It will be a worldwide effort. Right after China stops treating its citizens as disposable. Look how China treated their farmers during the Olympics (cutting them off from water so they could have water fountains in the athletic village).
No. However I have observed that my own Netscape dialup connection loads webpages almost as fast as my 750kbit/s DSL line. So the effective speeds are fairly close to one another.
>>>Every time you sit through a commercial you have "paid".
Good thing I have 10 stations programmed into my radio dial so I can skip commercials.;-) I suppose I could get commercial-free XM satellite radio at $13 a month, which is about 1 hour's pay (after taxes), but I'm satisfied with the terrestrial broadcast radio. I've been listening to FM97 or WARM103 or WMMX Baltimore for most of my life. It's there; I don't pay anything; why change?
I know a lot of today's teens listen to Ipod music. Although I own an MP3 player, it's currently-filled with Teaching Company lectures - no room for music in its flash memory.* So I listen to radio instead.
* * When driving I listen to both the MP3 lecture and the radio-music at the same time.
I used to do that back in the days of BBSes (using a speedy 2.4 kbit/s connection).
We posted publicly what CDs we owned, and then had "copy parties" to record tapes of each other's possessions. It was an effective method albeit time-consuming.
>>>>>Ironically, some of my textbooks I never even opened, since the prof's lecture was sufficient.
>So why did you buy them?
The answer varies depending on the course. In some cases I did open the book, simply because I needed to do the assigned problems, so it saw some very-minimal "use". But in most cases it's because I didn't know the prof was making me buy a book I did not need (professors do that a lot unfortunately). One such professor came directly from the world of industry and taught my third-year electronics course. He copied his notes and handed them out, so we never needed to use the textbook.
I blame that on the professor, because if he already knows he won't be using the book in class, why list it as a required purchase & waste students' money? Oh well.
A few times I tried your approach of getting the book from the library, but it's unreliable - often the book is being borrowed from someone else! So I'd rather be "safe" and have the book in my dorm room in case I suddenly need it.
TN colleges will need to "cut policing costs" and respond by limiting students' dorm access to 128 kbit/s (or thereabouts) such that downloading music or videos becomes impractical. TN administrators will argue that 128 kbit/s is "good enough" for accessing the required course-related websites (mostly text), and engineering or computer science students will need to apply for a professor-signed waiver to get faster access.
Those students will later come into positions of power, remember the hell of limited dorm access, and then repeal this ridiculous law so future students can access the net unencumbered.
What few textbooks I kept from college, I've never used "in the real world". They just collect dust. Therefore I'd rather have a format that I can sell and recover my cash (say $100 on ebay or amazon). You can't do that with an electronic version.
The quickest and shortest response is to tell Toyota:
Fuck off. Then laugh to yourself, because you know Toyota's not going to sue either you or your site. They'll just make themselves look stupid and alienate millions of customers. Like GM. Or Ford. (Perhaps America's bad business practices are rubbing-off on the Japanese companies?)
I like that idea. However I fear most citizens have never even visited house.gov or senate.gov where such Bills and amendments are posted, so nothing's really going to change.
All you're advocating is a system that would trample the minority views under foot. No longer would we have freedom of worship, or freedom to post radical blogs, or freedom to be homosexual because the Demos would rule, not the Law. I would not want to be an African or Asian American living under such a system where the Majority may imprison me whenever they feel like it (by simple 50%+1 vote).
A Republic of Laws that protects the individual rights is superior. Ask Socrates. He was killed by his Democracy (his neighbors hated him so they simply voted to have him killed).
>>>Think of what could get accomplished if there were none of the three branches, simply a majority vote for what the people want the government to do in each region. >>>
Yeah just think if we had used that type of government in 1942. Instead of a reasonable response to the World War crisis (monitor Japanese citizens for possible spy activity), the ruling 80% Majority of white-americans could vote to have them killed in a giant genocidal holocaust. Brilliant. You've just advocated Tyranny of the Majority to squash the minority underfoot.
This is why we have a *Republic* of Laws, not a demos of vigilante justice. Our Constitutional Laws protect the minority (or the one) from the stifling tyranny of the majority.
One thing this article failed to take into account is the ability to "recycle" books.
When you buy a Kindle book you can't resell it to somebody else because resale of e-texts is blocked. But when you buy an old-fashioned paperback, you can sell it to anybody you desire. I often buy new paperbacks for $6, read them, then sell them as "flawless/like-new" condition for $5 or even $6. In essence I'm renting the books at an average 50 cents each.
So for the cost of a Kindle I can "rent" about 800 paperback novels, which makes amazon's e-reader an unattractive option for me. (It would take me about ten years to read that many paperbacks.)
I never found previous students' notes useful, since we did not think in the same fashion.
