How the hell is social security "welfare" when I pay the max into it every year?
You want to make the case for modifying it then go ahead, but these constant attempts to redefine it are garbage.
Is the mortgage interest deduction included in your 2.3 trillion? IMO that's much more of a welfare program than social security, so lets cut that first ok?
I say that knowing I'll lose close to 10k per year (net).
Maybe because you should honor your commitments, like the one you made to the creditor when they loaned you money? Fruits of YOUR labor? Sounds like you're STEALING the fruits of VISA's labor and then transferring stolen goods.
Don't forget IRQ settings... I remember being so pissed off about having to learn all that stuff just to play games, but like you said once you got the games going, it was all worth it.
Elder Scrolls: Arena and Civilization were so unbelievably awesome in their time. The fact that both are still going strong validates my statement.
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Having never seen an advertisement on FB, I was wondering what the hell the original post was talking about on Facebook. Your mention of AdBlock clears it up though, thanks AdBlock!
I can't imagine bandwidth usage is that much less predictable than energy. Same concepts apply really. People at home, AC use/energy goes up. People at home, broadband usage goes up. I know I'm oversimplifying things but hell, even the heavy users bandwidth is predictable; 24/7 heavy bittorrent traffic.
I'm sure ALL the tax revenue will go towards educating kids on the dangers of violent video games and/or to the victims or violent video game inspired violence, right?
To the right and up a bit there's some additional lines on the sea floor that are a bit too straight to be chance. Very interesting and I see a lot of treasure hunting headed that way very quickly.
Think of a company deciding whether to hire person A or person B. If they were able to get hold of health records and find out that person B has a higher cardiac index than person A, and therefore hire person A, how would you feel if YOU were person B? What if the cardiac index is due to genetics and not life choices? There was a stupid movie that dealt with this, maybe had Ethan Hawke in it?
Would you like a diagnosis on your chart preventing you from being employed?
This is just one of many examples. The last paragraph in the article has more.
It didn't go anywhere for two reasons. First, people playing orcs would strafe, attack wizards first, and all sorts of other things and own low level players/parties. Second, people abused it by finding their friends and letting themselves be killed with little fight, etc.
The first one was quite entertaining. The second, meh.
Government good. Government only solution to problem.
See how much more economical I was with words? Only government sponsored secondary education could have resulted in this, you must have gone to private (greedy) school.
George Bush, is that you? Don't you have better things to do than post on slashdot? Also, try sticking to the same argument instead of taking your normal shotgun "Yellowcake/Mobile Chemical Labs/WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION/AL-QAEDA/9-11!!!" approach. Nice that you're retreating to "they didn't follow the UN resolutions" card, but that still leaves you with the tiny problem of the UN not authorizing your eventual unilateral invasion (oh wait, I FORGOT POLAND!)
I saw that, and although the blog that was linked on Digg badly mis characterized the issues, those are issues. But the more important note to me is that practically as soon as it was published Real said they would address both. That to me is a good example of the new model they employ, as opposed to the old model of deny and/or ignore.
And as far as the songs being removed, I doubt that's Real, it's more likely a result of a dispute between the artist and the label. Otherwise you'd see entire label's catalogs dropping.
This argument always fascinates me. The same is true of your cable TV, but I don't see constant bitching about the cable pay model. The music goes away if you stop paying because you're paying for a SERVICE, not for the music. If you want to pay for the music, then Amazon/iTunes is all there for you. But to buy just what I have in my sansa right now you'd be paying about 5-10 years worth of rhapsody monthly fees. Do you think you'll still want all that music that far in the future? I know I don't listen to many of my old CDs, so Rhapsody is great value for me.
And as far as the comment above this, you're asking the company to let you download whatever you want, whenever you want, as much as you want, in any bitrate/codec you want, on the HONOR system, the promise that you won't download it and then stop paying and share it with your friends?
DRM for music that you guy is lame, I agree. But DRM for music that you buy as a service makes total sense and I have no problem with it. Sure it would be nice if they could all agree so I didn't have to have both a Nano and a Sansa player. But Sansa players are 40 bucks and its plug and play from there so I'm not losing sleep over it.
Some of those of us who are willing to give people/things a second chance have been pleasantly surprised with current incarnations of RealPlayer. It is non-adware, non-spyware, light on the CPU, and Rhapsody is AWESOME.
I've bought five or six albums in the past few months, several from artists I'd never have listened to (Daft Punk, Modest Mouse, Big Audio Dynamite to name a few) if not for Rhapsody including them in custom channels that I built. Granted I'm buying the CDs because Infiniti SUCKS and can't play home grown CDs in their player without it breaking and they don't have an input jack, but the point is I'm getting exposed to a bunch of new music for the first time in years thanks to Rhapsody.
I actually feel bad for them for having to pay such a high price for their early bad decisions. I mean, I shit-canned them back in the late 90's when they pulled those stunts, but they've matured a lot, and are one of the most complete players out there (although.mov files have quit working on them recently).
