Exactly. We all probably know people who have been through similar things. I know a guy who was 24 and got with a girl who was 17 but dressed, looked, and acted like she was older. You know where that's going.
Another thing that happened at a cop bar in my neighborhood is that the bar is connected with a pizza shop. An underage girl walked into the pizza shop and slipped into the bar. She hooked up with a guy and they had sex in the back of his car. Her parents found out and WHAMMO, pedophile label for life.
I think we need to differentiate between people who are truly predators and those who were in bad situations.
I don't know a single person that uses Netflix so that's rather difficult. I also haven't heard it *anywhere* other than on Slashdot. I wouldn't even know it existed otherwise.
I know exactly one person who uses netflix and he loves it. He was using it 5 years ago.
Cutting back hours? I don't know about that. I know of a couple Blockbusters around here and they are open the same hours they have been for years. At least you know that the movie rental places are open on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I don't think that's what he meant. I think he means that individual employee hours are being cut back. Reduce the number of concurrent employee hours during the work week. I can't confirm that this is the case, because I haven't entered a blockbuster in about two years, but the intent of his statement is clear.
I'm just a movie watcher that doesn't like to pay a whole hell of a lot to watch a movie once.
This is the key. Circuit City misunderstood the collective mindset of movie consumers. People WILL pay to have a movie at their disposal. They will not pay to increase the bottom line of any company (except Apple, but that's another discussion).
Apple could sell iPods there with removable hard drives. Buy an iPod with 0 memory and then purchase a mini HDD as a separate item. Combine the two and evade the tax.
Yes, I understand that the tax applies to every mp3 player. Everyone could do the same thing.
3rd Amendment: Prohibition of quartering of soldiers 4th Amendment: right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures 5th Amendment: protection against self-incrimination 9th Amendment: lack of enumeration of a right does not preclude that right from existing
Amendment 1. Freedom to gather and petition the government for redress of grievances can't be done privately.
Amendment 3. Has nothing to do with privacy, it's about property.
Amendment 4. The argument can be made that this is about privacy, but the right is not designated as such.
Amendment 5. Once again, privacy is not a concern in this case. Freedom of speech must also include freedom not to speak.
Amendment 9. This is the heart of the matter. It is here that the "right to privacy" is concocted.
The court has not found a fundamental right to privacy as to one's actions on the Internet. Only fundamental rights are protected through the 14th Amendment.
The process of selective incorporation is not immediate.
Remember, the unenumerated "right to privacy" is the foudation of Roe Vs Wade, maybe if we start to frame the dispute as the RIAA trying to eliminate the right to privacy as a precursor to an assault on the "right to choose" we can get people who care nothing for digital rights, but have deep pockets, to come on board in the fight.
So what you're saying boils down to "Their prices are so good, that they can't possibly be doing it and making a profit."
A little Googling reveals that there are a lot of outfits out there doing inexpensive domain registrations.
Even Yahoo is in on the cheap domain registration game. Granted, yahoo has a lot of other sources of revenue, but I believe that godaddy has relationships with hosting companies that I'm sure adds money to their bottom line.
So, lets say that they are getting $0.50 per month for every referral that they make to a web hosting company. Let's just say that 20% of their registrations are of people who need a hosting service. We're talking about over 4 million dollars per year.
To be fair, I arbitrarily picked those numbers, but I don't think that they're an unreasonable estimate.
When I started tooling around a game for the sake of doing so was after about the 10th time I beat Sonic The Hedgehog for the Genesis.
I called it "Explorimenting", I'd take as much time as I could to work out new techniques to maximize my score or find the shortest and longest paths to the objectives.
I could beat the game in either 15 minutes or an hour and not lose one sonic depending on my mood.
Actually, corporations do have incentives to involve in social issues, as perception of integrity is important to company brands which consumers respond to.
Microsoft is so large, it no longer has to worry about public perceptions.
I suspect that they may be more concerned about employee morale.
You missed the point of the poster's comment. I didn't miss it, it doesn't apply.
He/she is saying you should rollback all those other changes if you're against redefining marriage.
The racial restrictions on marriage were the result of a redefinition. When the SCOTUS struck it down in Loving V. Virginia, they WERE rolling back a redefinition.
Slashdot Mirror
That's not so bad; it's a kickass site. Lightning fast, too.
And whoever runs it likes all of the same pr0n that I do.
LK
So what if this is the first Star Wars movie to get a PG-13 rating? The first three were relased before the PG-13 rating existed.
Episode(s) IV-VI didn't deserve R ratings and PG-13 wasn't an option.
LK
If slashdotters bought all the ones in stock, would it be the first instance of slashdotting a store? Or have there been others in the past?
You must be new here. Remember this, or this?
n00b
We've slashdotted websites, hardware manufacturers, software publishers and probably a few small to medium sized governments.
LK
Why in the hell would the scouts take a position on a politicized issue like this?
This gives a whole new meaning to "Weblows"
LK
Exactly. We all probably know people who have been through similar things. I know a guy who was 24 and got with a girl who was 17 but dressed, looked, and acted like she was older. You know where that's going.
Another thing that happened at a cop bar in my neighborhood is that the bar is connected with a pizza shop. An underage girl walked into the pizza shop and slipped into the bar. She hooked up with a guy and they had sex in the back of his car. Her parents found out and WHAMMO, pedophile label for life.
