Of course they can change the agreement. try to imagine dealing with Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back ("I have changed the conditions of our deal, pray that I do not change them again!") That's what all that fine print at the bottom of the contract is:) But seriously, you don't really believe any company adheres to its "privacy policy" do you?:)
That's how most credit card agreements work. "By the way, we've changed the terms. If you don't like them you're welcome to pay off your balance and go elsewhere"
BE POLITE, BUT DON'T HESITATE TO EXPLICITELY STATE THAT VOTING FOR THIS BILL WILL COST HIM/HER YOUR VOTE.
What if your senator happens to be slimeball Hollings? He could care less if I vote for him or not...just as long as Disney keeps stuffing money in his pockets.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If it weren't for religion, the world would be a much better place. You're right though, its definately a cult. How desperate must people be to fall for this shit?
And if it weren't for your stereotyping and gross-overgeneralization, the world would be a much better place. I'd hardly call scientology a religion, regardless of what they say they are.
I'd rather watch anything but more footage of the 9/11 WTC attack.
Why? Because it's unbelievably depressing, and watching yet more footage of the carnage isn't going to help anyone. I'm not saying that people should forget or anything like that, but I'll leave that kind of voyeuristic masturbation to others.
What's more depressing, seeing 9/11 footage or watching X-Files on life support?
I wonder if this will mean ICANN will have enough balls to make Network Solutions (or I guess VeriSign now) stop sitting on domains. They refuse to release almost all domains that expire...they just sit on them and sit on them and sit on them (unless of course you use their SnapNames backorder service).
The biggest problem with the series from my POV is Richard Dean Anderson, who is either a really bad actor or else is doing a really good job on a really bad part. (I suspect the former.)
I somewhat agree. While the other characters have grown throughout the series O'Neil pretty much stays the same. He acts dim-witted and too quick to action. Sometimes his actions don't make sense at all. I would have preferred to see some wisdom in him in the later seasons but he really hasn't changed. Although the character is a heck of a lot better than was in the movie.
Obviously Philips is going after anything which hurts their hardware sales. This is both good for consumers (no cd copy protection) and bad for consumers (going after other hardware companies)
I refuse to use a nvidia because of thier unstable drivers
Hmm so you would use ATI who drops their drivers a few months after released? I mean seriously, they release drivers then as soon as they release their next greatest video card, they drop development on the other card drivers. I used to have an ATI Rage 128. It was so buggy I couldn't use in three or four games. ATI never did release new drivers or fix the problems. I finally ditched it and got a Nvidia which worked fine (and it still working in one of my older computers).
Why would the Post Office let a competitor advertise in their building? I'm sure whoever uses XP will use email, which means less snail mail for the Post Office to deliver.
Um, cause they get money from advertising. And they have worked with competitors before. Just look at Airborne
What part of "United States Post Office" don't you understand? That the civil servants are employed by the Federal Government?
I believe the poster meant to say that while it is part of the government, and its employees are federal employees, the post office is an independent corporation. The government cut it loose in 1970. While it may be part of the government, no tax payer money goes to the USPS and the USPS runs itself as it sees fit. And this is why they can do whatever they want with Microsoft. For more info you might see history of usps.
That's the heart of the matter. Though a typical Slashdot user's online shopping probably consists of hunting down deals on RAM through Priceline, the average shopper is simply looking for convenience and selection. They're willing to pay a little more for it, too. This mirrors the rest of the catalog shopping world- which the online shopping world is just another part of. And surprise, the online winners, with very few exceptions, are the same companies who have been doing mail order successfully for the last 20 years- Lands End, LLBean, etc.
I'm more willing to spend some money at a reputable dealer like cdw or buy.com than some cheap-ass no-name computer store on pricewatch whose return policy consists of "no" and whose customer service phone number is answered by some loser on an answering machine. I've been burned too many times by getting junk from places on pricewatch. Sometimes the cheapest price is not the best deal.
What I learned from the experience is that my suspicions were true. My elected representatives don't listen and do dumb shit just to piss me off.
Fritz Hollings is (unfortunately) my congressman. I wrote him to tell him my displeasure in the fact that he was introducing this act and...I never heard back. This was back in August. What a guy!
Although the self-righteous amoung us have pounced on this statement, it's not out of line. We can't substantially change our way of life every time someone dies.
Look at automobiles. A 1981 VW Rabbit (Golf in Europe) weighed about 1,800lbs. A modern Golf weighs in at about 2,800lbs. Most of that weight gain is because of safety regulations requiring everything from stronger bumpers to airbags to bracing in the doors. In another 50 years, will economy cars weigh as much as Chevy Suburbans due to ever-increasing safety regulation?
