google sold out some time ago
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just try building a new website in a commercial area. You will not get high ranking no matter how many websites link to yours, unless you pay google
google has sold out to commerce rankings
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Google now accepts payments for rankings. If you start a website that comes up highly ranked on queries, but if there are paying customers in that area, google will de-rank your site unless you pay.
I am about to go to law school, and am considering buying a cheap scanner (I see them for less than 100), and scannning in the books at the start of the semester, then returning them quickly enough to get all my money back. I could maybe put the book on a CD. Has anyone tried this?
...There are MANY teachers who are able to control the classroom without cameras. MOst of them remain teaching for many years. And those who cannot do so, get out of teaching.
Just one leetle problem--the ones who ARE able to control without a camera are what you call "people persons." THey have HIGH social skills. But they are not knowledge oriented at all. In fact most of these teachers are not interested in reading for pleasure or interested in science or math whatsoever. They know little of history or politics. They are interested in other people. But they are not interested in ideas. Often, they have to take teacher certification tests more than once in order to pass.
Now, the other kind of teacher leaves teaching in a few years, typically. They could really use the cameras. They are in love with knowledge, and ideas. But they are not really sociable.
Now you are starting to understand what is going on in the schools.....
Most of the kids were bad, and so I tried turning the camera on them and told them I would show the tape to their parents. They complained to the principal, who made me stop, and he did not renew my teaching contract.
And meanwhile Outsourcing/H1b destroys IT jobs
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There are some differences btw book trading on Usenet and music file on kazaa: usenet newsgroups have already been accorded common carrier status (like the telephone companies). Just as you cannot sue the telco's if thieves rob you while using the phone to plan the robbery, likewise ISPs are not liable for books stored on their news servers. This case law came down years ago before Massa realized his intellectual property was in such danger from the Net, otherwise the proper case law would have been duly purchased, as it has been against the web file traders.
Also, books can be placed in quite small files, making usenet trading easier than web file trading.
Also, has anyone noticed that this particular thread of slashdot is much slower than the other threads today?
You wrote "The Never-Ending Fractal Universe (Steady-State Reborn..."
This is the one I fervently hopes comes to pass. If the universe is eternal and never ending, then WE, you and I, can live forever. Umm....at this time, I would like to point out to you that ETERNAL LIFE could be a VERY good thing!
Hello!?
So, we should all assume that the The Never-Ending Fractal Universe (Steady-State Reborn) is the actual model, and then take some means to preserve our brains (as in cryonics) in the hopes that hundreds of years from now we can be revived and will live forever in this hopefully eternal universe.
We Are Just Livestock On CorpGovMedia's Ranch
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You ever go to the polls? It's all fuckin' OLD PEOPLE! All the politicians have to do is promise the old voters that they will keep squeezing you young guys for ever more money for drugs to keep the old people alive. That way the old people (WHO ALL VOTE) will vote in anyone who promises that. It doesn't matter to them if the RIAA and other corporate interests are wrecking the Constitution. They just want their medicare and lower property taxes.
If you YOUNG SHITHEADS would just vote, there WOULD BE NO RIAA!
Just take about a couple of months of plumbing adn carpentry classes down at the community college (cost about $500), buy a used truck, some tools, and build a website, start handing out cards, advertise a little. Do shower conversions, bathroom tile replacements, clogged toilets, leaky pipes, etc. Best to do extensive practice on your own plumbing first:-)
If you can charge 50 an hour, who cares if you only work 20 hours a week......hell, I really like that idea.
And YOU CAN charge $50 an hour, at least here in Houston. Hell, I talked to a guy about pulling out and replacing some of the tile in my shower and replacing a valve behind the wall, and he wanted $75/hr! He has his own business doing bathroom tile.
Also, a little advantage to that kind of business, I can take off a couple of months at a time whenever I damn well please.
The copyright laws as pertaining to filesharing, etc., clearly DO NOT reflect the mores of the majority of Americans, DE FACTO. This is clearly the case because we have TENS OF MILLIONS of Americans engaging in filesharing. And most Americans do not see this as a crime. Therefore, the current laws in this area do not reflect our current set of mores, in general. Therefore, the laws should change. In fact, the laws have been going in the opposite direction in this area. Why? Because our politicians are not public servants, but instead are Corporate Servants. And these DOJ lawyers, no matter how polite, are engaging in enforcing laws that run counter to the majority mores.
not the same as immigrating. My point is that India is by our "establishment" politically correct definition, racist. Again, I reiterate, if you call the Indian immigration bureaucracy, and tell them that you want to move to India, they will tell you that only those of Indian heritage may move to India. Period.
We'll take this nice and slow: LOTS of people have been submitting stories about this general topic for MONTHS. But/. has NOT been running them for POLITICAL reasons. Finally, I decided to change my sig to get the word out about how/. has been avoiding this story, and then they run the story. The fact the YOU submitted this PARTICULAR NEWS STORY has nothing to do with what I was talking about above. OK? Now I think your mom is calling you and wants to drive you to school. SO get along....
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just try building a new website in a commercial area. You will not get high ranking no matter how many websites link to yours, unless you pay google
Google now accepts payments for rankings. If you start a website that comes up highly ranked on queries, but if there are paying customers in that area, google will de-rank your site unless you pay.
use teoma and alltheweb instead of google.
I am about to go to law school, and am considering buying a cheap scanner (I see them for less than 100), and scannning in the books at the start of the semester, then returning them quickly enough to get all my money back. I could maybe put the book on a CD.
Has anyone tried this?
