this policy has more or less outlived its usefulness as small town ad markets simply just don't exist
That's not quite true. There are thousands of small-town radio stations making money in the U.S.
But because the FCC allows the stations to be moved, the market for small-town stations has changed. There is more money in selling out to a conglomerate and crying poor, garnering the FCC's blessing for a move, than staying in one place and making a lower level of profit serving the local community.
So the big cities get served with more of the same undistinguished crap, and the small towns lose their community voices. So it goes.
And why they are regulated by the Financial Services Authority. They act as a bank, are regulated as a bank, and are a bank by operation of law (the Financial Services and Markets Act of 2000).
The fact that I (not even a UK citizen) can find this out in five minutes while you stand screaming with your fingers in your ear about ThinkGeek and bridges, is utterly hilarious.
I really shouldn't knock Molson and Labatt in the same thread I complain about "beer snobs" in, since for lots of people that's their thing. But they are monotonous to my taste buds...
I *love* La Fin Du Monde. Unibroue put out some darned fine beers... Blanche de Chambly and Maudite are also very good examples of their type. It's good to show the world that not all Canadian brew is Molson Puddlewater or Labatt Tinkle.
For most people that read slashdot, it would represent a couple of steps down.
Probably not in financial terms. In the skilled trades (especially HVAC, plumber, electrician, to name three mentioned above) the take-home would be probably higher for most/. readers, much higher in many cases.
And no cubicles.
Of course, you don't have to go to university for those jobs, so they have less prestige for the status-obsessed. It doesn't bother my friends in the trades, though, when they go home to their nice houses to count their lovely money.
Read my post above, dummy. You know *nothing* about beer. A sententious comment like "The optimum temperature for good beer to be stored and served is between about 53F and 60F" show it.
You may notice that most American beer is Pilsener-style lager (pils). Which is intended to be drunk cold. Ask a brewer of Pilsener-style lager in any country what temperature his beer should be drunk at, most will say between 2 and 5 degrees C (36-41 F).
I myself prefer ales and stouts to lagers, but there can be no doubt that (1) cold lager can be an ideal (and very tasty) beer in a hot environment; (2) people in many countries (including the U.S.) prefer lagers; (3) no amount of ignorant snobbery can make their preferences wrong; and (4) YAASA. STFU.
Folks, next time some snooty jackass looks down his nose at you because of your beer, remember the Latin phrase de gustibus not est disputandunum, so you can teach him a lesson as your fist squelches into the soft tissues around his nose. And also, like our friend the AC here, he's probably wrong anyway.
Please remember to FOAD. Thank you for your attention.
IAAL. This is correct. The distinction, in legal terms, is between a "contract of service" and a "contract for services". In the latter case, the contractor is independent, not an employee, and retains copyrights unless there is a contract (not necessarily a written contract, mind you) to the contrary.
Well, I think the market would see a company with 85% of its assets in proprietary software in exactly the same way it would see a company with 85% of its assets in detachable shirt collars, or VAX hardware, or overalls for chimney sweeps, or rotary telephone dials.
There's nothing wrong with that. The economy marches on. You can't halt economic progress just because the market means that progress produces winners and losers.
This isn't really correct. Aristotle was certainly an important figure in the history of logic, but his brand of "logic" has little if anything to do with the kind of logic that a Turing machine uses.
The rigorous study of logic is a much more recent innovation than Aristotle, and has its origins in the seventeenth century, while its true fathers were Boole and de Morgan, in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Tehnically, two lawyers are mentioned. Eric G. Carter "submitted this asinine tripe" and Brandon Moseley was ordered substituted as attorney-in-charge.
In the library at the firm where I work, I know exactly where Who's Who is. East wall, middle set of shelves, on the second shelf from the top. Can't miss it.
We don't have the UK version, though. And it takes two minutes to walk to the elevator, go up five floors, and round the corner to the library. So yes, Google is probably still faster.
No, that's what I mean. The "working document" is sent out as.pdf and comments are received in handwritten format. This is still the best system for documents worked on by many hands anyway, because it keeps the versions consistent anyway.
Circulating a document in editable format just encourages invisible changes. Not to mention all that nasty metadata you didn't even know you were sending.
If "image is everything", you're better off sending a.pdf document. It's not just OO.o-to-MS that creates a problem; it's moving from one version of MS to another too.
In my office the general rule is becoming "if you don't want it to come back messed up, send it out in.pdf and get handwritten comments instead".
Cellulose ethanol is a terrific idea, and saves food crops for food purposes, but I wonder just how much cheaper it's going to be. What sort of scale do you need to manufacture this on before the price is competitive with corn ethanol?
Anyone have any idea or more info about this technology? At least it's good to see some sort of innovation coming out of Canada...
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Sourcing an "unreliable source" comment from... Newsmax.com. Sweet self-undermine.
Hmm... sounds like I need to get myself some steel arms. Of course, then I'd be a Unit 22 Bending Unit.
this policy has more or less outlived its usefulness as small town ad markets simply just don't exist
That's not quite true. There are thousands of small-town radio stations making money in the U.S.
But because the FCC allows the stations to be moved, the market for small-town stations has changed. There is more money in selling out to a conglomerate and crying poor, garnering the FCC's blessing for a move, than staying in one place and making a lower level of profit serving the local community.
