fascism is about merging the interests of big business and the state.
No, fascism is about *subduing* the interests of big business *to* the state. Unlike socialism where the state directly owns the business and makes no pretense of it, fascism allows the businesses to pretend to be independent while telling them exactly what to do.
Maybe if Bush builds up some goodwill and trust then the North would be willing to resume negotiations. You don't negotiate with someone you think is lying to you.
This seems staggerly out of touch; are you aware that the nuclear weapons in question were built from technology the Clinton administration donated in exchange for not developing nuclear weapons? You really think the North Korean government is a paragon of trustworthiness and the USA with its donations of foodstuffs to the starving NK population is at fault?
The idea seems nice, but the whole thing seems so shady that I can't tell who to trust... ...Personally, I would like to do business with a responsible company that provides a service like eBay
OK, then what's your proposed solution? And from eBay's point of view trying to be fair to everyone, not from your point of view as someone who tried it once and got burned. Can you realistically expect eBay to say 'every buyer who complains will get refunded' or expect them to have thousands of private investigators in dozens of countries check everyone's stories?
A friend of mine got scammed by someone on a big electronics purchase. Since he paid by post office money order, the postal inspector chased the guy down and got his money back. But can you expect eBay to be the police everywhere there's either a buyer or seller with an internet connection? Can you expect someone from eBay to go to China and hunt down the guy who stole your money? Or to cover your loss because while you know you didn't get it, your claim is just heresay to them?
I've never had the impression that eBay was selling some used item and just using a random person somewhere in the world as a drop shipper. That would be the only case in which you should expect them to make amends for said random person somewhere cheating a buyer. Things like tracking shippers and sellers are tools for you to use in judging whether or not to bid $10million for the Faberge egg from newbie(0) or powerseller(54,321).
Also, the concept of a Final Value Fee has no justification in my eyes
Welcome to the world of auctions. This is not some new way to cheat you thought up by eBay; from an estate auction to a livestock auction to classical art at Christie's, all auctioneers charge a percentage cut as well as a base fee.
Obviously option 2 is a much better choice for any level headed consumer
I assume you were tripping out of your mind when you wrote those two qualifiers on "consumer". The average consumer cares NOTHING AT ALL for safety and security until the lack of it lands them in trouble. Look at the guy in question; he routinely does bank transfers to South America (as if that's a haven of financial security) and is suprised when the bank doesn't stop a transfer to Europe. I bet he'd be screaming bloody murder if he expanded to Russia and "they needlessly held up the transfer for some bogus so-called security measures because they wanted to hang on to my money til the last possible second! The delay broke the deal! Now I'll sue those fascist bankers!" Since when did he contact the bank and tell them the list of overseas banks to which he was going to be transferring money? No, he assumed the bank knew ahead of time where it's OK to send money and where isn't and the bank assumed the account that routinely transfers overseas is just doing another transaction. Who is being more careless with whose own money?
I have had quite a few friends loose money on ebay
This is why the customer service phone support is only for sellers.
News Flash: The sellers on eBay are the only customers of eBay.
Buyers are customers of the SELLERS. People don't lose money to eBay, they lose it to someone who placed an ad on eBay. Wanting eBay to reimburse a bad sale is like wanting the newspaper to give your money back on something you bought via a classified ad. Do you think the newspapers give refunds to people who list bogus classified ads?
My typo, it's 2 not 3, but what are you talking about the Oort cloud for??? This person wants to know if a supernove OUTSIDE the solar system would affect us. Not our own star, the results of which should be fairly obvious.
Will the gases and radiations be able to reach earth??
Let me guess; you saw "Supernova"? Nope, radiation's power decreases by 1/(distance^3) which means it becomes next to nothing is a very short distance on cosmic scales.
I would think the oldest programming language should be listed as the mathematical psuedocode Ada Lovelace wrote programs in for the Babbage Unniversal Calculating Machine.
Sorry, you don't know the history of computing well enough to read that list. See the entry for 'Apple visits Xerox'. Why is a visit important? What that refers to is when Jobs and Woz saw the Xerox GUI completed and ready to go and therefore it was the first PC GUI. See Xerox PARC entry well above the visit entry. With no management behind the idea it never made it to the marketplace so it wasn't 'first' as in commercial product everyone knows about, but it was first as in developed.
Sorry, no, GEOS was not the innovator everyone copied. See a screenshot of PARC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Xerox_st ar_desktop.jpg and compare to GEOS developed many, many (computer industry) years later: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GeOS_Co mmodore_64.gif
Except for some color, GEOS is the same idea as the much older PARC.
I often wonder whether or not a country with a communist economy would survive better if it were lead be a democratically elected body.
