If you're an investor who thought WB was going to put up an FTP or P2P server with a ISO link, you're a fool. The producers (i.e. NOT YOU) want to make money, not silence the cheap-skate streaming crowd who won't pay for shit otherwise.
Son, this is Slashdot where every kid with a 3Mbps pipe think anything in digital form should be free regardless of the cost to create it. Then after watching/listening the 5th time and sharing it with everyone they know, they'll go on IMDB or Reddit and talk about how much it sucks.
So, do you think the Western world could hack *next* winter before Russia goes broke? I don't think so. I'm assuming that since that's the strategy the Western world has adopted, then it'll work.
The only people who think Palin is prescient are the same people who don't follow foreign affairs and wouldn't have a clue otherwise. Putin has been pushing his way back into satellite states for what 10 years now? You're assuming that everyone wasn't expecting another card to fall. And Crimea is their only warm weather port as I recall (with Russia's access protected by treaty). If Russia pushes into any nation without 50% of the population speaking Russian and their own ports and trucks rolling through there, then maybe we have to worry.
Why not post Sarah Palin's "bold and insightful predictions" that Putin might invade Ukraine while you're at it? Russia isn't the same country any more. This wasn't an invasion of Poland. This is Russia dicking around in their own backyard like they've been doing the last 10 years or so. Russia doesn't have the money to be a world power any more.
All we're doing by talking him up is getting him more confident in what he thinks he can get away with based on his limited resources. If it goes to the mat, the US and Europe could squash this with sanctions, but Europe is going to have to nut up and accept some economic hardship to make it happen.
It doesn't help that certain segments of Congress keep talking up Putin like he's the second coming of Alexander the Great. Russia is a broke EX world power. Pushing around pissant satellite states and a spigot on a pipeline are about the extend of their power. We need to treat them that way and stop giving them far more credit than they deserve. All we're doing is emboldening Putin.
The dude goes around shirtless. That should be clue enough he's an attention whore and we all know what happens when you give an attention whore more attention.
What do you mean "at this point." The guy has ALWAYS been a shill. If you look up how the Fed talked up ARMs as they decreased interest rates, then jacked them up right after everyone bought it (the "curve" made a nice V in the naughts), you know he's always been a shill.
They've had the "turn off" option obfuscated for a while now. I accidentally signed up a while back and it took a while to find it. I do have it now, but doubt I'd enroll again. I've seen a Amazon prime "tax" in effect on pricing that makes me suspect I'm not really getting my money's worth.
I see nothing wrong with the government trying to help people start new businesses. Especially when it's an individual who's probably going to serve a direct need.
The problem doing that would have been the people who didn't get compensated to go get health care. I'm sure most employers of low-wage workers would look at it as a nice, little reduction in operating costs. I guess the ACA could've mandated paying out to employees so they could go get their own insurance, but that'd be a huge administrative headache for the whole country.
It might work after the ACA and the marketplace have had a few years to get the kinks worked out.
You're talking out of your ass. I was an army brat as well my entire childhood. You know what the two cheapest and highest rated (by those covered) healthcare programs were circa 2008? Evil, socialist VA hospitals and Medicare.
An excellent and informative post. I come to Slashdot for the bumper sticker campaign propaganda. Thanks for adding to the debate. I'm going to create a new account just so I can thank you and mod you up at the same time.
Makes perfect sense for their intended purpose. Wiki pages are supposed to be accepted knowledge not ground-breaking and controversial theories. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a science journal.
Yes, that's the point. They stream stuff while complaining that nothing is worth their hard-earned money. Then, turn around and complain that no one in entertainment takes risks and sticks to churning out mainstream crap.
Over the past 10-15 years I've posted here it's become less about developers and more about the network hacker ethic. Information wants to be free right? Especially when it's a torrent of a movie you want to watch while simultaneously arguing that it's not worth your hard-earned money to pay for a ticket. People hee haw when some corporation gets hacked regardless of the sophistication of the attack and hoist the culprits up on their shoulders.
If you watch much Lockup or any other prison documentaries, this is a pretty similar philosophy to the inmates. "Hey, they left their door open or the car unlocked or unsecured, so they deserve what they got!"
You don't get to supplant the definition of a word because you want to embrace it's favorable connotations while rejecting the negatives: I'm assuming you're referring to hacker vs. cracker.
All you need to do is write and call your congressmen regularly. They're self-interested enough to defend their reelection chances if they're getting enough flak for their votes. But, since Americans don't give a fuck (and the polls prove it), most bureaucrats have made the prudent and pragmatic decision to push domestic spying rather than risk an unseen breach and be the fall guy.
Having a job is one thing. Having a job and thinking it'll be there for a year or two is another. Everyone was financially "turtling up" so it's not a real surprise that indicators like traffic will lag behind. I was talking to a trade school instructor who said that businesses are STILL cutting back on good will perks like donations of equipment and time to students. Even the silly little fun trinkets they used to hand out at intramural competitions are gone.
There's strong evidence African sailors found South America as well. But, if your culture doesn't have a good record recording your discovery, you don't get to name it.
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If you're an investor who thought WB was going to put up an FTP or P2P server with a ISO link, you're a fool. The producers (i.e. NOT YOU) want to make money, not silence the cheap-skate streaming crowd who won't pay for shit otherwise.
