Well my professor has his dream job, but it wasn't what he dreamed about as a child. He's an academic, but not one of your ivory-tower types, he treks around lawless parts of Africa interviewing warlords. Read all about what he told me about finding your dream job.
Names removed for his privacy and mine, but you can figure out who he is if you really care and poke around the net a bit.
According to the rules [linked to from macrumors.com today] the maximum number of codes a person/email account can enter is 10/day or 200 for the whole contest.
This scheme sounds like it's in violation of the intent, if not the letter of the rules.
But seriously, if you care about independent music, just by from some of the thousand labels out there.. but don't give away your codes in some stupid moral effort. I guarantee you can make better use of the free music than they can.. if the "recyclers" even have benevolent intents.
Citizens can accept titles, but U.S. government officials may not without Congressional approval.
Therefore, there is no constitutional issue about Bill accepting a title, but Gen Norman Schwarzkof [spelling is incorrect] shouldn't have accepted knighthood after the First Gulf War. Because Congress didn't authorize it.
I'm sorry, but that's a terribly naive thing to say.
We have been in a global economy since the shipping innovations of the mid-nineteenth century and British Imperial hegemony promoted truly intercontinental trade. For all of you who think that the internet fundamentally changed how the global markets worked, please review the historical impact of telegraphy. Its huge significance can hardly be underrated, and pretty much everything that Silicon Valley "visionary" philosopher/prognosticators claimed would come to pass with the invention of the internet had already happened with in the age of global telegraphy. I don't really have much respect for those rag writers, they apparently had neither technological competency (otherwise they'd have been tech workers during the bubble) nor had they a strong historical/social science backround, else they'd realize that most "big new things" have historical precedent. For reading on the telegraph see esp. Tom Standage's Victorian Internet for a fun overview of the technology and its economic impact.
Your moniker is "Dutchmaan" so presumably you should be aware of the hegemony of the United Provinces, way back between the fall of the Spanish and the rise of the British Empires? Dutch hegemony was based on international banking and shipping, way back in the seventeenth/eighteenth centuries.
Basically, my point is that if the disparity in music prices was a market economy issue, it would have been solved by wholesalers long ago. The issue has to do with RIAA content control that is taking advantage of economic differences among states to maximise their profits. The same contractual/legal issues, issues that are just as much a barrier for the internet (which is why iTunes has taken a while to expand to Europe); this has nothing to do with the internet (unless you want to talk about piracy, in which case you'd have an argument).
To specifically answer your point, only after five hundred years of capitalism in Europe has a unified continental government emerged there, and certainly the consolidation of nation-states in Europe had a lot to do with the geographical reach and modes of trade, but DO NOT assume that the reach of trade implies that governance over the same area. Yes, American hegemony led to IMF/WTO trade rules, but in the post-Cold War world, anything can happen, and don't assume things won't swing the other way (in regards to increasing global market integration, or international compliance with American goals).
America could be heading for financial trouble, if the federal deficits and the state budget disasters do not get solved masterfully (and soon).. Grey Davis was the first casualty, but in the longer term it could mean the relative decline of our (U.S.) power and a reaction towards mercantilism. See Immanual Wallerstein's scholarship:)
Yes, there was inefficiency and it cost a hell of a lot, but think about the EXPONENTIALLY larger degree of corruption [call it what you will, but the votes and large focused campaign contributions from lobbyists go hand in hand . . . ] that goes on nonstop with all these farm subsidies we pay for, the vast majority of which go to HUGE agribusiness conglomorates.
The fact of the matter is, urban centers continually get shafted in Washington appropriations games, largely because of disproportionate representation for rural areas, esp in the U.S. Senate.
And if the Big Dig makes the quality of life better in one of America's oldest and quaintest cities, I'm all for it, even as a resident of Texas.
But, if I don't think about this for a few days, I'll probably forget the spoiler, and it will be okay.. Narnia is far down on my list of to-reads anyway. If it's on there at all.
This really isn't true. The area around where I go to school in Evanston, Illinois [first suburb north of Chicago proper along the lakefront] is quite underlit. There are some streetlights, but throughout the residential areas they are VERY dim.
I am an intermediate level GNU/Linux and *BSD user who had used Mac OS X at college all of last school year and Win98 most of the couple years before that.
I come home to the x86 box and I want to use some lynx and some windowMaker, because I learned once again how lame WinXX is.
