We'll reduce warrantless wiretapping, we'll pursue the phone companies for handing over private info without warrants, we'll close Guantanamo, and we'll keep lobbyists out.
The company that provides the same amount of product (for less due to savings) with 10% of the workers is good for society, or do you want all of your dishes hand made still?
It sucks at first as people lose jobs, but then someone else suddenly has the resources (human labor) to do something that they couldn't. For example industrial revolution -> restaurants. Maybe not the mosft noble of things, but people tend to appreciate them.
Replacement of humans by automation frees up humans to make something else, this is how everybody gets more (and the vast majority do have more today than 90 % of the population 800 years ago)
On point 2, I agree to a point. Especially that a good portion of the political leaders believe (wrongly IMO) that the US is a a "Christian nation" (though both your examples could be Jewish, Zorastrian, or Muslim).
You are also referencing the Declaration of Independence as the constitution. This is relevant because one is law, the other a historical document that lays out the reasons for breaking existing law.
A bunch of Christians because "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," is not being applied fairly to worshipers of the Roman gods, and then establish a guideline for government that does such (in fact in the US said document exists, it is the constitution, that only makes reference to God when giving a date, and specifically separates the state from religion).
Please do not think that the Declaration of independence is law, as it is a justification for war, not a document of law.
Regarding marriage I think Israel does it right, with the exception that they should also offer civil ceremonies.
10% of the population leaves the country to get married, as the state defers to the churches on who is allowed to marry.
I also don't think there can be meaningful separation in a place defined as "A Jewish and Democratic State" (at least they added "Democratic" 25 years ago). I do feel this applies in the US, and that the "Christian State" segment does not get too much power.
If one is paid with stock there is essentially no risk (stock is unlikely to fall too dramatically, it's a similar risk to getting paid in a foreign currency)
If one is paid in back dated stock options there is a risk, but it is reduced by the back dating.
If one is paid in stock options with a strike price that assumes growth there is real chance of getting 0
A real ballsey exec would be paid in future purchase at a price contracts, allowing them to lose their shirt if they bring the company down.
Well a real article from 1997 would be better than what I was describing (though I find adding an Ubuntu version (as that's what I've been using) works wonders.
e.g. Blah don't work 10.10 ubuntu
My point is that the "fresh" sites I get are all paragraphs of the same article, in a site called techwizbang.com or some such, with my exact google search appended as a search query on their site.
I wouldn't even be offended if it was the front page of a blog, but when it's some clearly (I hope) robot generated blog full of ads, often linking to other blogs, I would call it SPAM, even if "fresh", "Comprehensive", and "relevant". It is true they have pretty much halted SPAM in the sense that a porn site comes up when looking for something else, but these search pages, or keyword pages, on crappy robot generated blogs are pissing me off.
I also think it holds up to being "true" scifi, at least according the the complaints I see here about Star Trek, Star Wars, and Fringe. The execution may not be everybody's cup of tea, and it may not be hard-core scifi, but it is scifi in the sense that it is exploring implications of a future with very advanced science (or a current where somebody brings it).
V is actually speculating about what would happen if super-advanced aliens came to earth with their own motivations (very similar to Babylon 5 I would say).
The Aliens are similarly confused by the way the primitive, but clearly capable of thought humans behave.
If they do find a soul, I will rescind my statement, but the V that suggested it was the key to humanity was pretty clear that it didn't exist. And it was only a confused doctor trying to isolate it that made reference to its existence after death.
I think it (V) drags on, but I also think it is valid science fiction, as it is exploring the appearance of a much more advanced species showing up one day and using their science to dazzle us. The bliss is also I would say a piece of speculative science, especially in the context of the original series (I assume it exists there, have not actually seen it though), people were quite afraid the government would control us chemically with drugs in the water.
Also, a smart studio would let you get the Season 2 DVD in time to watch season 3 on the TV.
Buy delaying the DVD they cost themselves future ad revenue (the shield did this to me at one point too, with the DVD of a season I missed coming half-way into the new season). Instead of me renting the DVD and watching the show, I ended up renting the rest of the series. The worse possible outcome for FX and the producer (well may being disgruntled enough to not watch the rest could have been worse).
More like, bullshit agregators that link you to a search for your google search on their site could be considered "fresh", "comprehensive", and maybe even "relevant", or could be considered SPAM.
They (in the US anyway) have less than a dozen customers. Without convincing the networks their phones will make people happy, there will be a harder sell. With half-generation old HTC phones, Samsung phones, and LG competing in the low-end and HTC and Samsung on the high (well they only really compete in the high-end on Verizon) they are very replaceable.
