PayPal can not be morally bankrupt as it is a corporation, not a person. Morals do not apply to corporations. The fact is a corporation's only objective is to make as much money as possible and it does this through the decisions made by the persons running the corporation. Whether or not they are morally bankrupt is another matter, however since their job is only to make lots of money, not use the corporation as some sort of moral flagpole, if it is not in the corporation's best interest to do something, it will not be done.
modern studies are showing that overall, people's attention spans are decreasing and their minds are wandering. This fact combined with the fact that many people I encounter these days seem to have half a brain; yep, this sounds like a great idea!
show just how many people there are in the US who either don't give a flying F about the principal of Free Speech or don't understand the Constitution.
Luckily for us they are the minority, as the Tea Bagger movement has so effectively demonstrated. Even so, constant vigilance people!
Actually, Steve has an undeniable right to his massive ego. Apple tanked without him and almost died. In the late 90s I heard he was coming back and purchased plenty of AAPL - now AAPL market cap exceeds MS. Steve is not God, but there are plenty of people that will forgive his ego.
In comparison to Bladerunner, all the Matrix movies are simply action flicks with good casting.
The first was a stand out because it had cutting edge bitchin' special effects, like avoiding the bullets. That kicked ass. 2 and 3 had good effects, but one just stood out simply for the reason it broke new ground. Otherwise it was nothing special.
My first though when I heard of the Chinese Stealth Fighter is I wonder where and how they stole the technology. No way China could build one themselves at this point without a little help. Not saying that they could not have built on further in the future on their own; only saying this was really quick.
Yeah, he's a *real* business genius isn't he? This is what cracks me up about really rich people and their view of those who have not done as well in life. According to people like Murdoch, it is because they have worked harder than all of us and are much more savvy; but the truth is it is because good fortune (luck) has graced them in life. I'm not sure of how many potential *Murdochs* there are out there, but I am sure there are hundreds, just like all the talented people unveiled by shows like American Idol who to that point had not made it, only because they had not gotten lucky yet.
Nobody makes it big without a substantial helping of good luck. Not lotto winners, World Series of Poker winners, nor people like Murdoch and Trump.
Probably when pigs fly; or maybe when all power is gleaned solely from the sun and/or nukes. But then that only accounts for carbon created for power generation. What about the emissions from the servers themselves while running, plastic wire coatings decaying, the actual creation of the parts that make up the servers - etc., etc., etc.
The only way for Google to ever be green in reality is to cease their business. Let's get real.
Ah reCAPTCHA was already reported p0wn'd about a year ago by a group that was exploiting the weakness in the database of known words to circumvent the captcha's put in place by Ticketmaster.
Dude, you did not need to fake add your baloney rant to McCarthy's Wiki entry; if you'd only read on...
McCarthy's public presence, and vocal activism on the vaccination-autism controversy, led to her being awarded The James Randi Educational Foundation's Pigasus Award (awards granted by Randi for contributing to pseudoscientific ideas) for the 'Performer Who Has Fooled The Greatest Number of People with The Least Amount of Effort'. Randi stated in a video on the JREF's website that he did sympathize with the plight of McCarthy and her child, but admonished her for using her public presence in a way that may discourage parents from having their own children vaccinated
Everyone *thinks* Facebook's product is demographic data for marketing purposes, and at this point in history perhaps that is only what it is used for; however I would not personally feel comfortable believing this will continue to be the only use for all of the connections and information gleaned via Facebook, Google and myriad other data mining enterprises.
The main point almost everyone is missing is that all data put in the *cloud* is there until the end of time, never to be reclaimed. That is a freaking long time peeps; and just as people could not comprehend the ability to land on the moon at the turn of the 20th century; we can not begin to comprehend the future uses, good or bad, for all the data people are currently freely giving up without a second thought. Goldman is obviously betting the payoff will be substantial; far more than mere marketing alone.
In my lifetime we've gone from being upset when a person stood to close to the phone booth (with a closed door) while we were having a conversation, to loudly conversing and putting personal facts out there for anyone to use however they choose.
Actually, leave NPR out of any such lists for either side.
NPR and PBS shows like Frontline are just about the only places left where actual researched facts are reported in an unbiased forum with no reporter commentary or bias allowed.
Republican mantra that NPR and PBS are left wing oriented is soley due to the fact they like no reporting whatsoever if it has any perceived negative connotation; regardless of the truth.
The rest of them are Right and Left mouthpieces as you say, though since they are all publicly traded corporations, most lean more towards the right, even though they do cover left wing viewpoints that tend to make money for them.
>> According to Domain Name Wire, the US bank has been aggressively registering domain names including its board of Directors' and senior executives' names followed by "sucks" and "blows."'
I wonder if they also covered the Director and senior executive names - sucksandblows dot whatever... Or how about name-lovestheshaft dot whatever...
What a colossal waste of money, as an investor I am pissed-off at this idiotic attempt at censorship.
