I cannot believe that this elitist bunch of crap got modded up.
"As for electricity, many Chinese did fine without it for most of history"
You want to make comments like that, you shouldn't make them on an electonic device asshole.
It's ok to condemn 10-12 percent of the worlds poplulation to living in the dark, but it's ok for you to have electricity to power you computer?
Everybody here is talking about the environment, the cultural losses, and the sociological changes.
WHAT ABOUT THE POOR BASTARDS WHO LIVE BELOW THE DAMN????
The Yangtze regularly floods in the south killing thousands each year.
So what if a million people above the damn have to move? They had ten years notice to move - a one time move; the floods give a couple days notice before they come - every year.
Better than mourning the thousands killed every year by the flooding.
The Yangtze killed a million peopele over the course of the twentieth century. As many as 30,000 in a single year. If the Mississippi or the Missouri killed a thousand people this year, there'd the twenty dams on it within five years.
But a lot of Westerners apparently think it's ok to bash the chinese for protecting their people, there's so many of them what's a million prematurely dead?
This just became my number one desire in the world. Even above a job. Even above sex with another person. Even above a job having sex with another person
hmmm. It's been many years since I took freshman physics and studied vectors but I think you're wrong.
And, yes, gravity is going to enter into it as well, but it's still "just" another vector.
What happens if it hits at a low enough angle that it skipped back into space? Don't know if that's possible, but I would think it theoretically possible.
What about a "near miss" that scraped the atmosphere? What would that do to weather etc? For that matter, would it take any of the atmosphere with it and how much?
Seriously, this 'article' is the journalistic equivalent of the Sci-Fi channel bumpers and the only reason I can see for Slashdot to post it is to start another anti-MS feeding frenzy.
Do different companies in the same industry steal ideas from each other? Yes. Is it news? Not unless they get caught doing it before the other fella, i.e. industrial spying.
Does anyone besides me think that it's appropriate that the movie he's watching is one in which the main objective is to crash as many cars as possible?
I stopped playing it when the expansion came out and they changed a bunch of the rules so that a non expansion player couldn't possible play the game. I had a rogue (level 7x) that I could take through hell on the nightmare level by herself. After the dust settled, I was lucky to play the second scene by myself. I refused to be blackmailed into buying the expansion.
I'm almost over the addiction now. When I read the headline my hands only quivered for a few minutes and my heartbeat slowed back to normal after no more than 15 minutes.:)
I really *sarcasm* like */sarcasm* the following comment: The Government of Uzbekistan continues to go to extraordinary lengths to ensure security, especially during significant national holidays, against terrorist acts.
See! They admit the place is a dictatorship; they just don't word it quite that way.
Thanks for making Monday even more depressing than it usually is.:(
I was thinking something else. If I was his boss and I saw that "whatever", I believe that he might just be looking for a new job by day's end. At the very least he'd need a crowbar to pry my foot out of his lower intestinal tract.
Further, as a reader, I find that "whatever" to be incredibly insulting.
I still have not heard a single good reason to keep that information for only the accountant and CEO to see.
1 - it's against US federal law.
2 - do you really want your neighbors, your inlaws, your poor relatives, your children (allowance), etc. knowing how much you make? (think www.whatcompanynameemployeesmake.com).
3 -
... would also be a potential morale boost to the staff...
nope. morale would almost immediately go down the toilet. "mary makes more than me??? she's out with her sick kids at least half a day every week. Who do they think is doing her work then?" "that new hotshot negotiated a higher starting salary than I did." etc. ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
4 - I take it that you're not one of the pro privacy/.ers? Your salary is one of the most important pieces of information about you. Everyone wants to know it - the IRS, The state IRS, the county, telemarketeers, spammers, your poor relatives,......
Disagree with me? Prove it: post a scan of your paystub on the internet.
But the real money-burner is promotion and distribution.
distribution is a high expense??? I don't think so. Distribution has gotten cheap. Proof: if distribution is so expensive why are blanks so inexpensive? shipping companies charge less for a blank cd than a pressed one??