This thread https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/31532 and it's follow up, as it was causing stability issues on motorola's server due to it's size have over 1,000,000 combined views and 7,000 replies (last comment in that link is a link to the replacement).
Note this isn't too many people, but they are grabbing cheap top of the line phones (people offered MyTouch 4G, or G2 to stay with Tmobile over it).
My girlfriend was given 2 G2 phones for $50 each, one was replacing a 20 day phone (highly subsidized phone not to be turned down), the other only 7 months.
When she said "I have a cliq XT, do you know why I'm calling" to customer service the guy responded "Yes, what do you want"
Were the phone hardware not locked down, it would have been a non-issue. Really even upgrading to Android 1.6 would have been nice (free navigation), and certainly provided by the community (looks like it even is now, though I failed to find a ROM without tons of issues a month ago).
Motorola needs to be concerned about their customers, not consumers, and they don't appear to be doing that. Tmobile didn't even try to use another Motorola phone as the replacement. And maybe people don't care about versions, but they do care about Angry Birds, and Navigation.
This $.50 to $.80/view comes close to my estimate for the value of a pair of young eyes advertising revenue per hour of TV interestingly (based on wikipedia for grey's anatomy, and advertising, assuming 40 30 second spots per an hour).
Doesn't sound sustainable for Netflix though, we can way outdoor the $8/month subscription at home with that high a fee.
I also am pretty sure they pay a flat per/month rate and not per a view for most of their streaming catalog.
The thing is, if they used switched video, every TV that is on gets exactly 1 channel of the quality they allow.
In this paradigm the unwatched "broadcast" channel is what wastes bandwidth, as it is being used whether watched or not.
I'm not trying to sing the praises of cable, simply pointing out, if Comcast (or whoever) is already using a switched network for the TV, the Netflix could be free for them. It would be no different than other on demand content. I'm willing to bet both Comcast and Netflix could win in this proposal, as people could get Netflix without a set-top box, and Comcast could get subscribers to a premium channel. I'm pretty sure there are already some purely on demand packages they offer even.
Currently when i watch an on demand show, Comcast is using my fraction of the broadcast stations bandwidth, and the on demand show.
My understanding is that Comcast wants to be able to have all of my TV come that way, as essentially a single HD channel that serves my personal stream, and perhaps multicast TV to everyone on the same channel, but not need to have each channel using it's piece of the bandwidth when people are not watching it.
Unless your saying that at every given moment every station that is "broadcast" is being watched within my cable block, it is more efficient to not be sending them when they are unwatched.
A system scaled with this in mind (every TV gets it's own stream essentially) allows for unlimited HD channel offerings (which is why Comcast wanted to to be able to do this, they were having trouble keeping up with dish).
I find it odd that they charge so much for Comcast on Demand.
Yeah, OK, Redbox is delayed by a month (barely an issue if I didn't care to see it in theaters), but the max for a rental there is going to be the Comcast price, and if I return it early it's only $1.00.
A streaming service really needs to hit that price-point for movies, and lower for TV (like $10/season tops). An expensive ad slot is $.02 per viewer (grey's anatomy, youngish viewers), and can't show more than 40 an hour (20 minutes of non network bumps of 30 second ads). I wikipediad advertising, and greys anatomy and did rough math.
They could probably still show some ads (I would certainly pay for the convenience of something I wanted to watch if the ad density was similar to early hulu).
A 35 ad deficit in what is shown is $0.70, and the $.05 to stream it. The revenue isn't quite there for me to pay for a show in real time ($.15 deficit for a $.50 TV show in a $10.00 season) and that is without me even watching with someone else, boosting those un-shown ads cost.
But anything that is not-available conveniently (like for example when I went to watch Rubicon, and the first episode wasn't available anymore, losing a viewer for an entire season potentially) it sounds like a big boos in revenue to let netflix stream things at a price of $.40 per an hour, with limited ads (6 per an hour).
The ads could be very well placed using demographic and movie liking information, Netflix could charge $.50 getting an extra $.05 in revenue, and have current content free still (to keep subscriptions).
I find it amusing that even networks and shows I thought got it (Always Sunny and Hulu mutually benefited a lot at the start) appear to be forgetting how they got big (I know I saw far less ads for that show this year catching about half on demand vs all on Hulu).
I will say the vagueness of Astrology allows for people to self-examine and interpret the best thing for them-self. Yes they should be able to anyway, but they don't.
Of course others use it as a pure guidebook or patsy without the self-inspection, and that's just bad.
The fact that a summary of personality is believed to be accurate by an entire class (James Randi has a video of this) demonstrates what I mean. These people all read something and thought about themselves and who they are. Some people actually need that. Additionally, just as any diet (that isn't harmful) can help lose weight because it makes someone conscious of what they are eating, any vague guidance about life can do the same.
