My pockets have been picked since I started working to fight useless wars and fund an enormous, expensive and increasingly ineffective military. Not to mention the soaring spending rates on police agencies from local to Federal which reduce my freedoms.
The money being spent on Volt subsidies is nothing compared to handouts to corn farmers. It's a pittance compared to money we just hand over to other nations.
As wealth flows upward and the middle class shrinks in size and spending power, artists must accept that that these changes affect them as well. The Middle Class is the real reason we have such a large artistic community. I'm thinking that if this social change does not reverse that artists will be relegated to patronage and the former middle class will cease caring about art as they increasingly need to spend their money on necessities over srtistic luxuries.
Hardly a good analogy. Your end users pay your bills, you must listen to them or you go out of business. If the posters don't like how you provide your content, they'll get content from someone else.
Your business model is not protected by law, or rather, it should not be protected by law.
It's not a failure because the majority of mobile device users haven't embrace it. I have DVD drive on my Thinkpad. I've used it maybe twice in three years. All my data comes to me over the wire instead of on dead dinosaur media. Burn CDs? Hello, iPod?
While the touchpad on our Eeepc 1005HA is indeed annoying, a $15 mini wireless mouse cleaned that up. The low vertical resolution is just part of the packaging if you want a physically small device. We run browsers full screen and it's great. I dunno what the boot time is, we've only booted it a few times. Hibernate works great and it resumes in seconds with the OEM XP installation.
I think you are whinging about a device not designed for you.
California can't stop this as the Federal government decides to redistribute their wealth to the fly-over areas. Cali only has their reps in the legislature to fight that.
Are you so ignorant that you deny the fact that this wealth redistribution really is happening? Here's a nice conservative-biased site that supports my assertation:
By and large the coastal states are taxed at the Federal level so that up to 40% of those tax receipts can be gifted to the bootstrappy heartland states.
No whingefest about mean old taxes is complete without a mention of this fact.
My own state only gets 60 cents spent on it for every dollar we contribute. And that includes the sub bases!
The Republicans constantly said that they would vote for the bill if X was done. X was done, they didn't vote. I see you are trying to change the subject here.
Drug re-importation? Why not have the stones to force the corps to sell us the drugs at a fair price in the first place? You only like socialism once removed?
Indeed. After McCain's douchey 'concession speech' in which he practically demanded that Obama act in a bipartisan manner, Obama tried too hard at bipartisanship. He should have known that the Republicans would never meet him half way. After several months of Democrats giving concessions to Republicans re: health care, and several months of the Republicans not giving concessions, it's about time the Democrats played politics the way the Republican-majority Congress did in the 90's and most of the 00's. No need to turn into total douches, but the Dems really need to stand up to the idiocy coming from the angry (fr)right(end) wing. What are these people so scared of anyway?:P
The brain damaged failures known as 'federal funding for faith-based medicine' and 'abstinence only sex educaitons' my trollrific friend:)
He's also saving us money by telling the AG to not prosecute pot users in states that make such use legal. I do wish he'd pull every US soldier and asset out of the ME immediately, but military people who know better than I say that would be a bad idea.
I develop J2EE applications on a Windows machine as I prefer the snappier UI to X. My code runs, with no modifications, on Windows (duh), AIX, Linux and Linux running on zSeries platform. We have never needed to call platform-specific functions for our work as these are business applications. There is something really cool about using the development tool to push the same EAR to applications servers on several different platforms all from within the dev tool. Now the dev tool itself is a resource hog but my boss doesn't mind spending a few hundred dollars to max out memory and ensure we have speedy processors in our dev machines.
I used VB.NET in a few classes I took last year for my Masters degree. It is a nice environment to work in, even the 'free' student-grade version. It may even be better than the eclipse-based environment I use at work. My only complaint was that we had to use VB as I dislike BASIC syntax.
But single-species tree cultivation is not forest! Not even close. It's cultivation which does not tolerate all the other aspects of a forest ecosystem. You can't really compare commercially farmed trees to an actual forest. It's disingenuous.
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I didn't buy an expensive 1080p TV and 5.1 surround sound system to watch overly-compressed mish-mash! Most of my friends are the same.
My pockets have been picked since I started working to fight useless wars and fund an enormous, expensive and increasingly ineffective military. Not to mention the soaring spending rates on police agencies from local to Federal which reduce my freedoms.
The money being spent on Volt subsidies is nothing compared to handouts to corn farmers. It's a pittance compared to money we just hand over to other nations.
I think they probably got over that in high school.
If you want more hardship in your life, go find it. Go join the army or something.
I consider my 'laziness' to be an adult realization that the 'go go go work till you drop' culture in this country is poisonous.