I bought OpenBSD 3.3 but I could not make my ppp connection work. It just wouldn't go. I did everything the documentation for OpenBSD and FreeBSD explained, for both the ppp and pppd ways of connecting, same problem persisted. My modem goes through the authentication stage and then things fail during the IP address negotiation. It says, "Writing route to socket: error: no process."
AAAGH!! Now I am so impressed when I plug the Win98 hard disk drive back in and things just work:P And, quite frankly, Debian installed with just boxes checked for things I need [i.e. dialup support] has a lot of things I don't want, like ISDN and ASDL support. I know that's what dselect is for, but if you go down the list and uncheck bunches the bloat proggies, well that takes forever. Faster to just install:P
If anyone happens to know how to fix my ppp hell, please respond.
If you were a real Mac user you wouldn't spell it in all caps.
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I bought Less Than Jake's new CD called Anthem in a prerelease special. Buying direct from the record company gave me the bonus of having it [supposedly] autographed by all five members of the band, but guess what else? It was copy protected.
I would mod you down, but instead I'll just say that if you had read the article with the pictures, you'll see that there was a fourth drawing done after the machine was off.
They aren't that dumb, and everyone knows that kind of basic science principle.
Demand free trade to 3rd world countries, close the internal market. Nothing to see here.
Sure, but in this case, the Republic of Korea's development is entirely due to cash pumped in to the country through and after the Korean War [plus a ton of hard Korean labor, but the effort would have been futile without our cash].
Korean chaebol developed with close ties to and huge amounts of funding from their government, so I wouldn't be surprised if the American allegations here are true.
For my source and an understanding of this important country, see Bruce Cumings' brilliant and excellent Korea's Place in the Sun. My dear professor from this spring [who is a friend of Cumings] teaches the book, and my dear friend at the U. of Chicago has Cumings as his professor. He probably understands Korea as well as anyone outside that nation.
You're mistaking capitalism for monarchy. Monarchies arise out of lawlessness when feudal lords accumulate enough power to form city-states, which then coalesce into nation-states, of which they are the monarchs.
Read Hendrik Spruyt and Immanuel Wallerstein.
As Spruyt argues, the best early example of the sovereign state came in France when the Parisian king aligned with the bourgeois city-dweller merchant class in order to vest power away from the feudal lords. The feudal lords did not build or control the city-states; the city-states were something of an anti-system movement.
According to Wallerstein, the dominance of the modern world-system of sovereign states came from its spread by European imperialism, which was very much driven by the capitalist forces in the European core of the world-system.
Read Utopistics for Wallerstein's very insightful account of what the next world-system should be like. We are in the midst of the end of the current capitalist system, as capitalists have run out of markets and face declining profits from industrial production (due to increased competition).
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Tiro's Law: Any good thing, like the internet, will be used for exploitation
Well my professor has his dream job, but it wasn't what he dreamed about as a child. He's an academic, but not one of your ivory-tower types, he treks around lawless parts of Africa interviewing warlords. Read all about what he told me about finding your dream job. Names removed for his privacy and mine, but you can figure out who he is if you really care and poke around the net a bit.
This scheme sounds like it's in violation of the intent, if not the letter of the rules.
But seriously, if you care about independent music, just by from some of the thousand labels out there.. but don't give away your codes in some stupid moral effort. I guarantee you can make better use of the free music than they can.. if the "recyclers" even have benevolent intents.
Citizens can accept titles, but U.S. government officials may not without Congressional approval.
Therefore, there is no constitutional issue about Bill accepting a title, but Gen Norman Schwarzkof [spelling is incorrect] shouldn't have accepted knighthood after the First Gulf War. Because Congress didn't authorize it.
Although at least I can say it's running Debian.. but it's slow as hell.
We have been in a global economy since the shipping innovations of the mid-nineteenth century and British Imperial hegemony promoted truly intercontinental trade. For all of you who think that the internet fundamentally changed how the global markets worked, please review the historical impact of telegraphy. Its huge significance can hardly be underrated, and pretty much everything that Silicon Valley "visionary" philosopher/prognosticators claimed would come to pass with the invention of the internet had already happened with in the age of global telegraphy. I don't really have much respect for those rag writers, they apparently had neither technological competency (otherwise they'd have been tech workers during the bubble) nor had they a strong historical/social science backround, else they'd realize that most "big new things" have historical precedent. For reading on the telegraph see esp. Tom Standage's Victorian Internet for a fun overview of the technology and its economic impact.