Note, specific advice is not something I would hope anyone would follow, or a credible Astrologer would give. They are cheaper than a shrink (or should be), and should be alright at listening and giving some vague advice.
I mean dinner and clean-up plus laundry can all be done while watching the TV (not the eating though, bad form if with people). As can reading some interesting news and website. Very basic looking into problems at work too.
It's really not so bad at all. More than myself, or most I would think, but not really that crazy either.
Well, hypothetically, if cable can convince FCC to allow switched service or whatever they call it (essentially one channel to your house, every chanel change alters what it displays), Netflix could become a cable subscription.
There are some issues (like cable killing personal DVRs in the process) that are preventing it, but it would actually free bandwidth for other uses, as each subscriber only require one HD channel of bandwidth per a TV for television, and when it's not on, it won't even be using that.
20mbps for each active user, netflix pipes through that too.
Of course I doubt they will all get along, just pointing out there is potential for this to work. Especially if Netflix becomes a selling point for cable (I certainly like it more than on demand, and wouldn't mind it not going over my network).
I can see how in very large organizations the TCO of closed source solutions is less, but I find the head-ache in re-installing a simple office computer in a small or medium company is immense (thought perhaps recovery partitions have softened this some).
I still think for a basic Office computer in a small to medium sized environment a linux CD is the way to go (use an OS friendly intel integrated, default software suite etc.). however many headless basic PCs for VNCing into for Quickbooks (I have found no open source softweare that makes reporting, tracking AR, and e-mailing invoices statements as easy).
Once one hits the size install where licensing is on trust, not lots and lots of serial numbers, I imagine things can shift back to the closed source side, with better integration of centralized management.
Many tools just don't have comperables either, essentially meaning it isn't a good fit for Linux/BSD on the desktop.
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My bag was totally sniffed by a drug enforcement puppy when I flew home from Cleveland.
I went to pet this cute puppy running around and the handler was the threat.
This was at the baggage claim, so i assume it was drugs and not security.
In my city when the snow piles melt massive amounts of filth, trash, and plastic bags are revealed.
The street sweepers get some of them, as do the garbage men.
Way better with an edge connection from my phone though.
ahh, campaign promises.
We'll reduce warrantless wiretapping, we'll pursue the phone companies for handing over private info without warrants, we'll close Guantanamo, and we'll keep lobbyists out.
To think, I bought it...
Considering recent international treaty negotiations (ACTA) I think it's fair to say the US Government has strong feelings on issues re: RIAA.
I think this appointment supports that premise.
Good thing my tank of flammable liquid isn't 1.0 (of course, the Pinto shows that revision 1.0 of any model can be dangerous).
The company that provides the same amount of product (for less due to savings) with 10% of the workers is good for society, or do you want all of your dishes hand made still?
It sucks at first as people lose jobs, but then someone else suddenly has the resources (human labor) to do something that they couldn't. For example industrial revolution -> restaurants. Maybe not the mosft noble of things, but people tend to appreciate them.
Replacement of humans by automation frees up humans to make something else, this is how everybody gets more (and the vast majority do have more today than 90 % of the population 800 years ago)
On point 2, I agree to a point. Especially that a good portion of the political leaders believe (wrongly IMO) that the US is a a "Christian nation" (though both your examples could be Jewish, Zorastrian, or Muslim).
You are also referencing the Declaration of Independence as the constitution. This is relevant because one is law, the other a historical document that lays out the reasons for breaking existing law.
A bunch of Christians because "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," is not being applied fairly to worshipers of the Roman gods, and then establish a guideline for government that does such (in fact in the US said document exists, it is the constitution, that only makes reference to God when giving a date, and specifically separates the state from religion).
Please do not think that the Declaration of independence is law, as it is a justification for war, not a document of law.
Regarding marriage I think Israel does it right, with the exception that they should also offer civil ceremonies.
10% of the population leaves the country to get married, as the state defers to the churches on who is allowed to marry.
I also don't think there can be meaningful separation in a place defined as "A Jewish and Democratic State" (at least they added "Democratic" 25 years ago). I do feel this applies in the US, and that the "Christian State" segment does not get too much power.
If one is paid with stock there is essentially no risk (stock is unlikely to fall too dramatically, it's a similar risk to getting paid in a foreign currency)
If one is paid in back dated stock options there is a risk, but it is reduced by the back dating.
If one is paid in stock options with a strike price that assumes growth there is real chance of getting 0
A real ballsey exec would be paid in future purchase at a price contracts, allowing them to lose their shirt if they bring the company down.