I encourage those of you who still have bad memories of Real to read up on the changes and perhaps give them another shot. Rhapsody really is kick ass. I'm sitting here listening to my Sansa player that has 4GB of music that I don't own and loving every minute of it.
I even take it out when I run now, even though I still have to cart the iPod Nano for the running shoes/chip combo.
What an awesome potential revenue stream this could be for Tivo.
Customer: I need a Tivo that supports this converter I have for my TV. Tivo: I'm sorry, we don't have anything like that. Customer: But I have a lifetime subscription. Tivo: Well it sounds like the lifetime for that service is now passed. Why don't you take a look at our new monthly rates. Customer:...
This is an excellent point. Also, are you looking for opportunities to manage up, both by providing constructive feedback to your manager and by offering to take on tasks of his/hers to free up their time to do more important things?
I'm not saying be an ass kisser, I'm saying go after the managerial work when possible so you can be seen as already functioning in many ways as a manager. This makes it much easier to promote you when the time comes, and also allows you to build a case if necessary.
Unless this thing was negotiated on handshakes and golf games, there should be a good amount of evidence for the state to press for elimination of that debt due to breach.
Let's start holding them accountable for their shenanigans instead of just taking our ball and going home.
Maybe today that is true, but what's to stop them from crafting a new law just like the one mentioned in the summary. I think this assumption we all have that if they look for one thing they must look for all things is exactly that, an assumption.
We've seen far worse laws drafted in the name of protecting "commerce".
40 and 50 year loans are really 30 year loans that will be refactored (or rewritten or reset, whatever terminology they used) at 10 and 20 years left respectively. From my recollection based on work in subprime IT for a few years, it has to do with laws that limit the life of a loan to 30 years or something.
Regardless, 40 and 50 year loans are right up there with negative amortization adjustable loans. HORRIBLE ABUSE OF TEH SYSTEM. If you have to stretch that far to get into a house, rent a fucking apartment and save up some money for cryin' out loud.
This credit crunch is a good thing, we as consumers need to get off the endless debt teat.
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How the hell is social security "welfare" when I pay the max into it every year?
You want to make the case for modifying it then go ahead, but these constant attempts to redefine it are garbage.
Is the mortgage interest deduction included in your 2.3 trillion? IMO that's much more of a welfare program than social security, so lets cut that first ok?
I say that knowing I'll lose close to 10k per year (net).
This is such a wildly inappropriate idea that if it gets any legs at all the reasonable powers that be will jump on it and squash it good.
I cannot allow myself to believe we as a country are willing to seriously consider implementation of anything like this.
Maybe because you should honor your commitments, like the one you made to the creditor when they loaned you money? Fruits of YOUR labor? Sounds like you're STEALING the fruits of VISA's labor and then transferring stolen goods.
Jesus what a douche.
I'll need some evidence submitted before I can answer that last question.
We saved cord blood for both our kids and and I remember the cord blood folks saying "we like to get at least 100 million cells for a good sample."
So of course I asked how many they got for ours and the answers were like 3 and 4 BILLION.
So while this may be true, it doesn't seem like they're exactly hurting for cells, based on my totally anecdotal account anyway...
I dunno man, being able to have sex with a prostitute and get VD because you didn't use a condom, that shit was pretty revolutionary.
Leisure Suit Larry represent!
Don't forget IRQ settings... I remember being so pissed off about having to learn all that stuff just to play games, but like you said once you got the games going, it was all worth it.
Elder Scrolls: Arena and Civilization were so unbelievably awesome in their time. The fact that both are still going strong validates my statement.
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Having never seen an advertisement on FB, I was wondering what the hell the original post was talking about on Facebook. Your mention of AdBlock clears it up though, thanks AdBlock!
I can't imagine bandwidth usage is that much less predictable than energy. Same concepts apply really. People at home, AC use/energy goes up. People at home, broadband usage goes up. I know I'm oversimplifying things but hell, even the heavy users bandwidth is predictable; 24/7 heavy bittorrent traffic.
How hard is that really?
I'm sure ALL the tax revenue will go towards educating kids on the dangers of violent video games and/or to the victims or violent video game inspired violence, right?
RIGHT?
To the right and up a bit there's some additional lines on the sea floor that are a bit too straight to be chance. Very interesting and I see a lot of treasure hunting headed that way very quickly.
Think of a company deciding whether to hire person A or person B. If they were able to get hold of health records and find out that person B has a higher cardiac index than person A, and therefore hire person A, how would you feel if YOU were person B? What if the cardiac index is due to genetics and not life choices? There was a stupid movie that dealt with this, maybe had Ethan Hawke in it?
Would you like a diagnosis on your chart preventing you from being employed?
This is just one of many examples. The last paragraph in the article has more.
It didn't go anywhere for two reasons. First, people playing orcs would strafe, attack wizards first, and all sorts of other things and own low level players/parties. Second, people abused it by finding their friends and letting themselves be killed with little fight, etc.
The first one was quite entertaining. The second, meh.
What a bunch of nonsense. Let me paraphrase:
Corporations bad. Corporations greedy.
