The good in Patch was that it put a few extra bucks in the pockets of somebody I know. It really was local, and seemed to be building genuine community. The bad was their e-mail alerts that were not timely or meaningful. I eventually turned them off. Alas, the web site itself just wasn't interesting enough to pull me in on a daily basis. I'm not sure why. The free dead-tree local papers continue to be my source for "the skinny" on stuff that's too local for the biggies (e.g., the bowling alley and the strip club being demolished to make way for condos, that kind of story).
Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity,. aka Hanlon's razor. In this case, I think there are a few things going on with NBC execs that aren't deep, political, or malicious. First, they don't want to repeat the Letterman process. This is the process by which NBC incubates from SNL, to late night, to 11 PM, to... a rival. In general, NBC has a problem in that they incubate too many young comics for some reason. Inevitably, those comics go to other networks. They could just acknowledge that and market fresh talent to other networks; but they apparently don't see that as an opportunity. Maybe it just didn't occur to them, or it did and they ran the numbers and didn't like it.
Speaking of NBC execs running numbers, that might explain why they're going to move the whole night lineup to New York. I think that sucks. There will be no West Coast perspective anymore. If it weren't for Johnny making fun of it, I never would have known Barstow existed. They'll create an opportunity for some other smart network to do an LA-based talk show in the late hours, and rue the day they moved everything to NYC if that takes their viewers.
They dissed the whole West Coast for no good reason. Wankers.
Anyway, malice is unlikely. These are TV execs, known more for stupidity and short-sightedness than anything else.
Perfect! When it looks like there's credible opposition, it's a tried an true tactic to give them a cushy job. You could even set him up in Hawaii with a hot pole-dancing girl... um... nevermind.
The program is still classified, so it does not exist.
At first glance I thought you meant to imply that the government was denying the existence of the Tonight Show. In our current climate, that's a realistic possibility.
You need Dr. Strangelove to walk into a coffee shop, and for the barista to ask him how he likes his coffee. Then MAYBE it's funny. Furthermore, the deliver and timing matters. You can deliver that line and kill or die. Finally, the person who sees this might not get it, or they might get it and just not think it's funny. Yeah, yeah, Dr. Strangelove likes the cold war. Not funny... to that guy; but maybe funny to you.
Anyone know a good freedom dealer? I'm an addict and need my fix of freedom, but I can't seem to find it within the borders of the US at this point.
I never saw freedom sold on the street. We always had to grow our own.
Then we'd take it from our garden on a bus. They'd tell us we had to sit in back. When we got there they said we couldn't dance. Yet somehow that light still shown. We grew our own.
Wow, Slashdot has grown up well over the years. You used to hear endless taunts here from people talking about lousy Windows up-times. They always assumed I was an advocate of Windows NT Server when I was, in fact, nothing of the sort. They failed to realize that Windows with no qualifiers implied "desktop" because that was its real heritage. They failed to realize that months-long uptime was a meaningless metric for most users because they turned their machine off at the end of the day. Full-day uptimes were routine for me by Windows 98. There was also a great deal of eagerness to "blame Windows first". I even fell pray to this myself one time, until I discovered that the machine had faulty DIMMs.
That's the kind of counter-argument I expected. It's a good point, but the fact is that unlike in software, even non-musicians managing musicians are not so foolish as to dismiss the value of talent and assume that putting down the instruments and becoming a manager is a step-up. Also, performing musicians can reach executive level pay. They may be engaged in some business too; but they continue to perform meaningful work.
Wholesale prices are different for each customer based on volume. You can't just paste prices on the web dumbass.
Yes you can. You just have to use a table. Maybe you have to query the database. Some people even (gasp!) will pull from the database to let you know how many are in stock! Heresy, I know. Were you, pray tell, an Encyclopedia Britannica salesman at some point?
Of course if you've cut a sweetheart deal with a customer based on something *other* than order volume, that's your right; but that doesn't prevent you from posting baseline prices based on a simple algorithm.
Well, that might be how it works; but that doesn't mean it isn't broken. It seems like the cost of this opacity is born by the customer and/or the supplier that thinks it's a good idea when in reality they're turning away small companies that might grow into larger customer. I've had conversations like this:
Manager: Wow, that sounds like it might be a better solution. How much does it cost?
Me: It's "Call U$" pricing again...