So you're saying that the safety improvements to automobiles are not needed, that they should never have been done (because they WERE done due to people getting killed or maimed). And you're saying that the lives being saved to this very day are not worth it because look at all that extra weight on the car!
First of all, we still don't know why we are here. Don't get religious on me now. We can't and don't really know anything about ourselves, just that we are typically afraid to die. That's all. Nothing more.
Maybe *you* don't know and your whole life revolves around being afraid to die, but you can't speak for everyone.
Finally, and more seriously, if we valued human life, we wouldn't smoke. We wouldn't drink and drive. We wouldn't drive for that matter. The notion here is "acceptable risk."
Nope your conclusion is flawed. If someone smokes it doesn't mean they don't value life, it means they are a weakling with no self-will to stop and are probably pretty stupid for starting in the first place. BUT it does not mean that they don't want to live or that they do not value being alive.
Again, the motivation for all this "protecting human life" crap isn't about protecting lives as much as it is about protecting asses. They want to avoid being sued.
It has nothing to do with being sued. It has to do with public image and profit. Having people die using your product is not the way to make money.
And besides that, we die anyway. Nothing can stop that from happening.
So lets think of nothing else. We can't stop dieing so why bother to do anything to try to stop it? In fact, why not just go out with guns blazing and speed it up...after all, they were going to die anyway...just perhaps 30 years from now.
However, would it really hurt to add the line "Besides, as I tell friends and coworkers with.doc file problems,.doc files often contain viruses, they're hard for many people to read, _and_ they encourage microsoft to keep up its efforts to lock up the entire computing universe. So, really,(and this is just my opinion) it's probably a good thing in general to get in the habit of saving word files as.rtf format and sharing them that way. Almost any word processor you can think of will be able to read the files then, and you're doing a good deed to boot."
That's called a scare tactic. I have used computers for um, ever and I have NEVER gotten a word virus from an email attachment...they are NOT hard for people to read because 95% of people use Windows...its just hard for LINUX users to read. I understand the problem but perhaps you have heard "majority rules". Linux is a minority, like it or not, you cannot expect the whole world to change on your account. What would be better is to use one of the free programs for Linux that can read Word rather than being a prick to people (I'm referring to RMS in that case).
At least some here knows about real studio equipment. After reading the article I feel sick, it doesn't even make sense. There is no mention of this guy's needs except for some reason (unexplained) he needs a lunchbox machine?!? Com'on This guy (1) can't afford real audio equipment (2) Hasn't picked up a Damn music hardware catalog in about five years. (3) Probably has never played a real gig. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but if this guys a pro musician I will cut off my arms so everyone would know that I'm not.
Hmm well what I got out of it was that he needs something mobile. You would think a laptop but he said all the default sound cards are junk and he cannot afford a decent PCMCIA sound card.
So thus I think he wants a lunchbox PC that he can stick a regular PCI card card in.
Though by the time you get a lunchbox PC it would have been cheaper to just buy the $600 PCMCIA sound card.
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And the first word of the article is "squatting"...how appropriate for Verisign who refuses to release expired domain names.
Mine has all real info and thats because it was required for yahoo shopping.
Of course they can change the agreement. try to imagine dealing with Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back ("I have changed the conditions of our deal, pray that I do not change them again!") That's what all that fine print at the bottom of the contract is :) But seriously, you don't really believe any company adheres to its "privacy policy" do you? :)
That's how most credit card agreements work. "By the way, we've changed the terms. If you don't like them you're welcome to pay off your balance and go elsewhere"
I wonder what Disney calls it
What if your senator happens to be slimeball Hollings? He could care less if I vote for him or not...just as long as Disney keeps stuffing money in his pockets.
And if it weren't for your stereotyping and gross-overgeneralization, the world would be a much better place. I'd hardly call scientology a religion, regardless of what they say they are.
Perhaps this is the link [insidethevault.com] you were referring to.
Of course since he used a perfect circle for his loop he's going to break the necks of any lego citizen who rides it.
I didn't even look at the author but as soon as I saw "failure of our arrogant and elitist tech industries." I knew it was Jon Katz :)
Why? Because it's unbelievably depressing, and watching yet more footage of the carnage isn't going to help anyone. I'm not saying that people should forget or anything like that, but I'll leave that kind of voyeuristic masturbation to others.
What's more depressing, seeing 9/11 footage or watching X-Files on life support?
Check this out: FAIR Special Report: The Most Biased Name in News [fair.org]. Fox has a history of misrepresenting the facts.
