There's no denying that. In my humble opinion, people who claim "having a BMI over 25 is okay" are in denial about their health (similar to those who living San Andreas claim an earthquake won't hurt them). Many recent science studies show even BMI=25 increases the risk of diabetes or cardiac arrest or stroke, and that medical doctors should be recommending a BMI of 22 or lower for maximum health.
>>>. I would like to see more money going to services like PBS and NPR
Then give them more of YOUR money; not mine. I don't want my dollars going to support those pro-government, anti-individual (i.e. socialist) organizations. If you like PBS/NPR, I'm happy for you and fully support your decision to give money to them. But Not my money. My money stays in my wallet.
>>>Goldstein stopped publishing Screw magazine and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy,
Well that's a loss of a fine publication. Boy. Our civilization will never be the same without "Screw" magazine.;-) But seriously there's still a market for porn, but you can't just publish any old trash. You have to select the most artistic photos - something worthy of hanging in a museum, not some junk you tossed together in 5 minutes. If you make the photos artistic, you'll can still sell them in book form.
I stopped buying Playboy for that reason. It only costs $1 an issue - trivial - but the quality is not there. I can find better quality at a site like domai.com, which does cost more but it's simply better artistry.
>>>Free speech and freedom of the press were separate things in the Constitution for a reason. One is opinion and one is supposed to preserve the right to objective news >>>
This is revisionist history. If you actually traveled back to the 1780s, 1790s, and 1810s, you would find all kinds of "unverified opinions" coming out of the presses. Newspapers and pamphlets (like "Common Sense" by Paine) were typically run by a single man, and that man used his press to push his own personal views. There was no objectivity back then.
And why should there be? If I want to publish a newspaper called "Liberty Today" why should I have to present both sides? It's MY paper and MY press. I should be able to decide what will and will not be published with MY dollars.
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From the article:
>>>Papers now seem to be the equivalent of the railroads at the start of the twentieth century--a once-great business eclipsed by a new technology.
And the government solution to this was Amtrak, a centralized monopoly over passenger rail that sucks billions out of taxpayer wallets. Government will likely do the same with newspapers and introduce an "Ampaper" to keep alive an industry that should disappear and be replaced with online reporting.
I worked on a project like this for General Dynamics. It used laser light to detect biological weapons in the air. I didn't understand precisely how it worked, because I was only responsible for creating the code, but when the laser passes through the air it scatters, and the scatter can be used to identify if it's a chemical weapon, a bioweapon, or just some passing dust.
It sounds like this cellphone works on the same principle, but using an LED instead of a laser.
>>>come to europe, where we have healthcare for all.
You don't actually believe that healthcare is free, do you? You're still paying the hospital & doctor bills, same as we Americans do, but the bill is applied directly to your paycheck. So you're paying the same amount as we are, it's just a hidden bill.
Worse, you have no choice because it's a monopoly where all hospitals are run by the government (yes even the private ones which are strictly regulated by the politicians). That situation is as bad as if Microsoft sold all PCs. There's no freedom if there's no choice.
>>>He'll either have to accept the work product or he'll have to correct you and tell you what he wants instead.
I've already reached that stage. The problem is that instead of telling me why it's wrong, he just said "Figure it out". Not terribly helpful considering he wants the board schematic yesterday. The priority should be to get the job done and telling me *precisely* what needs to be fixed, not playing mind games.
If you're using Vista then it's caching files from the hard drive to memory in the theory that moving files to RAM saves access time. It doesn't really seem to work though.
I have a Pentium 4 on both my laptop and my PC. I wish I could slow it down from the current 3000 megahertz, since I'm just downloading files (very non-CPU intensive), but alas Intel never thought to include that option. I would have to physically open alter the motherboard, and I have no desire to do that.
I'm in a similar situation right now with my erratic "lead" engineer who is supposed to be supervising me, but is not giving me any direction (he even ignores direct questions). I've been tempted to walk, but I keep reminding myself that I'm earning $75 an hour overtime to put-up with this a-hole.
