Also, if I rent the game from GameFly, am I going to be able to play the game online?
I expect lawsuits from NetFlix, GameFly, and many other entities in short order.
I committed to never buying another Sony product as long as I live many years ago when they fraudulently charged my credit card for a subscription fee, then refused to refund it. This is just icing on the cake.
It's true that this is a voluntary plan... They're just going to make the premiums artificially low so that private firms cannot compete and go under. Nobody is forcing you to buy an iPod... But if you want one, you're going to have to buy it from Apple.
I don't wonder. I don't care that they don't have respect for me. Many noble lives have been lost in defense of their right to be ignorant, and I have the utmost respect for that, and their Marine-provided right to lack respect for Marines.
As a U.S. Marine myself, I can't explain how proud I am of the restraint exercised by these brave men. Saddam was a coward - nothing more than a stuffed shirt. To have his dignity obliterated in this way, without doing him such bodily harm as to shorten his exposure, is too satisfying for words to describe...
Personally, I would have found the families of the men, women, and children that he murdered in cold blood, and allowed them a few minutes alone with him. There are people in this world who deserve torture, and Saddam Hussein is a prime example.
If you won't even go through the effort to prove to me that you are willing to go through a bunch of bullshit for something you want, then why should I trust you to go through the bullshit that will show up as a matter of course in any job for a paycheck? What is there to tell me that you won't just coast and accept said check and mail it in, day after day after day?
You're right... It might have been my military experience that got me the job, if jumping through hoops and being willing to go through a bunch of bullshit for something you want are qualifications... haha
I have been working in the Information Security group with a global Fortune 100 company for nearly 2 years now, and am paid just barely below the median salary for the job description. I had nothing more than 1.5 years of college and 4 years in the Marine Corps when I landed my current position.
There are employers out there that are definitely willing to take a look at your personal experience and desire to learn new things.
I was specifically told that the 'personal experience' section of my resume, in which I gushed about the mini datacenter in my laundry room and my creating DOOM maps and running a BBS as a kid in my spare time, was the big reason I was hired. I showed that I had a genuine interest in IT, and I wasn't just going through the motions for the money.
Don't get me wrong, there are some asshole hiring managers out there that will take one look at a blurb like that and write you off post haste, but you're probably better off without that job anyway.
Obama is not taking money from the Rich and giving it to the poor, he is simply taking more from the rich and *keeping it* for running the government. Saying that is marxist clearly shows you have a very poor understanding about what both Marx and Obama support.
Should I link to a youtube of Obama actually speaking the phrase, "When you spread the wealth around, I think it's good for everybody."?
It's silly to think Obama is 'keeping' the money to run the government. It's crystal-clear he plans to 'spread it around', in perfect alignment with the aforementioned Marxist ideal. It's certainly a terrible idea in principle, but I've never seen it done on such a grand scale as Obama proposes, so I can't really argue how good or bad it will actually be. It might move so much money to the poor and raise prices charged by big businesses so much, it would be a complete wash.
Everyone is always worried that the big business makes too much money and the poor aren't receiving what they are entitled to simply by gracing us with their presence, so tax credits (not cuts, but credits, aka mass welfare) will continue to put free money in the pockets of the poor, while the middle class just gets a partial refund of what they already paid, and big business raises their prices to cover the tax increase. In the end, the middle class will always foot the bill. Redistribution simply moves the middle class into the poor class. Big business will always either make the money they want, or leave the country. It's a plain and simple fact.
When the guy who keeps picking up the tab stops coming to happy hour, who's going to pay now? Uh oh...
I swear, the first thing that popped into my head was the personality alignment system of Dungeons & Dragons. I always played a Neutral-Good Elf Psionic...
Maybe we could put together a Politics RPG - I wouldn't mind being a Liberal-Good Socialist or perhaps a Conservative-Neutral Carpetbagger.
Or, maybe, just have the refineries put a big one on the output valve of their pipeline so we won't need to put small ones on each injector in every car on the planet.
What's the difference between that and putting it on the fuel line? Seems to me that would almost/completely negate the effect...
Mostly personal reasons, really. The players were cheaper, the movies were a little bit cheaper, the blank media was slated to be half the price or less, the quality was the same or better, it had wider support from the studios in the beginning... There were definitely some advantages from the DRM standpoint as well, at least for those of us who like to keep our movie archive on a brick of hard drives for use on a media center.
There were also a lot of advances in storage capacity in the works, but I can't speak much to that. I'm pretty sure I heard 150-300gb at some point in the conversation...