Manager: Fuck it. Stay with Transparent Company, Inc.
Note, I've got no problem with larger prices and/or denial of orders in onesies and twosies. After all, that's the definition of "wholesale". I've got a real distaste for "Call U$". The other one that gets me is, "must be at an office" when the product is not dangerous or regulated, and is commonly shipped by UPS. It's like Keiretsu, and I don't see how you can defend it. Acknowledge that it exists, sure; but that's it.
That's no excuse. It just makes it that much harder to do cost analysis. Sorry. All your "I'm a b2b site" chest thumping doesn't mean squat. If I'm a purchaser, especially a bulk-purchaser, I'm expected to do some comparison. That means going through log-ins on all your stupid sites, instead of being able to automate it in some sane way. Electronic stock exchanges quote slightly different prices that get arbitraged away, and that business doesn't hurt, so the idea that price transparency will hurt your business doesn't fly with me. It's just a nuisance to customers.
I would have have shown PC Guy sitting with somebody in a cafe, talking about the selling points of the device. Then 25 seconds in, Mac Guy brings them their drinks.
When I was using Flickr, I had one killer app for tags and now I don't use Flickr so I don't use tags. Tags on Flickr were a nice lazy way to organize photos and show people "all the pictures related to #blah" without going through the hassle of creating a set.
I see the tags on Slashdot articles and I'm like... "that's nice"; but I don't use them for anything. If they're useful to you for some reason, fantastic. Come up with your own taxonomy and have a ball. Quit trying to come up with the Ultimate Living Room Organization Scheme (TM), because it's not gonna happen. We all want to put the TV someplace different. Deal with it.
Aside from them not being insects, they're all big enough for us to remove the exoskeleton and viscera. First thing you learn when eating these things is, "throw away the green gooey thing". You spend a lot of time extracting the tasty white parts, which is part of why eating crab and lobster isn't my cup of tea. The other reason is that I'm possibly sensitive to things in crab and lobster. They sometimes accumulate things that cause allergic reactions. My father broke out big-time once from eating crabs. Small insects may or may not tend to accumulate such toxins. It's a moot point though. I have no desire to eat the skeleton or the insect equivalent of the green gooey thing. Even if you find some really big bug that can be filleted, I just don't want to eat it. That should be reason enough. I suspect there might be a "reverse Streisand effect" too. The elites have been advocating for this every few months recently, so if we were ambivalent about it before, we're even more suspicious now.
This does not look broken to me. When I visited NYC many moons ago, I was not confused by the Subway. I didn't even have a map--I just used the ones in the station. To be fair, I never left Manhattan; but I did go way up to the Cloisters. I even took an express train back downtown. No missed stops. Just as easy as DC metro. Of course, I have laces on my shoes not velcro and I'm not a "designer". What? You don't like the tone of that? Shove it, buddy. This is a story about New York!
Why Americans aren't using their 2nd amendment rights already to get rid of all these corrupt fucks is beyond me.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
(long list of grievances omitted)
Anybody who is American and was awake in civics class should recognize these words from the Declaration of Independence.
IIRC, some of the complaints went back as far as the 1750s, perhaps even further. Revolution is not something to enter lightly. The founders understood it was treason and didn't casually toss of their relationship with Britain. Today the lack of action is commonly attributed to apathy. Perhaps Americans are wiser than we think though. Casting off the current republic would be severing ties with something even more powerful than the 18th century British Empire.
How about an Article V Convention first? AKA, a broad slate of amendments that would create a new Constitution. It would literally be a New Republic. Larry Sabato from my alma mater wrote a book about this. I don't agree with very many of his proposals though. That's the problem with such a convention or a revolution. You never know what you're going to get. So. I think this has to fester a bit more. Let's try the Article V convention first though, before we reach for the musket. It's actually a fairly extreme parliamentary maneuver, and allegedly Congress has acted under the threat of article V before.
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Absolute silence. Of course I wouldn't put it past the government to hack up a few thousand pages that standardize "silence".
The good in Patch was that it put a few extra bucks in the pockets of somebody I know. It really was local, and seemed to be building genuine community. The bad was their e-mail alerts that were not timely or meaningful. I eventually turned them off. Alas, the web site itself just wasn't interesting enough to pull me in on a daily basis. I'm not sure why. The free dead-tree local papers continue to be my source for "the skinny" on stuff that's too local for the biggies (e.g., the bowling alley and the strip club being demolished to make way for condos, that kind of story).