Hmmm. I listen to classic rock and old jazz (among other genres). I would think it fair to say that the studios aren't promoting acts that no longer exist. ditto for studio costs.
The real kicker, though, as far as I'm concerned is the cost of cds versus cassette tapes. All of your criteria apply to cassettes as well. In addition, I think that we can all agree that a blank tape costs more than a virgin cd. It actually has to be assembled. So why is the cassette cheaper than the cd?
also the #1 hoax with the most blood spilled as a direct result.
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You're point might be a little more persuasive if you didn't leave the reader with the impression that you think Churchill was American. You did know he was British didn't you?
That's a wonderful thing to be able to say. I'm becoming more and more pessimistic about the U.S. government of the sanctimonious, by the rich, for the corps.
My very short list of other places to live is topped by New Zealand. Admittedly, this position is due almost entirely to hearsay and anecdotal 'evidence'. I do think that the time is rapidly approaching to start actively gathering information however.
Hence, what is your opinion of New Zealand as a place to live for someone who has the necessary skills to earn a living and desires a society that is open with a government that doesn't appear to have any desires to control its citizens? Control beyond that which is minimally necessary for maintenance of said open society at least?
Serious question, not a troll. For those of you who don't think that the U.S. is headed in that direction please ignore this thread. And good luck.:)
I can see that I would probably be more than willing to purchase one of these at that price even though I know that:
a) The recording quality is probably not going to be all that good, and
b) that's a higher price than I'm willing to pay for a studio copy.
Why? Besides the fact that I'm getting a live album of the artist, they're selling me a mnemonic device that will enable me to remember the event. I've been to crappy concerts, but I've usually left before the end of the show. The ones that I've stayed until the end, I've almost always found to be a great evenings experience; one that I try to remember as long as I can. This would allow me to play the cd and talk about what happened at specific times.
Of course, you have to wonder if this isn't just another way to screw over the artist. Clear Channel is more than big enough to do this and pay the artist next to nothing. With the record company taking almost all of the profits from studio albums and Clear Channel dictating the concer venues, the artist is getting squeezed on both ends.
I was thinking the same thing. Then I realized that the time spent doing this, since it was a surprise gift was, by definition, time away from her. That's when it hit me: he really can't stand her. He just needed something complicated enough to explain away all the time he spends in the basement watching football and drinking beer.
nope. they're right and you and the poster are wrong. the apostrophe is used to indicate possession except in the single (AFIK) case of "it". It's is the contraction of "it is". Its is the possessive of it.
I have to agree with you in hoping that this is a hoax of the Sokal variety. Upon reading their manifesto, I was convinced that I was about to read a deflating piece of pseudo-jargon that would be highly amusing. By the third page, though, I was painfully aware that these people might actually be taking themselves seriously.
Too bad. The concept has great potential for a satirical strike at those in the Humanities who are overawed by a couple of constipated French "philosophers".
(For the record: I'm an English major on those rare days when I can actually stomach English profs.)
remember, they burned witches for entertainment value
Actually, no, they didn't. The Puritans hung witches. Nobody was ever burned at the stake for witchcraft on the North American continent. It happened all over Europe, but not here.
*cynicism*I somehow doubt it had anything to do with the milk of human kindness. The Puritan communities were much closer to the edge of starvation than those in Europe. Hanging was quicker and, therefore, the audience could get back to the necessary tasks of surviving that much quicker.*/cynicism*
Katz is pointing out the flaw in the process whereby the national media makes the choice of what stories to cover or not cover, not how local media makes the same decision.
I agree that the choice of coverage is market driven, but I disagree with his conclusion that the advertisers who want the 'eyeballs' are only interested in the wealthy. They want the common person's eyeballs because there is a whole lot more of them to sell to.
Stories on remodeling the second home appeal to people who will never own a second home because the masses are fascinated with how the famous and wealthy live. That's why there are seemingly endless television programs devoted to showing us their homes, cars, and lifestyles.