Wow... I'm sorry, but I really don't feel like continuing this conversation after reading all that... You're in so deep, you can't be brought back. Have fun with those conspiracy theories and living in fear, man. You don't appreciate what I did for you, that's fine, you don't have to. You're part of the reason I did what I did, and that's what makes America an...interesting...place to live.
I already picked the superior format (HD-DVD) and Sony purchased its demise... The absolute last thing I'm going to do is purchase the Sony format.
That's like... Someone brings out a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle for $15,000 brand new that runs well, handles well, and is an all-around great car. You go ahead and make a purchase. Then, some conglomerate comes to market with a car that runs on cat shit for $10k and puts the fuel cell company out of business.
I'll walk, thanks.
You can throw in all the free cats and laxative kitty treats you want, I'm not buying.
I'm gonna go WAY out on a limb here and say... Democrat?
Really? Then why is it that almost every member of America's military marched off to Bush's illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq without so much as a whimper?
...because almost every member of America's military believes in the cause... The ones that didn't exercised their rights as a "conscientious objector" and didn't go. That's what democracy is all about. You have every right to walk all over it and call every preemptive strike an 'illegal action' if you so choose. Personally, if you make a motion like you're going to hit me, you better believe I'm going to tie your ass in a knot whether or not you connected with your first punch.
I remain completely mystified as to how a war that was approved by the VAST majority of not only the government, but the American people (73%, if I remember correctly) can be considered 'illegal'. If someone wants to investigate whether or not the president knew the intel was inaccurate, please, knock yourself out and get back to us. Don't forget the proof, though.
Well, I don't know why the defense made that statement. Whoever it was certainly lied directly to the judge's face. I can state that as an absolute fact, having been personally involved in said disobedience.
Hmm. So you detest those who participated in the criminal invasion of Iraq, then hid in the Green Zone or in FOBs, unwilling to fight the fight with insurgents that they provoked?
Well, no... I more detest those who participated in the criminal slaughter of over 3000 innocent civilians, and all those who supported their efforts, whether openly or covertly, then hid in the mountains of Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Syria, and used innocent civilians as human shields, lopped off the heads of innocent reporters, and placed IEDs in easy reach of children playing in fields. (This particular example I know all too well... I gave blood to a 5 year-old girl who lost a hand while playing with an IED planted by an Iraqi terrorist, whom we later captured and did NOT kill.) - At any rate, the provocation is obvious to all but the most severely disabled of minds.
Why do you think Iran and Russia have such a beef with us, rather than with, say, Switzerland?
...because we are more powerful than them. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. These are evil men with evil motives, whose people live in poverty MUCH greater than America's, and their power-hungry governments are entirely to blame. I'm not saying we're not headed down the same path, but life is full of choices between the lesser of two evils. At least America has a few checks and balances in place... At the moment, America is absolutely the best place on Earth to be, but this can always change tomorrow. (It may change as soon as November 4th if we end up choosing to switch over to socialism.)
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when all you have is a military-industrial complex, everything looks like a reason to bomb or invade someone.
...and when all you have is the perceptions of a reporter from half a world away, everything looks like a human rights violation. When it's right there in your face every single day for nearly 2 years of your life, you begin to think much more clearly about the whole thing.
...Then when they hand the employee the gold, hit "cancel", ban the account/credit card/product key, and call the credit card company to dispute the charges citing "product/service not received".
In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sense
...Thank God for this, in America's military our moral judgment is not only encouraged, it is celebrated. I can think of a great many instances where I could have shot, but didn't... Probably should have shot, but didn't... And at every turn, I received a pat on the back for my judgment.
I do detest those who pick a fight, then hide in the bushes and buildings, unwilling to fight the fight they brought upon themselves like men. Not stupid men (i.e., the British standing in a tight block, waiting to be shot), mind you, but men.
Hero? Martyr? I would never claim the title... I'm perfectly satisfied with the unexpected 'thank you' I get from time to time when someone notices my tattoo of the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor.
The bottom line is, if there were no organized military in America, you'd be climbing a tree or hiding in a bush every few months trying to defend the country you love when Iran or Russia decides to take a swim over here to rape our wives. That's a fact.
He's only cursing those who march joyfully, as well he should.
Is it really that bad to love your country and enjoy the privilege of defending it?
If you're referring to the act of 'marching joyfully' by itself, I did rather enjoy marching in rank and file to music in my high school's marching band... I also spent 4 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, and rather enjoyed that as well.
