Yes, Google is subject to Chinese law when they operate in China. But operating a service from the USA that people in China use is not the same thing as operating in China.
Now if Spamhaus' servers are located in the US, that's another story. Or do you think I should be subject to Chinese law simply because my website and the services it offers is accessible from China, regardless of where I and the servers actually reside?
Ormandy should have published the bug, the code, and all his correspondence with Microsoft on d+61, not d+5
Why? TFA is not clear where the 60 day thing originated (whether it was Ormandy who opened up with something like "lets see if we can get a fix within the next 60 days" or it was MS who said something like "lets shoot for 60 days and see how things pan out"), but what if it had been 90 days? 365 days? 7300 days (20 years)? Why does 60 days sound reasonable to you?
Without genitalia, they are neither male nor female. They are some third gender. Who is Australia to claim they know what an under 18 year old of this third gender looks like?
(I know the argument would never fly when it comes to "think of the children", but I can dream..)
Screw you! I want my $60* back! I *NEED* that $60 so I can pay my cable bill and watch American Idle!:P
* $18,724,000,000 (NASA 2010 budget) / 309,496,000 (Estimated 2010 USA Population) ~= $60.50 per person. Yeah, not everyone pays taxes, but I have no dependents so should only get back $60.50.:P
Wow. Congratulations, while I thought the person I'd originally responded to may have been a little misinformed to be able to ask such a question, your question is just plain stupid.
Yes, it is likely that no one forced them to live where they are. No one also forced them to work where they currently are, or go to school to get that degree in the field they currently work in. Certainly they could move, or change jobs, or go back to school to study something else that would allow them to place their residence and work place closer together, but how does this have anything to do with the fact that, for some points A and B on a globe, if I live at point A and work at point B, then I will need a car?
My ideal situation would be for everyone to make their own choices.
I will agree that I disagree with how healthcare reform is being forced on everyone. I also don't even know if what is being forced on everyone is a good thing. But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm simply talking about what the end result should be.
Ideal for whom? The insurance company?
Everyone, moron. If you, me, and 8 other people are contributing to the same bucket, and you happen to be the single unlucky bastard to develop, say, cancer, you don't end up SOL because your premiums went skyrocketing.
That would never happen because 9 other people aren't and won't be using... *insert realization about how the one bucket for us all is a good thing* er, ok, but what if we all develop cancer?
This is why it cannot work with such small numbers. On average, across large populations it's only 10% that are using up 90% of the resources. Again, I cannot provide a citation, other than it came from the head of the company I work for, and we are in the healthcare business, so I think he knows what he's talking about.
But start breaking that population up into smaller and smaller chunks, and it's entirely possible you'll get a population where each person needs 100% of the resources.
And nice strawman there about the scooter. I presume from your tone that you consider it a luxury item for fat people. But this isn't about giving away luxury items, it's about making sure people can get the healthcare they require.
No the real problem is that someone making $30,000 a year expects 9 other people to pitch in $1,500 to take care of their health.
FTFY. And no, that's not a bad thing.
Ideally, the cost of healthcare should be pulled from a bucket that everyone puts into so the 10%* who really need it don't go bankrupt. Maybe you think having a 9/10 chance of not needing to dip into the bucket is good odds, but unfortunately it cannot work unless we all pitch in.
*Cannot provide a citation as it comes from the head of the company I work for. And given that we deal in healthcare, I expect he knows what he's talking about.
Personally, I treat turkey bacon like I do turkey burgers or chicken burgers; just an alternative way of preparing an animal that I already love to eat.
Continuing off on the tangent though, while having a moral objection to eating meat while eating fake meat does seem kinda silly, what's wrong with avoiding a particular food for health reasons but still wanting to experience that food's taste?
When an image is 8 inches away from your face, you need a minimum of 716 ppi in order to not be able to distinguish individual dots. At 12 inches, you need a minimum 477 ppi, and 18 inches needs a minimum of 318 ppi. The iPhone has a ppi of 318, but most people hold it close enough that the individual pixels would be distinguishable.
Spending that much on games is perfectly reasonable but the idea that piracy causes every single person that owns a handheld to buy 3 less games per year seems a little farfetched.