I think we need to differentiate between people who are truly predators and those who were in bad situations.
LK
The New Testament, The Qur'an and The Book of Mormon could all be seen as "Expansion Packs" to the Torah and Talmud.
LK
I don't know a single person that uses Netflix so that's rather difficult. I also haven't heard it *anywhere* other than on Slashdot. I wouldn't even know it existed otherwise.
I know exactly one person who uses netflix and he loves it. He was using it 5 years ago.
Cutting back hours? I don't know about that. I know of a couple Blockbusters around here and they are open the same hours they have been for years. At least you know that the movie rental places are open on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I don't think that's what he meant. I think he means that individual employee hours are being cut back. Reduce the number of concurrent employee hours during the work week. I can't confirm that this is the case, because I haven't entered a blockbuster in about two years, but the intent of his statement is clear.
I'm just a movie watcher that doesn't like to pay a whole hell of a lot to watch a movie once.
This is the key. Circuit City misunderstood the collective mindset of movie consumers. People WILL pay to have a movie at their disposal. They will not pay to increase the bottom line of any company (except Apple, but that's another discussion).
LK
A pre-emptive strike. Once Apple does that, other countries will forget about attempting any such idiocy.
LK
Apple could sell iPods there with removable hard drives. Buy an iPod with 0 memory and then purchase a mini HDD as a separate item. Combine the two and evade the tax.
Yes, I understand that the tax applies to every mp3 player. Everyone could do the same thing.
LK
tigers don't eat apples?
What cat does?
Haven't you noticed a feline theme to Apple's new OS naming scheme?
Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger...
LK
No silly, the Imperial Senate signs on to the Kyoto Protocol and fuel for the thrusters becomes too expensive.
LK
3rd Amendment: Prohibition of quartering of soldiers
4th Amendment: right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures
5th Amendment: protection against self-incrimination
9th Amendment: lack of enumeration of a right does not preclude that right from existing
Amendment 1. Freedom to gather and petition the government for redress of grievances can't be done privately.
Amendment 3. Has nothing to do with privacy, it's about property.
Amendment 4. The argument can be made that this is about privacy, but the right is not designated as such.
Amendment 5. Once again, privacy is not a concern in this case. Freedom of speech must also include freedom not to speak.
Amendment 9. This is the heart of the matter. It is here that the "right to privacy" is concocted.
The court has not found a fundamental right to privacy as to one's actions on the Internet. Only fundamental rights are protected through the 14th Amendment.
The process of selective incorporation is not immediate.
LK
Remember, the unenumerated "right to privacy" is the foudation of Roe Vs Wade, maybe if we start to frame the dispute as the RIAA trying to eliminate the right to privacy as a precursor to an assault on the "right to choose" we can get people who care nothing for digital rights, but have deep pockets, to come on board in the fight.
LK
So what you're saying boils down to "Their prices are so good, that they can't possibly be doing it and making a profit."
A little Googling reveals that there are a lot of outfits out there doing inexpensive domain registrations.
Even Yahoo is in on the cheap domain registration game. Granted, yahoo has a lot of other sources of revenue, but I believe that godaddy has relationships with hosting companies that I'm sure adds money to their bottom line.
So, lets say that they are getting $0.50 per month for every referral that they make to a web hosting company. Let's just say that 20% of their registrations are of people who need a hosting service. We're talking about over 4 million dollars per year.
To be fair, I arbitrarily picked those numbers, but I don't think that they're an unreasonable estimate.
LK
I remember when Apple went to 32 memory addressing, your apps had to be "32 bit clean" or else they'd negatively impact system stability.
LK
When I started tooling around a game for the sake of doing so was after about the 10th time I beat Sonic The Hedgehog for the Genesis.
I called it "Explorimenting", I'd take as much time as I could to work out new techniques to maximize my score or find the shortest and longest paths to the objectives.
I could beat the game in either 15 minutes or an hour and not lose one sonic depending on my mood.
LK
Do you mean Rube Goldberg ?
LK
You can, in many places, fire them for being gay.
You can be fired for your political affiliation.
LK
Actually, corporations do have incentives to involve in social issues, as perception of integrity is important to company brands which consumers respond to.
Microsoft is so large, it no longer has to worry about public perceptions.
I suspect that they may be more concerned about employee morale.
LK
There IS a GOTO statement in C++, an OOP language.
So how can AOP be like GOTO for OOP when GOTO is already the GOTO for OOP?
LK
So what about homosexuals who are not sexually active?
What about them?
Is it impossible to discriminate against them?
How would anyone know?
LK
What makes religion so special?
The first amendment to the US Constitution guarantees religious freedom.
LK
What "actions" define a homosexual. Be specific.
Participating in sexual activities with members of the same gender.
LK
You missed the point of the poster's comment.
I didn't miss it, it doesn't apply.
He/she is saying you should rollback all those other changes if you're against redefining marriage.
The racial restrictions on marriage were the result of a redefinition. When the SCOTUS struck it down in Loving V. Virginia, they WERE rolling back a redefinition.
LK
Marrige used to be defined as the union of a man and a woman of the same race.
That restriction was a redefinition. Race was never a condition of marriage before slavery.
Why? Because it makes you uncomfortable?
Because it's moronic. It's offensive. It's inaccurate.
LK