But giving it away would be remembered. Like to some unemployed ex-employee. Probably get a good deal too. I mean it's the firm's money so costs nothing.
But no. Greedy when it comes to making money; greedy when it comes to the firm's money.
Listen, just because the entire world of 6 billion people is motivated by money, it doesn't mean that the few thousand of us here at Slashdot have to be as well.
But if WE don't at least fake it, the greedy people will eventually twig that we will indeed work for bandwidth.
You overlook that other countries do not need to abuse those terms like we do in the US
I think the UK has decided to follow the US. I mean limited edition packaging for breakfast cereal and fizzy drinks. And then basing a whole marketing campaign around the fact.
I don't know what's worse. The blatant cynicism of the manufacturers, or the stupidity of the people who fall for it.
Nope. I mean "gaffa tape", the ultimate in sticky-stuff on a roll.
"Gaffer Tape" aka "Gaffer's tape", "Duct Tape", and the cynically named "Duck Tape" are mere immitations. Duct Tape comes close, but true Gaffa is the the stuff that holds the universe together - just getting it off the roll sorts the men out from the boys.
I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet -- it's probably because they don't care about the third world
Well, I do care about the third world. But I was not aware the Bhopal disaster was down to dodgy software. I always believed it was reckless cost cutting by a faceless multi-national which took advantage of the fact that India, as a developing country, didn't have very good health & safety legislation.
But I think the main reason disasters like this are ignored is that poor people don't make very good consumers, so the consumerist society pays little attention to their wants and desires. And their deaths are little more than statistics.
10,000 dead? Bung them some cash.
Now, what do you think would happen if a large number of decent hard working consumers were wiped out in a single event?
For example, most stomach ulcers are caused by the bacterium h. pylori and can often be cured with antibiotic therapy. This fact only came to light very recently, after decades of assuming that ulcers were essentially untreatable.
And strangely enough the "cure" for ulcers came about round about the same time as all that expensive ulcer medication was just comming out of patent.
For our part, after reading dozens of books and talking to as many people, we made the decision not to vaccinate our now six year old. (Commence the flamebait about how we're playing with fire, yadda yadda yadda...)
Perhaps you are playing with fire. My reseach suggested that the dangers of not being vaccinated outweighed the dangers of being vaccinated. So I elected to have my son vaccinated.
But it is your your right to choose for your kids, just as it it my right to choose for mine. So the only flaming to be done should be directed at parents who don't take the time to research the matter, preferring hearsy and urban-myth.
Ok, this is just one of those stupid theories that won't die because it's gotten too much discussion. I am happy that you seem to indicate the dubious nature of it, but people need to start looking in other places.
IMHO the theories that MMR is causing autism/IBD etc. are nothing more than an urban-myths. I've talked to several people who are determined not to give their kids the MMR. They've all related of horror stories about people they "know". When pushed it's been a "friend of a friend". When I asked if hearsay was a valid reason for not vaccinating your kids against diseases which are known to give rise to "horrible" outcomes they have all agreed that it is not.
What's changed in a big way in the last twenty years? Fast food. Tolerance for fat people.
On study I heard about suggested that the modern "fear of fat" - the fear of actually eating fat, not of being fat - was actually harming the development of children. Lack of fatty-acids imparing the development of brain tissue or something.
If I remember correctly, I was taught the copyright laws were there to allow the creator of "some thing" to prevent big faceless corporations from making a mint without passing along some of their good fortune.
It seems to me that copyright laws are becoming a a method of allowing big faceless corporations to screw the public out of as much money as possible.
The government counters that the 1998 Act promotes the arts by protecting their economic value, thereby fostering greater incentives to create.
What a load of fetid dingoes kidneys. I've never met anybody with a creative flair who does it for the money.
"Surround sound is going to be increasingly important in future offices," says group marketing manager Tom Gruver in leading a tour of the new facility.
I work in an open plan office. There are Unix and Windows users. We Unix users all hate Windows because of the loud and intrusive sound of the weekly defrag that all the Windows users insist in necissary for the continued funtion of their machine.
Add Surround Sound and I think we'll see people resorting to violence.
I'm pretty sure it's also the best way to enjoy Adams' work
DNA had the habit of re-writing HHGTTG on every incarnation. The Radio Series and the Books are not the same thing. But the TV series IIRC was mostly the book.
On the whole I'd have to agree The Radio Series was the best - the pictures were better.
Also available as illegal MP3s at a P2P network near you...