Similarly, the reason that we tend to see ongoing coverage of Elizabeth Smart and JonBenet Ramsey as opposed to the Alexis Pattersons (and other children whose "only" importance is to their family, friends, and neighborhoods) is related to the victim's family wealth. Terrible things happen to the poor all the time and, therefore, are not "newsworty"; i.e. terrible things that happen to the wealthy are far more likely to get the higher ratings that are so admired by the advertisers.
While I find this fact abhorrent, I'm also aware that, as long as the news media must make a profit to operate, the 6 o'clock news will always be, at best, what Dennis Miller called it: "The 'Thank God that shit isn't happening to me' hour."
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I cannot believe that this elitist bunch of crap got modded up.
"As for electricity, many Chinese did fine without it for most of history"
You want to make comments like that, you shouldn't make them on an electonic device asshole.
It's ok to condemn 10-12 percent of the worlds poplulation to living in the dark, but it's ok for you to have electricity to power you computer?
Everybody here is talking about the environment, the cultural losses, and the sociological changes.
WHAT ABOUT THE POOR BASTARDS WHO LIVE BELOW THE DAMN????
The Yangtze regularly floods in the south killing thousands each year.
So what if a million people above the damn have to move? They had ten years notice to move - a one time move; the floods give a couple days notice before they come - every year.
Better than mourning the thousands killed every year by the flooding.
The Yangtze killed a million peopele over the course of the twentieth century. As many as 30,000 in a single year. If the Mississippi or the Missouri killed a thousand people this year, there'd the twenty dams on it within five years.
But a lot of Westerners apparently think it's ok to bash the chinese for protecting their people, there's so many of them what's a million prematurely dead?
his beer gets cold. He spends way too much time thinking instead of drinking.
Warranty on seagate ide drive == 1 year
warranty on seagate scsi drive == 5 years.
Looks to me like seagate believes they're better drives.
Samsung still has 3 year warranties on their ide drives. Only one I'l buy from now.
This just became my number one desire in the world. Even above a job. Even above sex with another person. Even above a job having sex with another person
hmmm. It's been many years since I took freshman physics and studied vectors but I think you're wrong.
And, yes, gravity is going to enter into it as well, but it's still "just" another vector.
What happens if it hits at a low enough angle that it skipped back into space? Don't know if that's possible, but I would think it theoretically possible.
What about a "near miss" that scraped the atmosphere? What would that do to weather etc? For that matter, would it take any of the atmosphere with it and how much?
Seriously, this 'article' is the journalistic equivalent of the Sci-Fi channel bumpers and the only reason I can see for Slashdot to post it is to start another anti-MS feeding frenzy.
Do different companies in the same industry steal ideas from each other? Yes. Is it news? Not unless they get caught doing it before the other fella, i.e. industrial spying.
I'm almost over the addiction now. When I read the headline my hands only quivered for a few minutes and my heartbeat slowed back to normal after no more than 15 minutes. :)
See! They admit the place is a dictatorship; they just don't word it quite that way.
Thanks for making Monday even more depressing than it usually is. :(
Further, as a reader, I find that "whatever" to be incredibly insulting.
1 - it's against US federal law.
2 - do you really want your neighbors, your inlaws, your poor relatives, your children (allowance), etc. knowing how much you make? (think www.whatcompanynameemployeesmake.com).
3 -
nope. morale would almost immediately go down the toilet. "mary makes more than me??? she's out with her sick kids at least half a day every week. Who do they think is doing her work then?" "that new hotshot negotiated a higher starting salary than I did." etc. ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
4 - I take it that you're not one of the pro privacy /.ers? Your salary is one of the most important pieces of information about you. Everyone wants to know it - the IRS, The state IRS, the county, telemarketeers, spammers, your poor relatives,......
Disagree with me? Prove it: post a scan of your paystub on the internet.
distribution is a high expense??? I don't think so. Distribution has gotten cheap. Proof: if distribution is so expensive why are blanks so inexpensive? shipping companies charge less for a blank cd than a pressed one??
Hmmm. I listen to classic rock and old jazz (among other genres). I would think it fair to say that the studios aren't promoting acts that no longer exist. ditto for studio costs.