Ok, when you put it that way, if "every single person" includes those who do not pirate, it does make a little more sense. It just seemed at first like michaelhood was saying $90 on games per year is a completely unrealistic value. I'd missed that he stopped just short of saying something like "and that assumes that 100% of DS owners pirate games".
The fact that 1 pirated copy != 1 lost sale aside, 3 games a year ($400 spent on games over a 5 year period / $30 per game / 5 years, rounded up) is "completely ridiculous and not credible in any way whatsoever to anyone owning a calculator"? I'd love to know what the mods were smoking when they called that "Insightful".
A quick check of Newegg shows only a single 4:3 monitor that would have more than a 1600 pixel height in such a configuration, and it costs over 3 grand.
Erm, landline phones? Really? Where the heck do you live? That was a flat fee back when I still had one.
As for the others, producing them costs money. If supply exceeds demand, they can just crank down production and it'll cost them less money. But you can't do that with bandwidth.
Generating electricity costs money. The more you generate, the more it costs. However, when current electricity demand is less than current electricity generation, do they go "well fuck, I guess we're gonna be in the red this month"? No, they simply crank down the generators so they aren't just burning money away.
But you can't do that with bandwidth. There's no "bandwidth generator" that you can crank up/down to match current demand.
While I don't generally consider myself a manual snob (I have one, but the decision to get it was based on cost, not some belief in superiority over automatics), I'd love to hear what "the rest" is that you'll be able to enjoy better by going with an automatic. Once you've gotten up to speed, driving (at least the every day variety) is pretty boring overall.
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Yes, Google is subject to Chinese law when they operate in China. But operating a service from the USA that people in China use is not the same thing as operating in China.
Now if Spamhaus' servers are located in the US, that's another story. Or do you think I should be subject to Chinese law simply because my website and the services it offers is accessible from China, regardless of where I and the servers actually reside?
Ormandy should have published the bug, the code, and all his correspondence with Microsoft on d+61, not d+5
Why? TFA is not clear where the 60 day thing originated (whether it was Ormandy who opened up with something like "lets see if we can get a fix within the next 60 days" or it was MS who said something like "lets shoot for 60 days and see how things pan out"), but what if it had been 90 days? 365 days? 7300 days (20 years)? Why does 60 days sound reasonable to you?
Without genitalia, they are neither male nor female. They are some third gender. Who is Australia to claim they know what an under 18 year old of this third gender looks like?
(I know the argument would never fly when it comes to "think of the children", but I can dream..)
Screw you! I want my $60* back! I *NEED* that $60 so I can pay my cable bill and watch American Idle! :P
:P
* $18,724,000,000 (NASA 2010 budget) / 309,496,000 (Estimated 2010 USA Population) ~= $60.50 per person. Yeah, not everyone pays taxes, but I have no dependents so should only get back $60.50.
Wow. Congratulations, while I thought the person I'd originally responded to may have been a little misinformed to be able to ask such a question, your question is just plain stupid.
Yes, it is likely that no one forced them to live where they are. No one also forced them to work where they currently are, or go to school to get that degree in the field they currently work in. Certainly they could move, or change jobs, or go back to school to study something else that would allow them to place their residence and work place closer together, but how does this have anything to do with the fact that, for some points A and B on a globe, if I live at point A and work at point B, then I will need a car?
My point is the rather severe problems we have should be attended to before we shoot the Moon.
Why? I agree that these problems need solving, but why take the money to do it from NASA? Why not take it out of the military budget?
Reminds me of a term I heard recently, seagull manager. They fly in, make a lot of noise, shit on everything, and fly off.
Some people do, in places where public transportation or pedestrian walk areas are shit or non-existent.
Unless you've got power. And I'm fairly certain podracers have power. :P
My ideal situation would be for everyone to make their own choices.
I will agree that I disagree with how healthcare reform is being forced on everyone. I also don't even know if what is being forced on everyone is a good thing. But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm simply talking about what the end result should be.
Ideal for whom? The insurance company?
Everyone, moron. If you, me, and 8 other people are contributing to the same bucket, and you happen to be the single unlucky bastard to develop, say, cancer, you don't end up SOL because your premiums went skyrocketing.
That would never happen because 9 other people aren't and won't be using... *insert realization about how the one bucket for us all is a good thing* er, ok, but what if we all develop cancer?