I get paid by the hour. If I only work 6 hours a day, then that means they are saving 2 hours * 5 * $80 == $900 a week in their budget. How could any manager be unhappy with that?
I'll never make the claim that pirating improves sales. Instead I'll make the claim that it "helps poor citizens save money" because they don't waste their dollars/euros on junk. The try-before-buy approach helps them avoid wasting precious cash on crap purchases.
This of course annoys the mega-mega-rich corporations, because they WANT you to buy crap. It makes them even more rich.
>>>If you excise all words which are less than 300 years old and all words whose etymology had some kind of political influence, you can say goodbye to most of the language >>>
A slight exaggeration. You can pick-up a document from 1400 (like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) and almost the entire language is present, albeit spelled differently than how we spell. The word "pirate" originates around 1200. The verb comes from 1570s with the meaning "one who takes another's work without permission" recorded in 1701.
- it comes from Old Northern French word "pirate'" - which came from Rome's vulgate latin "pirata"
So that's a word that goes back over 1500 years. The synonym "plagiarist" comes from the 1590s. It means "kidnapper" in the original Latin. So stop kidnapping those movies, games, and music!;-)
In any part-time job it's normal for more than one person to fill the same job because, as the grandparent poster said, they can't just wait a few days for you to come back. For example when my dad worked part-time as a Food & Soda Machine Restocker, he worked three days, and somebody else worked three days.
I often heard my dad complain that the other guy did it wrong and made lots of mistakes. Same with your job. It was one job shared by two people - there will be some differences in opinion about how to get things done, so you and the other guy need to coordinate the job together (just like projects in college). You weren't willing to do that, instead calling the other guy an "idiot", so the attempt failed. Had you been more accommodating and accepting of the other guy, you both could have shared the job successfully, instead of batting heads.
Then they lay me off. I'll just move onto the next contracting job. (Right now I'm working 60 a week, so I'm not too concerned.) It's funny how different industries can view things. While you say accountants in engineering view part-timers as "lazy" or whatever, in the retail industry part-timers are considered an opportunity to cut costs. In that industry getting a full 40 hour job is nigh-impossible even if you want to be full time.
If only we could get the engineering accountants to talk to the retail accountants, and be persuaded that cutting hours reduces expenses, then maybe we'd make some progress towards letting engineers/programmers cut back to 30 hours a week.
>>>Depends on the industry I guess, but in mine, low to mid level engineers are charged at ~185/hr, high level at ~$250/hr.
That must be external costs. I was discussing *internal* cost that the company bills to itself (to track budgets). My boss told me I'm charged at $90 an hour.
Yeah that's the part that pisses me off. I should be able to buy Final Fantasy 10-2 at $50, play it, decide it's crap, and sell it to someone else for $40. Or, get a refund. I don't care if it's store credit, but I should be able to return lousy games, not just swallow the loss.
If Sony has its way, I won't be able to do that with Final Fantasy 14. I will be sold an online license, and I'll be stuck with the game, unable to sell it to the next person (because it won't work for them).
I agree 100%. The problem is that technology has advanced. Books were hard to pirate in the 80s so codebooks were effective, but in today's world I can download 3000 pages of Harry Potter directly scanned, and the same is true with a codebook. It's no longer a viable deterrent.
Perhaps those old spinning codewheels would work, but I doubt it.
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Well Natalie isn't as thin as she used to be.
There's no denying that. In my humble opinion, people who claim "having a BMI over 25 is okay" are in denial about their health (similar to those who living San Andreas claim an earthquake won't hurt them). Many recent science studies show even BMI=25 increases the risk of diabetes or cardiac arrest or stroke, and that medical doctors should be recommending a BMI of 22 or lower for maximum health.
