Actually they now link to the kind folks who made this software for 'em and will provide an uninstall feature......but the damned thing requires ActiveX.
Ah, You see I neither know nor really care about the NH tax structure.
My point is that they're doing absolutely nothing to contribute to the NH public; they pay no property, wage, or sales tax...pretty much the only way the government gets any money from you.
My point is that you're ignoring the reality here. They contribute low/under minimum wage jobs, from restaurant staff to janitorial services, (traditionally), to keep your costs down. If restaurants had to pay minimum wage, or heaven forbid a livable wage, the cost of your meal would triple. Low costs for menial labor let all kinds of businesses save money, and if they were paying higher, that cost would be passed on to you, Mr. Consumer.
They're not even spending the money here, they wire it home to Mexico or whereever.
Well then the sales tax thing doesn't even matter according to your argument, huh?
I guarantee that they're spending money on food, clothing and shelter here, and sending all they can to support their families abroad -- and you'd do the same for your family in the same situation. I hope, at least.
Illegal immigrants don't pay a dime in taxes (not even sales in NH) and he's having to spend an increasing amount of time dealing with them. So he and the DA decided to throw them in jail and charge them $50 a pop
Uh, how do they not pay sales tax? Do they whip out their illegal-immigrant card at the supermarket and say "I'm not a citizen, please remove the sales tax from this purchase" ? Get a clue.
Meanwhile, the INS, police, court-appointed lawyers and the various bureaucrats involved COST tax dollars. Not to mention the cost of jailing them, food, overhead and whatnot. Hardly balanced out by a $50 fine.
Go read _Nickled and Dimed_; your cheap walmarty goods and meals at restaurants are being subsidized by the low cost of labor (under minimum wage, mind you) that can be extracted from "illegals."
I applaud Microsoft's hard stance on this, and hope that they withdraw all support and future sales of MS products to S. Korea, a powerhouse of a tech economy that's surprised pretty much the entire world in it's post-Korean War explosion into the high-tech scene.
This could be the best thing to happen to the OSS world since Mr. Torvalds and RMS began collaborating on some projects...
I believe you answered your own question. Oh wait, I forgot that to liberals, profit is bad. If you invest 15 or 20 billion dollars over a decade to bring people celphone service, you are greedy and evil for wanting to make a profit in return.
No, you twit, profit is fine. Limited competition enabling a higher price than pure competition isn't. In more competitive markets, we as the consumer would be getting a much better deal than American cell consumers are. I've lived in 3 countries in the past 4 years, and only in America did texts cost money to receive. Hell, in Jamaica, receiving a call on your cellphone was free, only making it cost money -- mainly due to the new entrant into the Ja cell market entering into a fierce competition with the former monopoly. Wow, actual competition! What a concept!
Amusing extracurricular work: Trace the fracturing of the AT&T telephone monopoly through the baby bells to their current incarnations. Here's a hint.
Cingular = co-owned by BellSouth and Southwestern Bell (two former Ma Bells!) Verizon = Bell Atlantic AT&T = AT&T, obviously, bought by Cingular T-Mobile: now Duetsche Telecom, but they bought the VoiceStream/PrimeCo/GTE Wireless network, which was also tied up in Bell Atlantic Sprint/MCI/Nextel : the independents. In fact we have MCI to thank for the original breakup of AT&T's gov't-sponsored monopoly.
So, tell me again that the cell phone industry doesn't have oligopolistic/monopolistic tendencies, seeing as how by and large they're slowly re-forming Ma Bell in a very Transformers-esque fashion?
Further, if you're going to be anti-liberal, at least be a decent economist. Oh, right, sorry. Neocons can't keep a balanced budget, my bad.
OK, people. This is pure batshit insanity all around.
first, just because it's a blog doesn't mean the blogger is a journalist, half of these are purely personal journal sites that are now called blogs because that's the "in" term to refer to often updated things. Any law that presumes that something posted is (or isn't) journalism is silly.
Further, free speech should be strongly maintained for "bloggers", for just that reason -- whether they're journalists, personal diarists or political activists, a law applied to "blogs" will hamper all of them.
Should PACs and campaigns be able to abuse blogs? No. Will they try? Yes. The problem then is controlling blogs (and websites, etc.) being used not just to express political opinion, but being paid for by politicians or interest groups to do so. Hell, it seems to me like a good policy to extend the requirement of "paid for by the blah campaign"
requirement to everything -- if you're getting paid by a campaign or PAC to produce media, you have to disclaim it loudly, period.