This is why it cannot work with such small numbers. On average, across large populations it's only 10% that are using up 90% of the resources. Again, I cannot provide a citation, other than it came from the head of the company I work for, and we are in the healthcare business, so I think he knows what he's talking about.
But start breaking that population up into smaller and smaller chunks, and it's entirely possible you'll get a population where each person needs 100% of the resources.
And nice strawman there about the scooter. I presume from your tone that you consider it a luxury item for fat people. But this isn't about giving away luxury items, it's about making sure people can get the healthcare they require.
No the real problem is that someone making $30,000 a year expects 9 other people to pitch in $1,500 to take care of their health.
FTFY. And no, that's not a bad thing.
Ideally, the cost of healthcare should be pulled from a bucket that everyone puts into so the 10%* who really need it don't go bankrupt. Maybe you think having a 9/10 chance of not needing to dip into the bucket is good odds, but unfortunately it cannot work unless we all pitch in.
*Cannot provide a citation as it comes from the head of the company I work for. And given that we deal in healthcare, I expect he knows what he's talking about.
...Disregard that. One that was labeled as looking like a 360 looked like a Wii to me. There is also a 360 like one later on.
Personally, my first thought was it looked more like a Wii than a 360.
The update also installs [...] an extension for Mozilla Firefox
You say that TFS "got it right", but you also say the MS update does not install the toolbar, it only updates it if it exists.
So which is it?
(What? RTFA? But that's not what I want to know, I want to know what AC is saying.)
Personally, I treat turkey bacon like I do turkey burgers or chicken burgers; just an alternative way of preparing an animal that I already love to eat.
Continuing off on the tangent though, while having a moral objection to eating meat while eating fake meat does seem kinda silly, what's wrong with avoiding a particular food for health reasons but still wanting to experience that food's taste?
Or to put it into more direct words...
When an image is 8 inches away from your face, you need a minimum of 716 ppi in order to not be able to distinguish individual dots. At 12 inches, you need a minimum 477 ppi, and 18 inches needs a minimum of 318 ppi. The iPhone has a ppi of 318, but most people hold it close enough that the individual pixels would be distinguishable.
I thought Canadian bacon was leaner?
I know that you're trying to be funny, but since Dollar is the currency, that includes $100 bills.
It'd be like saying "any currently used yen paper note", but for some reason, restricting it to 1 yen paper notes.
Spending that much on games is perfectly reasonable but the idea that piracy causes every single person that owns a handheld to buy 3 less games per year seems a little farfetched.
Ok, when you put it that way, if "every single person" includes those who do not pirate, it does make a little more sense. It just seemed at first like michaelhood was saying $90 on games per year is a completely unrealistic value. I'd missed that he stopped just short of saying something like "and that assumes that 100% of DS owners pirate games".
The fact that 1 pirated copy != 1 lost sale aside, 3 games a year ($400 spent on games over a 5 year period / $30 per game / 5 years, rounded up) is "completely ridiculous and not credible in any way whatsoever to anyone owning a calculator"? I'd love to know what the mods were smoking when they called that "Insightful".
and have everything you've described
A quick check of Newegg shows only a single 4:3 monitor that would have more than a 1600 pixel height in such a configuration, and it costs over 3 grand.
Erm, landline phones? Really? Where the heck do you live? That was a flat fee back when I still had one.
As for the others, producing them costs money. If supply exceeds demand, they can just crank down production and it'll cost them less money. But you can't do that with bandwidth.
Generating electricity costs money. The more you generate, the more it costs. However, when current electricity demand is less than current electricity generation, do they go "well fuck, I guess we're gonna be in the red this month"? No, they simply crank down the generators so they aren't just burning money away.
But you can't do that with bandwidth. There's no "bandwidth generator" that you can crank up/down to match current demand.
It's like having an auto transmission on a car
While I don't generally consider myself a manual snob (I have one, but the decision to get it was based on cost, not some belief in superiority over automatics), I'd love to hear what "the rest" is that you'll be able to enjoy better by going with an automatic. Once you've gotten up to speed, driving (at least the every day variety) is pretty boring overall.
Only if you assume that the 24 games bought over a 3 month period were also released in that 3 month period.