Do you like the fact that your car gets 26 miles per gallon? Thank the Japanese for figuring out how to make fuel-efficient cars and hurting the American auto companies until they too learned how to adapt.
Like your Sony audio equipment? Like the fact that it's not twice as expensive? Again, thank Japan for finding out how to make stuff cheap.
How about your computer? Isn't it great that RAM costs less than $1 per 100 megs? Remember when 16 megs of RAM cost about $300? Like, ten years ago? I sure am glad that Taiwanese memory companies kicked our ass so i could buy a great computer for under $1500.
And your ISP -- they're dirt cheap. If they had to use American workers for tech support, you'd better believe you wouldn't find access for $9.95 / month.
I try to avoid the "Everyone knows..." play in an argument unless it's really the case, and this is one such time: Any economist will tell you that free trade between nations is better, economically, for everyone involved. Adam Smith wrote long ago in Wealth of Nations that the only reasons to restrict trade were diplomatic and military; economically, it is always bad to "Buy American."
As an employee, though, you find that the corporation continues to take from you and doesn't return your contribution back in proportion. I offer 30% of my life to my employer. They do not recognize this.
So quit and start your own company. If you feel you're worth more than your employer is paying you, quit and find a job that recognizes your "true" value.
Eventually your time grows to be worth more than what they're willing to pay you....at which point, you quit and find another job, or start your own company.
When i work for a company, i don't feel i'm getting screwed. It's my choice: either start my own company, which means accepting a huge amount of risk for a potentially huge return on investment, or go to work for a company, which means a steady, much more guaranteed income, but not as much as i'd have a chance of making as an entrepreneur.
The system as it exists allows us to make that choice ourselves. I'm more than happy to make less money than the company's founder if it means there's zero chance i could lose my life's savings if business dries up.
Come on, this benefits everyone. Yes, corporations will take their business to the cheapest source of adequate labor. So that means that the poorest countries will be lifted up until they surpass other countries, and then the other countries will be willing to work for less. Meanwhile, everyone gets better educated, gets cash flowing, and basically prosperity springs forth.
I see that "idiot" originally meant "layman" or "private", but pedagogue seems to come from the words for "child" and "leader", which seems to make perfect sense. What's the misuse of that word?
What does that have to do with legality or morality?
I hope Apple does fix things so that it's not easy to make copies of people's shared music. Then people would be able to share their music with the rest of the world when they're not using it, and it would be true sharing, since copies couldn't be made.
Yes, i know that people willing to make a serious effort will always be able to copy anything, regardless of protection, but you could say that about books in libraries. Just because it's possible for an expert with time on his hands to photocopy a book, it doesn't mean libraries are illegal, immoral, or should be shut down.
Yeah, but if the US were to vanish today, Canada would have to get a US-sized military to enjoy the safety it enjoys today. If France were to vanish, well, insert joke here.
That seems so ridiculous -- once you get the timing data, shouldn't it be a piece-of-cake algebraic equation to solve?
On a related funny note: my Audiovox phone has a GPS receiver, which only finds your location when you call 911. In the instruction manual, where it explains all the deep-nested menu choices, there's one which displays the location last transmitted to 911. However, there was an insert in the manual saying that the option is no longer there.
It doesn't take much thinking to figure out what was going on -- whenever people wanted to know their location, they would call 911, say, "Oops, false alarm, never mind" and then check that menu option. I'd imagine neither 911 nor the cell carrier was very pleased.
Additionally, almost all spam goes through an open relay -- the spammers almost never talk directly to the final mailserver. So TarProxy isn't hurting the spammers so much as the open relay sysadmins. The open relay sysadmins, seeing their mail servers slow down and run out of disk space, will either take the time to figure out what's going on (and hopefully solve the problem by securing their server), or do nothing and have their server hammered to the point where it can barely spam anymore.
Talking about the popular vote is ridiculous -- if the popular vote decided the election, then the 2000 popular vote would have been completely different. Think of all the millions of people in non-swing states who stayed home, because their candidate either had no chance of winning or no chance of losing.
Additionally, the 13 states decided way back at the time the Constitution was framed, that the popular vote was not a good way to decide things. States with low population would never be heard. If we let the popular vote decide things, New York, California, and Texas would make all the rules, and because of this, none of the other states would have ever joined the union in the first place.
Additionally, where is your evidence that Gore won the final Florida vote count? I heard that independent recounts showed that Bush really did have more votes than Gore.
He's not suggesting you totally disable the phones in those areas, just send them into "vibrate" mode. And if people really needed their phone to ring in a movie theater, they could override it.
How about Code Name Viper? This game was absolutely unplayable, due to difficulty. Imagine Contra, except every time you get shot, you have to start the level over. And you can't do the trick with 30 lives.
I could never even get past the first few screens, and i'm pretty good at stuff. Even after i used the Game Genie to become invincible, it was still an extremely difficult game.
Yeah, i got it, and i was trying to find a good emulator. FCEU came closest, but in order to start the game, it appears you need to hit start on controller 2. And try for the life of me, i can't figure out how to do that with FCEU. I even downloaded the source and poked around for a few.
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In what way does this benefit the US?
Do you like the fact that your car gets 26 miles per gallon? Thank the Japanese for figuring out how to make fuel-efficient cars and hurting the American auto companies until they too learned how to adapt.
Like your Sony audio equipment? Like the fact that it's not twice as expensive? Again, thank Japan for finding out how to make stuff cheap.
How about your computer? Isn't it great that RAM costs less than $1 per 100 megs? Remember when 16 megs of RAM cost about $300? Like, ten years ago? I sure am glad that Taiwanese memory companies kicked our ass so i could buy a great computer for under $1500.