For example: They might highlight an entire paragraph, whereas I only cared about the last sentence - the key point. Highlighting is supposed to be exactly that - key points - not turning the whole book yellow. If you do that, you might as well re-read the whole text from start-to-finish.
Sacrilege. How am I supposed to sell my text book as "flawless/like new" condition if I've scrawled all over it? I always kept my texts in pristine condition for later resale. (Ironically, some of my textbooks I never even opened, since the prof's lecture was sufficient.)
One thing this article failed to take into account is the ability to "recycle" books.
When you buy a Kindle book you can't resell it to somebody else because resale of Etexts is blocked. But when you buy an old-fashioned paperback or hardback book, you can sell it to anybody you desire. I often buy new paperbacks for $6, read them, then sell them as "flawless/like-new" condition for $5 or even $6. In essence I'm renting the books for 50 cents each.
So for the cost of a Kindle I can "rent" about 800 paperback novels, which makes amazon's e-reader an unattractive option for me. (It would take me about twenty years to read that many paperbacks.)
>>>Law enforcement officers routinely have to step in and make quick judgment calls like this, and even "execute the sentence" in a great many situations as well. >>>
Bzzz. Only judges are allowed to suppress evidence. Police are supposed to collect it, not destroy it. Police who destroy evidence have committed a criminal offense.
So here's an absurd reply - Anyone who tries to take my camera-phone will receive a nice little gift. A bullet. I don't tolerate thieves stealing my personal property, no matter how they try to justify it. If I'm in a public arena I can use the freedom of the press to report what I see and/or take photos of same. You will not censor my freedom of speech, ye stupid tyrants.
When my mom was a U.S. high school girl in the 1940s, she had to take classes in Etiquette. I don't know why U.S. schools stop teaching such things, but it's time to start doing it again. It's not enough to just recite numbers and dates. A citizen must also know how to interact with one's peers without degrading them.
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It will be a worldwide effort. Right after China stops treating its citizens as disposable. Look how China treated their farmers during the Olympics (cutting them off from water so they could have water fountains in the athletic village).
No. However I have observed that my own Netscape dialup connection loads webpages almost as fast as my 750kbit/s DSL line. So the effective speeds are fairly close to one another.
>>>Every time you sit through a commercial you have "paid".
Good thing I have 10 stations programmed into my radio dial so I can skip commercials. ;-) I suppose I could get commercial-free XM satellite radio at $13 a month, which is about 1 hour's pay (after taxes), but I'm satisfied with the terrestrial broadcast radio. I've been listening to FM97 or WARM103 or WMMX Baltimore for most of my life. It's there; I don't pay anything; why change?
I know a lot of today's teens listen to Ipod music. Although I own an MP3 player, it's currently-filled with Teaching Company lectures - no room for music in its flash memory.* So I listen to radio instead.
*
* When driving I listen to both the MP3 lecture and the radio-music at the same time.
I used to do that back in the days of BBSes (using a speedy 2.4 kbit/s connection).
We posted publicly what CDs we owned, and then had "copy parties" to record tapes of each other's possessions. It was an effective method albeit time-consuming.
Quaint, yes, but also free (I like that word). And it's not blocked by my idiot employer.
>>>>>Ironically, some of my textbooks I never even opened, since the prof's lecture was sufficient.
>So why did you buy them?
The answer varies depending on the course. In some cases I did open the book, simply because I needed to do the assigned problems, so it saw some very-minimal "use". But in most cases it's because I didn't know the prof was making me buy a book I did not need (professors do that a lot unfortunately). One such professor came directly from the world of industry and taught my third-year electronics course. He copied his notes and handed them out, so we never needed to use the textbook.
I blame that on the professor, because if he already knows he won't be using the book in class, why list it as a required purchase & waste students' money? Oh well.
A few times I tried your approach of getting the book from the library, but it's unreliable - often the book is being borrowed from someone else! So I'd rather be "safe" and have the book in my dorm room in case I suddenly need it.
Well, the water you're drinking was probably dinosaur piss at one point. Or maybe some prehistoric mastodon. Or even Ugh the Caveman.
The water just keeps going round-and-round-and-round being used over-and-over.
If I lived in such a dorm, I'd switch to dialup. V.44-compressed dialup is equivalent to a 300kbit/s uncompressed broadband line... therefore faster.
TN colleges will need to "cut policing costs" and respond by limiting students' dorm access to 128 kbit/s (or thereabouts) such that downloading music or videos becomes impractical. TN administrators will argue that 128 kbit/s is "good enough" for accessing the required course-related websites (mostly text), and engineering or computer science students will need to apply for a professor-signed waiver to get faster access.
Those students will later come into positions of power, remember the hell of limited dorm access, and then repeal this ridiculous law so future students can access the net unencumbered.
Country music is the most popular form of music in America according to Arbitron radio ratings.