So the big cities get served with more of the same undistinguished crap, and the small towns lose their community voices. So it goes.
If Sainsbury's Bank is not a bank, perhaps you can tell us why they are a member of the British Banking Association, which is restricted to institutions undertaking banking activities.
And why they are regulated by the Financial Services Authority. They act as a bank, are regulated as a bank, and are a bank by operation of law (the Financial Services and Markets Act of 2000).
The fact that I (not even a UK citizen) can find this out in five minutes while you stand screaming with your fingers in your ear about ThinkGeek and bridges, is utterly hilarious.
I really shouldn't knock Molson and Labatt in the same thread I complain about "beer snobs" in, since for lots of people that's their thing. But they are monotonous to my taste buds...
I *love* La Fin Du Monde. Unibroue put out some darned fine beers... Blanche de Chambly and Maudite are also very good examples of their type. It's good to show the world that not all Canadian brew is Molson Puddlewater or Labatt Tinkle.
Is that meant to be funny? British local time *is* GMT.
For most people that read slashdot, it would represent a couple of steps down.
/. readers, much higher in many cases.
Probably not in financial terms. In the skilled trades (especially HVAC, plumber, electrician, to name three mentioned above) the take-home would be probably higher for most
And no cubicles.
Of course, you don't have to go to university for those jobs, so they have less prestige for the status-obsessed. It doesn't bother my friends in the trades, though, when they go home to their nice houses to count their lovely money.
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Read my post above, dummy. You know *nothing* about beer. A sententious comment like "The optimum temperature for good beer to be stored and served is between about 53F and 60F" show it.
Dear Dr. Stupid,
You may notice that most American beer is Pilsener-style lager (pils). Which is intended to be drunk cold. Ask a brewer of Pilsener-style lager in any country what temperature his beer should be drunk at, most will say between 2 and 5 degrees C (36-41 F).
I myself prefer ales and stouts to lagers, but there can be no doubt that (1) cold lager can be an ideal (and very tasty) beer in a hot environment; (2) people in many countries (including the U.S.) prefer lagers; (3) no amount of ignorant snobbery can make their preferences wrong; and (4) YAASA. STFU.
Folks, next time some snooty jackass looks down his nose at you because of your beer, remember the Latin phrase de gustibus not est disputandunum, so you can teach him a lesson as your fist squelches into the soft tissues around his nose. And also, like our friend the AC here, he's probably wrong anyway.
Please remember to FOAD. Thank you for your attention.
Yours sincerely,
tybalt44
At a rate of four persons per five minutes, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for 40 years, you could just barely get to 5% of the population.
I salute you!
I don't need any sort of pulse, you insensitive clod!
We're just about to start Round 81...
What's wrong with outsourcing? As someone who *buys* these products and consumes these services, outsourcing serves to drive down the price I pay.
This is a Good Thing. Again, no one said that economic progress won't create a pool of losers - it almost always will. That doesn't make it bad.
IAAL. This is correct. The distinction, in legal terms, is between a "contract of service" and a "contract for services". In the latter case, the contractor is independent, not an employee, and retains copyrights unless there is a contract (not necessarily a written contract, mind you) to the contrary.
Well, I think the market would see a company with 85% of its assets in proprietary software in exactly the same way it would see a company with 85% of its assets in detachable shirt collars, or VAX hardware, or overalls for chimney sweeps, or rotary telephone dials.
There's nothing wrong with that. The economy marches on. You can't halt economic progress just because the market means that progress produces winners and losers.
This isn't really correct. Aristotle was certainly an important figure in the history of logic, but his brand of "logic" has little if anything to do with the kind of logic that a Turing machine uses.
The rigorous study of logic is a much more recent innovation than Aristotle, and has its origins in the seventeenth century, while its true fathers were Boole and de Morgan, in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Tehnically, two lawyers are mentioned. Eric G. Carter "submitted this asinine tripe" and Brandon Moseley was ordered substituted as attorney-in-charge.
In the library at the firm where I work, I know exactly where Who's Who is. East wall, middle set of shelves, on the second shelf from the top. Can't miss it.
We don't have the UK version, though. And it takes two minutes to walk to the elevator, go up five floors, and round the corner to the library. So yes, Google is probably still faster.
I don't know, I'm a lawyer, and that's how we work. Seems real enough to me.
No, that's what I mean. The "working document" is sent out as .pdf and comments are received in handwritten format. This is still the best system for documents worked on by many hands anyway, because it keeps the versions consistent anyway.
Circulating a document in editable format just encourages invisible changes. Not to mention all that nasty metadata you didn't even know you were sending.
If "image is everything", you're better off sending a .pdf document. It's not just OO.o-to-MS that creates a problem; it's moving from one version of MS to another too.
.pdf and get handwritten comments instead".
In my office the general rule is becoming "if you don't want it to come back messed up, send it out in
Not just alcohol! Alcohol by the gallon! What's more Canadian than that?
Cellulose ethanol is a terrific idea, and saves food crops for food purposes, but I wonder just how much cheaper it's going to be. What sort of scale do you need to manufacture this on before the price is competitive with corn ethanol?
Anyone have any idea or more info about this technology? At least it's good to see some sort of innovation coming out of Canada...
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but that would violate about six million trade agreements that the U.S. is a part of.