Hmmm, haven't listened to my legal MP3z for a while....
Okay then, starting tomorrow, it all stops. We will build a wall 30 miles high all the way around the entire country and not one atom will go in or out. No immigration, no trade, no technology, no culture, nothing.
funny man.
I'm not a fool. I know just how much the world economy depends on the US. But some people are just too stupid. They don't think "I have a job thanks to the US". They merely resent the fact they can't have what you have.
It most certainly does. There are entire national economies out there based solely on manufacturing consumer goods for the United States, or providing us with raw materials, or giving us some place nice to go for our vacations. Those nations would have no industry at all if not for us.
I think the comments of Kwil sum up my feeling rather well; and I couldn't have sumarised better:
To assume the reasons are cultural jealousy is just cultural arrogance.
But on the issue of invading and bombing I wasn't talking about history, I was talking about the future. About the desire of George W, and his lap-dog Tony Blair, to kick the fsck out of Iraq.
Whoopee. $62 Million. Better than nothing, but $0.17 per citizen strikes me as a platry amount.
By 2005 the UK will be contributing $9.9 BILLION to overseas aid. That's $165 per citizen for overseas aid.
So no, we can't win no matter how much good we do or try to do
Claiming that you can't "win" is nothing more than a self fulfilling prophecy.
The United States of America is the only country to have ever put a man on the moon. IMHO the country that could acheive this is more than capable of "winning" on the international stage.
Yes you can win. You can admit that the fundamental rights that all American have are the same fundamendal rights ALL the people of the world can expect. And then try to help and support other contries - instead of bombing and invading.
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no one will care how much money you made
But giving it away would be remembered. Like to some unemployed ex-employee. Probably get a good deal too. I mean it's the firm's money so costs nothing.
But no. Greedy when it comes to making money; greedy when it comes to the firm's money.
Listen, just because the entire world of 6 billion people is motivated by money, it doesn't mean that the few thousand of us here at Slashdot have to be as well.
But if WE don't at least fake it, the greedy people will eventually twig that we will indeed work for bandwidth.
You overlook that other countries do not need to abuse those terms like we do in the US
I think the UK has decided to follow the US. I mean limited edition packaging for breakfast cereal and fizzy drinks. And then basing a whole marketing campaign around the fact.
I don't know what's worse. The blatant cynicism of the manufacturers, or the stupidity of the people who fall for it.
You mean gaffer tape?
Nope. I mean "gaffa tape", the ultimate in sticky-stuff on a roll.
"Gaffer Tape" aka "Gaffer's tape", "Duct Tape", and the cynically named "Duck Tape" are mere immitations. Duct Tape comes close, but true Gaffa is the the stuff that holds the universe together - just getting it off the roll sorts the men out from the boys.
Ha, I laugh at your puny Duct Tape.
With my trusty roll of Gaffa Tape I can conquer the world.
Ha, ha, ha ha...
I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet -- it's probably because they don't care about the third world
Well, I do care about the third world. But I was not aware the Bhopal disaster was down to dodgy software. I always believed it was reckless cost cutting by a faceless multi-national which took advantage of the fact that India, as a developing country, didn't have very good health & safety legislation.
But I think the main reason disasters like this are ignored is that poor people don't make very good consumers, so the consumerist society pays little attention to their wants and desires. And their deaths are little more than statistics.
10,000 dead? Bung them some cash.
Now, what do you think would happen if a large number of decent hard working consumers were wiped out in a single event?
For example, most stomach ulcers are caused by the bacterium h. pylori and can often be cured with antibiotic therapy. This fact only came to light very recently, after decades of assuming that ulcers were essentially untreatable.
And strangely enough the "cure" for ulcers came about round about the same time as all that expensive ulcer medication was just comming out of patent.
For our part, after reading dozens of books and talking to as many people, we made the decision not to vaccinate our now six year old. (Commence the flamebait about how we're playing with fire, yadda yadda yadda...)
Perhaps you are playing with fire. My reseach suggested that the dangers of not being vaccinated outweighed the dangers of being vaccinated. So I elected to have my son vaccinated.
But it is your your right to choose for your kids, just as it it my right to choose for mine. So the only flaming to be done should be directed at parents who don't take the time to research the matter, preferring hearsy and urban-myth.
Ok, this is just one of those stupid theories that won't die because it's gotten too much discussion. I am happy that you seem to indicate the dubious nature of it, but people need to start looking in other places.