And your ISP -- they're dirt cheap. If they had to use American workers for tech support, you'd better believe you wouldn't find access for $9.95 / month.
I try to avoid the "Everyone knows..." play in an argument unless it's really the case, and this is one such time: Any economist will tell you that free trade between nations is better, economically, for everyone involved. Adam Smith wrote long ago in Wealth of Nations that the only reasons to restrict trade were diplomatic and military; economically, it is always bad to "Buy American."
As an employee, though, you find that the corporation continues to take from you and doesn't return your contribution back in proportion. I offer 30% of my life to my employer. They do not recognize this.
...at which point, you quit and find another job, or start your own company.
So quit and start your own company. If you feel you're worth more than your employer is paying you, quit and find a job that recognizes your "true" value.
Eventually your time grows to be worth more than what they're willing to pay you.
When i work for a company, i don't feel i'm getting screwed. It's my choice: either start my own company, which means accepting a huge amount of risk for a potentially huge return on investment, or go to work for a company, which means a steady, much more guaranteed income, but not as much as i'd have a chance of making as an entrepreneur.
The system as it exists allows us to make that choice ourselves. I'm more than happy to make less money than the company's founder if it means there's zero chance i could lose my life's savings if business dries up.
Come on, this benefits everyone. Yes, corporations will take their business to the cheapest source of adequate labor. So that means that the poorest countries will be lifted up until they surpass other countries, and then the other countries will be willing to work for less. Meanwhile, everyone gets better educated, gets cash flowing, and basically prosperity springs forth.
Yes, IPv6 is the future.
And it always will be.
No lie:
http://www.psu.edu/trustees/robinson.html
I see that "idiot" originally meant "layman" or "private", but pedagogue seems to come from the words for "child" and "leader", which seems to make perfect sense. What's the misuse of that word?
What does that have to do with legality or morality?
I hope Apple does fix things so that it's not easy to make copies of people's shared music. Then people would be able to share their music with the rest of the world when they're not using it, and it would be true sharing, since copies couldn't be made.
Yes, i know that people willing to make a serious effort will always be able to copy anything, regardless of protection, but you could say that about books in libraries. Just because it's possible for an expert with time on his hands to photocopy a book, it doesn't mean libraries are illegal, immoral, or should be shut down.
Posting my iTunes Library URL to something like Spymac Music is like leaving my CD collection outside my house, with a sign that says "Copy Me"
No it's not; it's like leaving your CD collection outside your house with a sign that says, "Listen to me."
You know, like libraries do with books. Like was generally accepted as the norm from the start of civilization until about 100 years ago.
Yeah, but if the US were to vanish today, Canada would have to get a US-sized military to enjoy the safety it enjoys today. If France were to vanish, well, insert joke here.
Here's a mirror.
That seems so ridiculous -- once you get the timing data, shouldn't it be a piece-of-cake algebraic equation to solve?
On a related funny note: my Audiovox phone has a GPS receiver, which only finds your location when you call 911. In the instruction manual, where it explains all the deep-nested menu choices, there's one which displays the location last transmitted to 911. However, there was an insert in the manual saying that the option is no longer there.
It doesn't take much thinking to figure out what was going on -- whenever people wanted to know their location, they would call 911, say, "Oops, false alarm, never mind" and then check that menu option. I'd imagine neither 911 nor the cell carrier was very pleased.
I don't get it.
Additionally, almost all spam goes through an open relay -- the spammers almost never talk directly to the final mailserver. So TarProxy isn't hurting the spammers so much as the open relay sysadmins. The open relay sysadmins, seeing their mail servers slow down and run out of disk space, will either take the time to figure out what's going on (and hopefully solve the problem by securing their server), or do nothing and have their server hammered to the point where it can barely spam anymore.
# Set a doctor appointment on June 19th, 1986
Okay, i've googled around, and i can't figure out what this one means.
Talking about the popular vote is ridiculous -- if the popular vote decided the election, then the 2000 popular vote would have been completely different. Think of all the millions of people in non-swing states who stayed home, because their candidate either had no chance of winning or no chance of losing.
Additionally, the 13 states decided way back at the time the Constitution was framed, that the popular vote was not a good way to decide things. States with low population would never be heard. If we let the popular vote decide things, New York, California, and Texas would make all the rules, and because of this, none of the other states would have ever joined the union in the first place.
Additionally, where is your evidence that Gore won the final Florida vote count? I heard that independent recounts showed that Bush really did have more votes than Gore.
where is everybody?
I agree with the parent, but why was it moderated as Funny?
Read the fucking article. Although the tariffs have been lifted, Marvel is due a buttload of refunds for tariffs paid in the past.
Obviously the status of fictional characters as "human" or not is completely absurd, and not at all what the case was about.
That's exactly what the case was about -- whether or not the fictional characters depicted by the X-Men figurines were human characters or not.
He's not suggesting you totally disable the phones in those areas, just send them into "vibrate" mode. And if people really needed their phone to ring in a movie theater, they could override it.
How about Code Name Viper? This game was absolutely unplayable, due to difficulty. Imagine Contra, except every time you get shot, you have to start the level over. And you can't do the trick with 30 lives.
I could never even get past the first few screens, and i'm pretty good at stuff. Even after i used the Game Genie to become invincible, it was still an extremely difficult game.
I don't remember.
Dude: mmencode -u
Yeah, i got it, and i was trying to find a good emulator. FCEU came closest, but in order to start the game, it appears you need to hit start on controller 2. And try for the life of me, i can't figure out how to do that with FCEU. I even downloaded the source and poked around for a few.