Definitely. The cell phone market is not a good example of a free market system due to the former monopoly players involved, and the monopoly practices they are able to use through tower control.
I predict that US cell companies will one day soon be revealed to be colluding and price-fixing, and doing all sorts of nasty oligopoly/monopoly illegal things.
e.g. why the fuck is text messaging on most carrier 5-10 cents to send and again to receive? that's pure profit (excepting when people are flooding the text channel, evidentally). Why do they charge from opening the line as opposed to the receiver picking up the call? How do they magically attribute 20 minutes of calltime in chunks to my own number? (I don't have that much voicemail!)?
Why do they lock down phones and features within phones?
I'm disgusted with the US cell phone companies compared to options abroad. We as consumers are getting screwed over, and most people don't even realize it.
For most of these documents, I don't think a scanned copy is going to do jack shit for you.
Scenario A: The world is totally fucked -- having a scan of your 8 year old DL and passport, plus three litres of pure water, can trade for a pack of smokes.
Scenario B: The world's fine, but your house is destroyed -- w00t. You have a scanned copy of your passport. Try to use that anywhere. Try to use a scanned copy of your birth certificate to get a new passport. Ain't nuthin doin. Maybe --MAYBE-- if there's some change in rules to enable similar people in your situation, but since most of 'em won't have scanned copies anyhow, what's the point?
The real lesson here is not to digitize and encrypt your documents, but to keep them in a centralized location in your house (preferably that's small, waterproof, and fireproof), so you can grab 'em in a hurry, and/or if you have to leave them (at work when the shit hits the fan?), they have a decent chance of survival.
Well, to be fair, the AI self trains based on the player's inputs of obstacles/enemies and goals. the NERO engine evolves its AI processes pretty rapidly to achieve the goals set by the player. Again, as a game it's unexciting to be sure, as a display of an innovative method of AI (using evolution), it's interesting.
I know the people involved in the back-end development of the AI for NERO, and it's... scarily powerful. In a situation given a (virtual, but well-physics'ed out) "arm", they noticed an unusually long time in one trial for its task of moving an object from one location to another, although it was ultimately successful, it took 6x or so the usual time to figure out the problem and solve it.
Examining the "rules" of that trial, they'd accidentally disabled one of the arm's motors, and the AI had used momentum (swinging the rest of the arm to rotate the disabled joint) to overcome this difficulty. i.e., it wasn't supposed to be 'possible'
Whoever is responsible should have their head on a pike
It's not like some idiot just let them trout, for shellfish purposes or otherwise -- tuna in to your tv, there was a hurricane. It's not like they cod have seen this as a possiblity with all the crabby, hammer-headed officials higher up in the food chain. Ask any general, and eel tell you that this was some shrimpy, reefer smoking, floundering good-for-nothing in charge, and didn't plan ahead.
Darnit people, did you learn nothing from AudioGalaxy's fall? They're NEVER HAPPY. AG had some batshit insanely powerful filtering that caught pretty much any song the record companies asked them to filter out, no matter how obfuscated the title got. It read tags, it hashed files... etc.
They still got shut down, after a huge outlay of cost and labor to produce that filter. They were DMCA-compliant, and got sued to death.
It's not a road you want to take your company down. Learn from the mistakes of others.
Sigh. Not that I've used LimeWire since the 90s or so, never liked the client that much. Shareaza and Azureus do it for me nowadays, with the occasional dip into Kazaa Lite if I'm feeling adventurous.
Honestly, it'll probably be such a foreign environment to most of 'em that they'll kvetch and complain......until finally someone says to them; "did you google for it?" or "did you ask in #whatever on freenode?"
Then they'll blink for hours, as a man coming into the light after years sitting in a cave watching shadows...
Slashdot Mirror
They even say that they're fair and balanced.
Fox wouldn't LIE to me, would it??
Sorry, to be precise, that takes you to a "patch" that "removes" the cloaking "feature".
Makes me even less likely to open up IE and let it run activeX controls
Actually they now link to the kind folks who made this software for 'em and will provide an uninstall feature... ...but the damned thing requires ActiveX.
http://updates.xcp-aurora.com/unsupported.aspx
Sigh.
Ah, You see I neither know nor really care about the NH tax structure.
My point is that they're doing absolutely nothing to contribute to the NH public; they pay no property, wage, or sales tax...pretty much the only way the government gets any money from you.
