I take it you've never accidentally racked up five stars of police presence while driving home, then
Getting arrested by the cops in GTA losing a little cash and getting right back to where you were a few minutes ago is not much of a negative lesson compared to grabbing an opponents facemask and getting your team moved back 15 yards so they can't get that first down and half to punt thereby losing the game.
It's the psychological impact of the latter that makes it such an effective negative reinforcement against breaking the rules.
Fox got it off the AP wire, just like EVERY OTHER FUCKING NEWS ORGANIZATION that posted it.
Funny thing, I reviewed a lot of other reports based on the same AP wire, and they lacked the sense of urgency and sensationalism that the Fox report did.
How could that be?
See, Fox usually gets the same facts as everyone else, it's just the way they put them out there that makes them unbalanced.
For instance, I'm eating lunch and Fox News is on TV and their discussing a suspected sex offender and are repeatedly referring to him as PERVERT in print and speech. "PERVERT FOUND IN IDAHO," or something to that effect.
How is that fair and balanced? I have more examples, but I imagine that most of the readers here have had similar experiences.
The sad thing is, it's the little touches like these that have made their news reports so popular. It also puts them in a position to say that everyone else is sugarcoating the news, while they're bringing you the REAL THING. Even though their REAL THING isn't REAL either.
Well, when they reprint stuff from their AP feed, like here, occasionally.
Not without first adding their own sensationalist touches, of course. Just because it says "AP" doesn't mean it is a reprint. It just means they got the bulk of the story from the AP. They are allowed to change sentence structure, use a thesaurus, etc.
It's not too hard to figure out, search for similar articles and you'll find they're all attributed to the AP and most of them will have many differences, but the same general story.
Fox News' speciality is to change just enough to make it sound like a huge deal and real important news when it isn't. They're pretty good at too, as evidenced by their success. They realized that it isn't the content of the news that makes people watch your program over the others, because they're all the same. It's how the news is presented that makes a difference in ratings. Fox just happened to find a method of presentation (OMFG YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, I like to call it) that happens to appeal to a pretty large audience.
You do realize that newspaper are allowed to edit AP articles and still put the AP tag on them right? As long as the content is the same, it's usually okay. So you will rarely find a strict reprint.
Go ahead, search for similar phrases on Google News and you will find several other news sources reporting the same story, with the same quotes, the same facts, minus the sensationalism that is Fox News.
Leave it to Fox to take something and word it just the right way to make it sound like an imminent disaster.
To put this in perspective a little more, the tiles are 8"x8". Also, they tend to get damaged quite frequently, with 15 flights prior to Columbia suffering from extensive tile damage. The very first shuttle suffered from 250 debris hits to its tiles on the way up and back.
I suspect they have a list of pirated licenses and they just check for that. It has been posited in the past that they don't even know all the genuine keys that are out there and my experience supports that.
That's pretty much how they were doing it before, with the "optional" checks you could do whenever you tried to download something off their site. (for various Windows add-ons). They just have a list of the some of the most pirated licenses that they use to check against.
I always wondered though, how many people are using a university copy of XP on their machine when they never actually went to that university? (The version MS distributed through the program requires no authentication ever). Also, some university agreements only allow you to use it while you are enrolled and then you're supposed to go buy it when you are done, but again, if there is no authentication, how would they know? These are the CDs and CD keys that "pirates" should get ahold of.
Unless the game is free, there should be no adds. If there are adds in the game and there was no warning on the box I would look into a law suit. I'm 90% sure there are disclosure laws that cover this kind of thing. And of course if there is a warning on the box that the game has adds in it, I wont be buying it.
I don't know what Trader Joe's you're shopping at, but the only thing they might sell at a lower price than other grocery stores is wine. Everything else there is incredibly marked up. Even their produce is ridiculously expensive.
correlation...causation... these are not the same. You could also argue that unions are responsible for a large selection of products and better product presentation, using your logic.
I didn't say that the unions were the reason the prices were lower; however, you made some assumptions about the report which are untrue. IIRC, the article did not include any mom & pop stores, it was mainly comparing Marsh, Kroger, Meijer and other similarly situated stores.
I tried to find it, but it has been awhile since this was reported. I recall it happening around the last round of negotiations for Kroger in the area.
