I'm no fan of Bush, but fixating on him is shortsighted. Remember that congress appropriates money and originates budgets, not the president, so, I suppose all the Democrats in congress had nothing to do with it, right? I mean, they've only been in control for the last 4 years. And of course the fact that the spending over the last 18 months dwarfs what happened in 2007/2008 and the impending tax increases has nothing to do with businesses being reluctant to hire, right?
Congress is corrupt, the executive branch is corrupt and the judiciary is most of the way there. If you think that R=bad and D=good, or the inverse you are deluded. They all suck
You know what's funny about that Eli Lilly fine and settlement? In all the stuff I read there's nothing about whether or not the off-label uses actually worked. If the drug actually works as they were promoting it then they essentially are paying 1.4 Billion for a technicality.
Anytime there's a close election there's a report of fraud. It's kind of like companies suing other companies - if they can't win in the market place the other guy must be cheating. Don't confuse reports of fraud with actual fraud. I'm not saying there isn't fraud, statistically I think is must exist to an extent in any election. I'm just saying that it's likely not at all as bad as it sounds from the media reports.
Likewise, one should not assume that because there are no reports of fraud that there is no fraud.
I say that anyone who can look at our current corporatocracy and claim with a straight face that "the unions are MORE powerful than their employers" -- or even present that state of affairs as a plausible scenario -- is completely disconnected from reality.
I actually take the time to figure out if there are non-union alternatives and I choose them. For example, when shopping for groceries we generally shop at Trader Joes, because they have superior products, but also because they are non-union and their prices are lower. Even though they are non-union their pay is above union average. (can't paste link due to Slashdot's lame javascript crap)
I will never purchase a car built by a company controlled by the UAW. Toyotas, Hondas, Nissans, etc are all built in the US by non-union workers, and in general provide higher quality and more bang for your buck.
I ALWAYS look for the union label and go elsewhere when I encounter it...
Well, I would hardly compare myself to gates but I was on the 5 year plan in high school, didn't go to collage and I've been making 6 figures in this industry since my late 20s. Of course, I did some of the course material on my own, so not going to college wasn't in terms of "can't" but because I didn't want to - I took a few courses and the culture in collage is little better than that in high school, and in some cases worse and I just don't want to deal with it.
The bottom line is that if you want to make a lot of money, in most cases that's simply not going to happen working a job for someone else. If you want to make a lot of money (career wise) you need to be in business for yourself. This means that you also have to understand bookkeeping and basic accounting, sales, marketing and all the rest of it, and also take all the risks.
yes. I do. I keep full and incremental backups of my machine and server, on demand backups of extra critical information. A complete backup that I keep with me, and an off-site backup of all my important stuff (different country even). And I back all my email up to Gmail. I'm redundantly redundant.
However, given that a bluray rip is about 25GB, and a compressed 1080P movie is about 8GB, the backup of my media server would require, basically, a whole other server. I also have a catalog of all my CDs DVDs etc. If the house burns down or someone breaks in and steals them insurance will replace them. Personally, I'd love to be able to trust the media companies to honor my purchases in the event of a catastrophic failure (and I'd probably be willing to pay a nominal (very nominal) re-download fee) but I just don't. Until they get their shit together if I'm buying a copy, I want it on media that will last for 40 or 50 years. Then I'll rip it to my media server and toss it in the closet.
Here's the thing. If I get a movie on BluRay, or DVD or a physical game, etc, then I know that if my system gets whacked then I still have the movie or game. As long as the media companies can change their policy at will, or like Apple tell you that sorry, no you can't re-download all your music even though you already paid for it: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11654170
When we get into HD movies that I purchase (I will also rent, but there are a lot of movies and music that i want to own a copy of), I don't really want to have to backup multiple terabytes of information to ensure I don't lose something I bought, and I certainly don't want to rely on the media companies benevolence to let me get acces to something I already paid for, so for me, as much as I would prefer no media, I do not trust the media companies.
Personally I think I should have gotten some sort of discount for all the vinyl and VHS that I had when I re-purchased the same title on CD / DVD.
Because the company that writes your pay check made a business decision to move to that new system. Don't like it? Start your own company and make all the decisions. I did.
To add to this point, although age is a factor, the real difference is a willingness to understand, learn and adapt. A fair number of youngish people I encounter simply don't have the attention span or interest to learn the various systems, and a lot of older people, while they have the attention span, just don't seem willing to learn or understand. They want you to tell them all the steps so they can follow them, without having an understanding of the concepts involved.
