I honestly can't imagine Richard Stallman saying anything positive about anything Microsoft produces due to him never giving it a shot because of his personal beliefs of how software should be.
I don't want to say whether or not Ron Paul is the best choice out there, but the claim the private sector can do a better job in the same thread as complaining about corporate media abusing power seems a bit at odds. I mean if private sector completely controlled the space program do you somehow think they WOULDN'T abuse it?
What electric car is only $5000? Or if there isn't one where did you get this number? I don't even know of any new cars approaching this number let alone the generally more expensive electric ones.
I know ALOT of people for whom $2500 is a very very significant investment.
I would only think there would be an issue if he didn't pay importation taxes and tariffs for the goods he is selling. Not to mention use taxes etc his state is going to charge him. I'm willing to bet he isn't though and he is just buying them as a private person and reselling them the same way without paying/collecting any taxes.
I got the impression that it was other employees that were in the states on the wrong visas and had built a life here that were sending death threats, not random exec who is looking to save money.
To give an equally relevant data point, I have lots of bills now but I but 10x the games now than I did when I was a kid. Having disposable income is awesome.
So aka, don't publish findings to try to secure grants for further research until said research is already done. Makes sense.
I didn't see anything calling for a ban. Just a possible link. I haven't even seen anyone saying they should ban it. I personally think it should be used more sparingly than it was before since there is a potential link since bees are so important to agriculture and the Colony Collapse disorder is a real major concern. If research shows that there is no real connection I don't see anything wrong with continuing to use it and if research shows there is a link, we need to stop using it. If a drug has shown a possible link to cancer in the majority of patients it is prescribed to, how would you feel about your doctor prescribing it to you if he knew that ongoing research was being done on the potential safety of the drug? It wouldn't be banned but I would prefer my doctor prescribe an alternative medication.
Out of curiosity do you use firebug? I was thinking it might actually be that plugin causing the issue that's the only plugin I have at work I don't have at home and I see serious memory bloat at work and not at home.
Most brick and mortar don't have a database where they store my financial information with an easy web portal to target it. Some might, but the credit card and user records from Walmart.com aren't the same ones as Walmart brick and mortar. I can't go to Walmart use a credit card there then sign in to Walmart.com to use the same card. And I'm pretty sure for brick and mortar there isn't a user record unless I have a club membership card.
I'm not sure what this story has to say about DRM... Sony did not remove the game from peoples' devices from what I understand, just stopped selling it in their store. If that's severe DRM then DAMN Nintendo and Sony! Their horrible DRM on their Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System has cause me not to be able to buy the original games anymore!
DRM is an important topic to rally against, removing items from a store for not good reasons is something we should rally against. We should not confuse one for the other.
Piles of dead people are usually frowned upon by the general public and the people who caused the piles are usually vilified. So I'm confused are you saying the current government is going to start en masse summary executions or that a revolution that causes abhorrent actions like piles of dead people would garner support from people who generally find that kind of behavior not in the interests of society and those actions would not cause the people to generally support the old government in putting down such a "rebellion" quickly?
To throw it out there, I think at some point in the past I also read about a correlation between gas prices and recessions. When gas prices are lower, the economy is usually healthier since people have more income to travel and actually buy stuff vs having to spend it all at the pump.
prison for what? if risky business decisions that didn't pan out were crimes there are NO businesses that would not be in jail. I do think a bit more research should have been done and that they should not have based their entire business around one product (that was retarded level of stupid), but there was no crime here.
Because people feel so insecure about moderation that they would work to try to trick the filters just for a +1? Anyone who would do that REALLY places no value on their time and WAY too much on Slashdot moderation.
land doesn't fluctuate in price and is constant everywhere? That's a pretty inaccurate statement. The value of land increases and decreases due to supply and demand just like everything else. The supply of land close to New York City is low with an incredible demand thus prices there are F***ING ridiculous. But not so many people trying to move into the middle of the Utah so I'm willing to bet the land prices there are very different, but if something was built there that made people *want* to be there I assure you the price of the land there would increase.
And just to throw it out there demand for valuable metals like copper and gold fluctuates with demand also. As we find uses for the materials or better materials for what we used to use those materials for affects the current value of the metal. i.e. if we had based our economy on copper we would have had run away inflation when demand for copper went up as electricity and wiring and things like that started putting out more demand for copper. Let's say we discover a way to use gold to make ships that can easily travel to distant planets with a 90% energy efficiency transfer or something unrealistic (right now) like that. Would the value of gold change?
How do you define naturally? Is natural due to natural course of advances in technology and civilization? I'm pretty positive oil is worth more now than it was when the dollar was first printed. If the supply of some good decreases due to dwindling resources a source of natural inflation or a new source located a source of deflation? If the amount of people in a population increases, universally creating more demand for every item, is this a natural source of inflation since every good is now able to be sold at a higher price thus resulting in a "weaker" dollar. If this is not the definition of naturally fluctuating prices then I don't think speaking about prices naturally changing is even relevant since it doesn't apply to the real world.
Over time the values of different goods DO change. Buggy Whips aren't the same value as they were back in the day and the value for different resources increases or decreases as we discover new uses or better resources over time or due to increases or decreases in supply or demand.
Actually my statement was asserting even the "pretty nice and helpful" local police will when confronted with evidence of a crime always 100% of the time try to arrive at a conviction for said crime as quickly as possible using the closest people at hand. The same local police who are normally "pretty nice and helpful" will become assholes pretty quickly.
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I honestly can't imagine Richard Stallman saying anything positive about anything Microsoft produces due to him never giving it a shot because of his personal beliefs of how software should be.
I wonder what kind of phone he actually uses...
secure data transmission. Assuming Http is the only thing allowed that would mean https is not allowed.