I think I hate trolls almost as much as you hate unions, but I'll still feed you.
The problem is the the other "gawd damn job" is probably no better than the original one. Do you honestly expect someone who is qualified to work at Wal-Mart to have the skills necessary to be able to obtain good enough employment to secure a living wage and proper healthcare benefits without the help of a union to use the strength of numbers to force management to provide such things? Of course not. It just won't happen.
Sure, you'll read about how "gracious" some employers are and give all these great things to their employees, but it remains that Wal-Mart's execs have some of the deepest pockets in the country. They go on and on about how much they give to the communities they destroy, and yet, they can't afford to give their own employees enough money to stay off of government healthcare. The simple fact is that most employers do not care about employees. They care about the bottom line.
It's not as easy as "going somewhere else." Without unions, your taxes would have to be double to pay for all the poor and sick people we'd have in this country.
The problem with unions today isn't that they've ran out of their usefulness. The problem is that they're still suffering from corruption of the past and mismanagement.
The arguments you make in your post are the same arguments that have been made for hundreds of years, and they were proven wrong then as well.
Also, I recall quite clearly a report that out of grocers in my area (Southwest Ohio), those with unions actually had lower average prices on the same products compared to those without unions. So much for that theory.
between being on strike and being locked-out. A lock-out is the situation where the workers are ready to negotiate a deal, but management refuses to talk to them at all, and refuses to allow them work in the meantime under the old contract.
A strike is where management is ready to negotiate a deal, but the workers refuse to talk, and refuse to work in the meantime under the old contract.
It is wrong to suggest that the choice of phrase is made to influence public opinion about the situation. A "lock-out" and a "strike" represent two very different situations.
Just about ever person holding public office in the United States, all laywers, and members of the military take a similar oath regarding the Constitution of the United States (and their particular state as well).
The War on Piracy will be as successful as the War on Terrorism and the War on Drugs (not to mention the War on Poverty and previously, the War on Rum).
It seems like we have come full-circle then. The War on Rum and The War on Piracy sound like the same thing to me. Everyone knows pirates like rum.
The few data points they give us alone mean nothing. These percentages aren't exclusive, and don't tell us what percentage of machines at these businesses are using OS X. What if they marked "Yes" because they have one computer in the corner running it? It's too bad you have to be a paying subscriber to Jupiter Research to be able to view their actual data. Anyone have some more details? As it stands, this data is pretty useless and difficult to draw conclusions from.
I'm not surprised based on who reported it that the particular used in the article is all that was reported. Did the same survey also show that 99.9% of these businesses had some form of Windows running in house as well?
I think a lot of "normal-ish" people use IM. However, most of us use it as a telephone and/or e-mail replacement. Why waste time picking up the phone to see if a friend can meet up later when you can just drop an IM and they get to it at their convenience.
E-mail is nice for longer messages that are important. IM is nice for short messages and/or short conversations. Telephone is nice for urgent message and/or long detailed conversations.
Perhaps you're the non "normal-ish" person for failing to see how IM can be beneficial to a lot of people.
Other examples of uses include contact with family and friends over long distances. Cellular telephone and long distance plans cost money, IM costs as much as your Internet connection.
While I would prefer to use e-mail to contact people around my office; you just can't always get a response that way. Sometimes people seem to just ignore e-mail, or they probably "will come back to it later" and then never do.
So, when I need an answer in the next 20 minutes, I stop by in person and ask the question. I get my answer and can get back to work, and that person can try to answer my e-mail in a more timely manner next time.
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I take it you've never accidentally racked up five stars of police presence while driving home, then
Getting arrested by the cops in GTA losing a little cash and getting right back to where you were a few minutes ago is not much of a negative lesson compared to grabbing an opponents facemask and getting your team moved back 15 yards so they can't get that first down and half to punt thereby losing the game.
It's the psychological impact of the latter that makes it such an effective negative reinforcement against breaking the rules.
I knew all the comments about the Sims in this article would draw attention.
Thanks, Slashdot.
"cum hoc ergo propter hoc" would mean something along the lines of: "When this, therefore because of this."
The proper phrase is "post hoc ergo propter hoc", or "After this, therefore because of this."
