Their entire business model is based on charging people whatever they can pay! "From each according to his ability," as it were.
I beg to differ. They charge what the customer is willing to pay. Big difference. Like when they dropped the price of the os going on netbooks to stay in the game.
I saw it today on my Mac while visiting the NYT. I hit cancel and it went ahead and "scanned" anyway so I killed the tab and the son of a bitch still managed to open a sheet telling me I had to download such and such. Only option was okay. So I killed Firefox and restarted it. I had that one once before a few years ago on a Toshiba. Took me a week to get rid of it then.
It was a nice facsimile of a Windows explorer page though. I had to laugh.
I used to think that way but have changed my thinking to government seems to implement the will of government, no matter what they promise in the campaign.
Aren't these companies who take advantage of these ethically questionable tax shelters...
I actually went back and RTA thinking I missed something. I'm still scratching my head trying to think of a way this can be characterized as "ethically questionable tax shelters". No one is doing anything ethically challenged here except maybe the government trying to change the deal to generate a new revenue stream.
Yeah, Microsoft, sit there and take it.-Not! I can't blame them in the least.
Make any rule you want. At some point someone will violate it.
You realise that you have created a rule.
For your rule to be true someone will have to make a rule that will not at any point be violated by abyone
which means that your rule would then be false...
Except if I then make the rule that anyone is free to create an super inteligent machine it remains a potential and...hmmm... only can be violated by inaction? Maybe not even that. Ok, I seemed to have superpositioned myself into some kind of recursive loop.
I don't like explosions anymore. They freak me out a little and I just don't like loud noises in general. Also, there's nothing more boring than a long fireworks display to Sousa marching music.
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He died in an earlier post.
Imagine trying to smuggle one onto an airplane... "I'm sorry, sir, your bag is overweight."
And see if he gets the message. If that doesn't work, try once every three days, etc
Recharge? How do you recharge a battery that depends on the decay of radioisotopes?
Their entire business model is based on charging people whatever they can pay! "From each according to his ability," as it were.
I beg to differ. They charge what the customer is willing to pay. Big difference. Like when they dropped the price of the os going on netbooks to stay in the game.
I had a Mac Plus. It didn't have a drive. Just one floppy drive.
Anyway, I still can't believe people actually download and install these things.
They don't have a basement.
I saw it today on my Mac while visiting the NYT. I hit cancel and it went ahead and "scanned" anyway so I killed the tab and the son of a bitch still managed to open a sheet telling me I had to download such and such. Only option was okay. So I killed Firefox and restarted it. I had that one once before a few years ago on a Toshiba. Took me a week to get rid of it then. It was a nice facsimile of a Windows explorer page though. I had to laugh.
He probably thinks of himself as a neutral party just reporting the news.
I used to think that way but have changed my thinking to government seems to implement the will of government, no matter what they promise in the campaign.
Aren't these companies who take advantage of these ethically questionable tax shelters ...
I actually went back and RTA thinking I missed something. I'm still scratching my head trying to think of a way this can be characterized as "ethically questionable tax shelters". No one is doing anything ethically challenged here except maybe the government trying to change the deal to generate a new revenue stream. Yeah, Microsoft, sit there and take it.-Not! I can't blame them in the least.
I'm offended! If you'd ever actually been to or lived in Detroit you'd know that it's full of rats and cockroaches.
That's life!
I use a Macbook.
Really? My Macbook has it installed. Not that worried yet.
A computer can mimick the logic of a human being, yes.
But it can't copy our illogical decisions. Because our Illogical decisions are just based on poor logic.
You can program a computer to make a mistake - but its not the same.
Human decisions are based on rationality of which logic is a part. It's the other part that would be difficult to code.
Make any rule you want. At some point someone will violate it.
You realise that you have created a rule. For your rule to be true someone will have to make a rule that will not at any point be violated by abyone which means that your rule would then be false...
Except if I then make the rule that anyone is free to create an super inteligent machine it remains a potential and ...hmmm... only can be violated by inaction? Maybe not even that. Ok, I seemed to have superpositioned myself into some kind of recursive loop.
Make any rule you want. At some point someone will violate it.
I suppose they will have to file an environmental impact report....
That's its name these days. Nobody, not even themselves, call it "British Telecom".
It's a bit like Kentucky Fried Chicken going to KFC only without the chicken. Or maybe not.
Oh, man! And I just spent my mod points on the last story...
I don't like explosions anymore. They freak me out a little and I just don't like loud noises in general. Also, there's nothing more boring than a long fireworks display to Sousa marching music.
Maybe you should try the 1812 Overture.
Should have been 40 years, idiot. Just bringing the laptop to China is shear stupidity.
Especially after being told not to...
Might that be nannies? Could be both.
Besides all the other issues with this plan, do they expect me to pay for tolls plus a mileage tax for driving on the toll road?
Ehh, What's your point? In other words, yeah, probably.
They want more power. Money is portable power. They don't care how they get it as long as they get it.
Yeah, Like in cow tipping? :-)