What 'heat' other than strongly worded letters did the State of Isreal take in response to their Gaza attacks?
They're not even part of the Non-proliferation treaty. Your assertations need citations.
As wealth flows upward and the middle class shrinks in size and spending power, artists must accept that that these changes affect them as well. The Middle Class is the real reason we have such a large artistic community. I'm thinking that if this social change does not reverse that artists will be relegated to patronage and the former middle class will cease caring about art as they increasingly need to spend their money on necessities over srtistic luxuries.
My couch, bed, carpeting and most of my furniture is pirated. You got me. Please don't turn me in!
Hardly a good analogy. Your end users pay your bills, you must listen to them or you go out of business. If the posters don't like how you provide your content, they'll get content from someone else.
Your business model is not protected by law, or rather, it should not be protected by law.
It's not a failure because the majority of mobile device users haven't embrace it. I have DVD drive on my Thinkpad. I've used it maybe twice in three years. All my data comes to me over the wire instead of on dead dinosaur media. Burn CDs? Hello, iPod?
Our ASUS Eeepc 1005HA works flawlessly out of the box.
While the touchpad on our Eeepc 1005HA is indeed annoying, a $15 mini wireless mouse cleaned that up. The low vertical resolution is just part of the packaging if you want a physically small device. We run browsers full screen and it's great. I dunno what the boot time is, we've only booted it a few times. Hibernate works great and it resumes in seconds with the OEM XP installation.
I think you are whinging about a device not designed for you.
LOL WUT?
California can't stop this as the Federal government decides to redistribute their wealth to the fly-over areas. Cali only has their reps in the legislature to fight that.
Are you so ignorant that you deny the fact that this wealth redistribution really is happening? Here's a nice conservative-biased site that supports my assertation:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html
BTW, cool argument bro! But you might want to hang arround the debate club a bit longer before you bring your skills to bear upon Slashdot.
By and large the coastal states are taxed at the Federal level so that up to 40% of those tax receipts can be gifted to the bootstrappy heartland states.
No whingefest about mean old taxes is complete without a mention of this fact.
My own state only gets 60 cents spent on it for every dollar we contribute. And that includes the sub bases!
FSM be praised. Ramen.
The entire organisation is based on selling a bunch of silly and un-provable claims to millions...and they're seeking the legal benefit of copyright?
That is so wrong...
The Republicans constantly said that they would vote for the bill if X was done. X was done, they didn't vote. I see you are trying to change the subject here.
...but so far lobbying is legal. We need to change the law first before anyone gets thrown out.
Drug re-importation? Why not have the stones to force the corps to sell us the drugs at a fair price in the first place? You only like socialism once removed?
The flame would be visible from space, much like the Luxor's light.
Indeed. After McCain's douchey 'concession speech' in which he practically demanded that Obama act in a bipartisan manner, Obama tried too hard at bipartisanship. He should have known that the Republicans would never meet him half way. After several months of Democrats giving concessions to Republicans re: health care, and several months of the Republicans not giving concessions, it's about time the Democrats played politics the way the Republican-majority Congress did in the 90's and most of the 00's. No need to turn into total douches, but the Dems really need to stand up to the idiocy coming from the angry (fr)right(end) wing. What are these people so scared of anyway? :P
The brain damaged failures known as 'federal funding for faith-based medicine' and 'abstinence only sex educaitons' my trollrific friend :)
He's also saving us money by telling the AG to not prosecute pot users in states that make such use legal. I do wish he'd pull every US soldier and asset out of the ME immediately, but military people who know better than I say that would be a bad idea.
I develop J2EE applications on a Windows machine as I prefer the snappier UI to X. My code runs, with no modifications, on Windows (duh), AIX, Linux and Linux running on zSeries platform. We have never needed to call platform-specific functions for our work as these are business applications. There is something really cool about using the development tool to push the same EAR to applications servers on several different platforms all from within the dev tool. Now the dev tool itself is a resource hog but my boss doesn't mind spending a few hundred dollars to max out memory and ensure we have speedy processors in our dev machines.
I used VB.NET in a few classes I took last year for my Masters degree. It is a nice environment to work in, even the 'free' student-grade version. It may even be better than the eclipse-based environment I use at work. My only complaint was that we had to use VB as I dislike BASIC syntax.
But single-species tree cultivation is not forest! Not even close. It's cultivation which does not tolerate all the other aspects of a forest ecosystem. You can't really compare commercially farmed trees to an actual forest. It's disingenuous.
More heads inside TSA need to roll. Don't punish the citizens for wanting to know WTF their security theater troop is doing to protect them.
Vote for the party that failed in a two-front war! They're just as bad as the Dems, amirite?