Your moniker is "Dutchmaan" so presumably you should be aware of the hegemony of the United Provinces, way back between the fall of the Spanish and the rise of the British Empires? Dutch hegemony was based on international banking and shipping, way back in the seventeenth/eighteenth centuries.
Basically, my point is that if the disparity in music prices was a market economy issue, it would have been solved by wholesalers long ago. The issue has to do with RIAA content control that is taking advantage of economic differences among states to maximise their profits. The same contractual/legal issues, issues that are just as much a barrier for the internet (which is why iTunes has taken a while to expand to Europe); this has nothing to do with the internet (unless you want to talk about piracy, in which case you'd have an argument). To specifically answer your point, only after five hundred years of capitalism in Europe has a unified continental government emerged there, and certainly the consolidation of nation-states in Europe had a lot to do with the geographical reach and modes of trade, but DO NOT assume that the reach of trade implies that governance over the same area. Yes, American hegemony led to IMF/WTO trade rules, but in the post-Cold War world, anything can happen, and don't assume things won't swing the other way (in regards to increasing global market integration, or international compliance with American goals).
America could be heading for financial trouble, if the federal deficits and the state budget disasters do not get solved masterfully (and soon).. Grey Davis was the first casualty, but in the longer term it could mean the relative decline of our (U.S.) power and a reaction towards mercantilism. See Immanual Wallerstein's scholarship :)
kHz is not equal to kbps
Close.. Satan Clause Operation.
The fact of the matter is, urban centers continually get shafted in Washington appropriations games, largely because of disproportionate representation for rural areas, esp in the U.S. Senate.
And if the Big Dig makes the quality of life better in one of America's oldest and quaintest cities, I'm all for it, even as a resident of Texas.
But, if I don't think about this for a few days, I'll probably forget the spoiler, and it will be okay.. Narnia is far down on my list of to-reads anyway. If it's on there at all.
This really isn't true. The area around where I go to school in Evanston, Illinois [first suburb north of Chicago proper along the lakefront] is quite underlit. There are some streetlights, but throughout the residential areas they are VERY dim.
I come home to the x86 box and I want to use some lynx and some windowMaker, because I learned once again how lame WinXX is.
I bought OpenBSD 3.3 but I could not make my ppp connection work. It just wouldn't go. I did everything the documentation for OpenBSD and FreeBSD explained, for both the ppp and pppd ways of connecting, same problem persisted. My modem goes through the authentication stage and then things fail during the IP address negotiation. It says, "Writing route to socket: error: no process."
AAAGH!! Now I am so impressed when I plug the Win98 hard disk drive back in and things just work :P And, quite frankly, Debian installed with just boxes checked for things I need [i.e. dialup support] has a lot of things I don't want, like ISDN and ASDL support. I know that's what dselect is for, but if you go down the list and uncheck bunches the bloat proggies, well that takes forever. Faster to just install :P
If anyone happens to know how to fix my ppp hell, please respond.
I bought Less Than Jake's new CD called Anthem in a prerelease special. Buying direct from the record company gave me the bonus of having it [supposedly] autographed by all five members of the band, but guess what else? It was copy protected.
They aren't that dumb, and everyone knows that kind of basic science principle.
Korean chaebol developed with close ties to and huge amounts of funding from their government, so I wouldn't be surprised if the American allegations here are true.
For my source and an understanding of this important country, see Bruce Cumings' brilliant and excellent Korea's Place in the Sun. My dear professor from this spring [who is a friend of Cumings] teaches the book, and my dear friend at the U. of Chicago has Cumings as his professor. He probably understands Korea as well as anyone outside that nation.
Can you play Quake 1 on them?
There is no such thing as a "free market". Governments come in to regulate markets, because that's what the market demands.
As Spruyt argues, the best early example of the sovereign state came in France when the Parisian king aligned with the bourgeois city-dweller merchant class in order to vest power away from the feudal lords. The feudal lords did not build or control the city-states; the city-states were something of an anti-system movement.
According to Wallerstein, the dominance of the modern world-system of sovereign states came from its spread by European imperialism, which was very much driven by the capitalist forces in the European core of the world-system.
Read Utopistics for Wallerstein's very insightful account of what the next world-system should be like. We are in the midst of the end of the current capitalist system, as capitalists have run out of markets and face declining profits from industrial production (due to increased competition).
Or you could pay your light bill [in the long term] by using power efficient LEDs.
Actually, I didn't read the Jargon File. I just read /.
No, I'm a karma whore