No, Indian road locations are an official secret. If somebody were to be able to make an accurate map, people could figure out how to get places without driving around forever, miles driven would be cut by an order of magnitude; the effect on the auto industry, oil industry, and cab industry would be catastrophic.
You do not need to get ANY replies to make money as a spammer. You just need the fool paying for your services to think there are enough other fools to reply.
There are plenty of fools who will pay spammers to spam on their behalf. Even if we went five years without anybody responding to spam, we would still get it.
For years, they supported the unions. They let the unions convince them that the should not follow the same principles that every other white collar worker follows; that they should take lousy pay and let the union negotiate their benefits. For years, they believed that the retirement system would always pay for the withdrawals with interest earned. For years, they never questioned the unions nor the state. And then it collapsed. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
Unfortunately, the state will just tax the hell out of the rest of us to cover it.
I'd rather my taxes pay for the education of some kids from a hard working illegal immigrant family that values education than for the babysitting of some welfare babies that do not make any effort to learn.
Unfortunately, we still have to pay to cover the costs of email addresses, web space, mail relay, DNS servers, first line tech support for the ignorant, and "portal" site, none of which I will ever use.
I sell you a good and tell you not to resell it less than $50. You freely buy it and resell it for $45. I am then free to not sell you any more.
I cannot imagine that Craigslist is doing anything other than telling the companies to take a leap. Ebay, on the other hand, has shown a willingness to bow to outside pressure at the expense of its users.
Do not judge too quickly. I have seen terms used for variables and functions that made sense once upon a time but the program has morphed around it such that 'cvs blame' would indicate the original developer was picking words from the dictionary at random.
NY State pays about $15,000 per student per year on average. The results suck. I could* put my children into a good private school for that. I could put my children into a good private school for half of that. You better believe I want to shoot down taxes for education. Especially when the superintendent of my 35,000 student district makes a quarter million per year.
* My children are not yet of school age, but when they are, they will NOT attend the lousy public schools that my taxes are supporting.
The whole problem is that a whole lot of people, from Wall Street bankers to low wage workers, have not been practicing fiscal responsibility, and show no inclination to start doing so.
Go talk to an administrator of a private school with religious affiliations. Chances are that most of the students are not otherwise affiliated with the religious organization affiliated with the school, they are there for the environment and education. And chances are that the school is run at a net loss, dependent on donations from religious institutions and private donors to break even.
First of all, there is a distinction between "health care" and "health care insurance".
I really do not understand what the problem is.
I have had health care insurance through three different companies in the US. I have had to use it a lot - I have been admitted to the hospital on average once every year and a half or so. I have only ever had one dispute with the insurance company about their payment, and the doctor did a bit of advocacy on my behalf and the insurance company paid for it. What is covered is pretty clearly spelled out, and when it is not clear enough, you have to work it out. Just like any contract. They cannot simply not pay, because the policy says they will.
And if a company gets into too many fights with its customers, it loses customers to other companies who have better practices. Such is the beauty of a sensibly regulated free market.
Most of us agree that the federal government, which generally overspends and either under-delivers or flat out fails on nearly every project it undertakes due to a variety of reasons including red tape, accountability, nepotism, corruption, power seekers, over-regulation, and plain old mismanagement, would do a lousy job providing internet access.
And some of you want to this same bureaucracy to provide health care?!
Many private schools are affiliated and dependent on religious institutions, and are not run for profit. Many that are not dependent on another organization are still not run for profit.
1) Some distributions have lousy package management tools (RHEL) and proprietary vendors insist on releasing software only for RHEL, taking advantage of every stupid little thing it does differently so the software does not work anywhere else.
2) I want to use complicated programs that no end user needs to touch (i.e. sendmail) but I do not know what I am doing and I screwed up the configuration.
3) Some hardware vendors refuse to give specifications so other people will writer drivers for free, but cannot be bothered to maintain drivers themselves.
4) I want to use a filesystem that has a specific feature, and they exist. I am grumpy that one of them is not the default for my distribution.
5) There are several audio APIs, each with advantages and disadvantages. I apparently do not know what I want to do, so I want one that has all of the advantages and none of the disadvantages so I do not have to plan ahead.
6) I do not understand how graphical environments work on UNIX and think that Linux should be responsible for most of what X11 and graphical toolkits do.
7) I want 'screen' for X11, but do not know about 'xmove'. But what I really want is for my damn proprietary video driver to stop crashing.
8) There is no company that provides a backup solution because there is not enough market share because most Linux users learned how to use rsync and a handful of other tools.
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No, Indian road locations are an official secret. If somebody were to be able to make an accurate map, people could figure out how to get places without driving around forever, miles driven would be cut by an order of magnitude; the effect on the auto industry, oil industry, and cab industry would be catastrophic.
You do not need to get ANY replies to make money as a spammer. You just need the fool paying for your services to think there are enough other fools to reply.
There are plenty of fools who will pay spammers to spam on their behalf. Even if we went five years without anybody responding to spam, we would still get it.
I can think of a few problems right off the top of my head.
1) Everybody knows any kid walking home from school has an expensive laptop. The kids are going to get mugged and the laptops stolen.
2) Any kid that bikes to school is going to have a laptop with a very short life expectancy.
Solution: Mandatory door to door busing for everybody.
Waste of money.
