They want to regulate it as a step towards taxing it, I'll pretty much guarantee that. Bitcoin transactions, represent a pool of money they don't have their greedy self-serving paws on. I guaranttee, that if BitCoin garners enough attention and traction, that there will be something like a 1099-V.
(Doing best IRS authoritative voice) "Introducing form 1099-V, this form is to be used to declare all of your virtual currency holdings in order that we may tax the ever living fuck out of you. No lube."
I didn't say that people shouldn't do anything or learn any Microsoft products. I know all to well it's nearly impossible to get away from them, though I'd like the world so much better if the Earth just swallowed up Redmond one day.
I was just trying to make the point that people become to reliant on it and many become afraid or unwilling to even try another platform or product. I just feel that anyone working in an IT centric job should have familiarity and be somewhat comfortable with different platforms.
Innovative teaching, at least according to Microsoft's rules, 'must include the use of one or more Microsoft technologies.'
This is no surprise, whether it's a requirement of theirs or not, it sure seems to be standard practice. It causes big problems though, people running the program, like those in charge of the department of computer science at my school, come to push MS products for everything and pigeon hole students into the MS technologies. It's amazing just how many students there are that have used MS all their lives, but are still inept at using even the Windows command line, FSM forbid that you present them with anything else.
Innovative teaching of technology in grade school - university should involve a variety of technologies and platforms, especially in secondary education.
If all those roads had their limits set at what traffic usually flows at, it'd end up meaning less ticket revenue for those areas.
No, it wouldn't. There would be revenue to make from the people that are driving over the new adjusted limit. Upping the limit isn't going to stop the speeders, it will just have them driving that much faster, to try and be ahead of everyone else.
Most driving problems are due to people refusing to leave five minutes earlier.
And by the asshats that weave in and out of traffic, while paying absolutely no attention to anything that's going on. And those that insist on driving in whatever the fastest moving lane is, regardless of whether they're about to come up on a turn or exit they want to take, then cause issues when they have to get across three or four lanes. The general idiocy involved in driving in the U. S. is horrible.
a patent on this does still seem very... silly at best.
The silliness of a patent doesn't enter into the equation. It's not about silliness, common sense or reality when it comes to the patents most of these companies seem to try and get. It's more along the lines of patent everything in sight, imaginable or possible. Do this as broadly as possible and then sue the shit out of anyone that steps on their toes.
You can also be assured that if Apple allows for reselling through iTunes, they'll be taking a slice of every transaction made.
I wouldn't say that the irresponsible ones are the ONLY ones that procreate, but yes it does seem like idiocracy as they're doing it at a much higher rate.
I mean walk into a Walmart....'nuff said.
I'm not against it. I'm a firm believer that there's a large portion of the general population of the world that should be trimmed down. Just as I believe that birth control should be mandatory, there should be a limit on how many children people are allowed to have, world wide. In general, I don't see why anyone should procreate, when there are an over abundance of kids out there that need a home now. On the same note, I think adoptions should be taken care of within a country before outside adoptions are allowed (i.e., Brad and Angelina, should have to give homes to kids from the US, before they go giving a home to a Cambodian kid; people in the US, should be adopting kids from the US, before they can get a kid from Russia, etc.)
This could be the next big step for furniture companies. It may also be a boon for anyone that has ever been dragged out on a seemingly never ending antiquing spree. Then again once I get my butt groove worn into a chair or a couch, I'd be pissed if it self-destructed.
Next thing to look forward to...seating with wi-fi, for pay as you go seating.
we should start killing our population off, because then we'll produce less CO2 when they're dead.
I say we start with the cast of the Jersey Shore and pretty much everyone that works on Captiol Hill. Especially ignorant fools that have minds akin to that of the representative from Washington and any idiot that is on the science committee, that believes evolution is a fallacy.
I did. I've not ever been much for targeted advertising myself, which is one reason I very rarely use google for any searches and always clear my cache when I close my browser out. Same reason I refuse to use Chrome, the couple of times I've tried it, it seems that regardless of the behavior I tell it to use regarding my privacy settings it still catalogs every move I make.
