Here's an excerpt from a memo I found in the dumpster behind Hasbro Corporate HQ.
Step 1: Create line of toys. Step 2: Create TV show about said toys. Step 3: Use TV show (see step 2) to brainwash an entire generation of children in the wealthiest market on the planet. Step 4: Children spend all parents money in attempt to collect entire production line of toys. Step 5: Children grow up, discover sex, lose interest in silly toys. Step 6: Repeat steps 1-6 using a new line of toys to brainwash a new generation of children. By this time, the children from the first round of brainwashing will be adults and entering the workforce. Step 8: Reissue toys and tie-ins from original product line. Brainwashing still intact; all disposable income funneled to toy manufacturer.
So, yes, I'd say it's definitely more than meets the eye.
but you don't have to be a genius if you have good reference librarian skills.
A good tech support person ought to be able to fix common problems by ad libbing. If they don't know the answer, then they shouldn't give up, but rather should begin researching what they need to know in order to solve the problem (or determine what the problem is for that matter).
A good call center would collect and organize this research and put it in a format that is easy for everyone working there to search.
The only other thing they'd need to do is pay the tech support personnel well and not overwork them. Then people will actually want the jobs and you'll have no shortage of quality employees.
If they can't be covered under First Amendment protections, then how can they be protected by copyright law? Obviously, we can infer from this decision that we have every right to freely copy and distribute video games.
I don't see why Lucas doesn't just release a new version of Episode I that doesn't suck, and offer it to the public as a "Special Edition" version.
Oh yeah, because then he'd have to give the Phantom Editor credit for coming up with the idea first.
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Covering the moon with photovoltaic cells would make it a lot darker from the perspective of viewers situated on Earth. Not only would we lose an object of timeless beauty and inspiration, but many, many species of animals are thought to depend on the moon for navigation. If they can no longer migrate properly, this could mean interruptions in the food chain, in local ecologies, and worse. I hope someone stops to think about this before we go and blot out something so important and poorly understood as our nearest astronomical neighbor.
in many cases the software on the machine is worth more than the hardware. Both the donor and the charity should be attentive to the value of the software.
Not if it's Microsoft Software!
If it's an old version of something... Word 7, say... you can't open files received from anyone who's running the current version. That's not my idea of value.
If you don't WANT M$ Shite on your system, it's not worth anything to you, and is in fact taking up valuable resources in terms of storage space, thereby contributing negatively to the value of the PC.
so that whorebag operations like yahoo can no longer profit by selling it. Hey spammers, why pay for it when you can obtain it for free?
Go hog-wild, I LOVE SPAM!!!
Name: Mr eat me
Home Address: 1234 eatme st.
eatme, AZ 76113
United States
Phone: 800-382-5968
Fax: - not set -
Work/School Address: - not set -
Phone: - not set -
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Hackers also live in houses, which they use to store computers that are used to run various hacking projects. Obviously, something needs to be done about this housing problem. People should have to obtain a license or pass some kind of inspection, or else have their house taken away from them.
If a murderer tried to defend himself with the argument that murdering is an intergral part of who he is, and that he cannot be expected to conform to the law, that wouldn't work. The court would laugh at the defense and lock the murderer up for life, or administer capital punishment.
Is this what Microsoft wants for itself? It would certainly seem as though they're attempting to make a case that they cannot possibly be reformed...
It is (more likely, was) official policy, possibly set out by the government, to give in to hijacker demands.
Perhaps, but then, we're dealing with two separate heads of the same beasts, aren't we?
Aren't the executives in the corporate world cut from the same cultural cloth as the executives (and legislators) in government?
Do they not go to the same select colleges, by and large?
Are they not bought with the political donations of industry?
Even if everyone in the system is not corrupt and actively tries to make good, intelligent decisions, beaurocracy ends up making them inefficient, dumb, and counterproductive. Throw in just a tiny bit of greed or even just self-interest and mistrust in the perceived opposition, and you end up with shitbrained regulations and broken government and industries that can't regulate themselves.
Ok, so it wasn't cheap-ass executives in NYC real estate, it was cheap-ass executives in Airline risk management who decided that it was more cost effective not to build sturdier crew cabin doors or buy tighter security, or to let hijackers take a plane rather than fight back. What exactly is your point?
Then why WAS the fire suppression system disabled? Surely it's more cost effective to not pay for a working system provided the structure doesn't collapse in a big huge fire... and what are the odds of that happening, really? Even if there WAS a big huge fire that somehow brought down the towers (yeah right) it's all covered by insurance, right?
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Here's an excerpt from a memo I found in the dumpster behind Hasbro Corporate HQ.
Step 1: Create line of toys.
Step 2: Create TV show about said toys.
Step 3: Use TV show (see step 2) to brainwash an entire generation of children in the wealthiest market on the planet.
Step 4: Children spend all parents money in attempt to collect entire production line of toys.
Step 5: Children grow up, discover sex, lose interest in silly toys.