Subtle difference, but the phrase you use suggests a concurrent event, whereas the phrase I give suggests a subsequent event.
Fox got it off the AP wire, just like EVERY OTHER FUCKING NEWS ORGANIZATION that posted it.
Funny thing, I reviewed a lot of other reports based on the same AP wire, and they lacked the sense of urgency and sensationalism that the Fox report did.
How could that be?
See, Fox usually gets the same facts as everyone else, it's just the way they put them out there that makes them unbalanced.
For instance, I'm eating lunch and Fox News is on TV and their discussing a suspected sex offender and are repeatedly referring to him as PERVERT in print and speech. "PERVERT FOUND IN IDAHO," or something to that effect.
How is that fair and balanced? I have more examples, but I imagine that most of the readers here have had similar experiences.
The sad thing is, it's the little touches like these that have made their news reports so popular. It also puts them in a position to say that everyone else is sugarcoating the news, while they're bringing you the REAL THING. Even though their REAL THING isn't REAL either.
Well, when they reprint stuff from their AP feed, like here, occasionally.
Not without first adding their own sensationalist touches, of course. Just because it says "AP" doesn't mean it is a reprint. It just means they got the bulk of the story from the AP. They are allowed to change sentence structure, use a thesaurus, etc.
It's not too hard to figure out, search for similar articles and you'll find they're all attributed to the AP and most of them will have many differences, but the same general story.
Fox News' speciality is to change just enough to make it sound like a huge deal and real important news when it isn't. They're pretty good at too, as evidenced by their success. They realized that it isn't the content of the news that makes people watch your program over the others, because they're all the same. It's how the news is presented that makes a difference in ratings. Fox just happened to find a method of presentation (OMFG YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, I like to call it) that happens to appeal to a pretty large audience.
You do realize that newspaper are allowed to edit AP articles and still put the AP tag on them right? As long as the content is the same, it's usually okay. So you will rarely find a strict reprint.
Go ahead, search for similar phrases on Google News and you will find several other news sources reporting the same story, with the same quotes, the same facts, minus the sensationalism that is Fox News.
Leave it to Fox to take something and word it just the right way to make it sound like an imminent disaster.
To put this in perspective a little more, the tiles are 8"x8". Also, they tend to get damaged quite frequently, with 15 flights prior to Columbia suffering from extensive tile damage. The very first shuttle suffered from 250 debris hits to its tiles on the way up and back.
Actually, the parents doing the lobbying probably already don't let their kids play these kinds of games. (Or don't know that their kids play them).
The problem is that they want to be able to tell every other parent what they can let their kids do.
That case was decided in the 8th circuit. Illinois is in the 7th circuit.
The 9th circuit is the only other to rely on the decision in the case you give (329 F.3d 954).
I suspect they have a list of pirated licenses and they just check for that. It has been posited in the past that they don't even know all the genuine keys that are out there and my experience supports that.
That's pretty much how they were doing it before, with the "optional" checks you could do whenever you tried to download something off their site. (for various Windows add-ons). They just have a list of the some of the most pirated licenses that they use to check against.
I always wondered though, how many people are using a university copy of XP on their machine when they never actually went to that university? (The version MS distributed through the program requires no authentication ever). Also, some university agreements only allow you to use it while you are enrolled and then you're supposed to go buy it when you are done, but again, if there is no authentication, how would they know? These are the CDs and CD keys that "pirates" should get ahold of.
The fact that there is *NO* violence in our society is whats wrong with our society.
Where the hell do you live?
The rest of your comment also contradicts this statement. Care to elaborate?
Why must we be animals?
I offer the following alternatives, please choose any category you feel fits better:
- Plant
- Fungi
- Protist
- Bacteria
- Archaea
Unless the game is free, there should be no adds. If there are adds in the game and there was no warning on the box I would look into a law suit. I'm 90% sure there are disclosure laws that cover this kind of thing. And of course if there is a warning on the box that the game has adds in it, I wont be buying it.
People used to say the same thing about Cable TV.
I don't know what Trader Joe's you're shopping at, but the only thing they might sell at a lower price than other grocery stores is wine. Everything else there is incredibly marked up. Even their produce is ridiculously expensive.
correlation...causation... these are not the same. You could also argue that unions are responsible for a large selection of products and better product presentation, using your logic.
