No, it's more like the postman adding an extra separate note when they deliver other mail to your mailbox... And you're complaining about the postman opening your mailbox.... Or the phone company playing a message when you pick up the phone to dial.
As this is a pop-up ad, I'm afraid the FCC would agree with them. They are not changing anybody else's page, just adding a note when you make a connection to THEIR NETWORK. Wifi hot spots do this all the time and people are fine. I suppose they could just redirect ALL your HTTP traffic until you click to acknowledge the message. It's THEIR NETWORK, they have a right to send customers physically connected a message.
I have to admit, if its a pop-up ad then they are not hiding anything... Like say changing DNS resolution, or replacing ads in other websites pages.
How ARE they supposed to tell subscribers about something? They can't send an email because they are taking downtime. They could call everybody? SMS? But in the short term, they own the end-client connection, so adding an extra message doesn't seem so bad.
I kind of wish you could have a service like this for local weather and alerts. We have similar push alerts for TV and Radio, but more people spend their time on HTTP traffic than anywhere else now. It would be an easy spec to knock out... You just need a way to trust the messages are from your Internet provider via their equipment and not leave the thing wide open. It would also be very clever for mobile users as well. They would get the local alerts when they star up their browsers.
Closed -shop means you have to be a dues paying Union member BEFORE you can ASK to be employed at a workplace.
This is a Union-shop where the Union and company agree everybody after they are hired will be in the Union.
Ironically, most companies dontbhavebany mechanism to deal with non-union employees. Many don't even have a way to PAY you outside the formal rules of the union contract. Michigan is such a strong union state we have virtually no "work" rules that are enforced outside minors.
The BIGGEST reason for a government union.... Your bosses are elected liars and sociopaths. And change every two-four years. Union bosses are still one step higher in morality than that lot.
Part of the reason for government unions is that the process of getting a government job in 1900 was so corrupt, politicians and and a President were getting shot and killed for failing basic job ethics we enjoy today.
Stop sniveling about a trial version... It's a $3 game. You're just a cheap bastard. The game is a SEQUEL to a game that has sold well on iOS and android... Just the cross-over traffic should have been more than what they made... Unless the game was so buried nobody could find it.
At least on iOS, they have lite versions that are free with pay-to-unlock for GLWG & GBWG.
This game does OK on other platforms... The issue is that Microsoft isn't helping out with an established game on THEIR new platform because the game doesn't jump through their hoops. Microsoft isn't in a position for such demands... This is as silly as Apple demanding every iOS game run on OSX.
It's a lot like real estate. The politics of real estate are much the same. Open a strip mall, fill it up with local shops and anybody you can grab. Wait for it to fill up and then jack rates up... "Where are they gonna go" moving a small business is a death sentence in general. IP, especially owned by investors, is treated much the same way, as rental property.. Like out-of-touch old landlords, they don't have a clue what they have.
In reality, the discussion was probably: we spent $2.8M, how do we get it back in X months to flip this thing? How much do we raise rates to get 40% margin a "software house" (like business software) should get? Accountants and sales made a number, and gave it to publishers, take-it-or-leave-it.
That's the proposal right out of Ars a few years ago. This would allow companies like Lucasfilm or Warner-brothers to keep their famous properties quite easily. But Ars ran the numbers and the VAST 90%+ number of works don't make ANY money after about 12 years.... Proving 14 years was a great idea in the first place, and we didn't need to mess with it at all! GO CONSERVATIVISM!
The VAST majority of copyright is used to keep somebody else from finding your work and sampling 5 seconds of 25 year-old songs without big kickbacks to somebody that forgot they "owned" it.
Mitt's comment was a classic "let them eat cake" comment. He's too rich and busy to realize most people live on his pocket change... Much like a certain queen was too clueless to realize that if you are too poor to buy bread, you are too poor for cake because its the same thing.
The top 20% income starts about $150k.. That means 8 of 10 WORKING people are poorer than you. Note that's not counting wives, children, etc... So as a percent of "people" you are in even rarer company.
You do realize all those groups are "too poor" to pay what Romney would call a fair share... That's more like 60-70% he's got there. Even then you aren't considered "comfortable" until about $75k... Which is $30k above the median wages!
