Those are all news aggregators. They don't write stories, they just reprint them. I'm not saying they don't play a valuable role, but who's going to actually go out and dig up stories in this brave new world of yours? Who's going to pay journalists to travel the world and bring back eyewitness reporting?
I agree that print journalism is likely on its last legs, but I really hope that's not true of journalism in general. If it is, what passes for news in the future will consist entirely of opinion and PR fluff.
I didn't say "they hate us for our freedoms". They hate us for what we're doing to their freedoms (even if it's paradoxically the freedom to be restrictive of freedoms), and goading us into letting our government become more oppressive to its own populace is their revenge.
In one sense, all those attacks DID succeed. They achieved their aim of frightening America's government into imposing ever more infringements on the freedom of its people, and frightening Americans into accepting those infringements.
I don't think it's gone live yet. When I select 'upload a document' and click on "Allowed File Types", I see a fairly restrictive list of file types, all of which are editable document formats (e.g., PDF, ODF, DOC, XLS, CSV).
I assume this only applies for early termination. I was with Dish Network for 3-4 years and when I cancelled, I asked what I should do with the equipment. "Whatever you want, you bought it," was the reply. That was 2-3 years ago, and the dish is still in my backyard; the receivers are in a closet somewhere. Anybody know if it's worth anything?
You're probably right. I was just being overcautious, since I don't remember that detail from the story either. Lord knows I should; I lived in Heinlein's universe from age 12 to 16.
Semi-OT anecdote. A while back, a woman had her car stolen and the thieves ditched it in one of the Great Lakes. The authorities located the submerged vehicle and notified the owner that it was now a hazard to navigation and she was responsible for the cost of removing it, which would cost thousands of dollars. Alternatively, she could pay to have a warning buoy placed above it, but she would also have to pay the annual upkeep on the buoy, presumably forever.
Since I read this news item sometime in the 1970s/1980s, I don't know what the final outcome was.
... you can muddy the waters somewhat. I just ran across this bit of advice today, as a matter of fact:
"If you're worried about [something you wish you hadn't said publicly] showing up on the search engines, then might I suggest posting to as many different online forums as you can find, making sure to sign your real name to each of them. Cat got your tongue? Simply scroll up three (3) posts, quote a sentence from it, and then say, "I fully agree with that!" Then sign your full name and click the "Post" button. It's that simple.
Posting to numerous online forums will get your name all over the web, but not in any context that would matter to anybody. With your name showing up several dozen times in the search engine, this one story will cease to stand out as anything significant.
(Any type of forum will do, but computer repair forums are the best for this purpose because the computer repair guys do this for advertising and they always make sure to get their forums listed on all the search engines.)"
Courtesy of Positive Atheism
Except I don't think we're going to see people transferring their existing library of paper books to ebook format. If the only way I could get MP3s was to buy them, even if I already own the same music on CD -- especially if I already own it -- I might still be dubbing cassettes to play on my Walkman.
... has never been involved in an IT project in a medium-to-large organization. The sheer overhead involved in "managing" a project invariably sucks up any potential cost savings that might be realized. Combine people's natural desire to get paid handsomely for a job that consists solely of going to meetings with IT leadership's quixotic attempts to turn their department into a revenue source, and you have a recipe for inertia that 19th-century Russian bureaucrats would envy.
Where I work, we've been told that because we're salaried, there's no feasible way to pay us extra for being on call. Instead we get a half-day off at the end of our on-call week. Two days' extra pay would be very nice indeed, but I'm okay with the half-day, maybe because I need a few extra hours away from this place more than I need a few extra bucks.
I'm especially gratified because I sent him a letter on this topic a few weeks ago. My letter might have been the one that prompted him to act.
Yeah, I know the odds of that are vanishingly small, but everybody needs something to believe in. I choose to believe that what I do makes a difference.
You make a good point, though I certainly didn't mean to imply that Apple's status as a public company necessitated this particular behavior. My point is that being greedy and immoral tends to maximize short-term profits, which is what "The Market" focuses on. Your proposal certainly sounds like it would alleviate that.
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Those are all news aggregators. They don't write stories, they just reprint them. I'm not saying they don't play a valuable role, but who's going to actually go out and dig up stories in this brave new world of yours? Who's going to pay journalists to travel the world and bring back eyewitness reporting? I agree that print journalism is likely on its last legs, but I really hope that's not true of journalism in general. If it is, what passes for news in the future will consist entirely of opinion and PR fluff.