Well a real article from 1997 would be better than what I was describing (though I find adding an Ubuntu version (as that's what I've been using) works wonders.
e.g. Blah don't work 10.10 ubuntu
My point is that the "fresh" sites I get are all paragraphs of the same article, in a site called techwizbang.com or some such, with my exact google search appended as a search query on their site.
I wouldn't even be offended if it was the front page of a blog, but when it's some clearly (I hope) robot generated blog full of ads, often linking to other blogs, I would call it SPAM, even if "fresh", "Comprehensive", and "relevant". It is true they have pretty much halted SPAM in the sense that a porn site comes up when looking for something else, but these search pages, or keyword pages, on crappy robot generated blogs are pissing me off.
I agree (a low bar though).
I also think it holds up to being "true" scifi, at least according the the complaints I see here about Star Trek, Star Wars, and Fringe. The execution may not be everybody's cup of tea, and it may not be hard-core scifi, but it is scifi in the sense that it is exploring implications of a future with very advanced science (or a current where somebody brings it).
V is actually speculating about what would happen if super-advanced aliens came to earth with their own motivations (very similar to Babylon 5 I would say).
The Aliens are similarly confused by the way the primitive, but clearly capable of thought humans behave.
If they do find a soul, I will rescind my statement, but the V that suggested it was the key to humanity was pretty clear that it didn't exist. And it was only a confused doctor trying to isolate it that made reference to its existence after death.
I think it (V) drags on, but I also think it is valid science fiction, as it is exploring the appearance of a much more advanced species showing up one day and using their science to dazzle us. The bliss is also I would say a piece of speculative science, especially in the context of the original series (I assume it exists there, have not actually seen it though), people were quite afraid the government would control us chemically with drugs in the water.
Also, a smart studio would let you get the Season 2 DVD in time to watch season 3 on the TV.
Buy delaying the DVD they cost themselves future ad revenue (the shield did this to me at one point too, with the DVD of a season I missed coming half-way into the new season). Instead of me renting the DVD and watching the show, I ended up renting the rest of the series. The worse possible outcome for FX and the producer (well may being disgruntled enough to not watch the rest could have been worse).
More like, bullshit agregators that link you to a search for your google search on their site could be considered "fresh", "comprehensive", and maybe even "relevant", or could be considered SPAM.
Droid is no Motorola, it is Verizon.
They (in the US anyway) have less than a dozen customers. Without convincing the networks their phones will make people happy, there will be a harder sell. With half-generation old HTC phones, Samsung phones, and LG competing in the low-end and HTC and Samsung on the high (well they only really compete in the high-end on Verizon) they are very replaceable.
This thread https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/31532 and it's follow up, as it was causing stability issues on motorola's server due to it's size have over 1,000,000 combined views and 7,000 replies (last comment in that link is a link to the replacement).
Note this isn't too many people, but they are grabbing cheap top of the line phones (people offered MyTouch 4G, or G2 to stay with Tmobile over it).
My girlfriend was given 2 G2 phones for $50 each, one was replacing a 20 day phone (highly subsidized phone not to be turned down), the other only 7 months.
When she said "I have a cliq XT, do you know why I'm calling" to customer service the guy responded "Yes, what do you want"
Were the phone hardware not locked down, it would have been a non-issue. Really even upgrading to Android 1.6 would have been nice (free navigation), and certainly provided by the community (looks like it even is now, though I failed to find a ROM without tons of issues a month ago).
Motorola needs to be concerned about their customers, not consumers, and they don't appear to be doing that. Tmobile didn't even try to use another Motorola phone as the replacement. And maybe people don't care about versions, but they do care about Angry Birds, and Navigation.
This $.50 to $.80 /view comes close to my estimate for the value of a pair of young eyes advertising revenue per hour of TV interestingly (based on wikipedia for grey's anatomy, and advertising, assuming 40 30 second spots per an hour).
Doesn't sound sustainable for Netflix though, we can way outdoor the $8/month subscription at home with that high a fee.
I also am pretty sure they pay a flat per/month rate and not per a view for most of their streaming catalog.
The thing is, if they used switched video, every TV that is on gets exactly 1 channel of the quality they allow.
In this paradigm the unwatched "broadcast" channel is what wastes bandwidth, as it is being used whether watched or not.
I'm not trying to sing the praises of cable, simply pointing out, if Comcast (or whoever) is already using a switched network for the TV, the Netflix could be free for them. It would be no different than other on demand content. I'm willing to bet both Comcast and Netflix could win in this proposal, as people could get Netflix without a set-top box, and Comcast could get subscribers to a premium channel. I'm pretty sure there are already some purely on demand packages they offer even.