As for Gmail, I know Google parses my account in an attempt at targeted advertising as well, but I'll give them credit on their spam filtering. I also hardly ever log in on the actual site, since everything can be delivered straight to my phone. When it comes to search I stick with DuckDuckGo, never any advertising, runs from a secure socket and it generally seems to get me to results I actually want faster than Google does.
Does anyone doubt this will be used as yet another way for Google to harvest our data?
Of course that's what the real idea behind the Google glasses is. To catalog everything you look at and append it to what is doubtless a huge database of your search histories, preferences, emails, etc. For anyone that has ever logged into a Google service or had some cookies on their machines. Their revenue is based on selling, so the more they can catalog on any and everyone, the happier they will be. All the way to the bank with all that money those marketing firms over there just gave them.
Republican/Democrat is not a personal ideology, it's a pre-formed and canned opinion for people too stupid to use their own brains. Made by people too stupid to use their own brains hiring various people that can barely use their brains to concoct a misearble and corrupt system and propaganda flood.
That definitely sums up most of the problems that are keeping things from getting done.
I don't live out in the desert, but on a "ruralish" road in Tennessee. The local cable company brings cable down the roads at either end of mine and partially up both ends of it. They won't however run it all the way down the road. The only options available are dial-up, a cell service hotspot (mine is $10/Gb) or HughesNet.
HughesNet, is more akin to cruel and unusual punishment than an option. If you want to talk about a company giving the hard stiff one to their customers it would be those asshats. Before dropping service with them, on the next to top plan our allowance was somewhere between 4 and 700 Mbs per day, if you hit that cap they claim to knock you down to dial up speeds, but it pretty much just severs the connection for 24 hours. Unless you want to pay for a restore token. The only time the bandwidth wasn't monitored was between 2 and 6 local time and even then it was slow and unreliable.
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The birth rate of atheists is 100%, no child is born indoctrinated into any dogma. Religious beliefs and bigotry are taught, not inherited.
if you want to live in a country that corruption has overrun you can just go to mexico.
I live in the US. Why would I need to move in order to be in a country overrun by corruption?
crooks inevitably ended up abusing the lack of oversigt to engage in racketeering, extortion and embezzlement.
Isn't that the modern definition for the US Congress?
But why SHOULD it be regulated?
They want to regulate it as a step towards taxing it, I'll pretty much guarantee that. Bitcoin transactions, represent a pool of money they don't have their greedy self-serving paws on. I guaranttee, that if BitCoin garners enough attention and traction, that there will be something like a 1099-V. (Doing best IRS authoritative voice) "Introducing form 1099-V, this form is to be used to declare all of your virtual currency holdings in order that we may tax the ever living fuck out of you. No lube."
I didn't say that people shouldn't do anything or learn any Microsoft products. I know all to well it's nearly impossible to get away from them, though I'd like the world so much better if the Earth just swallowed up Redmond one day. I was just trying to make the point that people become to reliant on it and many become afraid or unwilling to even try another platform or product. I just feel that anyone working in an IT centric job should have familiarity and be somewhat comfortable with different platforms.
Innovative teaching, at least according to Microsoft's rules, 'must include the use of one or more Microsoft technologies.'
This is no surprise, whether it's a requirement of theirs or not, it sure seems to be standard practice. It causes big problems though, people running the program, like those in charge of the department of computer science at my school, come to push MS products for everything and pigeon hole students into the MS technologies. It's amazing just how many students there are that have used MS all their lives, but are still inept at using even the Windows command line, FSM forbid that you present them with anything else. Innovative teaching of technology in grade school - university should involve a variety of technologies and platforms, especially in secondary education.
If all those roads had their limits set at what traffic usually flows at, it'd end up meaning less ticket revenue for those areas.
No, it wouldn't. There would be revenue to make from the people that are driving over the new adjusted limit. Upping the limit isn't going to stop the speeders, it will just have them driving that much faster, to try and be ahead of everyone else.
Most driving problems are due to people refusing to leave five minutes earlier.
And by the asshats that weave in and out of traffic, while paying absolutely no attention to anything that's going on. And those that insist on driving in whatever the fastest moving lane is, regardless of whether they're about to come up on a turn or exit they want to take, then cause issues when they have to get across three or four lanes. The general idiocy involved in driving in the U. S. is horrible.
Yeah, Macro Vision was a bitch, but luckily easy to get around with an extra little box plugged in.
a patent on this does still seem very... silly at best.
