until we've tested that we've gotten what we've paid for and that's written into our purchase contracts.
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In a town I lived one cop gave his wife three to the chest for adultery. He must have been one of the "honest ones" too.
Don't mistake malice for anything but what it is.
A little bit off topic here, but do you ever worry that by pigeon-hole'ing people like that you may be inadvertently creating certain behavior in your customers? If you see the PITA come in, and treat him like a PITA, then he'll always act like a PITA. And the person with a historically small basket and lots of questions may go somewhere else when they grow up, buy a house, and and start making larger and larger purchases for home projects; and they won't think of you 'cause you treated him as a 'low value' customer until then. I know that White Plains is a big market, but can you really afford to run a one-shop-hardware-store on metrics like that? Do people really care that little about service?
At least he didn't write "Que" and wonder why those with a grasp of written English were slapping themselves in the face.
OH no you didn't just pull out the "n" word on him... really, name calling? Your argument is the conservative equivalent of "well, YOU'RE a poopy-face!" I thought that the FCC ruling for net neutrality was good because it ensured a level playing field where real competition could take place; you know, one where companies could compete on the merits of their product and service and people could select the choice that fit them best. Now Comcast can give priority to their VOIP product while dropping Skype calls, and stream their video while blocking HULU, and all on a network that the gov't paid for with our taxes and no one can do anything about it.
So, were you trying to describe every existing big news site (eg CNN) in your post?
~Hey, corporations are people too!/~
Think about it. That's not spoofing, that's giving an alternate callback number for the same entity. Spoofing a callback is saying you're someone else; like, say, a car "warrantee" company using a little old ladies number as their callback. Again, your bank agent is not spoofing by giving his own company's 1-800 number. I'm pretty sure that all of the phone companies already know how to route calls between networks and who owns them. How the heck do you think calls are routed currently?
Since this law allows for blocking, it's actually pretty good. I can think of no legitimate reason to want to initiate a call and pretend to be someone else.
Was it also mean to be an argument? DRM is what enables use of the media (or keeps it disabled), duh.
This pricing scheme is rotten. At least with DLC you could say to yourself, " well, there wasn't room on the disk or it wasn't completed yet, so I'll pony up $5 to cover costs". This is completed content, already on a disk which you've paid a license to use the content on. The cost of creation is already set, the media and license to content has been purchased, so it shouldn't be extra to use what's already been paid for.
Glad you're not building it then since your standard is "should". The problem of storage is that the material being stored is dangerous over geologic time scales. It's not good to wrap it in concrete and forget about it if the mountain that it's in is going to uplift or erode during the time that the sequestered material is still dangerous. That doesn't mean that we should abandon nuke plants, just that we need to understand and act reasonably about them. Cheerleaders like you hurt the rational arguments for them, and distract from the real business of dealing with the issues which arise from the use of nuclear fuel.
And I saw a bull SERVICING a cow the other day, too. The fraud is in the misrepresentation of the risk/benefit of being part of the "risk pool". In short, if you buy the insurance every time, you lose in the long run unless a ridiculously high number of products which you buy fail. If you don't get the insurance, then you win overall unless, again, a ridiculously high number of products which you buy fail. Salesmen prey on the fact that people, as a whole, are demonstrably bad at assessing real risk.
Thanks for making my later point that most people don't get/read the UI messages that pop up constantly. I know you do, it's the average Joe that doesn't; and sorry to tell you that there are a lot more of them than us. I only picked on Windows as it's both the object of the discussion and the worst offender at "alert me about everything". Remember that little story about the boy who cried wolf?
Bingo. If there's any story here, it's that Microsoft's reputation is so bad that people won't believe them even when they're right. That and that people aren't very technically minded. I once told my father to us a piece of software to monitor the SMART status on his HDD since it was "making a lot of noise". He just told me that he'd been doing it. About a year later he said that his laptop would barely run so I visited and noticed that the SMART was telling him that the HDD had irrecoverable errors and should be backed up and replaced immediately. When I asked how long it had been saying that, he replied that it had always said that (or something like it) since he first checked (at my encouragement). He just didn't think that it could be a real problem since the computer still ran at that time. Let's face it here, if a person is running Windows, they aren't going to believe that there's a problem until they can't work 'cause Windows gives alert after alert after alert and how can you know which ones to believe unless you're a "techie"? Sure if, you're reading here, you'll know, but 98% of people just don't.
