The single largest barrier to a cashless society (aside from the abuses by evil people) is service fees. Charge me a fee to use an ATM? Or even sometimes to slide my card at a store? Sorry, game over.
Hmmm, so you have no problem with our giving hundreds of millions of dollars to feed the people of a terrorist-harboring nation, while we have our own homeless walking the streets? Give me hundreds of millions of dollars and I could build oppulent homeless hotels and feed them too for free for years to come.
Most of my readings have been from the BBC. Ya know how much the BBC loves their aliens, huh? Even the AP has good stories, but they don't get much further beyond the raw feed. I don't see these stories in newspapers or TV.
This event has made me realize that web-based news is more extensive and informative than anything coming from corporate media. There is a ton of information that escapes mention or gets scarce coverage on TV news, including tidbits such as:
the CIA's training of Osama Bin Laden,
the USA's funding of Afghanistan ($43 million this year),
how oppressed Afghanistan's citizens are,
the nature of Isreal's 30+ year military occupation of Palestine,
the many incidents of hate being directed toward Arab-Americans by their hate-filled neighbors,
the false alarms and racial profiling since the security crack-down,
the inaccurate jumping-the-gun reporting of the TV networks,
and that not all of America is blood-thirsty and calling for war.
Well, this study reports that coffee is a rich source of antioxidants.
Sept 5, 2001: LONDON (Reuters) - Coffee beats green tea by containing four times the amount of health-boosting antioxidants, which can assist in preventing or postponing the onset of degenerative diseases, according to a new study.
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Antioxidants reduce the effects on the human body of harmful substances known as free radicals which may be a major contributor to cardiovascular disease, cancer, cataracts and decline of the immune and nervous system.
I agree. Word 95 does everything 98 percent of users need (except perhaps its being outdated in inport/export filters). Most business people only need basic word processing and that can be served by much less powerful suites than StarOffice.
Assemble your used parts into web/e-mail terminals. There is no shortage of low income people who can afford to pay $10-20 a month to an ISP, but cannot afford to buy a PC (or know how to configure it afterward).
Ask your coworkers and friends - they probably know people who can use the PCs.
These people are simply not prepared to lead a meaningful life, and use their computer as a way to escape social situations that they never learned to properly cope with.
Ahh, the elitism begins. You believe your methods of living and communicating are superior to others. Who are you to determine what constitutes a meaningful life for other people?
A meaingingful life can be had burying your head in books at the library, boarding your plane as a kamikaze pilot (a deeply religious experience), traveling the world in your yacht with a babe on each shoulder, or yes, even sitting in front of a computer.
I'm still trying to figure out how Katz could claim "the sub-theme is the Net." Sure it was used as a pretext for the trip to Hollywood, but the Internet has a total of three scenes. You could just as easily say gay jokes were the sub-theme or marijuana was the sub-theme or sex-in-general was the sub-theme or comics books were the sub-theme. Oh, but those hooks wouldn't be as good to hang the review on when you post your review on a web site. Oh well.
Ahhhhh, all the evil news about XP that is being floated is obviously a ploy to boost sales of Windows 98 and ME. Well, it worked. I'll be advising my friends, who rely on prebuilt systems, to purchase tricked-out PCs before XP ships.
That in itself is still arbitrary. You have decided that because an object has a chief function that other functions are disallowed or subject to privacy invasion.
You say the phone's chief function is to make work calls. Sorry, a phone's chief function is to place any type of call. The employer has placed an arbitrary limit on its function. Its inherent nature is not single function. A person using the phone to make a medical appointment is not using the phone in some radical unexpected manner.
How is my employer seeing me naked any different from my doctor knowing I have a certain illness (say, a really embarassing ailment)? You're making an arbitrary judgement over degrees of privacy. That's important because once the law recognizes the issue as arbitrary, it will begin returning rights to the citizenry.
I consider my personal conversations about personal life and personal problems to be just as important as what my body parts look like or the sounds they make.
In my office, if I make a telephone call to my doctor to arrange a medical appointment does my employer have a right to invade my privacy by listening or recording my conversation simply because my employer owns the phone? That's absurd. Does he have a right to videotape me in the bathroom because he owns the toilet and pays the water bill? That's absurd.
It is reasonable to expect a certain level of personal activity and communication while on the job. E-mail and web use should be no different.
The trick with NetSol is that they now allow you to back order domains so that you get them once they expire. Of course I'm not sure if they tell you if there is anyone in front of you "in line" who has first dibs.
I've had a registrar call my line three times pushing to have a domain switched over. The second and third time the person answering the phone explained that we were happy with our current registrar and asked that they not call back. (I won't mention their name only because I'm not totally certain the person got the the registrar's name correct. It was not any of the companies listed in the Newsbytes article.)
Who cares if key components are planted in the junkyard? The contestants do not win any money. They do not have dreams of becoming reality TV celebrities. They take time off work, fly off to who knows where and spend a full day welding and getting sweaty and dirty. They compete "for the glory." I relate to these people more than any of the 'pretty faces' on Big Brother or Real World.
I wonder if the privacy flap led Network Solutions to pull their DotComDirectory.com service. These days you only get a mirror of NetSol's main site. It used to be a search service where you could query for business web sites (and phone/address) by name and geographic location, with the data presumably coming from domain records. It was actually a useful service.