The silliness of a patent doesn't enter into the equation. It's not about silliness, common sense or reality when it comes to the patents most of these companies seem to try and get. It's more along the lines of patent everything in sight, imaginable or possible. Do this as broadly as possible and then sue the shit out of anyone that steps on their toes. You can also be assured that if Apple allows for reselling through iTunes, they'll be taking a slice of every transaction made.
I wouldn't say that the irresponsible ones are the ONLY ones that procreate, but yes it does seem like idiocracy as they're doing it at a much higher rate. I mean walk into a Walmart....'nuff said.
I was aiming that at Congress and the White House. You know, the ones that really keep the country from running smoothly.
I'm not against it. I'm a firm believer that there's a large portion of the general population of the world that should be trimmed down. Just as I believe that birth control should be mandatory, there should be a limit on how many children people are allowed to have, world wide. In general, I don't see why anyone should procreate, when there are an over abundance of kids out there that need a home now. On the same note, I think adoptions should be taken care of within a country before outside adoptions are allowed (i.e., Brad and Angelina, should have to give homes to kids from the US, before they go giving a home to a Cambodian kid; people in the US, should be adopting kids from the US, before they can get a kid from Russia, etc.)
This could be the next big step for furniture companies. It may also be a boon for anyone that has ever been dragged out on a seemingly never ending antiquing spree. Then again once I get my butt groove worn into a chair or a couch, I'd be pissed if it self-destructed. Next thing to look forward to...seating with wi-fi, for pay as you go seating.
we should start killing our population off, because then we'll produce less CO2 when they're dead.
I say we start with the cast of the Jersey Shore and pretty much everyone that works on Captiol Hill. Especially ignorant fools that have minds akin to that of the representative from Washington and any idiot that is on the science committee, that believes evolution is a fallacy.
I did. I've not ever been much for targeted advertising myself, which is one reason I very rarely use google for any searches and always clear my cache when I close my browser out. Same reason I refuse to use Chrome, the couple of times I've tried it, it seems that regardless of the behavior I tell it to use regarding my privacy settings it still catalogs every move I make. As for Gmail, I know Google parses my account in an attempt at targeted advertising as well, but I'll give them credit on their spam filtering. I also hardly ever log in on the actual site, since everything can be delivered straight to my phone. When it comes to search I stick with DuckDuckGo, never any advertising, runs from a secure socket and it generally seems to get me to results I actually want faster than Google does.
Does anyone doubt this will be used as yet another way for Google to harvest our data?
Of course that's what the real idea behind the Google glasses is. To catalog everything you look at and append it to what is doubtless a huge database of your search histories, preferences, emails, etc. For anyone that has ever logged into a Google service or had some cookies on their machines. Their revenue is based on selling, so the more they can catalog on any and everyone, the happier they will be. All the way to the bank with all that money those marketing firms over there just gave them.
Republican/Democrat is not a personal ideology, it's a pre-formed and canned opinion for people too stupid to use their own brains. Made by people too stupid to use their own brains hiring various people that can barely use their brains to concoct a misearble and corrupt system and propaganda flood.
That definitely sums up most of the problems that are keeping things from getting done.
But the people who would vote for that are the people who would be thrown out, so of course it's never gonna happen. Shameful...
They're also the jack asses that got raises this year. http://www.wtvy.com/home/headlines/President-OKs-Pay-Raise-for-Congress-185310012.html
Your only other option around here is HughsNet.
I don't live out in the desert, but on a "ruralish" road in Tennessee. The local cable company brings cable down the roads at either end of mine and partially up both ends of it. They won't however run it all the way down the road. The only options available are dial-up, a cell service hotspot (mine is $10/Gb) or HughesNet. HughesNet, is more akin to cruel and unusual punishment than an option. If you want to talk about a company giving the hard stiff one to their customers it would be those asshats. Before dropping service with them, on the next to top plan our allowance was somewhere between 4 and 700 Mbs per day, if you hit that cap they claim to knock you down to dial up speeds, but it pretty much just severs the connection for 24 hours. Unless you want to pay for a restore token. The only time the bandwidth wasn't monitored was between 2 and 6 local time and even then it was slow and unreliable.