What the NFL is "losing out on" is a share of the profits from the bar. They are just upset that they don't make even more money off of their schlock. Of course, if we're really to buy the reasoning that a bar profits more by showing the superbowl, then we may as well say that grocery stores should have to keep track of what you're buying food for and have to share with the NFL their "extra" profits from sales of beer and chips destined to be watched while the game is on. Heck, this could be a whole new revenue stream for media companies; going to watch the news while eating dinner? $$$ to local news channel. Like to have the today show on with your ham and eggs? Those pig and chicken farmers better pony up to NBC.
Well, I did. And I learned a valuable lesson about how to talk to authority figures while correcting them. I didn't have much anguish as I was able to articulate the problem and work with another person to correct the issue. As long as I could point to a line of reasoning or an authority (such as a textbook) to make my argument I never had any trouble. And I learned to do this with many different teachers and their personalities.
Thanks for making another point about how non-homeschooling prepares you better for life!
Yeah, the tests aren't very realistic. In real life the cones are moving, sometimes disobey the traffic laws, change speed, and are holding phone conversations of their own. So your point is?
I think you better take a hard look at how currency is currently issued by real governments. It's been a long time since the gold and silver standards made money even somewhat real, and even longer since a piece of eight made money ultimately real. Heck, an argument could be made that outside of barter we all use the equivalent of star trek type credits already. All the courts are really saying here is that online currency is a form of property like any other than can be bought and sold.
I don't know about where you live, but out here in the middle east (of the U.S.A.) there are plenty of people who would invade their grandmother if gas gets above $4/gallon again and someone sold them a line that they could make fuel out of old people. Heck, they'd invade Canada just for the fun of it. Don't underestimate the stupid shit that people will believe. Heck, you believe that Hussein not only gave away WMD technology but that no evidence of it has turned up in other countries by now...
Dude, only the idiots responded by demanding greater safeguards. I figured that even if terrorist crashed 10 more planes, my odds where better at flying than driving on vacation, so I booked a super-discounted fare for a long-awaiting vacation right after 9/11. Saved me a bundle.
If you really think that the only people affected by seat belt laws are the ones who choose not to wear them, then look at your tax withholdings next paycheck and just imagine what percent goes to paying inflated medicare expenses due to the idiots getting spinal surgery on the hospital's dime 'cause they didn't wear their safety belt. Not saying that that justifies the seatbelt laws neccisarily, but it makes me feel better about them a bit. The TSA pisses me off as it's a huge expense with very little pay off relative to its cost. At least seat belt laws bring in local law-enforcement revenue along with saving money for non-beneficiary payers of medical bills.
Yes, the many are wrong quite often and often quite painfully (see mortgage bubble). The questions that we all have to answer both for ourselves and for our society is where to draw the line between making something right and taking away the freedom to be wrong.
Yeah, I totally agree with you. It's way more civilized to kill someone rather than just have them investigated. It would solve soooo many problems! Hey, and you could marry their wife after you've killed them and take care of their kids so that the rest of society doesn't have to pick up the tab for your ego too! Or wait, if duelling is legal, then the winner gets to kill the losers family too!
Joking aside, maybe if it was legal to say to someone who's in your face "stop now or I WILL fuck you up!" and have the resulting fight not be prosecutable because they were warned... well, if we could stop people short of the hospital (I don't want to have to pay some uninsured jerks medical bills for a fight), then you might be on to something.
Ever get the feeling that the asshats trying to pass this type of legislation do all sorts of crazy shit, can't restrain themselves, and subconsciously want to protect us from them? Like this guy? I never trust a politician who wants to pass new laws to "protect" me from anything. Murder is illegal. Rape is illegal. Prosecute accordingly; do we really need more laws to clarify what's already illegal? We already HAVE laws against almost everything we should, I wish they'd stop grandstanding and just enforce them already. At least this guys is getting what he deserves, and will be getting it for 44 more years...
Uh, laws, government, and standard punishments are institutionalized community/peer pressure. We are the government; what it does, it does in our name.
I wonder if this means that I can use copyright law to make a couple of my office mates STFU and stop telling me about every football game they saw this weekend.
The politicians are the lapdogs of the new nobility. Get it straight.
Yeah, if our targeting information was off and missile fell into the sea instead of hitting a house somewhere...oh, wait.
Really, how many did the Navy buy? When we take deliveries we don't pay until we've tested that we've gotten what we've paid for and that's written into our purchase contracts.