I didn't say that the unions were the reason the prices were lower; however, you made some assumptions about the report which are untrue. IIRC, the article did not include any mom & pop stores, it was mainly comparing Marsh, Kroger, Meijer and other similarly situated stores.
I tried to find it, but it has been awhile since this was reported. I recall it happening around the last round of negotiations for Kroger in the area.
then find another gawd damn job!
I think I hate trolls almost as much as you hate unions, but I'll still feed you.
The problem is the the other "gawd damn job" is probably no better than the original one. Do you honestly expect someone who is qualified to work at Wal-Mart to have the skills necessary to be able to obtain good enough employment to secure a living wage and proper healthcare benefits without the help of a union to use the strength of numbers to force management to provide such things? Of course not. It just won't happen.
Sure, you'll read about how "gracious" some employers are and give all these great things to their employees, but it remains that Wal-Mart's execs have some of the deepest pockets in the country. They go on and on about how much they give to the communities they destroy, and yet, they can't afford to give their own employees enough money to stay off of government healthcare. The simple fact is that most employers do not care about employees. They care about the bottom line.
It's not as easy as "going somewhere else." Without unions, your taxes would have to be double to pay for all the poor and sick people we'd have in this country.
The problem with unions today isn't that they've ran out of their usefulness. The problem is that they're still suffering from corruption of the past and mismanagement.
The arguments you make in your post are the same arguments that have been made for hundreds of years, and they were proven wrong then as well.
Also, I recall quite clearly a report that out of grocers in my area (Southwest Ohio), those with unions actually had lower average prices on the same products compared to those without unions. So much for that theory.
between being on strike and being locked-out. A lock-out is the situation where the workers are ready to negotiate a deal, but management refuses to talk to them at all, and refuses to allow them work in the meantime under the old contract.
A strike is where management is ready to negotiate a deal, but the workers refuse to talk, and refuse to work in the meantime under the old contract.
It is wrong to suggest that the choice of phrase is made to influence public opinion about the situation. A "lock-out" and a "strike" represent two very different situations.
Just about ever person holding public office in the United States, all laywers, and members of the military take a similar oath regarding the Constitution of the United States (and their particular state as well).
The War on Piracy will be as successful as the War on Terrorism and the War on Drugs (not to mention the War on Poverty and previously, the War on Rum).
It seems like we have come full-circle then. The War on Rum and The War on Piracy sound like the same thing to me. Everyone knows pirates like rum.
The few data points they give us alone mean nothing. These percentages aren't exclusive, and don't tell us what percentage of machines at these businesses are using OS X. What if they marked "Yes" because they have one computer in the corner running it? It's too bad you have to be a paying subscriber to Jupiter Research to be able to view their actual data. Anyone have some more details? As it stands, this data is pretty useless and difficult to draw conclusions from.
I'm not surprised based on who reported it that the particular used in the article is all that was reported. Did the same survey also show that 99.9% of these businesses had some form of Windows running in house as well?
I think a lot of "normal-ish" people use IM. However, most of us use it as a telephone and/or e-mail replacement. Why waste time picking up the phone to see if a friend can meet up later when you can just drop an IM and they get to it at their convenience.
E-mail is nice for longer messages that are important.
IM is nice for short messages and/or short conversations.
Telephone is nice for urgent message and/or long detailed conversations.
Perhaps you're the non "normal-ish" person for failing to see how IM can be beneficial to a lot of people.
Other examples of uses include contact with family and friends over long distances. Cellular telephone and long distance plans cost money, IM costs as much as your Internet connection.
The Constitution and other sources of law put quite a few limits on the freedom to contract.
One example would be minimum wage laws.
You can set up AIM to only accept incoming messages from people on your list.
Spam solved.
While I would prefer to use e-mail to contact people around my office; you just can't always get a response that way. Sometimes people seem to just ignore e-mail, or they probably "will come back to it later" and then never do.
So, when I need an answer in the next 20 minutes, I stop by in person and ask the question. I get my answer and can get back to work, and that person can try to answer my e-mail in a more timely manner next time.
What bothers me the most is that lady answering the phones over in Corporate Accounts Payable.