If you have walked or driven past some of the streets of south side Chicago, you would be asking yourself the same question about a different country.
I'm not making excuses for the lack of govt focus on infrastructure, I'm just pointing out that every country has problems related to poverty, bad/old infrastructure and corruption.
Yeah, its the obvious reply, that I could not help but make.
If you're dead serious about this. Head over to flyertalk.com and explain your situation there. There are several airlines reps on that site that will help you out.
Sharing something you OWN is ok. We teach our young son to share his toys, to share his food and water, doubt we're going to teach him how to share downloaded DVD screener rips.
From www.m-w.com
SHARE usually implies that one as the original holder grants to another the partial use, enjoyment, or possession of a thing.
>> Uniformity on an issue this divisive might be difficult to achieve politically.
Specially since Blair has been accused of letting Dubya have his way on one to many an issue.
Given that this is mostly a commercial issue (national or global security is hardly at stake), I have a feeling Blair and the Labour party will politely ask the Americans to go shove it where the sun don't shine and score with the masses on both sides of the pond.
The problem is when you want people to donate on a consistent basis, you have to give something back to them, which provides some benefit. Have you considered approaching Google? I've heard rumors of them having a pretty decent server farm.;)
Would you be open to section sponsorships? For example I run a number of Hong Kong based websites and would love to sponsor that section on WikiPedia in exchange for a sponsored link back to my site.
You'll only get so much money from donations without giving something back.
The weird part is that after all of these wonderful things (including userland) he cannot find the funding to keep weblogs going. Guess he missed out on the dotcom boom or has no desire to monetize his traffic beyond google adsense.
People forget, IBM also has to battle SUN and HP in more lucrative spaces. Having a consistent scalable *nix interface gives them a huge advantage over SUN/HP.
Every commercial enterprise targets. Targetting is about making money and making money is about targetting.
1) Malls: Malls collect information about the foot traffic, demographics and patterns of their customers. They can then position their rents according to the traffic.
2) Retail: They use loyalty cards, store credit cards and your regular credit cards to track and profile you. They know certain products sell better a week before paychecks are due and certain products sell better the week after paychecks are cashed.
3) CRM companies: Companies like Siebel / Onyx etc have extensive profiling options built into the software which are used my major corporations, govt groups and yes, when a sales guy finds out his customers birthday, wife's name and kid's school, he puts them in there are they're tracked.
4) Banks: You think for a second that they don't exploit young working people who don't have enough saved up and sell them expensive credit cards?
The list goes on... on and on...
By the way, no one is brought up why my ISM using SpamAssassin is exempt from this whole invasion of privacy thingy... they have processes which reads my mail and makes certain decisions based on the content.
Some standard rules we use with our email letters.
1) Topic prefix. [websitename] 2) Sent from an address people know as my real address which is used on my website 3) Content, Content and more content. Spend about 12 hours per email (we send out one every week) to research interesting topics in our niche
The result has been about 15000 subscribers with over 50-60 percent opening and about 20% clicking through. The key is building credibility using good relevant content -- people forward our newsletters to their friends who in turn may subscribe.
Email is a tool.. it can be used effectively and it can be used dangerously.
>> "I create jobs. But the media has made e-mail out to be some sort of terrorist plot."
Goes back the argument (and please don't get on my case for quoting this) that guns dont kill people. People kill people.
I run a few niche sites in Hong Kong and have found that people are more than willing to open newsletters if they're filled with content (we fill ours with events calendars, reviews of restaurants etc) AND targetted special offers. Emails are working and they're working very well.
I wish I had an opportunity to tell Brendan Battles this... perhaps I should hit reply on one of the many viagra emails I get every hour.
Slashdot Mirror
The rest will go towards new servers which are capable of withstanding a NYPosting. :)
I'd like to see if they're going to rewrite URLs on sites like Amazon and others and claim commission on the sales, using affiliate schemes.
Cant think of any other reason they'd want an insecure browser.
If you have walked or driven past some of the streets of south side Chicago, you would be asking yourself the same question about a different country.
I'm not making excuses for the lack of govt focus on infrastructure, I'm just pointing out that every country has problems related to poverty, bad/old infrastructure and corruption.
Yeah, its the obvious reply, that I could not help but make.
Take this a step further. What if you were a businessman that did not want to accept the money if the person was black or asian? :)
If you're dead serious about this. Head over to flyertalk.com and explain your situation there. There are several airlines reps on that site that will help you out.