>>>. I would like to see more money going to services like PBS and NPR
Then give them more of YOUR money; not mine. I don't want my dollars going to support those pro-government, anti-individual (i.e. socialist) organizations. If you like PBS/NPR, I'm happy for you and fully support your decision to give money to them. But Not my money. My money stays in my wallet.
>>>Goldstein stopped publishing Screw magazine and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy,
Well that's a loss of a fine publication. Boy. Our civilization will never be the same without "Screw" magazine. ;-) But seriously there's still a market for porn, but you can't just publish any old trash. You have to select the most artistic photos - something worthy of hanging in a museum, not some junk you tossed together in 5 minutes. If you make the photos artistic, you'll can still sell them in book form.
I stopped buying Playboy for that reason. It only costs $1 an issue - trivial - but the quality is not there. I can find better quality at a site like domai.com, which does cost more but it's simply better artistry.
>>>Free speech and freedom of the press were separate things in the Constitution for a reason. One is opinion and one is supposed to preserve the right to objective news
>>>
This is revisionist history. If you actually traveled back to the 1780s, 1790s, and 1810s, you would find all kinds of "unverified opinions" coming out of the presses. Newspapers and pamphlets (like "Common Sense" by Paine) were typically run by a single man, and that man used his press to push his own personal views. There was no objectivity back then.
And why should there be? If I want to publish a newspaper called "Liberty Today" why should I have to present both sides? It's MY paper and MY press. I should be able to decide what will and will not be published with MY dollars.
From the article:
>>>Papers now seem to be the equivalent of the railroads at the start of the twentieth century--a once-great business eclipsed by a new technology.
And the government solution to this was Amtrak, a centralized monopoly over passenger rail that sucks billions out of taxpayer wallets. Government will likely do the same with newspapers and introduce an "Ampaper" to keep alive an industry that should disappear and be replaced with online reporting.
I liked her better when she was a young teen woman on Davinci's Inquest, and walked around half naked and/or wrapped in nothing but a bedsheet.
(the geeks run off and google Davinci's Inquest)
Natalie Portman's grown mildly obese. Try a different actress.
I worked on a project like this for General Dynamics. It used laser light to detect biological weapons in the air. I didn't understand precisely how it worked, because I was only responsible for creating the code, but when the laser passes through the air it scatters, and the scatter can be used to identify if it's a chemical weapon, a bioweapon, or just some passing dust.
It sounds like this cellphone works on the same principle, but using an LED instead of a laser.
>>>come to europe, where we have healthcare for all.
You don't actually believe that healthcare is free, do you? You're still paying the hospital & doctor bills, same as we Americans do, but the bill is applied directly to your paycheck. So you're paying the same amount as we are, it's just a hidden bill.
Worse, you have no choice because it's a monopoly where all hospitals are run by the government (yes even the private ones which are strictly regulated by the politicians). That situation is as bad as if Microsoft sold all PCs. There's no freedom if there's no choice.
Outlaw nudity for anyone over 150 (years or pounds).
>>>He'll either have to accept the work product or he'll have to correct you and tell you what he wants instead.
I've already reached that stage. The problem is that instead of telling me why it's wrong, he just said "Figure it out". Not terribly helpful considering he wants the board schematic yesterday. The priority should be to get the job done and telling me *precisely* what needs to be fixed, not playing mind games.
If you're using Vista then it's caching files from the hard drive to memory in the theory that moving files to RAM saves access time. It doesn't really seem to work though.
I have a Pentium 4 on both my laptop and my PC. I wish I could slow it down from the current 3000 megahertz, since I'm just downloading files (very non-CPU intensive), but alas Intel never thought to include that option. I would have to physically open alter the motherboard, and I have no desire to do that.
Oh okay.
I'm in a similar situation right now with my erratic "lead" engineer who is supposed to be supervising me, but is not giving me any direction (he even ignores direct questions). I've been tempted to walk, but I keep reminding myself that I'm earning $75 an hour overtime to put-up with this a-hole.