I'd qualify #1 as "landed" rich. The second-gen rich and little old ladies living off interest from robber-baron riches.. It takes a LOT of money for interest to hit $150k a year and have big taxes. And it's mostly capital gains at 15% anyway... Those are your rich (mostly Democrats) that "don't mind" paying taxes because its still less taxes than working for the same income.
Except NONE OF THAT MATTERS! Reagan didn't stop abortion, in fact it is MORE restricted now than then.
The "gay" issue is something society is just going to have to deal with... It wasn't until AFTER Reagan, that the Right started actively hunting and outing gays with 10+ years of service to make Clinton look bad.
As far as government size, Reagan wound it UP after Nixon left it in disrepair and Carter couldn't knock over one small country.
Taxes on the most wealthy and capital gains are 5%-15% lower than when Reagan was President... The whole jobs will be created turned out to be true... Just in China. Oops!
Of course at the time Reagan was a fairly "left" Republican. He didn't support welfare, but was wise enough not o ba a bastard about it either. That led to the crop of states that limit welfare. But realize today's welfare has very little of the "direct payouts" it used to... They will pay your rent, give you food stamps.. But very little is CASH now. So you still gotta do SOMETHING to get money. In fact welfare has mostly moved to "upfare".. Which is why Walmart can use that to take advantage of not paying you "too much" or you lose benefits. Reagan would never have allowed such games and would have flipped to anti-business pretty quickly today.
Eisenhower COULD have been what the current day Republicans want... Like when he rounded up illegal Mexicans with efficiency learned conquering Europe... Packed them on shipps an sent them to the furthest point south in Mexico.
And at that moment we realized our government should NEVER HAVE that much power to round people up. Eisenhower was much like Washington... He was smart enough and wise enough to get the politicians of his day to ask for things, like great moral purges... And point out HE could do them ON HIS OWN as a famous general.... Which shut a lot of people up in a hurry.
This is why we have such a "divided" country on election night. In reality we aren't that different... But a few people are in charge of telling the story.... And picking the people who tell THEM the story.
But some politicians get honest and become used car salesmen!!!
We have a guy in my town that ran dad's company, and wanted to run for dad's state govt job when dad retired... He "failed up" to a respectable used car sales dealer...
Not really people EARNING $250k... EARNING MONEY IS SECOND CLASS.
Small business owners (plumbers, mechanics, doctors, lawyers, web designers) Ballplayers, music artists, book writers for example get "wages" (w-2, 1099, it's all the same) as income... Taxed at 28%. Our "47% are moochers" friend made his millions on carefully paid out capital gains... Taxed at 15% MAX. THAT is the problem. Even if YOU put your money in 401k it's still taxed as EARNED income..., while the money managers on Wall Street get paid out of capital gains off the top of your mutual fund. Then add in all the other taxes employees and employers (not investors) pay... While the rich pay a huge share of taxes... It's NOT AS HUGE as the share of income the receive each year and resources they sit on.
But they had already stated they were near one billion for several months.... Announcing that this day we went over that number in that week isn't really "material evidence" unless somebody is trying to speculate on the hype. Typically, when a CEO does something like this, they push out a "press release" a few minutes later... But frankly that just feeds the trolls.
This is probably why Apple always starts their press conferences with the "brag reel". Its also why the events are not live streamed... Then they can't be accused of "favoritism" because vapid fanboys and legit investor newspapers officially got told at the same time.
Raspberry Pi IS a low volume prototype product in the world of SMT placement.
It takes cash to buy the parts and build them... They COULD build a years worth in a week... But that's a bad use of Capital investment to tie up money you don't have to. And it takes up floor space. The customer simply can't PAY for more at once. These guys sling parts to get paid... The parts and such are consigned to the end customer.
They were still more prolific before CD... The made nine records in under ten years before CD (1983 doesnt count because they had already started it) and only seven Discs since then. They've only been 1/3 as productive in the digital age...
I'm guessing its for THIS: http://www.hasbro.com/shop/details.cfm?R=8EC0CAA0-6D40-1014-8BF0-9EFBF894F9D4:en_US
I used to play it as a kid 30+ years ago and it was old then. I'd guess the company revised and expanded its trademark recently so they gotta do the shakedown.