Vote for your local communist party! We will take away your private property and declare it all owned by the state (ie: us politicians in said communist party for whom we want you to voluntarily vote)!
And you wonder why no one ever votes in the communists on purpose? A country has to have *serious* problems including a huge GINI index before the idea of taking away all the private property starts to look good.
How can this = to more competition? All that happend is the two graphics card companies switched positions
While it doesn't equal MORE competition, it does mean that competition is alive and well between the two companies. The alternative is that one company or the other has faded into obscurity and/or been bought up by the other. As long as there are even just two roughly equal players who constantly vie for the top spot, that's enough competition to keep things lively. Notice there *are* plenty of other graphics chip companies but you don't hear much from them because they churn out low performance low cost commodity products. So a third (or hundredth) player in an industry does NOT automatically mean there is hot competition on the cutting edge.
I'm surprised they've kept the "Pentium" trademark so long
That's like saying you're suprised Ford is still using the 'Mustang' name for some cars that have only loosest similarity to the first year Mustang. It's called 'Brand Awareness' and companies spend jillions on marketing campaigns to make consumers want [insert trademarked name here]. The name 'Pentium' is going to be used for as long as Intel can get mileage out of it.
all French military craft flying over every state from Georgia southward and New York northward across the whole width of the country, after those French craft had been attacking the US military
Wow, the very idea is the funniest thing I've read on/. in weeks; thanks for the laughs!
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I wish that someone would do another VIC-20. For $200.00, I bet that we could get an awesome computer
It's called the PIC by AMD (The one shown uses WinCE but you can use whatever as it's completely x86 compatible; Linspire has a demo with their software). Not sure about the 'awesome' qualifier but it is tiny, efficient, and works perfectly well.
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fascism is about merging the interests of big business and the state.
No, fascism is about *subduing* the interests of big business *to* the state. Unlike socialism where the state directly owns the business and makes no pretense of it, fascism allows the businesses to pretend to be independent while telling them exactly what to do.
Maybe if Bush builds up some goodwill and trust then the North would be willing to resume negotiations. You don't negotiate with someone you think is lying to you.
This seems staggerly out of touch; are you aware that the nuclear weapons in question were built from technology the Clinton administration donated in exchange for not developing nuclear weapons? You really think the North Korean government is a paragon of trustworthiness and the USA with its donations of foodstuffs to the starving NK population is at fault?
He was a good character, maybe they should give him his own series
No, he's a good actor who should be given his own series. The character was an exceptionally cheap and unbelievable plot manipulation device.
Would Jesus have relied on GPS?
No way.
He got lost in the desert on purpose.
Sure you can make a RAID array out of anything but making one out of storage devices on a CPU-intensive polled bus is exceptionally ludicrous.
and a month of no flying
This is inside-the-box thinking. All you need to do is fly just above the treetops. Glad I could help.
The percentage goes down as the sale price goes up.
Drat those bastards! How dare they charge less to people who can afford more! Obviously they aren't liberals.
The idea seems nice, but the whole thing seems so shady that I can't tell who to trust...
...Personally, I would like to do business with a responsible company that provides a service like eBay
OK, then what's your proposed solution? And from eBay's point of view trying to be fair to everyone, not from your point of view as someone who tried it once and got burned. Can you realistically expect eBay to say 'every buyer who complains will get refunded' or expect them to have thousands of private investigators in dozens of countries check everyone's stories?
A friend of mine got scammed by someone on a big electronics purchase. Since he paid by post office money order, the postal inspector chased the guy down and got his money back. But can you expect eBay to be the police everywhere there's either a buyer or seller with an internet connection? Can you expect someone from eBay to go to China and hunt down the guy who stole your money? Or to cover your loss because while you know you didn't get it, your claim is just heresay to them?
I've never had the impression that eBay was selling some used item and just using a random person somewhere in the world as a drop shipper. That would be the only case in which you should expect them to make amends for said random person somewhere cheating a buyer. Things like tracking shippers and sellers are tools for you to use in judging whether or not to bid $10million for the Faberge egg from newbie(0) or powerseller(54,321).
Also, the concept of a Final Value Fee has no justification in my eyes
Welcome to the world of auctions. This is not some new way to cheat you thought up by eBay; from an estate auction to a livestock auction to classical art at Christie's, all auctioneers charge a percentage cut as well as a base fee.