APNGASM is what you get when you search for the Assessor's Parcel Number on a desirable piece of property and find out it's clean.
Why do you think they are getting rid of Leno?
Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity,. aka Hanlon's razor. In this case, I think there are a few things going on with NBC execs that aren't deep, political, or malicious. First, they don't want to repeat the Letterman process. This is the process by which NBC incubates from SNL, to late night, to 11 PM, to... a rival. In general, NBC has a problem in that they incubate too many young comics for some reason. Inevitably, those comics go to other networks. They could just acknowledge that and market fresh talent to other networks; but they apparently don't see that as an opportunity. Maybe it just didn't occur to them, or it did and they ran the numbers and didn't like it.
Speaking of NBC execs running numbers, that might explain why they're going to move the whole night lineup to New York. I think that sucks. There will be no West Coast perspective anymore. If it weren't for Johnny making fun of it, I never would have known Barstow existed. They'll create an opportunity for some other smart network to do an LA-based talk show in the late hours, and rue the day they moved everything to NYC if that takes their viewers.
They dissed the whole West Coast for no good reason. Wankers.
Anyway, malice is unlikely. These are TV execs, known more for stupidity and short-sightedness than anything else.
Perfect! When it looks like there's credible opposition, it's a tried an true tactic to give them a cushy job. You could even set him up in Hawaii with a hot pole-dancing girl... um... nevermind.
The program is still classified, so it does not exist.
At first glance I thought you meant to imply that the government was denying the existence of the Tonight Show. In our current climate, that's a realistic possibility.
ZOMG! Ponies! LOL, thank-you.
Yes, made it up. Thank-you.
You need Dr. Strangelove to walk into a coffee shop, and for the barista to ask him how he likes his coffee. Then MAYBE it's funny. Furthermore, the deliver and timing matters. You can deliver that line and kill or die. Finally, the person who sees this might not get it, or they might get it and just not think it's funny. Yeah, yeah, Dr. Strangelove likes the cold war. Not funny... to that guy; but maybe funny to you.
Anyone know a good freedom dealer? I'm an addict and need my fix of freedom, but I can't seem to find it within the borders of the US at this point.
I never saw freedom sold on the street.
We always had to grow our own.
Then we'd take it from our garden on a bus.
They'd tell us we had to sit in back.
When we got there they said we couldn't dance.
Yet somehow that light still shown.
We grew our own.
Wow, Slashdot has grown up well over the years. You used to hear endless taunts here from people talking about lousy Windows up-times. They always assumed I was an advocate of Windows NT Server when I was, in fact, nothing of the sort. They failed to realize that Windows with no qualifiers implied "desktop" because that was its real heritage. They failed to realize that months-long uptime was a meaningless metric for most users because they turned their machine off at the end of the day. Full-day uptimes were routine for me by Windows 98. There was also a great deal of eagerness to "blame Windows first". I even fell pray to this myself one time, until I discovered that the machine had faulty DIMMs.
That's the kind of counter-argument I expected. It's a good point, but the fact is that unlike in software, even non-musicians managing musicians are not so foolish as to dismiss the value of talent and assume that putting down the instruments and becoming a manager is a step-up. Also, performing musicians can reach executive level pay. They may be engaged in some business too; but they continue to perform meaningful work.
Suit: Bono, Unforgettable Fire was excellent. We're promoting you to regional manager.
Wholesale prices are different for each customer based on volume. You can't just paste prices on the web dumbass.
Yes you can. You just have to use a table. Maybe you have to query the database. Some people even (gasp!) will pull from the database to let you know how many are in stock! Heresy, I know. Were you, pray tell, an Encyclopedia Britannica salesman at some point?
Of course if you've cut a sweetheart deal with a customer based on something *other* than order volume, that's your right; but that doesn't prevent you from posting baseline prices based on a simple algorithm.
"Smart" is undergoing a semantic evolution similar to that of nice
Well, that might be how it works; but that doesn't mean it isn't broken. It seems like the cost of this opacity is born by the customer and/or the supplier that thinks it's a good idea when in reality they're turning away small companies that might grow into larger customer. I've had conversations like this:
Manager: Wow, that sounds like it might be a better solution. How much does it cost?