This makes a whole new twist on Abortion. If it doesn't HAVE to be INSIDE a mother, is it a people? More importantly what are the ethics of DELIBERATELY making fetuses with these for the parts?
Vertical integration is what Apple has with OSX & iOS. Because Apple has that solid core they can hang new devices off the tree at will. That's how Apple can swap out PC processors or introduce their own processor to market very quickly... hints are that Apple is going to do it AGAIN very soon.. Apple supports ONE OS with TWO incarnations.... and that's it. very streamlined.
With Windows, the versions are "windows like" but they're still spun off into separate products and not tied together. Microsoft still things in terms of "products" and not "Windows". You want Xbox, Phone, Tablet, and Desktop all based on very similar code and that code has to "move" at the same time. Courier and Kin got knocked off because they were "products" orphan babies out there somebody had to support but not proper OSes. Microsoft just keeps inventing the wheel... big custom environments every few years with subtle spinoffs. You want ONE "Windows OS" that is the most streamlined piece of device code you can make. Then you want it to be exactly, deliberately different for each device... but change comes from the core group, not the branches.
This is why we mocked the new Surface RT tablets... because they are on ARM processors, but still managed to include more BLOAT than the FULL Windows 7 + Office suite!! To be fair, most of the mainline software makers have the same problem... Adobe, AutoDesk, all the names we "love to hate" because they just keep "cobbling" and never "rewriting" their internal stuff. so it's years of bloat on top of bloat... and the "last guy" that tried to fix that got fired... so nobody contests it.
Windows 8 is done... it's out. His part would have been done MONTHS ago when the thing went Gold. It's not like people at his level are bothered with making sure patches get out or that the damn thing actually works... they have staff for that.
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No, it's more like the postman adding an extra separate note when they deliver other mail to your mailbox... And you're complaining about the postman opening your mailbox.... Or the phone company playing a message when you pick up the phone to dial.
As this is a pop-up ad, I'm afraid the FCC would agree with them. They are not changing anybody else's page, just adding a note when you make a connection to THEIR NETWORK. Wifi hot spots do this all the time and people are fine. I suppose they could just redirect ALL your HTTP traffic until you click to acknowledge the message. It's THEIR NETWORK, they have a right to send customers physically connected a message.
I have to admit, if its a pop-up ad then they are not hiding anything... Like say changing DNS resolution, or replacing ads in other websites pages.
How ARE they supposed to tell subscribers about something? They can't send an email because they are taking downtime. They could call everybody? SMS? But in the short term, they own the end-client connection, so adding an extra message doesn't seem so bad.
I kind of wish you could have a service like this for local weather and alerts. We have similar push alerts for TV and Radio, but more people spend their time on HTTP traffic than anywhere else now. It would be an easy spec to knock out... You just need a way to trust the messages are from your Internet provider via their equipment and not leave the thing wide open. It would also be very clever for mobile users as well. They would get the local alerts when they star up their browsers.
Closed -shop means you have to be a dues paying Union member BEFORE you can ASK to be employed at a workplace.
This is a Union-shop where the Union and company agree everybody after they are hired will be in the Union.
Ironically, most companies dontbhavebany mechanism to deal with non-union employees. Many don't even have a way to PAY you outside the formal rules of the union contract. Michigan is such a strong union state we have virtually no "work" rules that are enforced outside minors.
The BIGGEST reason for a government union....
Your bosses are elected liars and sociopaths. And change every two-four years. Union bosses are still one step higher in morality than that lot.
Part of the reason for government unions is that the process of getting a government job in 1900 was so corrupt, politicians and and a President were getting shot and killed for failing basic job ethics we enjoy today.
Stop sniveling about a trial version... It's a $3 game. You're just a cheap bastard. The game is a SEQUEL to a game that has sold well on iOS and android... Just the cross-over traffic should have been more than what they made... Unless the game was so buried nobody could find it.
At least on iOS, they have lite versions that are free with pay-to-unlock for GLWG & GBWG.