Son, this is Slashdot where every kid with a 3Mbps pipe think anything in digital form should be free regardless of the cost to create it. Then after watching/listening the 5th time and sharing it with everyone they know, they'll go on IMDB or Reddit and talk about how much it sucks.
So, do you think the Western world could hack *next* winter before Russia goes broke? I don't think so. I'm assuming that since that's the strategy the Western world has adopted, then it'll work.
The only people who think Palin is prescient are the same people who don't follow foreign affairs and wouldn't have a clue otherwise. Putin has been pushing his way back into satellite states for what 10 years now? You're assuming that everyone wasn't expecting another card to fall. And Crimea is their only warm weather port as I recall (with Russia's access protected by treaty). If Russia pushes into any nation without 50% of the population speaking Russian and their own ports and trucks rolling through there, then maybe we have to worry.
Russia didn't invade Poland.
Why not post Sarah Palin's "bold and insightful predictions" that Putin might invade Ukraine while you're at it? Russia isn't the same country any more. This wasn't an invasion of Poland. This is Russia dicking around in their own backyard like they've been doing the last 10 years or so. Russia doesn't have the money to be a world power any more.
All we're doing by talking him up is getting him more confident in what he thinks he can get away with based on his limited resources. If it goes to the mat, the US and Europe could squash this with sanctions, but Europe is going to have to nut up and accept some economic hardship to make it happen.
How else are we going to fund military adventurism if we don't cut back on exploration?
So, you're buying those results?
It doesn't help that certain segments of Congress keep talking up Putin like he's the second coming of Alexander the Great. Russia is a broke EX world power. Pushing around pissant satellite states and a spigot on a pipeline are about the extend of their power. We need to treat them that way and stop giving them far more credit than they deserve. All we're doing is emboldening Putin.
The dude goes around shirtless. That should be clue enough he's an attention whore and we all know what happens when you give an attention whore more attention.
What do you mean "at this point." The guy has ALWAYS been a shill. If you look up how the Fed talked up ARMs as they decreased interest rates, then jacked them up right after everyone bought it (the "curve" made a nice V in the naughts), you know he's always been a shill.
It might have been the 1 month trial I didn't turn off as the AC noted.
They've had the "turn off" option obfuscated for a while now. I accidentally signed up a while back and it took a while to find it. I do have it now, but doubt I'd enroll again. I've seen a Amazon prime "tax" in effect on pricing that makes me suspect I'm not really getting my money's worth.
I see nothing wrong with the government trying to help people start new businesses. Especially when it's an individual who's probably going to serve a direct need.
The problem doing that would have been the people who didn't get compensated to go get health care. I'm sure most employers of low-wage workers would look at it as a nice, little reduction in operating costs. I guess the ACA could've mandated paying out to employees so they could go get their own insurance, but that'd be a huge administrative headache for the whole country.
It might work after the ACA and the marketplace have had a few years to get the kinks worked out.
You're talking out of your ass. I was an army brat as well my entire childhood. You know what the two cheapest and highest rated (by those covered) healthcare programs were circa 2008? Evil, socialist VA hospitals and Medicare.
An excellent and informative post. I come to Slashdot for the bumper sticker campaign propaganda. Thanks for adding to the debate. I'm going to create a new account just so I can thank you and mod you up at the same time.
1. The ACA doesn't provide healthcare
So, conservatives don't complain about local taxes? "States Rights" is usually a euphemism.
It was Freedom Filing. Murka!
Makes perfect sense for their intended purpose. Wiki pages are supposed to be accepted knowledge not ground-breaking and controversial theories. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a science journal.
Yes, that's the point. They stream stuff while complaining that nothing is worth their hard-earned money. Then, turn around and complain that no one in entertainment takes risks and sticks to churning out mainstream crap.
Over the past 10-15 years I've posted here it's become less about developers and more about the network hacker ethic. Information wants to be free right? Especially when it's a torrent of a movie you want to watch while simultaneously arguing that it's not worth your hard-earned money to pay for a ticket. People hee haw when some corporation gets hacked regardless of the sophistication of the attack and hoist the culprits up on their shoulders.
If you watch much Lockup or any other prison documentaries, this is a pretty similar philosophy to the inmates. "Hey, they left their door open or the car unlocked or unsecured, so they deserve what they got!"
You don't get to supplant the definition of a word because you want to embrace it's favorable connotations while rejecting the negatives: I'm assuming you're referring to hacker vs. cracker.
All you need to do is write and call your congressmen regularly. They're self-interested enough to defend their reelection chances if they're getting enough flak for their votes. But, since Americans don't give a fuck (and the polls prove it), most bureaucrats have made the prudent and pragmatic decision to push domestic spying rather than risk an unseen breach and be the fall guy.
Having a job is one thing. Having a job and thinking it'll be there for a year or two is another. Everyone was financially "turtling up" so it's not a real surprise that indicators like traffic will lag behind. I was talking to a trade school instructor who said that businesses are STILL cutting back on good will perks like donations of equipment and time to students. Even the silly little fun trinkets they used to hand out at intramural competitions are gone.
There's strong evidence African sailors found South America as well. But, if your culture doesn't have a good record recording your discovery, you don't get to name it.