I think Einstein was speaking with the perspective he was given by life in Germany. This is the perspective I did not take into consideration when originally interpreting his quote. If I had been in his shoes, had I been subjected to the same experiences, and had I been shown the same 'evil' side of 'patriotism', I may have formed the same opinion.
Growing up in America and spending 4 years in the American armed forces, I simply have no basis for comparison.
I had no idea Einstein was so ignorant... He cursed the very thing that afforded him the opportunity to speak freely and share the benefit of his advances.
Thanks for this... What a fascinating dichotomy of perceptions...
...unless it was really unforeseeable that you'd need it...
Exactly right...which is why I said:
...if it isn't immediately obvious to do so.
I don't worry too much about the retention policy. Generally speaking, the only thing that would burn me is attachments. I am in the security group, so just about everything that crosses my desk is an emergency and is completely resolved within a week or two. I just save off all attachments, and if an email I need is getting really old, I forward it to myself to reset the timer.
FWIW, I think a better approach would be to give users a single folder (and allow child-folders beneath it, of course) that is exempt from the retention policy, but still must adhere to the mailbox storage quota. This would allow people to save important messages they need to do their job, but also force the user to keep it clean in order to keep receiving new messages.
My company has been doing this for years, but our policy is only 90 days. I do go ahead and copy any 'really important' emails into OpenOffice documents, but these are few and far between.
I find that the best way to get policies changed is to emphasize their faults. When my company started docking pay for not submitting a change request to reboot a broken production server, I basically started submitting change requests every time I had to take a shit. This policy hasn't changed yet, but I guarantee it will.
Let the emails get deleted. Don't go out of your way to save them if it isn't immediately obvious to do so. When my emails go missing and I need them, I let the management know 'the retention policy ate it'. Whether they like the excuse or not, it's a fact that the missing information is not my fault, and this will hold up in court if I ever have to sue for unlawful termination.
It's a job. I'm paid to do it. If I have to re-do work as a result of something like this, I'll get paid just as much the second time as I did the first. *shrug*
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Also, if I rent the game from GameFly, am I going to be able to play the game online? I expect lawsuits from NetFlix, GameFly, and many other entities in short order. I committed to never buying another Sony product as long as I live many years ago when they fraudulently charged my credit card for a subscription fee, then refused to refund it. This is just icing on the cake.
That is all.
It's true that this is a voluntary plan... They're just going to make the premiums artificially low so that private firms cannot compete and go under. Nobody is forcing you to buy an iPod... But if you want one, you're going to have to buy it from Apple.
I don't wonder. I don't care that they don't have respect for me. Many noble lives have been lost in defense of their right to be ignorant, and I have the utmost respect for that, and their Marine-provided right to lack respect for Marines.
Outstanding!
As a U.S. Marine myself, I can't explain how proud I am of the restraint exercised by these brave men. Saddam was a coward - nothing more than a stuffed shirt. To have his dignity obliterated in this way, without doing him such bodily harm as to shorten his exposure, is too satisfying for words to describe...
Personally, I would have found the families of the men, women, and children that he murdered in cold blood, and allowed them a few minutes alone with him. There are people in this world who deserve torture, and Saddam Hussein is a prime example.
If you won't even go through the effort to prove to me that you are willing to go through a bunch of bullshit for something you want, then why should I trust you to go through the bullshit that will show up as a matter of course in any job for a paycheck? What is there to tell me that you won't just coast and accept said check and mail it in, day after day after day?
You're right... It might have been my military experience that got me the job, if jumping through hoops and being willing to go through a bunch of bullshit for something you want are qualifications... haha
I have been working in the Information Security group with a global Fortune 100 company for nearly 2 years now, and am paid just barely below the median salary for the job description. I had nothing more than 1.5 years of college and 4 years in the Marine Corps when I landed my current position.
There are employers out there that are definitely willing to take a look at your personal experience and desire to learn new things.
I was specifically told that the 'personal experience' section of my resume, in which I gushed about the mini datacenter in my laundry room and my creating DOOM maps and running a BBS as a kid in my spare time, was the big reason I was hired. I showed that I had a genuine interest in IT, and I wasn't just going through the motions for the money.
Don't get me wrong, there are some asshole hiring managers out there that will take one look at a blurb like that and write you off post haste, but you're probably better off without that job anyway.
Good luck.
Obama is not taking money from the Rich and giving it to the poor, he is simply taking more from the rich and *keeping it* for running the government. Saying that is marxist clearly shows you have a very poor understanding about what both Marx and Obama support.