This game does OK on other platforms... The issue is that Microsoft isn't helping out with an established game on THEIR new platform because the game doesn't jump through their hoops. Microsoft isn't in a position for such demands... This is as silly as Apple demanding every iOS game run on OSX.
It's a lot like real estate. The politics of real estate are much the same. Open a strip mall, fill it up with local shops and anybody you can grab. Wait for it to fill up and then jack rates up... "Where are they gonna go" moving a small business is a death sentence in general. IP, especially owned by investors, is treated much the same way, as rental property.. Like out-of-touch old landlords, they don't have a clue what they have.
In reality, the discussion was probably: we spent $2.8M, how do we get it back in X months to flip this thing? How much do we raise rates to get 40% margin a "software house" (like business software) should get? Accountants and sales made a number, and gave it to publishers, take-it-or-leave-it.
Of course that could always be negotiated DOWN. nobody seemed to complain when copyright time went UP ex post facto for free? Did they?
That's the proposal right out of Ars a few years ago. This would allow companies like Lucasfilm or Warner-brothers to keep their famous properties quite easily. But Ars ran the numbers and the VAST 90%+ number of works don't make ANY money after about 12 years.... Proving 14 years was a great idea in the first place, and we didn't need to mess with it at all! GO CONSERVATIVISM!
The VAST majority of copyright is used to keep somebody else from finding your work and sampling 5 seconds of 25 year-old songs without big kickbacks to somebody that forgot they "owned" it.
Mitt's comment was a classic "let them eat cake" comment. He's too rich and busy to realize most people live on his pocket change... Much like a certain queen was too clueless to realize that if you are too poor to buy bread, you are too poor for cake because its the same thing.
The top 20% income starts about $150k.. That means 8 of 10 WORKING people are poorer than you. Note that's not counting wives, children, etc... So as a percent of "people" you are in even rarer company.
You do realize all those groups are "too poor" to pay what Romney would call a fair share... That's more like 60-70% he's got there. Even then you aren't considered "comfortable" until about $75k... Which is $30k above the median wages!
I'd qualify #1 as "landed" rich. The second-gen rich and little old ladies living off interest from robber-baron riches.. It takes a LOT of money for interest to hit $150k a year and have big taxes. And it's mostly capital gains at 15% anyway... Those are your rich (mostly Democrats) that "don't mind" paying taxes because its still less taxes than working for the same income.
Except NONE OF THAT MATTERS! Reagan didn't stop abortion, in fact it is MORE restricted now than then.
The "gay" issue is something society is just going to have to deal with... It wasn't until AFTER Reagan, that the Right started actively hunting and outing gays with 10+ years of service to make Clinton look bad.
As far as government size, Reagan wound it UP after Nixon left it in disrepair and Carter couldn't knock over one small country.
Taxes on the most wealthy and capital gains are 5%-15% lower than when Reagan was President... The whole jobs will be created turned out to be true... Just in China. Oops!
Of course at the time Reagan was a fairly "left" Republican. He didn't support welfare, but was wise enough not o ba a bastard about it either. That led to the crop of states that limit welfare. But realize today's welfare has very little of the "direct payouts" it used to... They will pay your rent, give you food stamps.. But very little is CASH now. So you still gotta do SOMETHING to get money. In fact welfare has mostly moved to "upfare".. Which is why Walmart can use that to take advantage of not paying you "too much" or you lose benefits. Reagan would never have allowed such games and would have flipped to anti-business pretty quickly today.
Eisenhower COULD have been what the current day Republicans want... Like when he rounded up illegal Mexicans with efficiency learned conquering Europe... Packed them on shipps an sent them to the furthest point south in Mexico.
And at that moment we realized our government should NEVER HAVE that much power to round people up. Eisenhower was much like Washington... He was smart enough and wise enough to get the politicians of his day to ask for things, like great moral purges... And point out HE could do them ON HIS OWN as a famous general.... Which shut a lot of people up in a hurry.
This is why we have such a "divided" country on election night. In reality we aren't that different... But a few people are in charge of telling the story.... And picking the people who tell THEM the story.
But some politicians get honest and become used car salesmen!!!
We have a guy in my town that ran dad's company, and wanted to run for dad's state govt job when dad retired... He "failed up" to a respectable used car sales dealer...