Personally I think that the truth is there are simply a lot of lazy people in the world, who have it pretty easy compared to their grandparents and simply won't acquire the required skills because, let's face it; if companies fired all the lazy people the unemployment rate would hit 50% overnight, and that's not going to happen
The difference is that Apple only charged people $29 for the Snow Leopard upgrade. The Vista to 7 upgrade was, uh just a bit more
I use both OS X and Windows 7, but for me the big difference is that Leopard was a good OS and for $29 SL was reasonable. Vista, in my personal experience was shitty, and in no way do I feel like paying $150 or more to upgrade to what Vista should have been in the first place.
Windows Mobile 7 may be great, but I'd suggest to Microsoft that they at least have a bit of success before declaring their major competitors dead and fucking up a Michael Jackson song...
This is a secondary reaction from the light heating the air, so the air is moving the particle, which was heated by the laser. regardless this is about as close to a tractor beam as my DeWalt drill is to a wormhole generator.
You might not realize this, but your post is overly sensitive and quite ridiculous, even if you did post AC. It's inappropriate to hijack a thread due to your sensitivity.
It depends on how bad the lack of science is and how bad the movie is. Star Wars was a really good story, with good characters, so you could ignore the endless lack of science, and besides, Star Wars have a large element of fantasy in it. (Until George Lucas made those other three shitty movies and turned the force into a blood disorder)
Armageddon was so bad, even though it has some really good actors (Bruce Willis is in like 5 of my top 10 movies) that the only way to enjoy the movie and pass the time was to catalog all the stupid shit in it.
It's also a lot easier to suspend belief when you're looking at x-wing fighters and death stars than when looking at space shuttles that you know all about.
The Fifth Element is infinitely better than Armageddon. I've seen Armageddon once, and I'll never get that hours back. If Jerry Bruckheimer or Michael Bay are anywhere near a given movie I don't bother.
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TReally, why in the world would anyone have submitted a crummy, abbreviated blog post over a decent article from a reputable source?
AdWords traffic for their buddy or themselves? It's called blogspam for a reason. Maybe the /. editor should have done some editor work?
Bush economic meltdown
I'm no fan of Bush, but fixating on him is shortsighted. Remember that congress appropriates money and originates budgets, not the president, so, I suppose all the Democrats in congress had nothing to do with it, right? I mean, they've only been in control for the last 4 years. And of course the fact that the spending over the last 18 months dwarfs what happened in 2007/2008 and the impending tax increases has nothing to do with businesses being reluctant to hire, right?
Congress is corrupt, the executive branch is corrupt and the judiciary is most of the way there. If you think that R=bad and D=good, or the inverse you are deluded. They all suck
You know what's funny about that Eli Lilly fine and settlement? In all the stuff I read there's nothing about whether or not the off-label uses actually worked. If the drug actually works as they were promoting it then they essentially are paying 1.4 Billion for a technicality.
Anytime there's a close election there's a report of fraud. It's kind of like companies suing other companies - if they can't win in the market place the other guy must be cheating. Don't confuse reports of fraud with actual fraud. I'm not saying there isn't fraud, statistically I think is must exist to an extent in any election. I'm just saying that it's likely not at all as bad as it sounds from the media reports.
Likewise, one should not assume that because there are no reports of fraud that there is no fraud.
It's OK Steve, we'll have some new chairs to you directly...
Nokia is suing 5 companies
Actually more like 8: Toshiba, Qualcom, Apple, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp, Hitachi and LG
How the mighty have fallen
Nasa gets less that 1% of the budget, while Medicare, Social Security and Welfare get 57%, Defense gets 19% and the interest on the debt is 5%.
Do you see the problem here?
Nothing to do with it. I think you mean Israel.
What say you?
I say that anyone who can look at our current corporatocracy and claim with a straight face that "the unions are MORE powerful than their employers" -- or even present that state of affairs as a plausible scenario -- is completely disconnected from reality.
Two words for you: General Motors
I actually take the time to figure out if there are non-union alternatives and I choose them. For example, when shopping for groceries we generally shop at Trader Joes, because they have superior products, but also because they are non-union and their prices are lower. Even though they are non-union their pay is above union average. (can't paste link due to Slashdot's lame javascript crap)
I will never purchase a car built by a company controlled by the UAW. Toyotas, Hondas, Nissans, etc are all built in the US by non-union workers, and in general provide higher quality and more bang for your buck.
I ALWAYS look for the union label and go elsewhere when I encounter it...
Damn spell checker and it's lack of context...
Well, I would hardly compare myself to gates but I was on the 5 year plan in high school, didn't go to collage and I've been making 6 figures in this industry since my late 20s. Of course, I did some of the course material on my own, so not going to college wasn't in terms of "can't" but because I didn't want to - I took a few courses and the culture in collage is little better than that in high school, and in some cases worse and I just don't want to deal with it.