Currently when i watch an on demand show, Comcast is using my fraction of the broadcast stations bandwidth, and the on demand show.
My understanding is that Comcast wants to be able to have all of my TV come that way, as essentially a single HD channel that serves my personal stream, and perhaps multicast TV to everyone on the same channel, but not need to have each channel using it's piece of the bandwidth when people are not watching it.
Unless your saying that at every given moment every station that is "broadcast" is being watched within my cable block, it is more efficient to not be sending them when they are unwatched.
A system scaled with this in mind (every TV gets it's own stream essentially) allows for unlimited HD channel offerings (which is why Comcast wanted to to be able to do this, they were having trouble keeping up with dish).
I find it odd that they charge so much for Comcast on Demand.
Yeah, OK, Redbox is delayed by a month (barely an issue if I didn't care to see it in theaters), but the max for a rental there is going to be the Comcast price, and if I return it early it's only $1.00.
A streaming service really needs to hit that price-point for movies, and lower for TV (like $10/season tops). An expensive ad slot is $.02 per viewer (grey's anatomy, youngish viewers), and can't show more than 40 an hour (20 minutes of non network bumps of 30 second ads). I wikipediad advertising, and greys anatomy and did rough math.
They could probably still show some ads (I would certainly pay for the convenience of something I wanted to watch if the ad density was similar to early hulu).
A 35 ad deficit in what is shown is $0.70, and the $.05 to stream it. The revenue isn't quite there for me to pay for a show in real time ($.15 deficit for a $.50 TV show in a $10.00 season) and that is without me even watching with someone else, boosting those un-shown ads cost.
But anything that is not-available conveniently (like for example when I went to watch Rubicon, and the first episode wasn't available anymore, losing a viewer for an entire season potentially) it sounds like a big boos in revenue to let netflix stream things at a price of $.40 per an hour, with limited ads (6 per an hour).
The ads could be very well placed using demographic and movie liking information, Netflix could charge $.50 getting an extra $.05 in revenue, and have current content free still (to keep subscriptions).
I find it amusing that even networks and shows I thought got it (Always Sunny and Hulu mutually benefited a lot at the start) appear to be forgetting how they got big (I know I saw far less ads for that show this year catching about half on demand vs all on Hulu).
I will say the vagueness of Astrology allows for people to self-examine and interpret the best thing for them-self. Yes they should be able to anyway, but they don't.
Of course others use it as a pure guidebook or patsy without the self-inspection, and that's just bad.
The fact that a summary of personality is believed to be accurate by an entire class (James Randi has a video of this) demonstrates what I mean. These people all read something and thought about themselves and who they are. Some people actually need that. Additionally, just as any diet (that isn't harmful) can help lose weight because it makes someone conscious of what they are eating, any vague guidance about life can do the same.
Note, specific advice is not something I would hope anyone would follow, or a credible Astrologer would give. They are cheaper than a shrink (or should be), and should be alright at listening and giving some vague advice.
Perhaps it's on during other things?
I mean dinner and clean-up plus laundry can all be done while watching the TV (not the eating though, bad form if with people). As can reading some interesting news and website. Very basic looking into problems at work too.
It's really not so bad at all. More than myself, or most I would think, but not really that crazy either.
Well, hypothetically, if cable can convince FCC to allow switched service or whatever they call it (essentially one channel to your house, every chanel change alters what it displays), Netflix could become a cable subscription.
There are some issues (like cable killing personal DVRs in the process) that are preventing it, but it would actually free bandwidth for other uses, as each subscriber only require one HD channel of bandwidth per a TV for television, and when it's not on, it won't even be using that.
20mbps for each active user, netflix pipes through that too.
Of course I doubt they will all get along, just pointing out there is potential for this to work. Especially if Netflix becomes a selling point for cable (I certainly like it more than on demand, and wouldn't mind it not going over my network).
I can see how in very large organizations the TCO of closed source solutions is less, but I find the head-ache in re-installing a simple office computer in a small or medium company is immense (thought perhaps recovery partitions have softened this some).
I still think for a basic Office computer in a small to medium sized environment a linux CD is the way to go (use an OS friendly intel integrated, default software suite etc.). however many headless basic PCs for VNCing into for Quickbooks (I have found no open source softweare that makes reporting, tracking AR, and e-mailing invoices statements as easy).
Once one hits the size install where licensing is on trust, not lots and lots of serial numbers, I imagine things can shift back to the closed source side, with better integration of centralized management.
Many tools just don't have comperables either, essentially meaning it isn't a good fit for Linux/BSD on the desktop.
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