Not really people EARNING $250k... EARNING MONEY IS SECOND CLASS.
Small business owners (plumbers, mechanics, doctors, lawyers, web designers) Ballplayers, music artists, book writers for example get "wages" (w-2, 1099, it's all the same) as income... Taxed at 28%. Our "47% are moochers" friend made his millions on carefully paid out capital gains... Taxed at 15% MAX. THAT is the problem. Even if YOU put your money in 401k it's still taxed as EARNED income..., while the money managers on Wall Street get paid out of capital gains off the top of your mutual fund. Then add in all the other taxes employees and employers (not investors) pay... While the rich pay a huge share of taxes... It's NOT AS HUGE as the share of income the receive each year and resources they sit on.
But they had already stated they were near one billion for several months.... Announcing that this day we went over that number in that week isn't really "material evidence" unless somebody is trying to speculate on the hype. Typically, when a CEO does something like this, they push out a "press release" a few minutes later... But frankly that just feeds the trolls.
This is probably why Apple always starts their press conferences with the "brag reel". Its also why the events are not live streamed... Then they can't be accused of "favoritism" because vapid fanboys and legit investor newspapers officially got told at the same time.
Raspberry Pi IS a low volume prototype product in the world of SMT placement.
It takes cash to buy the parts and build them... They COULD build a years worth in a week... But that's a bad use of Capital investment to tie up money you don't have to. And it takes up floor space. The customer simply can't PAY for more at once. These guys sling parts to get paid... The parts and such are consigned to the end customer.
They were still more prolific before CD... The made nine records in under ten years before CD (1983 doesnt count because they had already started it) and only seven Discs since then. They've only been 1/3 as productive in the digital age...
I'm guessing its for THIS:
http://www.hasbro.com/shop/details.cfm?R=8EC0CAA0-6D40-1014-8BF0-9EFBF894F9D4:en_US
I used to play it as a kid 30+ years ago and it was old then. I'd guess the company revised and expanded its trademark recently so they gotta do the shakedown.
There are plenty... Just not the color we want.
This makes a whole new twist on Abortion. If it doesn't HAVE to be INSIDE a mother, is it a people? More importantly what are the ethics of DELIBERATELY making fetuses with these for the parts?
Vertical integration is what Apple has with OSX & iOS. Because Apple has that solid core they can hang new devices off the tree at will. That's how Apple can swap out PC processors or introduce their own processor to market very quickly... hints are that Apple is going to do it AGAIN very soon.. Apple supports ONE OS with TWO incarnations.... and that's it. very streamlined.
With Windows, the versions are "windows like" but they're still spun off into separate products and not tied together. Microsoft still things in terms of "products" and not "Windows". You want Xbox, Phone, Tablet, and Desktop all based on very similar code and that code has to "move" at the same time. Courier and Kin got knocked off because they were "products" orphan babies out there somebody had to support but not proper OSes. Microsoft just keeps inventing the wheel... big custom environments every few years with subtle spinoffs. You want ONE "Windows OS" that is the most streamlined piece of device code you can make. Then you want it to be exactly, deliberately different for each device... but change comes from the core group, not the branches.
This is why we mocked the new Surface RT tablets... because they are on ARM processors, but still managed to include more BLOAT than the FULL Windows 7 + Office suite!! To be fair, most of the mainline software makers have the same problem... Adobe, AutoDesk, all the names we "love to hate" because they just keep "cobbling" and never "rewriting" their internal stuff. so it's years of bloat on top of bloat... and the "last guy" that tried to fix that got fired... so nobody contests it.
Windows 8 is done... it's out. His part would have been done MONTHS ago when the thing went Gold. It's not like people at his level are bothered with making sure patches get out or that the damn thing actually works... they have staff for that.
He got an offer from recently ousted Scott Forstall he couldn't refuse!!!
They're gonna make Desktop Linux BIG!!!!
but not as big as Android.... but Big!!!
I'd think he's hitting problems at the top and knows he can't fix them.
Scott Forstall is looking for a job too... maybe we can FINALLY get a really good GUI for Linux!!! I want my skeuomorphic, sliding boxes NOW!!!!