The bottom line is that if you want to make a lot of money, in most cases that's simply not going to happen working a job for someone else. If you want to make a lot of money (career wise) you need to be in business for yourself. This means that you also have to understand bookkeeping and basic accounting, sales, marketing and all the rest of it, and also take all the risks.
yes. I do. I keep full and incremental backups of my machine and server, on demand backups of extra critical information. A complete backup that I keep with me, and an off-site backup of all my important stuff (different country even). And I back all my email up to Gmail. I'm redundantly redundant.
However, given that a bluray rip is about 25GB, and a compressed 1080P movie is about 8GB, the backup of my media server would require, basically, a whole other server. I also have a catalog of all my CDs DVDs etc. If the house burns down or someone breaks in and steals them insurance will replace them. Personally, I'd love to be able to trust the media companies to honor my purchases in the event of a catastrophic failure (and I'd probably be willing to pay a nominal (very nominal) re-download fee) but I just don't. Until they get their shit together if I'm buying a copy, I want it on media that will last for 40 or 50 years. Then I'll rip it to my media server and toss it in the closet.
Here's the thing. If I get a movie on BluRay, or DVD or a physical game, etc, then I know that if my system gets whacked then I still have the movie or game. As long as the media companies can change their policy at will, or like Apple tell you that sorry, no you can't re-download all your music even though you already paid for it: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11654170
When we get into HD movies that I purchase (I will also rent, but there are a lot of movies and music that i want to own a copy of), I don't really want to have to backup multiple terabytes of information to ensure I don't lose something I bought, and I certainly don't want to rely on the media companies benevolence to let me get acces to something I already paid for, so for me, as much as I would prefer no media, I do not trust the media companies.
Personally I think I should have gotten some sort of discount for all the vinyl and VHS that I had when I re-purchased the same title on CD / DVD.
Can't afford one either, huh?
Because the company that writes your pay check made a business decision to move to that new system. Don't like it? Start your own company and make all the decisions. I did.
To add to this point, although age is a factor, the real difference is a willingness to understand, learn and adapt. A fair number of youngish people I encounter simply don't have the attention span or interest to learn the various systems, and a lot of older people, while they have the attention span, just don't seem willing to learn or understand. They want you to tell them all the steps so they can follow them, without having an understanding of the concepts involved.
Personally I think that the truth is there are simply a lot of lazy people in the world, who have it pretty easy compared to their grandparents and simply won't acquire the required skills because, let's face it; if companies fired all the lazy people the unemployment rate would hit 50% overnight, and that's not going to happen
Uh... who spent $500 on an iPhone?
Me. In 2007.
The difference is that Apple only charged people $29 for the Snow Leopard upgrade. The Vista to 7 upgrade was, uh just a bit more
I use both OS X and Windows 7, but for me the big difference is that Leopard was a good OS and for $29 SL was reasonable. Vista, in my personal experience was shitty, and in no way do I feel like paying $150 or more to upgrade to what Vista should have been in the first place.
Windows Mobile 7 may be great, but I'd suggest to Microsoft that they at least have a bit of success before declaring their major competitors dead and fucking up a Michael Jackson song...
This is a secondary reaction from the light heating the air, so the air is moving the particle, which was heated by the laser. regardless this is about as close to a tractor beam as my DeWalt drill is to a wormhole generator.
ugh. She is an ugly little oompa loompa. As someone else put it so eloquently, "I'd rather run a marathon barefooted through broken glass"
You might not realize this, but your post is overly sensitive and quite ridiculous, even if you did post AC. It's inappropriate to hijack a thread due to your sensitivity.
Now, piss off.
It depends on how bad the lack of science is and how bad the movie is. Star Wars was a really good story, with good characters, so you could ignore the endless lack of science, and besides, Star Wars have a large element of fantasy in it. (Until George Lucas made those other three shitty movies and turned the force into a blood disorder)
Armageddon was so bad, even though it has some really good actors (Bruce Willis is in like 5 of my top 10 movies) that the only way to enjoy the movie and pass the time was to catalog all the stupid shit in it.
It's also a lot easier to suspend belief when you're looking at x-wing fighters and death stars than when looking at space shuttles that you know all about.
The Fifth Element is infinitely better than Armageddon. I've seen Armageddon once, and I'll never get that hours back. If Jerry Bruckheimer or Michael Bay are anywhere near a given movie I don't bother.
Creating armies would take too long and would be rather hard to conceal.
Just send Jango Fett to Geonosis. Hey, it worked for the Separatists