What few textbooks I kept from college, I've never used "in the real world". They just collect dust. Therefore I'd rather have a format that I can sell and recover my cash (say $100 on ebay or amazon). You can't do that with an electronic version.
The quickest and shortest response is to tell Toyota:
Fuck off. Then laugh to yourself, because you know Toyota's not going to sue either you or your site. They'll just make themselves look stupid and alienate millions of customers. Like GM. Or Ford. (Perhaps America's bad business practices are rubbing-off on the Japanese companies?)
The Honda Insight is all of those. Light: 2000 pounds. Cheap: Goes 70-80 miles per gallon spent. Fast: 120 miles an hour top speed.
Please don't take this the wrong way.
It's just something to think about. 2000 years from now, do you think anyone will remember your friend? (Or us?)
>>>how do you think the vote on "lets eliminate taxes" would go?
Massachusetts just held a vote to eliminate income taxes. Surprisingly, only ~30% of Massachusetts' citizens voted yes.
+1.
I like that idea. However I fear most citizens have never even visited house.gov or senate.gov where such Bills and amendments are posted, so nothing's really going to change.
I repeat:
All you're advocating is a system that would trample the minority views under foot. No longer would we have freedom of worship, or freedom to post radical blogs, or freedom to be homosexual because the Demos would rule, not the Law. I would not want to be an African or Asian American living under such a system where the Majority may imprison me whenever they feel like it (by simple 50%+1 vote).
A Republic of Laws that protects the individual rights is superior. Ask Socrates. He was killed by his Democracy (his neighbors hated him so they simply voted to have him killed).
>>>Think of what could get accomplished if there were none of the three branches, simply a majority vote for what the people want the government to do in each region.
>>>
Yeah just think if we had used that type of government in 1942. Instead of a reasonable response to the World War crisis (monitor Japanese citizens for possible spy activity), the ruling 80% Majority of white-americans could vote to have them killed in a giant genocidal holocaust. Brilliant. You've just advocated Tyranny of the Majority to squash the minority underfoot.
This is why we have a *Republic* of Laws, not a demos of vigilante justice. Our Constitutional Laws protect the minority (or the one) from the stifling tyranny of the majority.
One thing this article failed to take into account is the ability to "recycle" books.
When you buy a Kindle book you can't resell it to somebody else because resale of e-texts is blocked. But when you buy an old-fashioned paperback, you can sell it to anybody you desire. I often buy new paperbacks for $6, read them, then sell them as "flawless/like-new" condition for $5 or even $6. In essence I'm renting the books at an average 50 cents each.
So for the cost of a Kindle I can "rent" about 800 paperback novels, which makes amazon's e-reader an unattractive option for me. (It would take me about ten years to read that many paperbacks.)
I never found previous students' notes useful, since we did not think in the same fashion.
For example: They might highlight an entire paragraph, whereas I only cared about the last sentence - the key point. Highlighting is supposed to be exactly that - key points - not turning the whole book yellow. If you do that, you might as well re-read the whole text from start-to-finish.
Write notes in your textbook?
Sacrilege. How am I supposed to sell my text book as "flawless/like new" condition if I've scrawled all over it? I always kept my texts in pristine condition for later resale. (Ironically, some of my textbooks I never even opened, since the prof's lecture was sufficient.)
One thing this article failed to take into account is the ability to "recycle" books.
When you buy a Kindle book you can't resell it to somebody else because resale of Etexts is blocked. But when you buy an old-fashioned paperback or hardback book, you can sell it to anybody you desire. I often buy new paperbacks for $6, read them, then sell them as "flawless/like-new" condition for $5 or even $6. In essence I'm renting the books for 50 cents each.
So for the cost of a Kindle I can "rent" about 800 paperback novels, which makes amazon's e-reader an unattractive option for me. (It would take me about twenty years to read that many paperbacks.)
>>>Law enforcement officers routinely have to step in and make quick judgment calls like this, and even "execute the sentence" in a great many situations as well.
>>>
Bzzz. Only judges are allowed to suppress evidence. Police are supposed to collect it, not destroy it. Police who destroy evidence have committed a criminal offense.
Absurd comment;
Absurd analogy.
So here's an absurd reply - Anyone who tries to take my camera-phone will receive a nice little gift. A bullet. I don't tolerate thieves stealing my personal property, no matter how they try to justify it. If I'm in a public arena I can use the freedom of the press to report what I see and/or take photos of same. You will not censor my freedom of speech, ye stupid tyrants.
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When my mom was a U.S. high school girl in the 1940s, she had to take classes in Etiquette. I don't know why U.S. schools stop teaching such things, but it's time to start doing it again. It's not enough to just recite numbers and dates. A citizen must also know how to interact with one's peers without degrading them.