I don't want to say whether or not Ron Paul is the best choice out there, but the claim the private sector can do a better job in the same thread as complaining about corporate media abusing power seems a bit at odds. I mean if private sector completely controlled the space program do you somehow think they WOULDN'T abuse it?
Yep. Won't someone think of the children and protect them from being exploited by... themselves?
man... that sucks... was it a macintosh or a IIe?
What electric car is only $5000? Or if there isn't one where did you get this number? I don't even know of any new cars approaching this number let alone the generally more expensive electric ones.
I know ALOT of people for whom $2500 is a very very significant investment.
I would only think there would be an issue if he didn't pay importation taxes and tariffs for the goods he is selling. Not to mention use taxes etc his state is going to charge him. I'm willing to bet he isn't though and he is just buying them as a private person and reselling them the same way without paying/collecting any taxes.
I got the impression that it was other employees that were in the states on the wrong visas and had built a life here that were sending death threats, not random exec who is looking to save money.
To give an equally relevant data point, I have lots of bills now but I but 10x the games now than I did when I was a kid. Having disposable income is awesome.
So aka, don't publish findings to try to secure grants for further research until said research is already done. Makes sense.
I didn't see anything calling for a ban. Just a possible link. I haven't even seen anyone saying they should ban it. I personally think it should be used more sparingly than it was before since there is a potential link since bees are so important to agriculture and the Colony Collapse disorder is a real major concern. If research shows that there is no real connection I don't see anything wrong with continuing to use it and if research shows there is a link, we need to stop using it. If a drug has shown a possible link to cancer in the majority of patients it is prescribed to, how would you feel about your doctor prescribing it to you if he knew that ongoing research was being done on the potential safety of the drug? It wouldn't be banned but I would prefer my doctor prescribe an alternative medication.
Out of curiosity do you use firebug? I was thinking it might actually be that plugin causing the issue that's the only plugin I have at work I don't have at home and I see serious memory bloat at work and not at home.
Most brick and mortar don't have a database where they store my financial information with an easy web portal to target it. Some might, but the credit card and user records from Walmart.com aren't the same ones as Walmart brick and mortar. I can't go to Walmart use a credit card there then sign in to Walmart.com to use the same card. And I'm pretty sure for brick and mortar there isn't a user record unless I have a club membership card.
I agree with the DRM free part, but why do I have to be redirected to Pottermore? I don't want my financial details all over the place.
I'm not sure what this story has to say about DRM... Sony did not remove the game from peoples' devices from what I understand, just stopped selling it in their store. If that's severe DRM then DAMN Nintendo and Sony! Their horrible DRM on their Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System has cause me not to be able to buy the original games anymore!
DRM is an important topic to rally against, removing items from a store for not good reasons is something we should rally against. We should not confuse one for the other.
Piles of dead people are usually frowned upon by the general public and the people who caused the piles are usually vilified. So I'm confused are you saying the current government is going to start en masse summary executions or that a revolution that causes abhorrent actions like piles of dead people would garner support from people who generally find that kind of behavior not in the interests of society and those actions would not cause the people to generally support the old government in putting down such a "rebellion" quickly?
To throw it out there, I think at some point in the past I also read about a correlation between gas prices and recessions. When gas prices are lower, the economy is usually healthier since people have more income to travel and actually buy stuff vs having to spend it all at the pump.
prison for what? if risky business decisions that didn't pan out were crimes there are NO businesses that would not be in jail. I do think a bit more research should have been done and that they should not have based their entire business around one product (that was retarded level of stupid), but there was no crime here.
Because people feel so insecure about moderation that they would work to try to trick the filters just for a +1? Anyone who would do that REALLY places no value on their time and WAY too much on Slashdot moderation.
He didn't actually say it was the least risky. He said best risk/potential benefit ratio.
land doesn't fluctuate in price and is constant everywhere? That's a pretty inaccurate statement. The value of land increases and decreases due to supply and demand just like everything else. The supply of land close to New York City is low with an incredible demand thus prices there are F***ING ridiculous. But not so many people trying to move into the middle of the Utah so I'm willing to bet the land prices there are very different, but if something was built there that made people *want* to be there I assure you the price of the land there would increase.
And just to throw it out there demand for valuable metals like copper and gold fluctuates with demand also. As we find uses for the materials or better materials for what we used to use those materials for affects the current value of the metal. i.e. if we had based our economy on copper we would have had run away inflation when demand for copper went up as electricity and wiring and things like that started putting out more demand for copper. Let's say we discover a way to use gold to make ships that can easily travel to distant planets with a 90% energy efficiency transfer or something unrealistic (right now) like that. Would the value of gold change?
How do you define naturally? Is natural due to natural course of advances in technology and civilization? I'm pretty positive oil is worth more now than it was when the dollar was first printed. If the supply of some good decreases due to dwindling resources a source of natural inflation or a new source located a source of deflation? If the amount of people in a population increases, universally creating more demand for every item, is this a natural source of inflation since every good is now able to be sold at a higher price thus resulting in a "weaker" dollar. If this is not the definition of naturally fluctuating prices then I don't think speaking about prices naturally changing is even relevant since it doesn't apply to the real world.
Over time the values of different goods DO change. Buggy Whips aren't the same value as they were back in the day and the value for different resources increases or decreases as we discover new uses or better resources over time or due to increases or decreases in supply or demand.
aka Mr. Taxpayer pays for him.
Actually my statement was asserting even the "pretty nice and helpful" local police will when confronted with evidence of a crime always 100% of the time try to arrive at a conviction for said crime as quickly as possible using the closest people at hand. The same local police who are normally "pretty nice and helpful" will become assholes pretty quickly.
Try reporting something to them like finding child pornography on your computer and see what happens.
Completely agree. What do they expect to happen when the game is no longer profitable to run? A refund of any money they spent?