When I say repeat the pattern, I mean it, and the patterns include ghost behavior, as they always behave the same and you always trigger and eat them exactly the same way because they stick to the pattern as well and you know where they will go and which route to take to eat all four every time.
However I did not say that you did not have to be skilled to adapt if you blew it for even a split second at the higher levels as the ghosts are moving really quick. In fact if you could not adapt, you could not learn the pattern at the next level, so you pretty much sucked at the game. That said, and you can take this to the bank, in my day patterns are the key to achieving high scores on the original Pacman. We're talking 1981 - 82 here; not 1999.
From the TFA: "Patterns were quickly created to exploit this fact and, for any player able to get past the first 20 levels, the game now became a test of endurance to see how many points you could rack up before losing focus and making a mistake. High scores soared into the millions and most players agreed the game simply went on forever. Eventually, a few highly-skilled players were able to complete 255 consecutive levels of play (scoring over three million points and taking several hours to accomplish) and found a surprise waiting for them on level 256. It was a surprise no one knew about—not even the developers at Namco."
Well one way would be for the average worker to get a clue and stop living hand-to-mouth, spending every dollar they make to buy shit they don't really need...
In money there is power, but the average worker does not see that. If all workers had enough saved to tide them over for a few months, then workers could call the shots on how they should be treated and stand up to their a-hole bosses and corporations. I've done it and so has my wife, to the betterment of our lives and careers.
But seeing as the average worker is saddled with so much debt they need their weekly paycheck just to stay afloat; they have essentially placed all the power in the hands of a-hole bosses and shitty corporate environments who, believe me, realize this fact and take full advantage of it.
based on being really good at the original pacman, achieving a high score was simply a matter of learning patterns, so they must not really be referring to the original pacman here because I think that algorithm must have been pretty simple.
To be a great player on the original pacmac you run pacman through the same pattern every time in every level you've learned, hitting the energizer pellets precisely when you know you can always run the same pattern and eat the four ghosts as the flee.
Always the exact same pattern for each level until you finally reach a level where you have to learn the pattern. It was really crazy playing because you could do all the levels you'd memorized pretty much with your eyes closed, so when you got really good; it took a frigging long time to get to a level you did not know.
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Yeah - that is the difference between academia and the real world... Academia lives in a Utopian bubble
>>> PayPal shows itself to be morally bankrupt.
PayPal can not be morally bankrupt as it is a corporation, not a person. Morals do not apply to corporations. The fact is a corporation's only objective is to make as much money as possible and it does this through the decisions made by the persons running the corporation. Whether or not they are morally bankrupt is another matter, however since their job is only to make lots of money, not use the corporation as some sort of moral flagpole, if it is not in the corporation's best interest to do something, it will not be done.
modern studies are showing that overall, people's attention spans are decreasing and their minds are wandering. This fact combined with the fact that many people I encounter these days seem to have half a brain; yep, this sounds like a great idea!
Wish I had mod points; well said!
show just how many people there are in the US who either don't give a flying F about the principal of Free Speech or don't understand the Constitution.
Luckily for us they are the minority, as the Tea Bagger movement has so effectively demonstrated. Even so, constant vigilance people!
Actually, Steve has an undeniable right to his massive ego. Apple tanked without him and almost died. In the late 90s I heard he was coming back and purchased plenty of AAPL - now AAPL market cap exceeds MS. Steve is not God, but there are plenty of people that will forgive his ego.
In comparison to Bladerunner, all the Matrix movies are simply action flicks with good casting.
The first was a stand out because it had cutting edge bitchin' special effects, like avoiding the bullets. That kicked ass. 2 and 3 had good effects, but one just stood out simply for the reason it broke new ground. Otherwise it was nothing special.
Good show, wish I had mod points for you.
My first though when I heard of the Chinese Stealth Fighter is I wonder where and how they stole the technology. No way China could build one themselves at this point without a little help. Not saying that they could not have built on further in the future on their own; only saying this was really quick.
Yeah, he's a *real* business genius isn't he? This is what cracks me up about really rich people and their view of those who have not done as well in life. According to people like Murdoch, it is because they have worked harder than all of us and are much more savvy; but the truth is it is because good fortune (luck) has graced them in life. I'm not sure of how many potential *Murdochs* there are out there, but I am sure there are hundreds, just like all the talented people unveiled by shows like American Idol who to that point had not made it, only because they had not gotten lucky yet.
Nobody makes it big without a substantial helping of good luck. Not lotto winners, World Series of Poker winners, nor people like Murdoch and Trump.
Probably when pigs fly; or maybe when all power is gleaned solely from the sun and/or nukes. But then that only accounts for carbon created for power generation. What about the emissions from the servers themselves while running, plastic wire coatings decaying, the actual creation of the parts that make up the servers - etc., etc., etc.
The only way for Google to ever be green in reality is to cease their business. Let's get real.
Ah reCAPTCHA was already reported p0wn'd about a year ago by a group that was exploiting the weakness in the database of known words to circumvent the captcha's put in place by Ticketmaster.