It seems like every time /. posts an outsourcing thread, the server gets slower than hell. What gives?
Propaganda fed to the students persuades them to take out huge loans.
It's all about the money Slashdot gets paid for running this article/advertisement....
all because we are so stupid as to let the taboo-loving reactionaries such as Joe Sixpack and Dubya do our thinking for us.
...There are MANY teachers who are able to control the classroom without cameras. MOst of them remain teaching for many years. And those who cannot do so, get out of teaching.
Just one leetle problem--the ones who ARE able to control without a camera are what you call "people persons." THey have HIGH social skills. But they are not knowledge oriented at all. In fact most of these teachers are not interested in reading for pleasure or interested in science or math whatsoever. They know little of history or politics. They are interested in other people. But they are not interested in ideas. Often, they have to take teacher certification tests more than once in order to pass.
Now, the other kind of teacher leaves teaching in a few years, typically. They could really use the cameras. They are in love with knowledge, and ideas. But they are not really sociable.
Now you are starting to understand what is going on in the schools.....
I tried to use one myself to make the kids behave. But the principal said not to. I think the teachers would be in favor of the idea.
Most of the kids were bad, and so I tried turning the camera on them and told them I would show the tape to their parents. They complained to the principal, who made me stop, and he did not renew my teaching contract.
...and slashdot says next to nothing about that.
Perhaps they should rename it "Some for Nerds"?
There are some differences btw book trading on Usenet and music file on kazaa: usenet newsgroups have already been accorded common carrier status (like the telephone companies). Just as you cannot sue the telco's if thieves rob you while using the phone to plan the robbery, likewise ISPs are not liable for books stored on their news servers. This case law came down years ago before Massa realized his intellectual property was in such danger from the Net, otherwise the proper case law would have been duly purchased, as it has been against the web file traders.
Also, books can be placed in quite small files, making usenet trading easier than web file trading.
Also, has anyone noticed that this particular thread of slashdot is much slower than the other threads today?
You wrote
"The Never-Ending Fractal Universe (Steady-State Reborn..."
This is the one I fervently hopes comes to pass. If the universe is eternal and never ending, then WE, you and I, can live forever. Umm....at this time, I would like to point out to you that ETERNAL LIFE could be a VERY good thing!
Hello!?
So, we should all assume that the The Never-Ending Fractal Universe (Steady-State Reborn) is the actual model, and then take some means to preserve our brains (as in cryonics) in the hopes that hundreds of years from now we can be revived and will live forever in this hopefully eternal universe.
...when will the sheeple awaken?
You ever go to the polls? It's all fuckin' OLD PEOPLE! All the politicians have to do is promise the old voters that they will keep squeezing you young guys for ever more money for drugs to keep the old people alive. That way the old people (WHO ALL VOTE) will vote in anyone who promises that. It doesn't matter to them if the RIAA and other corporate interests are wrecking the Constitution. They just want their medicare and lower property taxes.
If you YOUNG SHITHEADS would just vote, there WOULD BE NO RIAA!
Just take about a couple of months of plumbing adn carpentry classes down at the community college (cost about $500), buy a used truck, some tools, and build a website, start handing out cards, advertise a little. Do shower conversions, bathroom tile replacements, clogged toilets, leaky pipes, etc. Best to do extensive practice on your own plumbing first
If you can charge 50 an hour, who cares if you only work 20 hours a week......hell, I really like that idea.
And YOU CAN charge $50 an hour, at least here in Houston. Hell, I talked to a guy about pulling out and replacing some of the tile in my shower and replacing a valve behind the wall, and he wanted $75/hr! He has his own business doing bathroom tile.
Also, a little advantage to that kind of business, I can take off a couple of months at a time whenever I damn well please.
start a plumbing business. That is what I am contemplating.
The copyright laws as pertaining to filesharing, etc., clearly DO NOT reflect the mores of the majority of Americans, DE FACTO. This is clearly the case because we have TENS OF MILLIONS of Americans engaging in filesharing. And most Americans do not see this as a crime. Therefore, the current laws in this area do not reflect our current set of mores, in general. Therefore, the laws should change. In fact, the laws have been going in the opposite direction in this area. Why? Because our politicians are not public servants, but instead are Corporate Servants. And these DOJ lawyers, no matter how polite, are engaging in enforcing laws that run counter to the majority mores.
And your car....
not the same as immigrating. My point is that India is by our "establishment" politically correct definition, racist. Again, I reiterate, if you call the Indian immigration bureaucracy, and tell them that you want to move to India, they will tell you that only those of Indian heritage may move to India. Period.
Yeah, right.....
What makes you think that we care whether IBM increases revenue?
Only those of the Indian race may immmigrate to India, by Indian law.
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you are a quaint, provincial moron
you live on the planet earth, not in your stupid little ethnic enclave called USA
you are a human being, not an american
give up your stupid nationalistic ethnocentrism
american politicians are about as powerless to fight this as the rising and setting of the sun
it's called globalization, there's no vested interested behind it, it's merely inevitable change at work
get used to it, there's no fighting it
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Give me your wallet. it belongs to the world, and not to you, you silly fool. No use fighting....
We'll take this nice and slow: LOTS of people have been submitting stories about this general topic for MONTHS. But /. has NOT been running them for POLITICAL reasons. Finally, I decided to change my sig to get the word out about how /. has been avoiding this story, and then they run the story. The fact the YOU submitted this PARTICULAR NEWS STORY has nothing to do with what I was talking about above. OK? Now I think your mom is calling you and wants to drive you to school. SO get along....