FWIW, I think I read something about it in a Wikipedia article on the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
The "Liberty Dollar" is alive and well -- at least according to its proponents.
I didn't say "they hate us for our freedoms". They hate us for what we're doing to their freedoms (even if it's paradoxically the freedom to be restrictive of freedoms), and goading us into letting our government become more oppressive to its own populace is their revenge.
In one sense, all those attacks DID succeed. They achieved their aim of frightening America's government into imposing ever more infringements on the freedom of its people, and frightening Americans into accepting those infringements.
This goes a long way toward restoring my faith in /. Thanks.
Cite?
I just checked my NoScript settings. Imagine my surprise to see tynt.com whitelisted by default.
I don't think it's gone live yet. When I select 'upload a document' and click on "Allowed File Types", I see a fairly restrictive list of file types, all of which are editable document formats (e.g., PDF, ODF, DOC, XLS, CSV).
That's a funny image, but your sig makes English profs (and me) do the same.
I assume this only applies for early termination. I was with Dish Network for 3-4 years and when I cancelled, I asked what I should do with the equipment. "Whatever you want, you bought it," was the reply. That was 2-3 years ago, and the dish is still in my backyard; the receivers are in a closet somewhere. Anybody know if it's worth anything?
You're probably right. I was just being overcautious, since I don't remember that detail from the story either. Lord knows I should; I lived in Heinlein's universe from age 12 to 16.
Or the jacket illustrator for at least one of Robert Heinlein's 'juvies'?
Okay, so it's actually lightbulb-shaped. Close enough.
No, like driving around like a maniac, flinging turtle shells, banana peels and live squid at other drivers.
I was wondering how long before the gratuitous sniping against the Wii would start. Thanks for not making me wait long.
Semi-OT anecdote. A while back, a woman had her car stolen and the thieves ditched it in one of the Great Lakes. The authorities located the submerged vehicle and notified the owner that it was now a hazard to navigation and she was responsible for the cost of removing it, which would cost thousands of dollars. Alternatively, she could pay to have a warning buoy placed above it, but she would also have to pay the annual upkeep on the buoy, presumably forever.
Since I read this news item sometime in the 1970s/1980s, I don't know what the final outcome was.
New York law.
... you can muddy the waters somewhat. I just ran across this bit of advice today, as a matter of fact: "If you're worried about [something you wish you hadn't said publicly] showing up on the search engines, then might I suggest posting to as many different online forums as you can find, making sure to sign your real name to each of them. Cat got your tongue? Simply scroll up three (3) posts, quote a sentence from it, and then say, "I fully agree with that!" Then sign your full name and click the "Post" button. It's that simple. Posting to numerous online forums will get your name all over the web, but not in any context that would matter to anybody. With your name showing up several dozen times in the search engine, this one story will cease to stand out as anything significant. (Any type of forum will do, but computer repair forums are the best for this purpose because the computer repair guys do this for advertising and they always make sure to get their forums listed on all the search engines.)" Courtesy of Positive Atheism
There is?
Except I don't think we're going to see people transferring their existing library of paper books to ebook format. If the only way I could get MP3s was to buy them, even if I already own the same music on CD -- especially if I already own it -- I might still be dubbing cassettes to play on my Walkman.
Where I work, we've been told that because we're salaried, there's no feasible way to pay us extra for being on call. Instead we get a half-day off at the end of our on-call week. Two days' extra pay would be very nice indeed, but I'm okay with the half-day, maybe because I need a few extra hours away from this place more than I need a few extra bucks.
There's only two places where that question would be considered "insightful": slashdot and Fox News.
I'm especially gratified because I sent him a letter on this topic a few weeks ago. My letter might have been the one that prompted him to act. Yeah, I know the odds of that are vanishingly small, but everybody needs something to believe in. I choose to believe that what I do makes a difference.
You make a good point, though I certainly didn't mean to imply that Apple's status as a public company necessitated this particular behavior. My point is that being greedy and immoral tends to maximize short-term profits, which is what "The Market" focuses on. Your proposal certainly sounds like it would alleviate that.