This is old news...
Here is the link to the Pigasus award video: McCarthy begins at 5:45
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/component/content/article/39-james-randi-speaks/506-randi-speaks-the-2008-pigasus-awards-.html
Dude, you did not need to fake add your baloney rant to McCarthy's Wiki entry; if you'd only read on...
McCarthy's public presence, and vocal activism on the vaccination-autism controversy, led to her being awarded The James Randi Educational Foundation's Pigasus Award (awards granted by Randi for contributing to pseudoscientific ideas) for the 'Performer Who Has Fooled The Greatest Number of People with The Least Amount of Effort'. Randi stated in a video on the JREF's website that he did sympathize with the plight of McCarthy and her child, but admonished her for using her public presence in a way that may discourage parents from having their own children vaccinated
Everyone *thinks* Facebook's product is demographic data for marketing purposes, and at this point in history perhaps that is only what it is used for; however I would not personally feel comfortable believing this will continue to be the only use for all of the connections and information gleaned via Facebook, Google and myriad other data mining enterprises.
The main point almost everyone is missing is that all data put in the *cloud* is there until the end of time, never to be reclaimed. That is a freaking long time peeps; and just as people could not comprehend the ability to land on the moon at the turn of the 20th century; we can not begin to comprehend the future uses, good or bad, for all the data people are currently freely giving up without a second thought. Goldman is obviously betting the payoff will be substantial; far more than mere marketing alone.
In my lifetime we've gone from being upset when a person stood to close to the phone booth (with a closed door) while we were having a conversation, to loudly conversing and putting personal facts out there for anyone to use however they choose.
Actually, leave NPR out of any such lists for either side.
NPR and PBS shows like Frontline are just about the only places left where actual researched facts are reported in an unbiased forum with no reporter commentary or bias allowed.
Republican mantra that NPR and PBS are left wing oriented is soley due to the fact they like no reporting whatsoever if it has any perceived negative connotation; regardless of the truth.
The rest of them are Right and Left mouthpieces as you say, though since they are all publicly traded corporations, most lean more towards the right, even though they do cover left wing viewpoints that tend to make money for them.
>> According to Domain Name Wire, the US bank has been aggressively registering domain names including its board of Directors' and senior executives' names followed by "sucks" and "blows."'
I wonder if they also covered the Director and senior executive names - sucksandblows dot whatever... Or how about name-lovestheshaft dot whatever...
What a colossal waste of money, as an investor I am pissed-off at this idiotic attempt at censorship.
When I say repeat the pattern, I mean it, and the patterns include ghost behavior, as they always behave the same and you always trigger and eat them exactly the same way because they stick to the pattern as well and you know where they will go and which route to take to eat all four every time.
However I did not say that you did not have to be skilled to adapt if you blew it for even a split second at the higher levels as the ghosts are moving really quick. In fact if you could not adapt, you could not learn the pattern at the next level, so you pretty much sucked at the game. That said, and you can take this to the bank, in my day patterns are the key to achieving high scores on the original Pacman. We're talking 1981 - 82 here; not 1999.
From the TFA: "Patterns were quickly created to exploit this fact and, for any player able to get past the first 20 levels, the game now became a test of endurance to see how many points you could rack up before losing focus and making a mistake. High scores soared into the millions and most players agreed the game simply went on forever. Eventually, a few highly-skilled players were able to complete 255 consecutive levels of play (scoring over three million points and taking several hours to accomplish) and found a surprise waiting for them on level 256. It was a surprise no one knew about—not even the developers at Namco."
Ah interesting, I believe you are correct. From analysis I think the problem was weak seed states which obviously allowed the use of patterns.
>> Tell me how this can be avoided.
Well one way would be for the average worker to get a clue and stop living hand-to-mouth, spending every dollar they make to buy shit they don't really need...
In money there is power, but the average worker does not see that. If all workers had enough saved to tide them over for a few months, then workers could call the shots on how they should be treated and stand up to their a-hole bosses and corporations. I've done it and so has my wife, to the betterment of our lives and careers.
But seeing as the average worker is saddled with so much debt they need their weekly paycheck just to stay afloat; they have essentially placed all the power in the hands of a-hole bosses and shitty corporate environments who, believe me, realize this fact and take full advantage of it.
based on being really good at the original pacman, achieving a high score was simply a matter of learning patterns, so they must not really be referring to the original pacman here because I think that algorithm must have been pretty simple. To be a great player on the original pacmac you run pacman through the same pattern every time in every level you've learned, hitting the energizer pellets precisely when you know you can always run the same pattern and eat the four ghosts as the flee. Always the exact same pattern for each level until you finally reach a level where you have to learn the pattern. It was really crazy playing because you could do all the levels you'd memorized pretty much with your eyes closed, so when you got really good; it took a frigging long time to get to a level you did not know.
a corporation with completely open and honest policies was found today; er correction that story is unfounded.
And still, this seems sooooooooo stupid; thus perhaps perfect for unabashed consumerism.