Me: It's "Call U$" pricing again...
Manager: Fuck it. Stay with Transparent Company, Inc.
Note, I've got no problem with larger prices and/or denial of orders in onesies and twosies. After all, that's the definition of "wholesale". I've got a real distaste for "Call U$". The other one that gets me is, "must be at an office" when the product is not dangerous or regulated, and is commonly shipped by UPS. It's like Keiretsu, and I don't see how you can defend it. Acknowledge that it exists, sure; but that's it.
That's no excuse. It just makes it that much harder to do cost analysis. Sorry. All your "I'm a b2b site" chest thumping doesn't mean squat. If I'm a purchaser, especially a bulk-purchaser, I'm expected to do some comparison. That means going through log-ins on all your stupid sites, instead of being able to automate it in some sane way. Electronic stock exchanges quote slightly different prices that get arbitraged away, and that business doesn't hurt, so the idea that price transparency will hurt your business doesn't fly with me. It's just a nuisance to customers.
I used to say Bin Laden was the mouse that made the Elephants panic and stumble. Damned if he didn't stampede the Donkeys too.
That fact that a corporation can hijack language and have an artificial monopoly on a word is bullshit to begin with.
No it isn't. Trade mark is reputation. Without it, you could buy something labeled Coca Cola and get municipal tap water.
I would have have shown PC Guy sitting with somebody in a cafe, talking about the selling points of the device. Then 25 seconds in, Mac Guy brings them their drinks.
When I was using Flickr, I had one killer app for tags and now I don't use Flickr so I don't use tags. Tags on Flickr were a nice lazy way to organize photos and show people "all the pictures related to #blah" without going through the hassle of creating a set.
I see the tags on Slashdot articles and I'm like... "that's nice"; but I don't use them for anything. If they're useful to you for some reason, fantastic. Come up with your own taxonomy and have a ball. Quit trying to come up with the Ultimate Living Room Organization Scheme (TM), because it's not gonna happen. We all want to put the TV someplace different. Deal with it.
Aside from them not being insects, they're all big enough for us to remove the exoskeleton and viscera. First thing you learn when eating these things is, "throw away the green gooey thing". You spend a lot of time extracting the tasty white parts, which is part of why eating crab and lobster isn't my cup of tea. The other reason is that I'm possibly sensitive to things in crab and lobster. They sometimes accumulate things that cause allergic reactions. My father broke out big-time once from eating crabs. Small insects may or may not tend to accumulate such toxins. It's a moot point though. I have no desire to eat the skeleton or the insect equivalent of the green gooey thing. Even if you find some really big bug that can be filleted, I just don't want to eat it. That should be reason enough. I suspect there might be a "reverse Streisand effect" too. The elites have been advocating for this every few months recently, so if we were ambivalent about it before, we're even more suspicious now.
This does not look broken to me. When I visited NYC many moons ago, I was not confused by the Subway. I didn't even have a map--I just used the ones in the station. To be fair, I never left Manhattan; but I did go way up to the Cloisters. I even took an express train back downtown. No missed stops. Just as easy as DC metro. Of course, I have laces on my shoes not velcro and I'm not a "designer". What? You don't like the tone of that? Shove it, buddy. This is a story about New York!
Why Americans aren't using their 2nd amendment rights already to get rid of all these corrupt fucks is beyond me.
(long list of grievances omitted)
Anybody who is American and was awake in civics class should recognize these words from the Declaration of Independence.
IIRC, some of the complaints went back as far as the 1750s, perhaps even further. Revolution is not something to enter lightly. The founders understood it was treason and didn't casually toss of their relationship with Britain. Today the lack of action is commonly attributed to apathy. Perhaps Americans are wiser than we think though. Casting off the current republic would be severing ties with something even more powerful than the 18th century British Empire.
How about an Article V Convention first? AKA, a broad slate of amendments that would create a new Constitution. It would literally be a New Republic. Larry Sabato from my alma mater wrote a book about this. I don't agree with very many of his proposals though. That's the problem with such a convention or a revolution. You never know what you're going to get. So. I think this has to fester a bit more. Let's try the Article V convention first though, before we reach for the musket. It's actually a fairly extreme parliamentary maneuver, and allegedly Congress has acted under the threat of article V before.