Government good. Government only solution to problem.
See how much more economical I was with words? Only government sponsored secondary education could have resulted in this, you must have gone to private (greedy) school.
George Bush, is that you? Don't you have better things to do than post on slashdot? Also, try sticking to the same argument instead of taking your normal shotgun "Yellowcake/Mobile Chemical Labs/WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION/AL-QAEDA/9-11!!!" approach. Nice that you're retreating to "they didn't follow the UN resolutions" card, but that still leaves you with the tiny problem of the UN not authorizing your eventual unilateral invasion (oh wait, I FORGOT POLAND!)
Dude you are truly drinking the kool-aid.
I saw that, and although the blog that was linked on Digg badly mis characterized the issues, those are issues. But the more important note to me is that practically as soon as it was published Real said they would address both. That to me is a good example of the new model they employ, as opposed to the old model of deny and/or ignore.
And as far as the songs being removed, I doubt that's Real, it's more likely a result of a dispute between the artist and the label. Otherwise you'd see entire label's catalogs dropping.
This argument always fascinates me. The same is true of your cable TV, but I don't see constant bitching about the cable pay model. The music goes away if you stop paying because you're paying for a SERVICE, not for the music. If you want to pay for the music, then Amazon/iTunes is all there for you. But to buy just what I have in my sansa right now you'd be paying about 5-10 years worth of rhapsody monthly fees. Do you think you'll still want all that music that far in the future? I know I don't listen to many of my old CDs, so Rhapsody is great value for me.
And as far as the comment above this, you're asking the company to let you download whatever you want, whenever you want, as much as you want, in any bitrate/codec you want, on the HONOR system, the promise that you won't download it and then stop paying and share it with your friends?
DRM for music that you guy is lame, I agree. But DRM for music that you buy as a service makes total sense and I have no problem with it. Sure it would be nice if they could all agree so I didn't have to have both a Nano and a Sansa player. But Sansa players are 40 bucks and its plug and play from there so I'm not losing sleep over it.
Some of those of us who are willing to give people/things a second chance have been pleasantly surprised with current incarnations of RealPlayer. It is non-adware, non-spyware, light on the CPU, and Rhapsody is AWESOME.
.mov files have quit working on them recently).
I've bought five or six albums in the past few months, several from artists I'd never have listened to (Daft Punk, Modest Mouse, Big Audio Dynamite to name a few) if not for Rhapsody including them in custom channels that I built. Granted I'm buying the CDs because Infiniti SUCKS and can't play home grown CDs in their player without it breaking and they don't have an input jack, but the point is I'm getting exposed to a bunch of new music for the first time in years thanks to Rhapsody.
I actually feel bad for them for having to pay such a high price for their early bad decisions. I mean, I shit-canned them back in the late 90's when they pulled those stunts, but they've matured a lot, and are one of the most complete players out there (although
I encourage those of you who still have bad memories of Real to read up on the changes and perhaps give them another shot. Rhapsody really is kick ass. I'm sitting here listening to my Sansa player that has 4GB of music that I don't own and loving every minute of it.
I even take it out when I run now, even though I still have to cart the iPod Nano for the running shoes/chip combo.
What an awesome potential revenue stream this could be for Tivo.
...
Customer: I need a Tivo that supports this converter I have for my TV.
Tivo: I'm sorry, we don't have anything like that.
Customer: But I have a lifetime subscription.
Tivo: Well it sounds like the lifetime for that service is now passed. Why don't you take a look at our new monthly rates.
Customer:
If this is the case then you don't want to be working for him/her in the first place, and should appreciate the clarity that situation provides.
This is an excellent point. Also, are you looking for opportunities to manage up, both by providing constructive feedback to your manager and by offering to take on tasks of his/hers to free up their time to do more important things?
I'm not saying be an ass kisser, I'm saying go after the managerial work when possible so you can be seen as already functioning in many ways as a manager. This makes it much easier to promote you when the time comes, and also allows you to build a case if necessary.
Unless this thing was negotiated on handshakes and golf games, there should be a good amount of evidence for the state to press for elimination of that debt due to breach.
Let's start holding them accountable for their shenanigans instead of just taking our ball and going home.
Maybe today that is true, but what's to stop them from crafting a new law just like the one mentioned in the summary. I think this assumption we all have that if they look for one thing they must look for all things is exactly that, an assumption.
We've seen far worse laws drafted in the name of protecting "commerce".
40 and 50 year loans are really 30 year loans that will be refactored (or rewritten or reset, whatever terminology they used) at 10 and 20 years left respectively. From my recollection based on work in subprime IT for a few years, it has to do with laws that limit the life of a loan to 30 years or something.
Regardless, 40 and 50 year loans are right up there with negative amortization adjustable loans. HORRIBLE ABUSE OF TEH SYSTEM. If you have to stretch that far to get into a house, rent a fucking apartment and save up some money for cryin' out loud.
This credit crunch is a good thing, we as consumers need to get off the endless debt teat.