Obviously option 2 is a much better choice for any level headed consumer
I assume you were tripping out of your mind when you wrote those two qualifiers on "consumer". The average consumer cares NOTHING AT ALL for safety and security until the lack of it lands them in trouble. Look at the guy in question; he routinely does bank transfers to South America (as if that's a haven of financial security) and is suprised when the bank doesn't stop a transfer to Europe. I bet he'd be screaming bloody murder if he expanded to Russia and "they needlessly held up the transfer for some bogus so-called security measures because they wanted to hang on to my money til the last possible second! The delay broke the deal! Now I'll sue those fascist bankers!" Since when did he contact the bank and tell them the list of overseas banks to which he was going to be transferring money? No, he assumed the bank knew ahead of time where it's OK to send money and where isn't and the bank assumed the account that routinely transfers overseas is just doing another transaction. Who is being more careless with whose own money?
I have had quite a few friends loose money on ebay
This is why the customer service phone support is only for sellers.
News Flash: The sellers on eBay are the only customers of eBay.
Buyers are customers of the SELLERS. People don't lose money to eBay, they lose it to someone who placed an ad on eBay. Wanting eBay to reimburse a bad sale is like wanting the newspaper to give your money back on something you bought via a classified ad. Do you think the newspapers give refunds to people who list bogus classified ads?
My typo, it's 2 not 3, but what are you talking about the Oort cloud for??? This person wants to know if a supernove OUTSIDE the solar system would affect us. Not our own star, the results of which should be fairly obvious.
Will the gases and radiations be able to reach earth??
Let me guess; you saw "Supernova"? Nope, radiation's power decreases by 1/(distance^3) which means it becomes next to nothing is a very short distance on cosmic scales.
I would think the oldest programming language should be listed as the mathematical psuedocode Ada Lovelace wrote programs in for the Babbage Unniversal Calculating Machine.
sez here the MS-DOS GUI was first
t ar_desktop.jpgo mmodore_64.gif
Sorry, you don't know the history of computing well enough to read that list. See the entry for 'Apple visits Xerox'. Why is a visit important? What that refers to is when Jobs and Woz saw the Xerox GUI completed and ready to go and therefore it was the first PC GUI. See Xerox PARC entry well above the visit entry. With no management behind the idea it never made it to the marketplace so it wasn't 'first' as in commercial product everyone knows about, but it was first as in developed.
Sorry, no, GEOS was not the innovator everyone copied. See a screenshot of PARC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Xerox_s
and compare to GEOS developed many, many (computer industry) years later:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GeOS_C
Except for some color, GEOS is the same idea as the much older PARC.
I often wonder whether or not a country with a communist economy would survive better if it were lead be a democratically elected body.
Vote for your local communist party! We will take away your private property and declare it all owned by the state (ie: us politicians in said communist party for whom we want you to voluntarily vote)!
And you wonder why no one ever votes in the communists on purpose? A country has to have *serious* problems including a huge GINI index before the idea of taking away all the private property starts to look good.
before you even boot gentoo the first time, I'll have my users working
Umm, maybe not... I've re-read your post a couple of times to make sure but you don't seem to have a distro picked out.
How can this = to more competition? All that happend is the two graphics card companies switched positions
While it doesn't equal MORE competition, it does mean that competition is alive and well between the two companies. The alternative is that one company or the other has faded into obscurity and/or been bought up by the other. As long as there are even just two roughly equal players who constantly vie for the top spot, that's enough competition to keep things lively. Notice there *are* plenty of other graphics chip companies but you don't hear much from them because they churn out low performance low cost commodity products. So a third (or hundredth) player in an industry does NOT automatically mean there is hot competition on the cutting edge.
VI...IV - see, it's mirrored, hence 2 P4's.
Mirrored? As in the second one does the reverse of the first? Or mirrored as in RAID-0 where both do the same thing at the same time?
No, I think it's much more likely that it's a Pentium 6 with a Pentium 4 co-processor.
I'm surprised they've kept the "Pentium" trademark so long
That's like saying you're suprised Ford is still using the 'Mustang' name for some cars that have only loosest similarity to the first year Mustang. It's called 'Brand Awareness' and companies spend jillions on marketing campaigns to make consumers want [insert trademarked name here]. The name 'Pentium' is going to be used for as long as Intel can get mileage out of it.
the sacred feminin five ... How sad, and yet so very American.
Whot's American, not beeing abel to speel corectly?
all French military craft flying over every state from Georgia southward and New York northward across the whole width of the country, after those French craft had been attacking the US military
/. in weeks; thanks for the laughs!
Wow, the very idea is the funniest thing I've read on
I wish that someone would do another VIC-20. For $200.00, I bet that we could get an awesome computer
It's called the PIC by AMD (The one shown uses WinCE but you can use whatever as it's completely x86 compatible; Linspire has a demo with their software). Not sure about the 'awesome' qualifier but it is tiny, efficient, and works perfectly well.
OK, time for the submitter to RTFA. From page 1 of the report:
92% of those who use search engines say they are confident about their searching abilities
That's not people who don't use the internet saying they know how to search it well.