Slashdot, once obsessed with the car analogy, is now fixated on hourly work as the one and only true business model. But there are many of them, all valid for different purposes. Consider: - hourly wage - per-contract bid (pretty close to hourly wage, but not the same) - annual salary - subscription model - rental - investment - transactional (buy low and sell high, irrespective of time put in) - patronage (mostly out of fashion) - group patronage (probably not the right term; think Kickstarter)
And then there's the thing that most copyrighted works do, where there's a whole bunch of up-front costs, and the idea is, if there's enough mass appeal, one entity can cover those costs in advance, and as long as a large number of people are willing to pay a fairly small amount for the ability to enjoy a work, it's successful enough for the process to be repeated with another work. It's not illogical. It's worked for centuries. It is a valid and consistent business model, in that if enough people play along, it works out okay.
Now, sure, it's easy to argue it's not perfect, on a lot of levels. But to argue it's a nonsensical business model, or fails simply because it's not an exact duplicate of some other business model, is just silly. You could just as easily ask, why don't I own an apartment after paying a month's rent? Why do I have to pay more than once? Or scold investors for putting in money but not time, because if you don't have hours worked, calculating their hourly rate produces a divide-by-zero error. When one thing is not another, sometimes an analogy between them just doesn't apply.
So, I can't tell if they're just really dumb and don't know how to spell, or if they're making a kind of tasteless joke, but either way, that's got to be about the worst name for a cat that I've ever heard.
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Definitely sad to hear. Also, a reminder that I need to read more of her work. I read the first Earthsea way back in junior high and know I enjoyed it. I can't remember now if I read any more of that series. I picked up Left Hand of Darkness in college and tried several times but failed to get into it, but can't remember why now. She's been on my to-read-more list ever since, and has gotten a lot of mentions on a number of literary and author's podcasts recently.
They say people often unconsciously pick careers that match their names (even loosely - there are more dentists named Dennis that you might expect, say). Obviously, this guy had a choice of going into piracy or video games. It's just destiny.
Heh. It's true. Stock isn't flashy until you convert it into something physical.
I ran the numbers on Apple several years ago, so I could be fuzzy. Might have miscounted a split or something, though in a retirement account dividends would have been re-invested, so maybe that's part of the difference.
Magnum's Ferrari was nice, but I just wanted Kitt from Knight Rider. Guess that's why I'm in computers.
Take 1000 bucks; buy 10 top-falling altcoins from top 200, spend 100 dollars worth on each. Wait until market recovers, sell them for a profit.
If I had money to play with, that's probably what I'd be doing. Though instead of just looking at which are falling most, I'd probably cross-correlate with currencies that already have a presence in a few major stores, to sort of boost their prospects at legitimacy and longevity. For instance, I think I've heard the Apple store took a few of them. If other places that I shopped also did, that would probably make them a more likely buy.
In the meantime I'll keep mining Vertcoin and Unitus, 1.5 VTC and 22-25 UIS per day.
That's useful info. I've been meaning to look into some that are also still minable in decent quantity, for little cost. Dabble in a few, and then more or less forget about them unless there's a big spike and then start cashing out.
Dissipation and dilution would take care of that, mostly. If you do it right in the first place, scrubbers go on before the factory even starts to pollute. Obviously that doesn't apply to retrofitting China, but if they put that policy in place today, air pollution would clear up pretty quickly, without the need for detached scrubbers.
That said, big cities pollute enough in a lot of different ways, that I can see the case for both on-site scrubbers to get the worst of the big stuff, and also conditionally-activated standalone scrubbers, which only turn on when the conditions get bad, just to give the air quality a little extra boost when there's an inversion layer trapping too much junk, say, or a fire breaks out.
Years ago I wrote some underwater adventures for a punny RPG, and I think I got lost in actual fish names for a good few hours. The variety and weirdness of what's out there is astonishing. Eventually I limited my own inventions to the things that people would mostly recognize, like a rabid dogfish, distempered catfish, mutant squidopus (9 arms), and a few others that, honestly, pale in comparison to some of the ones on the list.
There's an intriguing link at the bottom of the article, to a NaNoWriMo project about the first lines of novels. I tried following it, but my corporate web filter thinks it's fishy (heh, no pun intended). I may follow up at home.
No kidding. A co-worker talks of buying a few handfuls at $10 and getting out at $100 to buy a new gaming rig. At the time he was really thrilled with the turnout. That was the first I'd really heard of it, and it was already at the "mining them costs more in electricity than you get in coins" point, so I brushed it off as not worth the trouble.
Of course, I probably would have also had all my coins lost or stolen in the various scandals, and I'd be sitting here talking about what could have been, like that time I thought about putting a $5k profit sharing investment into Apple in 1999 but then dropped it into the Nasdaq instead. That $5k would have been worth $1 million a few years ago.
