This sounds strangely like deja-vu. Wasn't there formerly a phone company, and then they did this kind of crap, and then the government applied the Sherman Anti-Trust Act hammer, and then there were more phone companies?
Except they are not government-regulated, it is just prohibitively expensive for a competitor to run cable on the power company (a gov't regulated monopoly) poles. Which is why the Internet is so disruptive to these entrenched businesses.
No, they'll see it as a reason to lobby the government to prop up their failing business model, just like every other business model disrupted by the Internet.
Which is sad, because Microsoft had made the best mice in recent years. I can only hope they realize that they DON'T have to be Apple to succeed in the marketplace.
Some programs are pretty much useless in a sandbox. Should I have to bundle together an editor, source control, and an interpreter in order for those programs to use the same files inside the sandbox? Should I do this for every language I want to develop in using that editor? Without the runtime, the files I'm editing are useless. Perhaps I could get away with just the editor and the source control, using the source control to escape the sandbox. Would Apple close that hole, or reject me from the app store for that reason?
Isn't that part of the punishment/revenge we want to inflict on those in prison? Never being able to function in society again, so they reoffend and stay the hell out of the way of the good, righteous, god-fearing folk.
No, they'll go up faster because the insurance companies can say "We have to pay for Obamacare," when in fact they are benefiting from it as you mentioned. This is the way most corporations, especially insurance corporations, work.
You're talking about "abiogenesis", which does contradict creationism. Evolution is a process that can exist with or without creationism or abiogenesis. Of course, nobody cares about this distinction, but I believe that is the distinction that GP is trying to make.
Their GM crops produce more yield and are the difference between starvation and barely-above starvation for some parts of the world. Their PR is mostly true, they just leave out the whole "legal attacks against farmers not using Monsanto products" part.
No. The reason SMS is limited in size is because it fits in some empty space between voice packets. In other words, SMS is essentially free (it piggybacks on the internal signalling interface when the signalling isn't being used, so it's making use of otherwise dead air).
Unlike Canada, the news in the US no longer has to present a balanced viewpoint. That rule was removed from FCC regulations during the Reagan Administration. Also, they no longer have to tell you what is fact and what is opinion. In other words, nobody is monitoring journalistic integrity.
So the FBI is now mimicking the *AA's: Their job is harder with the Internet, so they make laws to stop the Internet from ruining their old ways of doing things.
Telemarketers are just doing their job. Tell them up-front "Please remove me from your list." and let them get on with it. This is another instance of "shoot the messenger."
The people who get paid minimum wage to hand out flyers are also just doing their job. What happens when they go back to their boss and say "Some guy grabbed all my flyers and destroyed them." Think they're going to keep that job they desperately need?
As for the TSA: Right on. That is the absolute correct response. Make them uncomfortable giving pat-downs, and maybe they'll put the pressure on the higher-ups.
This. Valve learned from Steam that game piracy numbers in Eastern Europe were high because piracy gave a better product: Better (hacked) translations, faster release dates, and no DRM scheme. Valve fixed two of those problems and watched the money roll in.
Piracy isn't just people being cheap, but don't let any content producers know that.
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This sounds strangely like deja-vu. Wasn't there formerly a phone company, and then they did this kind of crap, and then the government applied the Sherman Anti-Trust Act hammer, and then there were more phone companies?
Demonoid was a torrent site, not a storage service.
The law, in its magnanimity, does not discriminate. Can't give one fine to one person and another fine to another (corporate) person.
All that work sounds exactly like what UEFI is going to do to install linux on x86.
Except they are not government-regulated, it is just prohibitively expensive for a competitor to run cable on the power company (a gov't regulated monopoly) poles. Which is why the Internet is so disruptive to these entrenched businesses.
http://gizmodo.com/5830956/why-the-government-wont-protect-you-from-getting-screwed-by-your-cable-company Apparently there used to be exclusivity but that was repealed. Probably in the guise of "de-regulation" that everyone is so fond of.
No, they'll see it as a reason to lobby the government to prop up their failing business model, just like every other business model disrupted by the Internet.
Which is sad, because Microsoft had made the best mice in recent years. I can only hope they realize that they DON'T have to be Apple to succeed in the marketplace.
Some programs are pretty much useless in a sandbox. Should I have to bundle together an editor, source control, and an interpreter in order for those programs to use the same files inside the sandbox? Should I do this for every language I want to develop in using that editor? Without the runtime, the files I'm editing are useless. Perhaps I could get away with just the editor and the source control, using the source control to escape the sandbox. Would Apple close that hole, or reject me from the app store for that reason?
Isn't that part of the punishment/revenge we want to inflict on those in prison? Never being able to function in society again, so they reoffend and stay the hell out of the way of the good, righteous, god-fearing folk.
When correctly viewed / Everything is lewd
I could tell you things / About Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz / There's a dirty old man
- Tom Lehrer
No, they'll go up faster because the insurance companies can say "We have to pay for Obamacare," when in fact they are benefiting from it as you mentioned. This is the way most corporations, especially insurance corporations, work.
Just read this excellent article on that: http://www.crf-usa.org/america-responds-to-terrorism/the-alien-and-sedition-acts.html
The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
You're talking about "abiogenesis", which does contradict creationism. Evolution is a process that can exist with or without creationism or abiogenesis. Of course, nobody cares about this distinction, but I believe that is the distinction that GP is trying to make.
Their GM crops produce more yield and are the difference between starvation and barely-above starvation for some parts of the world. Their PR is mostly true, they just leave out the whole "legal attacks against farmers not using Monsanto products" part.
No. The reason SMS is limited in size is because it fits in some empty space between voice packets. In other words, SMS is essentially free (it piggybacks on the internal signalling interface when the signalling isn't being used, so it's making use of otherwise dead air).
Which 12? Me? You? Let's just toss everyone in gitmo to be safe!
Dear Sir/Madam:
I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out in the basement level of the... No, too formal...
Unlike Canada, the news in the US no longer has to present a balanced viewpoint. That rule was removed from FCC regulations during the Reagan Administration. Also, they no longer have to tell you what is fact and what is opinion. In other words, nobody is monitoring journalistic integrity.
So the FBI is now mimicking the *AA's: Their job is harder with the Internet, so they make laws to stop the Internet from ruining their old ways of doing things.
Hacking is not legal ("Unauthorized access to a computer system")
No, one engineer is being thrown under the bus. I wonder if his name was Goldstein...
Telemarketers are just doing their job. Tell them up-front "Please remove me from your list." and let them get on with it. This is another instance of "shoot the messenger."
The people who get paid minimum wage to hand out flyers are also just doing their job. What happens when they go back to their boss and say "Some guy grabbed all my flyers and destroyed them." Think they're going to keep that job they desperately need?
As for the TSA: Right on. That is the absolute correct response. Make them uncomfortable giving pat-downs, and maybe they'll put the pressure on the higher-ups.
This. Valve learned from Steam that game piracy numbers in Eastern Europe were high because piracy gave a better product: Better (hacked) translations, faster release dates, and no DRM scheme. Valve fixed two of those problems and watched the money roll in.
Piracy isn't just people being cheap, but don't let any content producers know that.
Yes, the last dot is implied, but it's also less convenient to say. "Visit pepsi dot for more information" isn't as clear as "dot pepsi".
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Explains programming concepts though visual components.