My point is that you're ignoring the reality here. They contribute low/under minimum wage jobs, from restaurant staff to janitorial services, (traditionally), to keep your costs down. If restaurants had to pay minimum wage, or heaven forbid a livable wage, the cost of your meal would triple. Low costs for menial labor let all kinds of businesses save money, and if they were paying higher, that cost would be passed on to you, Mr. Consumer.
They're not even spending the money here, they wire it home to Mexico or whereever.
Well then the sales tax thing doesn't even matter according to your argument, huh?
I guarantee that they're spending money on food, clothing and shelter here, and sending all they can to support their families abroad -- and you'd do the same for your family in the same situation. I hope, at least.
Illegal immigrants don't pay a dime in taxes (not even sales in NH) and he's having to spend an increasing amount of time dealing with them. So he and the DA decided to throw them in jail and charge them $50 a pop
Uh, how do they not pay sales tax? Do they whip out their illegal-immigrant card at the supermarket and say "I'm not a citizen, please remove the sales tax from this purchase" ? Get a clue.
Meanwhile, the INS, police, court-appointed lawyers and the various bureaucrats involved COST tax dollars. Not to mention the cost of jailing them, food, overhead and whatnot. Hardly balanced out by a $50 fine.
Go read _Nickled and Dimed_; your cheap walmarty goods and meals at restaurants are being subsidized by the low cost of labor (under minimum wage, mind you) that can be extracted from "illegals."
I applaud Microsoft's hard stance on this, and hope that they withdraw all support and future sales of MS products to S. Korea, a powerhouse of a tech economy that's surprised pretty much the entire world in it's post-Korean War explosion into the high-tech scene.
This could be the best thing to happen to the OSS world since Mr. Torvalds and RMS began collaborating on some projects...
Now we'll have a wave of LARPers applying for coding jobs, and all office disputes will be resolved by a fiesty game of paper-rock-scissors.
Universities are well known for harboring dissidents and terrorists.
It's all that edumakashun. We should get rid of that, too.
parsed that title as vim: 64bit?
I believe you answered your own question. Oh wait, I forgot that to liberals, profit is bad. If you invest 15 or 20 billion dollars over a decade to bring people celphone service, you are greedy and evil for wanting to make a profit in return.
No, you twit, profit is fine. Limited competition enabling a higher price than pure competition isn't. In more competitive markets, we as the consumer would be getting a much better deal than American cell consumers are. I've lived in 3 countries in the past 4 years, and only in America did texts cost money to receive. Hell, in Jamaica, receiving a call on your cellphone was free, only making it cost money -- mainly due to the new entrant into the Ja cell market entering into a fierce competition with the former monopoly. Wow, actual competition! What a concept!
Amusing extracurricular work: Trace the fracturing of the AT&T telephone monopoly through the baby bells to their current incarnations. Here's a hint.
Cingular = co-owned by BellSouth and Southwestern Bell (two former Ma Bells!)
Verizon = Bell Atlantic
AT&T = AT&T, obviously, bought by Cingular
T-Mobile: now Duetsche Telecom, but they bought the VoiceStream/PrimeCo/GTE Wireless network, which was also tied up in Bell Atlantic
Sprint/MCI/Nextel : the independents. In fact we have MCI to thank for the original breakup of AT&T's gov't-sponsored monopoly.
So, tell me again that the cell phone industry doesn't have oligopolistic/monopolistic tendencies, seeing as how by and large they're slowly re-forming Ma Bell in a very Transformers-esque fashion?
Further, if you're going to be anti-liberal, at least be a decent economist. Oh, right, sorry. Neocons can't keep a balanced budget, my bad.
OK, people. This is pure batshit insanity all around.
first, just because it's a blog doesn't mean the blogger is a journalist, half of these are purely personal journal sites that are now called blogs because that's the "in" term to refer to often updated things. Any law that presumes that something posted is (or isn't) journalism is silly.
Further, free speech should be strongly maintained for "bloggers", for just that reason -- whether they're journalists, personal diarists or political activists, a law applied to "blogs" will hamper all of them.
Should PACs and campaigns be able to abuse blogs? No. Will they try? Yes. The problem then is controlling blogs (and websites, etc.) being used not just to express political opinion, but being paid for by politicians or interest groups to do so. Hell, it seems to me like a good policy to extend the requirement of "paid for by the blah campaign"
requirement to everything -- if you're getting paid by a campaign or PAC to produce media, you have to disclaim it loudly, period.
Am I missing something?
I feel a great disturbance in the Service, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
Definitely. The cell phone market is not a good example of a free market system due to the former monopoly players involved, and the monopoly practices they are able to use through tower control.