Dealt with many Unisys people .. and all I can say is that they have lost their innovative edge from say, 15+ years ago.
Someone buy them and put them out of their misery.
Having just one working leg is better than two.. because it prevents you from running around indiscriminately and falling over and getting run over.
.. some might just need one application... some might need 20. Not everyone's mentally handicapped u know.
Clue: Let the admins and users figure it out
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The same could be said with immigration, out sourcing, overseas internet connections etc etc...
Can we get someone to send a fresh piece of FUDge sent over to the hills?
>> Uniformity on an issue this divisive might be difficult to achieve politically.
Specially since Blair has been accused of letting Dubya have his way on one to many an issue.
Given that this is mostly a commercial issue (national or global security is hardly at stake), I have a feeling Blair and the Labour party will politely ask the Americans to go shove it where the sun don't shine and score with the masses on both sides of the pond.
Is it me or has anything with "Open" in the brandname gone down the drain?
...
OSI (the stack), OpenVMS
The problem is when you want people to donate on a consistent basis, you have to give something back to them, which provides some benefit. Have you considered approaching Google? I've heard rumors of them having a pretty decent server farm. ;)
Would you be open to section sponsorships? For example I run a number of Hong Kong based websites and would love to sponsor that section on WikiPedia in exchange for a sponsored link back to my site.
You'll only get so much money from donations without giving something back.
The weird part is that after all of these wonderful things (including userland) he cannot find the funding to keep weblogs going. Guess he missed out on the dotcom boom or has no desire to monetize his traffic beyond google adsense.
>> to open a foreign bank account, or a foreign trading account, or get insurance from a company overseas
Blame this on money laundering and other patriot act related federal laws that foreign banks and insurance companies do not want to deal with.
People forget, IBM also has to battle SUN and HP in more lucrative spaces. Having a consistent scalable *nix interface gives them a huge advantage over SUN/HP.
Broadband TV? Thats so ... 2003. We have had it in Hong Kong for over 10 months now. Connects into the DSL modem and provides on demand cable channels.
http://www.nowbroadbandtv.com/
(My apologies... the site is in flash)
The real practical joke is on the network administrator. Now, I wonder who is going to get fired for posting this on slashdot.
Hopefully their livelyhood does depend on their webserver being up.
Every commercial enterprise targets. Targetting is about making money and making money is about targetting.
... on and on ...
1) Malls: Malls collect information about the foot traffic, demographics and patterns of their customers. They can then position their rents according to the traffic.
2) Retail: They use loyalty cards, store credit cards and your regular credit cards to track and profile you. They know certain products sell better a week before paychecks are due and certain products sell better the week after paychecks are cashed.
3) CRM companies: Companies like Siebel / Onyx etc have extensive profiling options built into the software which are used my major corporations, govt groups and yes, when a sales guy finds out his customers birthday, wife's name and kid's school, he puts them in there are they're tracked.
4) Banks: You think for a second that they don't exploit young working people who don't have enough saved up and sell them expensive credit cards?
The list goes on
By the way, no one is brought up why my ISM using SpamAssassin is exempt from this whole invasion of privacy thingy... they have processes which reads my mail and makes certain decisions based on the content.
They forgot paper. Remember visions of a paperless office? We're now using paper far more than ever before.
Scrl Lock works the same in Excel as it did in the good old days on 1-2-3.
Its not the size that matters... its how you use it.
Some standard rules we use with our email letters.
1) Topic prefix. [websitename]
2) Sent from an address people know as my real address which is used on my website
3) Content, Content and more content. Spend about 12 hours per email (we send out one every week) to research interesting topics in our niche
The result has been about 15000 subscribers with over 50-60 percent opening and about 20% clicking through. The key is building credibility using good relevant content -- people forward our newsletters to their friends who in turn may subscribe.
Email is a tool.. it can be used effectively and it can be used dangerously.
>> "I create jobs. But the media has made e-mail out to be some sort of terrorist plot."
Goes back the argument (and please don't get on my case for quoting this) that guns dont kill people. People kill people.
I run a few niche sites in Hong Kong and have found that people are more than willing to open newsletters if they're filled with content (we fill ours with events calendars, reviews of restaurants etc) AND targetted special offers. Emails are working and they're working very well.
I wish I had an opportunity to tell Brendan Battles this... perhaps I should hit reply on one of the many viagra emails I get every hour.
Think Caller ID ....
Assuming that was not a sarcastic post... check out Archive.Org for more on historical web snapshots.