I haven't seen anyone mention yet that this also seems to really discourage charitable giving. (Unless I'm missing something?)
Given your examples above, in the first case where they're already itemizing, every dollar they give to any charity is going to come with the discount of their tax bracket (so, let's say 25% for most people).
In the second scenario, they'd have to give more than $10k in charity before they could get any benefit at all, and then it would only be 25% of those dollars beyond $10k. Which is improbable, because, one, who's going to donate that much, and two, alternative minimum tax probably gets in the way.
Seconded. It's pretty flexible, so you can tune it to take out the worst junk or almost everything. Mine is set to still allow shares, but it helped cut way back on ads and other spammy stuff.
Yeah. I learned in high school that you ask open-ended questions and let them give you their answer. Extensive projection, suggestion, and exposition, often leading to a yes-or-no response, is the opposite of what you want. I guess Terry is going for a more conversational process, but the more she talks, the more uncomfortable I get listening, and usually give up pretty quickly.
I can't believe I got modded troll for this, when it accurately describes the majority of the system, while the ignorance that replied to me is modded insightful. Stupid Slashdot moderation. People need to get out more.
I wish they would give up on it. I turn it off or dial it back as much as I can, and whenever I'm on another computer I'm always annoyed by how in my face it is.
The book "1491" has some great exploration of the North American populations and their development. Boiled down to one word, I think the answer is "maize."
Whenever I see "scientific consensus" I see someone who doesn't know what Science actually is. There is no consensus in science. Science doesn't require consensus, it requires testing and verification. Piltdown Man was once "Scientific Consensus" and we know how that turned out.
The acts of observing, testing, repeating, and verifying are literally a process of building a consensus.
If every time you see "scientific consensus" you hear "popularity contest" maybe you're creating a straw man rather than listening to the argument being made.
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Slashdot, once obsessed with the car analogy, is now fixated on hourly work as the one and only true business model. But there are many of them, all valid for different purposes. Consider:
- hourly wage
- per-contract bid (pretty close to hourly wage, but not the same)
- annual salary
- subscription model
- rental
- investment
- transactional (buy low and sell high, irrespective of time put in)
- patronage (mostly out of fashion)
- group patronage (probably not the right term; think Kickstarter)
And then there's the thing that most copyrighted works do, where there's a whole bunch of up-front costs, and the idea is, if there's enough mass appeal, one entity can cover those costs in advance, and as long as a large number of people are willing to pay a fairly small amount for the ability to enjoy a work, it's successful enough for the process to be repeated with another work. It's not illogical. It's worked for centuries. It is a valid and consistent business model, in that if enough people play along, it works out okay.
Now, sure, it's easy to argue it's not perfect, on a lot of levels. But to argue it's a nonsensical business model, or fails simply because it's not an exact duplicate of some other business model, is just silly. You could just as easily ask, why don't I own an apartment after paying a month's rent? Why do I have to pay more than once? Or scold investors for putting in money but not time, because if you don't have hours worked, calculating their hourly rate produces a divide-by-zero error. When one thing is not another, sometimes an analogy between them just doesn't apply.
So, I can't tell if they're just really dumb and don't know how to spell, or if they're making a kind of tasteless joke, but either way, that's got to be about the worst name for a cat that I've ever heard.
fell for it hook line and sinker.?
Hi. I'm a lawyer from Abshagen and Dillard, and we represent Fishing Cliches, Inc. You have made use of their patented expression without the express written consent of FCI or MLB. You must pay $100 or be guilty of infring-meme-nt.
Definitely sad to hear. Also, a reminder that I need to read more of her work. I read the first Earthsea way back in junior high and know I enjoyed it. I can't remember now if I read any more of that series. I picked up Left Hand of Darkness in college and tried several times but failed to get into it, but can't remember why now. She's been on my to-read-more list ever since, and has gotten a lot of mentions on a number of literary and author's podcasts recently.
And yet, if you *don't* write a hero's journey, all the critique basically boils down to how the book failed to stick hero's journey standards.
They say people often unconsciously pick careers that match their names (even loosely - there are more dentists named Dennis that you might expect, say). Obviously, this guy had a choice of going into piracy or video games. It's just destiny.
Heh. It's true. Stock isn't flashy until you convert it into something physical.
I ran the numbers on Apple several years ago, so I could be fuzzy. Might have miscounted a split or something, though in a retirement account dividends would have been re-invested, so maybe that's part of the difference.
Magnum's Ferrari was nice, but I just wanted Kitt from Knight Rider. Guess that's why I'm in computers.
Take 1000 bucks; buy 10 top-falling altcoins from top 200, spend 100 dollars worth on each. Wait until market recovers, sell them for a profit.