The real kicker, though, as far as I'm concerned is the cost of cds versus cassette tapes. All of your criteria apply to cassettes as well. In addition, I think that we can all agree that a blank tape costs more than a virgin cd. It actually has to be assembled. So why is the cassette cheaper than the cd?
also the #1 hoax with the most blood spilled as a direct result.
You're point might be a little more persuasive if you didn't leave the reader with the impression that you think Churchill was American. You did know he was British didn't you?
That's a wonderful thing to be able to say. I'm becoming more and more pessimistic about the U.S. government of the sanctimonious, by the rich, for the corps.
My very short list of other places to live is topped by New Zealand. Admittedly, this position is due almost entirely to hearsay and anecdotal 'evidence'. I do think that the time is rapidly approaching to start actively gathering information however.
Hence, what is your opinion of New Zealand as a place to live for someone who has the necessary skills to earn a living and desires a society that is open with a government that doesn't appear to have any desires to control its citizens? Control beyond that which is minimally necessary for maintenance of said open society at least?
Serious question, not a troll. For those of you who don't think that the U.S. is headed in that direction please ignore this thread. And good luck. :)
Why? Besides the fact that I'm getting a live album of the artist, they're selling me a mnemonic device that will enable me to remember the event. I've been to crappy concerts, but I've usually left before the end of the show. The ones that I've stayed until the end, I've almost always found to be a great evenings experience; one that I try to remember as long as I can. This would allow me to play the cd and talk about what happened at specific times.
Of course, you have to wonder if this isn't just another way to screw over the artist. Clear Channel is more than big enough to do this and pay the artist next to nothing. With the record company taking almost all of the profits from studio albums and Clear Channel dictating the concer venues, the artist is getting squeezed on both ends.
I was thinking the same thing. Then I realized that the time spent doing this, since it was a surprise gift was, by definition, time away from her. That's when it hit me: he really can't stand her. He just needed something complicated enough to explain away all the time he spends in the basement watching football and drinking beer.
nope. they're right and you and the poster are wrong. the apostrophe is used to indicate possession except in the single (AFIK) case of "it". It's is the contraction of "it is". Its is the possessive of it.
I have to agree with you in hoping that this is a hoax of the Sokal variety. Upon reading their manifesto, I was convinced that I was about to read a deflating piece of pseudo-jargon that would be highly amusing. By the third page, though, I was painfully aware that these people might actually be taking themselves seriously.
Too bad. The concept has great potential for a satirical strike at those in the Humanities who are overawed by a couple of constipated French "philosophers".
(For the record: I'm an English major on those rare days when I can actually stomach English profs.)
Actually, no, they didn't. The Puritans hung witches. Nobody was ever burned at the stake for witchcraft on the North American continent. It happened all over Europe, but not here.
*cynicism*I somehow doubt it had anything to do with the milk of human kindness. The Puritan communities were much closer to the edge of starvation than those in Europe. Hanging was quicker and, therefore, the audience could get back to the necessary tasks of surviving that much quicker.*/cynicism*
Katz is pointing out the flaw in the process whereby the national media makes the choice of what stories to cover or not cover, not how local media makes the same decision.
I agree that the choice of coverage is market driven, but I disagree with his conclusion that the advertisers who want the 'eyeballs' are only interested in the wealthy. They want the common person's eyeballs because there is a whole lot more of them to sell to.
Stories on remodeling the second home appeal to people who will never own a second home because the masses are fascinated with how the famous and wealthy live. That's why there are seemingly endless television programs devoted to showing us their homes, cars, and lifestyles.
Similarly, the reason that we tend to see ongoing coverage of Elizabeth Smart and JonBenet Ramsey as opposed to the Alexis Pattersons (and other children whose "only" importance is to their family, friends, and neighborhoods) is related to the victim's family wealth. Terrible things happen to the poor all the time and, therefore, are not "newsworty"; i.e. terrible things that happen to the wealthy are far more likely to get the higher ratings that are so admired by the advertisers.
While I find this fact abhorrent, I'm also aware that, as long as the news media must make a profit to operate, the 6 o'clock news will always be, at best, what Dennis Miller called it: "The 'Thank God that shit isn't happening to me' hour."