I predict that US cell companies will one day soon be revealed to be colluding and price-fixing, and doing all sorts of nasty oligopoly/monopoly illegal things.
e.g. why the fuck is text messaging on most carrier 5-10 cents to send and again to receive? that's pure profit (excepting when people are flooding the text channel, evidentally). Why do they charge from opening the line as opposed to the receiver picking up the call? How do they magically attribute 20 minutes of calltime in chunks to my own number? (I don't have that much voicemail!)?
Why do they lock down phones and features within phones?
I'm disgusted with the US cell phone companies compared to options abroad. We as consumers are getting screwed over, and most people don't even realize it.
For most of these documents, I don't think a scanned copy is going to do jack shit for you.
Scenario A: The world is totally fucked -- having a scan of your 8 year old DL and passport, plus three litres of pure water, can trade for a pack of smokes.
Scenario B: The world's fine, but your house is destroyed -- w00t. You have a scanned copy of your passport. Try to use that anywhere. Try to use a scanned copy of your birth certificate to get a new passport. Ain't nuthin doin. Maybe --MAYBE-- if there's some change in rules to enable similar people in your situation, but since most of 'em won't have scanned copies anyhow, what's the point?
The real lesson here is not to digitize and encrypt your documents, but to keep them in a centralized location in your house (preferably that's small, waterproof, and fireproof), so you can grab 'em in a hurry, and/or if you have to leave them (at work when the shit hits the fan?), they have a decent chance of survival.
Well, to be fair, the AI self trains based on the player's inputs of obstacles/enemies and goals. the NERO engine evolves its AI processes pretty rapidly to achieve the goals set by the player. Again, as a game it's unexciting to be sure, as a display of an innovative method of AI (using evolution), it's interesting.
I know the people involved in the back-end development of the AI for NERO, and it's... scarily powerful. In a situation given a (virtual, but well-physics'ed out) "arm", they noticed an unusually long time in one trial for its task of moving an object from one location to another, although it was ultimately successful, it took 6x or so the usual time to figure out the problem and solve it.
Examining the "rules" of that trial, they'd accidentally disabled one of the arm's motors, and the AI had used momentum (swinging the rest of the arm to rotate the disabled joint) to overcome this difficulty. i.e., it wasn't supposed to be 'possible'
You might check out NE(u)RO: http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/NERO/about.html
It's a fascinating, and frightenlingly good AI engine/game. Well, the game's pretty much just a display of the AI really..
Thanks for finding the polite way of asking; "Civ III: Seriously, WTF?"
if people copy 100 billion CDs, then it really does cost the RIAA one trillion dollars.
D00d! Where are you finding $10 new RIAA-label CDs? Hook us up!
no, I definitely meant offishells, just spelled it wrong. I guess I need to go to school
Whoever is responsible should have their head on a pike
It's not like some idiot just let them trout, for shellfish purposes or otherwise -- tuna in to your tv, there was a hurricane. It's not like they cod have seen this as a possiblity with all the crabby, hammer-headed officials higher up in the food chain. Ask any general, and eel tell you that this was some shrimpy, reefer smoking, floundering good-for-nothing in charge, and didn't plan ahead.
Darnit people, did you learn nothing from AudioGalaxy's fall? They're NEVER HAPPY. AG had some batshit insanely powerful filtering that caught pretty much any song the record companies asked them to filter out, no matter how obfuscated the title got. It read tags, it hashed files... etc.
They still got shut down, after a huge outlay of cost and labor to produce that filter. They were DMCA-compliant, and got sued to death.
It's not a road you want to take your company down. Learn from the mistakes of others.
Sigh. Not that I've used LimeWire since the 90s or so, never liked the client that much. Shareaza and Azureus do it for me nowadays, with the occasional dip into Kazaa Lite if I'm feeling adventurous.
Hey, does anyone have a mirror or torrent of this? The site's slashdotted!
No? No copies? No torrents? What, it deleted your torrent software?
I love the smell of irony in the morning... it smells like... victory...
And the investigative reporting where you try to figure out her name before she wakes up?
Honestly, it'll probably be such a foreign environment to most of 'em that they'll kvetch and complain... ...until finally someone says to them; "did you google for it?" or "did you ask in #whatever on freenode?"
Then they'll blink for hours, as a man coming into the light after years sitting in a cave watching shadows...
(apologies to Plato)
her privacy is largely a theoretical concept these days
Theoretical? Why, I've seen her private parts on video, they most certainly exist, even if they are a bit on the skinny side.