IMHO the theories that MMR is causing autism/IBD etc. are nothing more than an urban-myths. I've talked to several people who are determined not to give their kids the MMR. They've all related of horror stories about people they "know". When pushed it's been a "friend of a friend". When I asked if hearsay was a valid reason for not vaccinating your kids against diseases which are known to give rise to "horrible" outcomes they have all agreed that it is not.
What's changed in a big way in the last twenty years? Fast food. Tolerance for fat people.
On study I heard about suggested that the modern "fear of fat" - the fear of actually eating fat, not of being fat - was actually harming the development of children. Lack of fatty-acids imparing the development of brain tissue or something.
CNN is reporting that the star at the center of our galaxy is actually a super-massive black hole
I saw a documentary about this over a year ago.
Horizon on the BBC IIRC.
I also seem to remember somebody thinks "our" black hole is "feeding again" (whatever that means).
Mplayer works fine for me
Ditto.
Have you ever tried the ASCII codec?
'tis a foolish thing, but funny.
If I remember correctly, I was taught the copyright laws were there to allow the creator of "some thing" to prevent big faceless corporations from making a mint without passing along some of their good fortune.
It seems to me that copyright laws are becoming a a method of allowing big faceless corporations to screw the public out of as much money as possible.
The government counters that the 1998 Act promotes the arts by protecting their economic value, thereby fostering greater incentives to create.
What a load of fetid dingoes kidneys. I've never met anybody with a creative flair who does it for the money.
And do you remember "Now Get Out of That" ?
"Surround sound is going to be increasingly important in future offices," says group marketing manager Tom Gruver in leading a tour of the new facility.
I work in an open plan office. There are Unix and Windows users. We Unix users all hate Windows because of the loud and intrusive sound of the weekly defrag that all the Windows users insist in necissary for the continued funtion of their machine.
Add Surround Sound and I think we'll see people resorting to violence.
Sure everybody says it's a crack pot statement
I don't. I think it's very insightful
The Next world war will be fought against corporations
I've always been infavour of it being between corporations - but than I woke up one morning and realised that's already happening.
I'm pretty sure it's also the best way to enjoy Adams' work
DNA had the habit of re-writing HHGTTG on every incarnation. The Radio Series and the Books are not the same thing. But the TV series IIRC was mostly the book.
On the whole I'd have to agree The Radio Series was the best - the pictures were better.
Also available as illegal MP3s at a P2P network near you...
Hmmm, haven't listened to my legal MP3z for a while....
I wonder where I've put them?
Well, I first read this on a Monday.
I don't like Mondays.
Okay then, starting tomorrow, it all stops. We will build a wall 30 miles high all the way around the entire country and not one atom will go in or out. No immigration, no trade, no technology, no culture, nothing.
funny man.
I'm not a fool. I know just how much the world economy depends on the US. But some people are just too stupid. They don't think "I have a job thanks to the US". They merely resent the fact they can't have what you have.
... he's more than welcome to _TRY_...
That is funny.
But now read this.
It most certainly does. There are entire national economies out there based solely on manufacturing consumer goods for the United States, or providing us with raw materials, or giving us some place nice to go for our vacations. Those nations would have no industry at all if not for us.
Which is exactly why I don't think it counts.
If anything it's a part of the problem.
Why doesn't somebody suggest September 11 as being a WORLD holiday
You just did.
And I second the motion.
I think the comments of Kwil sum up my feeling rather well; and I couldn't have sumarised better:
To assume the reasons are cultural jealousy is just cultural arrogance.
But on the issue of invading and bombing I wasn't talking about history, I was talking about the future. About the desire of George W, and his lap-dog Tony Blair, to kick the fsck out of Iraq.
My point was based on erroneous information. I therefore withdraw my point. Although I don't really think counting your trade deficit really counts.
United States provides $62 million
Whoopee. $62 Million. Better than nothing, but $0.17 per citizen strikes me as a platry amount.
By 2005 the UK will be contributing $9.9 BILLION to overseas aid. That's $165 per citizen for overseas aid.
So no, we can't win no matter how much good we do or try to do
Claiming that you can't "win" is nothing more than a self fulfilling prophecy.
The United States of America is the only country to have ever put a man on the moon. IMHO the country that could acheive this is more than capable of "winning" on the international stage.
All that is missing is the will.
Fuck it, we just can't win.
Yes you can win. You can admit that the fundamental rights that all American have are the same fundamendal rights ALL the people of the world can expect. And then try to help and support other contries - instead of bombing and invading.