Should I link to a youtube of Obama actually speaking the phrase, "When you spread the wealth around, I think it's good for everybody."?
It's silly to think Obama is 'keeping' the money to run the government. It's crystal-clear he plans to 'spread it around', in perfect alignment with the aforementioned Marxist ideal. It's certainly a terrible idea in principle, but I've never seen it done on such a grand scale as Obama proposes, so I can't really argue how good or bad it will actually be. It might move so much money to the poor and raise prices charged by big businesses so much, it would be a complete wash.
Everyone is always worried that the big business makes too much money and the poor aren't receiving what they are entitled to simply by gracing us with their presence, so tax credits (not cuts, but credits, aka mass welfare) will continue to put free money in the pockets of the poor, while the middle class just gets a partial refund of what they already paid, and big business raises their prices to cover the tax increase. In the end, the middle class will always foot the bill. Redistribution simply moves the middle class into the poor class. Big business will always either make the money they want, or leave the country. It's a plain and simple fact.
When the guy who keeps picking up the tab stops coming to happy hour, who's going to pay now? Uh oh...
groups that are polling strongly pro-Obama (e.g., active duty military...
http://www.militarytimes.com/static/projects/pages/081003_ep_2pp.pdf
You'll notice only one mostly blue pie-chart out of the 15 on the page, then you can look at the heading for the obvious reason behind the result.
I swear, the first thing that popped into my head was the personality alignment system of Dungeons & Dragons. I always played a Neutral-Good Elf Psionic...
Maybe we could put together a Politics RPG - I wouldn't mind being a Liberal-Good Socialist or perhaps a Conservative-Neutral Carpetbagger.
68. You do me and I'll owe you one.
Or, maybe, just have the refineries put a big one on the output valve of their pipeline so we won't need to put small ones on each injector in every car on the planet.
What's the difference between that and putting it on the fuel line? Seems to me that would almost/completely negate the effect...
[citation needed]
Mostly personal reasons, really. The players were cheaper, the movies were a little bit cheaper, the blank media was slated to be half the price or less, the quality was the same or better, it had wider support from the studios in the beginning... There were definitely some advantages from the DRM standpoint as well, at least for those of us who like to keep our movie archive on a brick of hard drives for use on a media center.
There were also a lot of advances in storage capacity in the works, but I can't speak much to that. I'm pretty sure I heard 150-300gb at some point in the conversation...
Wow... I'm sorry, but I really don't feel like continuing this conversation after reading all that... You're in so deep, you can't be brought back. Have fun with those conspiracy theories and living in fear, man. You don't appreciate what I did for you, that's fine, you don't have to. You're part of the reason I did what I did, and that's what makes America an...interesting...place to live.
...you've been talking to my wife, haven't you?
I already picked the superior format (HD-DVD) and Sony purchased its demise... The absolute last thing I'm going to do is purchase the Sony format.
That's like... Someone brings out a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle for $15,000 brand new that runs well, handles well, and is an all-around great car. You go ahead and make a purchase. Then, some conglomerate comes to market with a car that runs on cat shit for $10k and puts the fuel cell company out of business.
I'll walk, thanks.
You can throw in all the free cats and laxative kitty treats you want, I'm not buying.
Really? Then why is it that almost every member of America's military marched off to Bush's illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq without so much as a whimper?
...because almost every member of America's military believes in the cause... The ones that didn't exercised their rights as a "conscientious objector" and didn't go. That's what democracy is all about. You have every right to walk all over it and call every preemptive strike an 'illegal action' if you so choose. Personally, if you make a motion like you're going to hit me, you better believe I'm going to tie your ass in a knot whether or not you connected with your first punch.
I remain completely mystified as to how a war that was approved by the VAST majority of not only the government, but the American people (73%, if I remember correctly) can be considered 'illegal'. If someone wants to investigate whether or not the president knew the intel was inaccurate, please, knock yourself out and get back to us. Don't forget the proof, though.
Why is it that the the defense in the court-martial of Corporal Trent D. Thomas asserted that "Marines in combat don't challenge orders"?
Well, I don't know why the defense made that statement. Whoever it was certainly lied directly to the judge's face. I can state that as an absolute fact, having been personally involved in said disobedience.
Hmm. So you detest those who participated in the criminal invasion of Iraq, then hid in the Green Zone or in FOBs, unwilling to fight the fight with insurgents that they provoked?