If I had money to play with, that's probably what I'd be doing. Though instead of just looking at which are falling most, I'd probably cross-correlate with currencies that already have a presence in a few major stores, to sort of boost their prospects at legitimacy and longevity. For instance, I think I've heard the Apple store took a few of them. If other places that I shopped also did, that would probably make them a more likely buy.
In the meantime I'll keep mining Vertcoin and Unitus, 1.5 VTC and 22-25 UIS per day.
That's useful info. I've been meaning to look into some that are also still minable in decent quantity, for little cost. Dabble in a few, and then more or less forget about them unless there's a big spike and then start cashing out.
I don't know about that, but I know I like to fork my beefcoins every chance I get.
Darn it, there's a diversification into chicken-coins/chicken-tenders/legal tender joke that I'm failing to pull off right now.
Eight of them makes a bytecoin.
100 of them gets Mario an extra life.
Dissipation and dilution would take care of that, mostly. If you do it right in the first place, scrubbers go on before the factory even starts to pollute. Obviously that doesn't apply to retrofitting China, but if they put that policy in place today, air pollution would clear up pretty quickly, without the need for detached scrubbers.
That said, big cities pollute enough in a lot of different ways, that I can see the case for both on-site scrubbers to get the worst of the big stuff, and also conditionally-activated standalone scrubbers, which only turn on when the conditions get bad, just to give the air quality a little extra boost when there's an inversion layer trapping too much junk, say, or a fire breaks out.
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Years ago I wrote some underwater adventures for a punny RPG, and I think I got lost in actual fish names for a good few hours. The variety and weirdness of what's out there is astonishing. Eventually I limited my own inventions to the things that people would mostly recognize, like a rabid dogfish, distempered catfish, mutant squidopus (9 arms), and a few others that, honestly, pale in comparison to some of the ones on the list.
There's an intriguing link at the bottom of the article, to a NaNoWriMo project about the first lines of novels. I tried following it, but my corporate web filter thinks it's fishy (heh, no pun intended). I may follow up at home.
AC misspelled Crappie, but was otherwise perfectly cromulent.
There are a lot of VERY odd and useful fish names. Get memorizing, and I'll come back next week with a test.
No kidding. A co-worker talks of buying a few handfuls at $10 and getting out at $100 to buy a new gaming rig. At the time he was really thrilled with the turnout. That was the first I'd really heard of it, and it was already at the "mining them costs more in electricity than you get in coins" point, so I brushed it off as not worth the trouble.
Of course, I probably would have also had all my coins lost or stolen in the various scandals, and I'd be sitting here talking about what could have been, like that time I thought about putting a $5k profit sharing investment into Apple in 1999 but then dropped it into the Nasdaq instead. That $5k would have been worth $1 million a few years ago.
I haven't seen anyone mention yet that this also seems to really discourage charitable giving. (Unless I'm missing something?)
Given your examples above, in the first case where they're already itemizing, every dollar they give to any charity is going to come with the discount of their tax bracket (so, let's say 25% for most people).
In the second scenario, they'd have to give more than $10k in charity before they could get any benefit at all, and then it would only be 25% of those dollars beyond $10k. Which is improbable, because, one, who's going to donate that much, and two, alternative minimum tax probably gets in the way.
Seconded. It's pretty flexible, so you can tune it to take out the worst junk or almost everything. Mine is set to still allow shares, but it helped cut way back on ads and other spammy stuff.
And don't even get me started on feng shui.
"Qaxwaha"
No, I don't believe anyone will ever convince me "Qaxwaha" is a real word.
It's halfway to a good password, though.
Yeah. I learned in high school that you ask open-ended questions and let them give you their answer. Extensive projection, suggestion, and exposition, often leading to a yes-or-no response, is the opposite of what you want. I guess Terry is going for a more conversational process, but the more she talks, the more uncomfortable I get listening, and usually give up pretty quickly.
So what you've just revealed to me is a map is a fancy Venn diagram that comes with latitude and longitude.
I can't believe I got modded troll for this, when it accurately describes the majority of the system, while the ignorance that replied to me is modded insightful. Stupid Slashdot moderation. People need to get out more.
I wish they would give up on it. I turn it off or dial it back as much as I can, and whenever I'm on another computer I'm always annoyed by how in my face it is.
The book "1491" has some great exploration of the North American populations and their development. Boiled down to one word, I think the answer is "maize."
Well I for one welcome our new alien dust cloud overlords!
Whenever I see "scientific consensus" I see someone who doesn't know what Science actually is. There is no consensus in science. Science doesn't require consensus, it requires testing and verification. Piltdown Man was once "Scientific Consensus" and we know how that turned out.
The acts of observing, testing, repeating, and verifying are literally a process of building a consensus.
If every time you see "scientific consensus" you hear "popularity contest" maybe you're creating a straw man rather than listening to the argument being made.