People do not have an expectation of privacy in public places. That's why there are video cameras on police cruiser dashboards, on street corners and in stores, but not (legally) in bathrooms. To say people cannot tape record activity occuring in their own car and on public streets is, at best, asinine.
The police are here to server us. They are agents of the people. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has made them agents of power and eliminated the one check-and-balance we had available to us for protection from abuse of power.
researchers noticed two rust-colored computer pixels off the island's shoreline that Gillespie is convinced is metal debris.
Ahhh, if you read other accounts, such as this
ABC News / Reuters version, you learn this amazing discovery is really just two pixels! I dunno about you, but it seems foolish to launch an expedition based on a couple pixels.
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The single largest barrier to a cashless society (aside from the abuses by evil people) is service fees. Charge me a fee to use an ATM? Or even sometimes to slide my card at a store? Sorry, game over.
Someone should mod that one up. He said what I wanted to say.
Hmmm, so you have no problem with our giving hundreds of millions of dollars to feed the people of a terrorist-harboring nation, while we have our own homeless walking the streets? Give me hundreds of millions of dollars and I could build oppulent homeless hotels and feed them too for free for years to come.
Most of my readings have been from the BBC. Ya know how much the BBC loves their aliens, huh? Even the AP has good stories, but they don't get much further beyond the raw feed. I don't see these stories in newspapers or TV.
Well, this study reports that coffee is a rich source of antioxidants.
Sept 5, 2001: LONDON (Reuters) - Coffee beats green tea by containing four times the amount of health-boosting antioxidants, which can assist in preventing or postponing the onset of degenerative diseases, according to a new study.
...
Antioxidants reduce the effects on the human body of harmful substances known as free radicals which may be a major contributor to cardiovascular disease, cancer, cataracts and decline of the immune and nervous system.
I agree. Word 95 does everything 98 percent of users need (except perhaps its being outdated in inport/export filters). Most business people only need basic word processing and that can be served by much less powerful suites than StarOffice.
Assemble your used parts into web/e-mail terminals. There is no shortage of low income people who can afford to pay $10-20 a month to an ISP, but cannot afford to buy a PC (or know how to configure it afterward).
Ask your coworkers and friends - they probably know people who can use the PCs.
These people are simply not prepared to lead a meaningful life, and use their computer as a way to escape social situations that they never learned to properly cope with.
Ahh, the elitism begins. You believe your methods of living and communicating are superior to others. Who are you to determine what constitutes a meaningful life for other people?
A meaingingful life can be had burying your head in books at the library, boarding your plane as a kamikaze pilot (a deeply religious experience), traveling the world in your yacht with a babe on each shoulder, or yes, even sitting in front of a computer.
D'oh. That should be "toward customers cannot be excused."
Sorry, Lego.com requires cookies. They won't even let you look at their products without cookies. Such hostility toward customized cannot be excused.
I'm still trying to figure out how Katz could claim "the sub-theme is the Net." Sure it was used as a pretext for the trip to Hollywood, but the Internet has a total of three scenes. You could just as easily say gay jokes were the sub-theme or marijuana was the sub-theme or sex-in-general was the sub-theme or comics books were the sub-theme. Oh, but those hooks wouldn't be as good to hang the review on when you post your review on a web site. Oh well.
Ahhhhh, all the evil news about XP that is being floated is obviously a ploy to boost sales of Windows 98 and ME. Well, it worked. I'll be advising my friends, who rely on prebuilt systems, to purchase tricked-out PCs before XP ships.
You say the phone's chief function is to make work calls. Sorry, a phone's chief function is to place any type of call. The employer has placed an arbitrary limit on its function. Its inherent nature is not single function. A person using the phone to make a medical appointment is not using the phone in some radical unexpected manner.
er, I meant "any different from my employer knowing I have a certain illness"
I consider my personal conversations about personal life and personal problems to be just as important as what my body parts look like or the sounds they make.
It is reasonable to expect a certain level of personal activity and communication while on the job. E-mail and web use should be no different.
The trick with NetSol is that they now allow you to back order domains so that you get them once they expire. Of course I'm not sure if they tell you if there is anyone in front of you "in line" who has first dibs.
I've had a registrar call my line three times pushing to have a domain switched over. The second and third time the person answering the phone explained that we were happy with our current registrar and asked that they not call back. (I won't mention their name only because I'm not totally certain the person got the the registrar's name correct. It was not any of the companies listed in the Newsbytes article.)
If you bought your PC whole, e-mail the company today asking them to support java in XP.
Who cares if key components are planted in the junkyard? The contestants do not win any money. They do not have dreams of becoming reality TV celebrities. They take time off work, fly off to who knows where and spend a full day welding and getting sweaty and dirty. They compete "for the glory." I relate to these people more than any of the 'pretty faces' on Big Brother or Real World.
I wonder if the privacy flap led Network Solutions to pull their DotComDirectory.com service. These days you only get a mirror of NetSol's main site. It used to be a search service where you could query for business web sites (and phone/address) by name and geographic location, with the data presumably coming from domain records. It was actually a useful service.
The police are here to server us. They are agents of the people. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has made them agents of power and eliminated the one check-and-balance we had available to us for protection from abuse of power.
Ahhh, if you read other accounts, such as this ABC News / Reuters version, you learn this amazing discovery is really just two pixels! I dunno about you, but it seems foolish to launch an expedition based on a couple pixels.