I get paid by the hour. If I only work 6 hours a day, then that means they are saving 2 hours * 5 * $80 == $900 a week in their budget. How could any manager be unhappy with that?
If I think it's crap and I'm returning it because of that reason, why on earth would I want a copy?
Ooops. That says "post-Bilski" not "post-Bikini".
Darn. And I was looking forward to visiting the bikini-free beach this summer. :-|
I'll never make the claim that pirating improves sales. Instead I'll make the claim that it "helps poor citizens save money" because they don't waste their dollars/euros on junk. The try-before-buy approach helps them avoid wasting precious cash on crap purchases.
This of course annoys the mega-mega-rich corporations, because they WANT you to buy crap. It makes them even more rich.
>>>If you excise all words which are less than 300 years old and all words whose etymology had some kind of political influence, you can say goodbye to most of the language
>>>
A slight exaggeration. You can pick-up a document from 1400 (like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) and almost the entire language is present, albeit spelled differently than how we spell. The word "pirate" originates around 1200. The verb comes from 1570s with the meaning "one who takes another's work without permission" recorded in 1701.
- it comes from Old Northern French word "pirate'"
- which came from Rome's vulgate latin "pirata"
So that's a word that goes back over 1500 years. The synonym "plagiarist" comes from the 1590s. It means "kidnapper" in the original Latin. So stop kidnapping those movies, games, and music! ;-)
In any part-time job it's normal for more than one person to fill the same job because, as the grandparent poster said, they can't just wait a few days for you to come back. For example when my dad worked part-time as a Food & Soda Machine Restocker, he worked three days, and somebody else worked three days.
I often heard my dad complain that the other guy did it wrong and made lots of mistakes. Same with your job. It was one job shared by two people - there will be some differences in opinion about how to get things done, so you and the other guy need to coordinate the job together (just like projects in college). You weren't willing to do that, instead calling the other guy an "idiot", so the attempt failed. Had you been more accommodating and accepting of the other guy, you both could have shared the job successfully, instead of batting heads.
Then they lay me off. I'll just move onto the next contracting job. (Right now I'm working 60 a week, so I'm not too concerned.) It's funny how different industries can view things. While you say accountants in engineering view part-timers as "lazy" or whatever, in the retail industry part-timers are considered an opportunity to cut costs. In that industry getting a full 40 hour job is nigh-impossible even if you want to be full time.
If only we could get the engineering accountants to talk to the retail accountants, and be persuaded that cutting hours reduces expenses, then maybe we'd make some progress towards letting engineers/programmers cut back to 30 hours a week.
>>>Depends on the industry I guess, but in mine, low to mid level engineers are charged at ~185/hr, high level at ~$250/hr.
That must be external costs. I was discussing *internal* cost that the company bills to itself (to track budgets). My boss told me I'm charged at $90 an hour.
He sure did. He's depriving the original author or dollars earned through ad-views.
Yeah that's the part that pisses me off. I should be able to buy Final Fantasy 10-2 at $50, play it, decide it's crap, and sell it to someone else for $40. Or, get a refund. I don't care if it's store credit, but I should be able to return lousy games, not just swallow the loss.
If Sony has its way, I won't be able to do that with Final Fantasy 14. I will be sold an online license, and I'll be stuck with the game, unable to sell it to the next person (because it won't work for them).
A perpetual rental, not ownership.
I agree 100%. The problem is that technology has advanced. Books were hard to pirate in the 80s so codebooks were effective, but in today's world I can download 3000 pages of Harry Potter directly scanned, and the same is true with a codebook. It's no longer a viable deterrent.
Perhaps those old spinning codewheels would work, but I doubt it.
I don't know if I'm "normal" or not, but I like to think most people do what I do:
1 - try it free
2 - buy it if it's good (24, Heroes)
3 - don't buy it if it's trash (Terminator Chronicles) and erase it from the hard drive