How is that different from any other news outlet?
Thank goodness they laid off 18 works and not 18 workers.
I wonder if this will mean ICANN will have enough balls to make Network Solutions (or I guess VeriSign now) stop sitting on domains. They refuse to release almost all domains that expire...they just sit on them and sit on them and sit on them (unless of course you use their SnapNames backorder service).
I somewhat agree. While the other characters have grown throughout the series O'Neil pretty much stays the same. He acts dim-witted and too quick to action. Sometimes his actions don't make sense at all. I would have preferred to see some wisdom in him in the later seasons but he really hasn't changed. Although the character is a heck of a lot better than was in the movie.
Obviously Philips is going after anything which hurts their hardware sales. This is both good for consumers (no cd copy protection) and bad for consumers (going after other hardware companies)
If you want to know more you can read the canoe article or read about what radio has been doing for a while (cash) in NYTimes.
Hmm so you would use ATI who drops their drivers a few months after released? I mean seriously, they release drivers then as soon as they release their next greatest video card, they drop development on the other card drivers. I used to have an ATI Rage 128. It was so buggy I couldn't use in three or four games. ATI never did release new drivers or fix the problems. I finally ditched it and got a Nvidia which worked fine (and it still working in one of my older computers).
Um, cause they get money from advertising. And they have worked with competitors before. Just look at Airborne
I believe the poster meant to say that while it is part of the government, and its employees are federal employees, the post office is an independent corporation. The government cut it loose in 1970. While it may be part of the government, no tax payer money goes to the USPS and the USPS runs itself as it sees fit. And this is why they can do whatever they want with Microsoft. For more info you might see history of usps.
I'm more willing to spend some money at a reputable dealer like cdw or buy.com than some cheap-ass no-name computer store on pricewatch whose return policy consists of "no" and whose customer service phone number is answered by some loser on an answering machine. I've been burned too many times by getting junk from places on pricewatch. Sometimes the cheapest price is not the best deal.
Fritz Hollings is (unfortunately) my congressman. I wrote him to tell him my displeasure in the fact that he was introducing this act and...I never heard back. This was back in August. What a guy!
Nope, there are lots of people are mentally ill and even more who want to rip people off with claims for a product that cannot possibly be true.
Look at automobiles. A 1981 VW Rabbit (Golf in Europe) weighed about 1,800lbs. A modern Golf weighs in at about 2,800lbs. Most of that weight gain is because of safety regulations requiring everything from stronger bumpers to airbags to bracing in the doors. In another 50 years, will economy cars weigh as much as Chevy Suburbans due to ever-increasing safety regulation?
So you're saying that the safety improvements to automobiles are not needed, that they should never have been done (because they WERE done due to people getting killed or maimed). And you're saying that the lives being saved to this very day are not worth it because look at all that extra weight on the car!
How does this crap get modded up anyway?
Maybe *you* don't know and your whole life revolves around being afraid to die, but you can't speak for everyone.
Finally, and more seriously, if we valued human life, we wouldn't smoke. We wouldn't drink and drive. We wouldn't drive for that matter. The notion here is "acceptable risk."
Nope your conclusion is flawed. If someone smokes it doesn't mean they don't value life, it means they are a weakling with no self-will to stop and are probably pretty stupid for starting in the first place. BUT it does not mean that they don't want to live or that they do not value being alive.
Again, the motivation for all this "protecting human life" crap isn't about protecting lives as much as it is about protecting asses. They want to avoid being sued.
It has nothing to do with being sued. It has to do with public image and profit. Having people die using your product is not the way to make money.
And besides that, we die anyway. Nothing can stop that from happening.
So lets think of nothing else. We can't stop dieing so why bother to do anything to try to stop it? In fact, why not just go out with guns blazing and speed it up...after all, they were going to die anyway...just perhaps 30 years from now.
That's called a scare tactic. I have used computers for um, ever and I have NEVER gotten a word virus from an email attachment...they are NOT hard for people to read because 95% of people use Windows...its just hard for LINUX users to read. I understand the problem but perhaps you have heard "majority rules". Linux is a minority, like it or not, you cannot expect the whole world to change on your account. What would be better is to use one of the free programs for Linux that can read Word rather than being a prick to people (I'm referring to RMS in that case).
Hmm well what I got out of it was that he needs something mobile. You would think a laptop but he said all the default sound cards are junk and he cannot afford a decent PCMCIA sound card.
So thus I think he wants a lunchbox PC that he can stick a regular PCI card card in.
Though by the time you get a lunchbox PC it would have been cheaper to just buy the $600 PCMCIA sound card.