Well, no... I more detest those who participated in the criminal slaughter of over 3000 innocent civilians, and all those who supported their efforts, whether openly or covertly, then hid in the mountains of Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Syria, and used innocent civilians as human shields, lopped off the heads of innocent reporters, and placed IEDs in easy reach of children playing in fields. (This particular example I know all too well... I gave blood to a 5 year-old girl who lost a hand while playing with an IED planted by an Iraqi terrorist, whom we later captured and did NOT kill.) - At any rate, the provocation is obvious to all but the most severely disabled of minds.
Why do you think Iran and Russia have such a beef with us, rather than with, say, Switzerland?
...because we are more powerful than them. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. These are evil men with evil motives, whose people live in poverty MUCH greater than America's, and their power-hungry governments are entirely to blame. I'm not saying we're not headed down the same path, but life is full of choices between the lesser of two evils. At least America has a few checks and balances in place... At the moment, America is absolutely the best place on Earth to be, but this can always change tomorrow. (It may change as soon as November 4th if we end up choosing to switch over to socialism.)
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when all you have is a military-industrial complex, everything looks like a reason to bomb or invade someone.
...and when all you have is the perceptions of a reporter from half a world away, everything looks like a human rights violation. When it's right there in your face every single day for nearly 2 years of your life, you begin to think much more clearly about the whole thing.
...Then when they hand the employee the gold, hit "cancel", ban the account/credit card/product key, and call the credit card company to dispute the charges citing "product/service not received".
Truthful, legal, and best of all.... free.
In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sense
...Thank God for this, in America's military our moral judgment is not only encouraged, it is celebrated. I can think of a great many instances where I could have shot, but didn't... Probably should have shot, but didn't... And at every turn, I received a pat on the back for my judgment.
I do detest those who pick a fight, then hide in the bushes and buildings, unwilling to fight the fight they brought upon themselves like men. Not stupid men (i.e., the British standing in a tight block, waiting to be shot), mind you, but men.
Hero? Martyr? I would never claim the title... I'm perfectly satisfied with the unexpected 'thank you' I get from time to time when someone notices my tattoo of the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor.
The bottom line is, if there were no organized military in America, you'd be climbing a tree or hiding in a bush every few months trying to defend the country you love when Iran or Russia decides to take a swim over here to rape our wives. That's a fact.
He's only cursing those who march joyfully, as well he should.
Is it really that bad to love your country and enjoy the privilege of defending it?
If you're referring to the act of 'marching joyfully' by itself, I did rather enjoy marching in rank and file to music in my high school's marching band... I also spent 4 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, and rather enjoyed that as well.
I think Einstein was speaking with the perspective he was given by life in Germany. This is the perspective I did not take into consideration when originally interpreting his quote. If I had been in his shoes, had I been subjected to the same experiences, and had I been shown the same 'evil' side of 'patriotism', I may have formed the same opinion.
Growing up in America and spending 4 years in the American armed forces, I simply have no basis for comparison.
Isn't it ironic?
I had no idea Einstein was so ignorant... He cursed the very thing that afforded him the opportunity to speak freely and share the benefit of his advances.
Thanks for this... What a fascinating dichotomy of perceptions...
...unless it was really unforeseeable that you'd need it...
Exactly right...which is why I said:
...if it isn't immediately obvious to do so.
I don't worry too much about the retention policy. Generally speaking, the only thing that would burn me is attachments. I am in the security group, so just about everything that crosses my desk is an emergency and is completely resolved within a week or two. I just save off all attachments, and if an email I need is getting really old, I forward it to myself to reset the timer.
FWIW, I think a better approach would be to give users a single folder (and allow child-folders beneath it, of course) that is exempt from the retention policy, but still must adhere to the mailbox storage quota. This would allow people to save important messages they need to do their job, but also force the user to keep it clean in order to keep receiving new messages.
My company has been doing this for years, but our policy is only 90 days. I do go ahead and copy any 'really important' emails into OpenOffice documents, but these are few and far between.
I find that the best way to get policies changed is to emphasize their faults. When my company started docking pay for not submitting a change request to reboot a broken production server, I basically started submitting change requests every time I had to take a shit. This policy hasn't changed yet, but I guarantee it will.
Let the emails get deleted. Don't go out of your way to save them if it isn't immediately obvious to do so. When my emails go missing and I need them, I let the management know 'the retention policy ate it'. Whether they like the excuse or not, it's a fact that the missing information is not my fault, and this will hold up in court if I ever have to sue for unlawful termination.
It's a job. I'm paid to do it. If I have to re-do work as a result of something like this, I'll get paid just as much the second time as I did the first. *shrug*