Waste of oil.
Waste of time.
Waste of the environment.
School has more control of the students' lives, and the parents (and the students themselves) have less. That is what the government wants.
For years, they supported the unions. They let the unions convince them that the should not follow the same principles that every other white collar worker follows; that they should take lousy pay and let the union negotiate their benefits. For years, they believed that the retirement system would always pay for the withdrawals with interest earned. For years, they never questioned the unions nor the state. And then it collapsed. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
Unfortunately, the state will just tax the hell out of the rest of us to cover it.
I'd rather my taxes pay for the education of some kids from a hard working illegal immigrant family that values education than for the babysitting of some welfare babies that do not make any effort to learn.
I have to pay a tax when I transfer money between my two accounts at the same bank? No thanks.
Really?
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main( String[] args ) {
System.out.println( "Hello World." );
}
}
How hard was that? You can write completely procedural code in Java.
What is wrong with Muslim immigration?
"If anyone knows why my comments recently started appearing with score 1, despite "Excellent" karma, I'd love to hear."
Mine changed from 2 to 1 like that for a while, then after several months it changed back. I have no idea why.
Unfortunately, we still have to pay to cover the costs of email addresses, web space, mail relay, DNS servers, first line tech support for the ignorant, and "portal" site, none of which I will ever use.
Unless your browser is lynx and you start your JVM in server mode, I do not believe you.
Java failed in the browser because MS abused its monopoly position to prohibit the OEMs from pre-installing a functional JVM.
So the cameras can get images that will match the photos, it is also prohibited to smile in:
The ruling had nothing to do with the facts of the case, the arguments of the lawyers, or the implications of the outcome.
The judge ruled against the defendant so next time he runs for office, his ads can say that he has a proven record of being tough on pedophiles.
I sell you a good and tell you not to resell it less than $50. You freely buy it and resell it for $45. I am then free to not sell you any more.
I cannot imagine that Craigslist is doing anything other than telling the companies to take a leap. Ebay, on the other hand, has shown a willingness to bow to outside pressure at the expense of its users.
Really? You can't leave negative feedback for buyers?
What is the point of feedback?
Do not judge too quickly. I have seen terms used for variables and functions that made sense once upon a time but the program has morphed around it such that 'cvs blame' would indicate the original developer was picking words from the dictionary at random.
I do not really care about any school that my tax money does not support or that my kids do not attend. The ones my tax money support suck.
NY State pays about $15,000 per student per year on average. The results suck. I could* put my children into a good private school for that. I could put my children into a good private school for half of that. You better believe I want to shoot down taxes for education. Especially when the superintendent of my 35,000 student district makes a quarter million per year.
* My children are not yet of school age, but when they are, they will NOT attend the lousy public schools that my taxes are supporting.
The whole problem is that a whole lot of people, from Wall Street bankers to low wage workers, have not been practicing fiscal responsibility, and show no inclination to start doing so.
Political clout? Please explain.
Go talk to an administrator of a private school with religious affiliations. Chances are that most of the students are not otherwise affiliated with the religious organization affiliated with the school, they are there for the environment and education. And chances are that the school is run at a net loss, dependent on donations from religious institutions and private donors to break even.
First of all, there is a distinction between "health care" and "health care insurance".
I really do not understand what the problem is.
I have had health care insurance through three different companies in the US. I have had to use it a lot - I have been admitted to the hospital on average once every year and a half or so. I have only ever had one dispute with the insurance company about their payment, and the doctor did a bit of advocacy on my behalf and the insurance company paid for it. What is covered is pretty clearly spelled out, and when it is not clear enough, you have to work it out. Just like any contract. They cannot simply not pay, because the policy says they will.
And if a company gets into too many fights with its customers, it loses customers to other companies who have better practices. Such is the beauty of a sensibly regulated free market.
Most of us agree that the federal government, which generally overspends and either under-delivers or flat out fails on nearly every project it undertakes due to a variety of reasons including red tape, accountability, nepotism, corruption, power seekers, over-regulation, and plain old mismanagement, would do a lousy job providing internet access.
And some of you want to this same bureaucracy to provide health care?!
Many private schools are affiliated and dependent on religious institutions, and are not run for profit. Many that are not dependent on another organization are still not run for profit.
1) Some distributions have lousy package management tools (RHEL) and proprietary vendors insist on releasing software only for RHEL, taking advantage of every stupid little thing it does differently so the software does not work anywhere else.
2) I want to use complicated programs that no end user needs to touch (i.e. sendmail) but I do not know what I am doing and I screwed up the configuration.
3) Some hardware vendors refuse to give specifications so other people will writer drivers for free, but cannot be bothered to maintain drivers themselves.
4) I want to use a filesystem that has a specific feature, and they exist. I am grumpy that one of them is not the default for my distribution.
5) There are several audio APIs, each with advantages and disadvantages. I apparently do not know what I want to do, so I want one that has all of the advantages and none of the disadvantages so I do not have to plan ahead.
6) I do not understand how graphical environments work on UNIX and think that Linux should be responsible for most of what X11 and graphical toolkits do.
7) I want 'screen' for X11, but do not know about 'xmove'. But what I really want is for my damn proprietary video driver to stop crashing.
8) There is no company that provides a backup solution because there is not enough market share because most Linux users learned how to use rsync and a handful of other tools.