Step 6: Repeat steps 1-6 using a new line of toys to brainwash a new generation of children. By this time, the children from the first round of brainwashing will be adults and entering the workforce.
Step 8: Reissue toys and tie-ins from original product line. Brainwashing still intact; all disposable income funneled to toy manufacturer.
So, yes, I'd say it's definitely more than meets the eye.
but you don't have to be a genius if you have good reference librarian skills.
A good tech support person ought to be able to fix common problems by ad libbing. If they don't know the answer, then they shouldn't give up, but rather should begin researching what they need to know in order to solve the problem (or determine what the problem is for that matter).
A good call center would collect and organize this research and put it in a format that is easy for everyone working there to search.
The only other thing they'd need to do is pay the tech support personnel well and not overwork them. Then people will actually want the jobs and you'll have no shortage of quality employees.
If they can't be covered under First Amendment protections, then how can they be protected by copyright law? Obviously, we can infer from this decision that we have every right to freely copy and distribute video games.
I don't see why Lucas doesn't just release a new version of Episode I that doesn't suck, and offer it to the public as a "Special Edition" version.
Oh yeah, because then he'd have to give the Phantom Editor credit for coming up with the idea first.
Covering the moon with photovoltaic cells would make it a lot darker from the perspective of viewers situated on Earth. Not only would we lose an object of timeless beauty and inspiration, but many, many species of animals are thought to depend on the moon for navigation. If they can no longer migrate properly, this could mean interruptions in the food chain, in local ecologies, and worse. I hope someone stops to think about this before we go and blot out something so important and poorly understood as our nearest astronomical neighbor.
Yeah, but try running Office XP on a P166 with 32 MB of RAM and a 2GB hard drive.
I can't think of a good refutation to the following analogy:
Your right to swing your arms ends at my face; Your right to link ends at my webpage.
To the average person, an argument such as this would probably seem entirely reasonable. Why isn't it?
Not if it's Microsoft Software!
Since I'm currently living in the US, emigrate would be the correct word.
Canada?
New Zealand?
Iceland?
The Netherlands?
Microsoft: Where do you want to go^H^H flee today?
do I need to buy extra fans to attach to my head, to counter the extra heat that'll be generated from overclocking my brain?
So go write some decent USB drivers for Linux, and GPL them so the non-coder g33ks can have some fun!
Hackers also live in houses, which they use to store computers that are used to run various hacking projects. Obviously, something needs to be done about this housing problem. People should have to obtain a license or pass some kind of inspection, or else have their house taken away from them.
So what you're saying is, essentially, that we've seen this before, and it's called Deja Vu?
You just get that time machine from the previous story, and...
I already read about this, like, three zillion years from now. Can't you find anything to report about that HASN'T already happened?
I already read about this, like, three zillion years from now. Can't you find anything to report about that HASN'T already happened?
It's a feature!
If you read the article, you'll find out that Ooqa Ooqa and another of United Virtualities' products are named after the daughters of executives...
All we have to do, then, is prevent these people from breeding and there won't be any more abominations like this.
It'd probably be a good idea to pre-emptively knock off any still-living decendents of UV executives while we're at it...
So now drug users are going to start peeing in sinks, garbage cans, open drains, dark corners...
Just fucking great. Thanks, scientists! Now we can't even have some fucking privacy when we take a leak>:\
And by "we" I mean EVERYONE, not just drug users. How soon til the toilet detects you've got diabetes and tattles on you to the insurance companies?
If a murderer tried to defend himself with the argument that murdering is an intergral part of who he is, and that he cannot be expected to conform to the law, that wouldn't work. The court would laugh at the defense and lock the murderer up for life, or administer capital punishment.
Is this what Microsoft wants for itself? It would certainly seem as though they're attempting to make a case that they cannot possibly be reformed...
Perhaps, but then, we're dealing with two separate heads of the same beasts, aren't we?
Aren't the executives in the corporate world cut from the same cultural cloth as the executives (and legislators) in government?
Do they not go to the same select colleges, by and large?
Are they not bought with the political donations of industry?
Even if everyone in the system is not corrupt and actively tries to make good, intelligent decisions, beaurocracy ends up making them inefficient, dumb, and counterproductive. Throw in just a tiny bit of greed or even just self-interest and mistrust in the perceived opposition, and you end up with shitbrained regulations and broken government and industries that can't regulate themselves.
Ok, so it wasn't cheap-ass executives in NYC real estate, it was cheap-ass executives in Airline risk management who decided that it was more cost effective not to build sturdier crew cabin doors or buy tighter security, or to let hijackers take a plane rather than fight back. What exactly is your point?
Then why WAS the fire suppression system disabled? Surely it's more cost effective to not pay for a working system provided the structure doesn't collapse in a big huge fire... and what are the odds of that happening, really? Even if there WAS a big huge fire that somehow brought down the towers (yeah right) it's all covered by insurance, right?