Does your day job provides you with enough money to pay for the servers and bandwidth needed by a service like SnapChat? That is the infrastructure to handle about 4,500+ "snaps" a second. Oh, and don't forget the 30 employees SnapChat employs. Assuming they earn $50,000.00 per year, that is $1.5 million in salary per year.
I am sure that your day job is paying you the $2 million or so need to keep SnapChat or a similarly sized service running.
I am sure that "[n]ot everything [you] do is for profit" but your job is one of those things you do for profit. For Spiegel, SnapChat is his job, so he is doing it for profit. SnapChat's employees are working as their day job. They want the company to turn a profit so the keep getting paid, just as you want whatever company you work for to turn a profit so you continue to get paid because you still have a day job.
By "evil company", do you mean a company that charges for it's service or sells eyeballs? If so, how is that "nice company" supposed to pay it's bills?
Snapchat could emulate enterprise-centric vaporizing-message firms such as Silent Circle and start charging for subscriptions, but that would probably kill the service; a multitude of free rivals would likely spring up, with the express purpose of stealing irate customers away.
So, the end-user ends up with two choices
pay for SnapChat, where all there contacts currently on.
move to one or more of the new free services and hope you choose well and they don't go bust
Those new free services will still have a revenue problem. And, if one is better capitalized, then it may buy up it's rivals and have an even bigger revenue problem.
Everyone needs to eat. Servers need power. It costs money to run servers, pay for bandwidth, pay for facilities, and have employees. If a company has no revenue then it is going to fail eventually.
That is a false statement, also know as a flat out lie. The article doesn't claim that the whole program hasn't work, rahter the article in question stated that "Program A didn't do B" when "Program A was never designed to do B". Perhaps you should stick with the facts.
The collection of metadata wasn't supposed to stop attacks. It was supposed to help identify possible terrorists That would allow applying for further surveillance to stop any attack and help identify other terrorists who helped with an attack, especially a suicide attack.
String [] things = {"computers", "electronics", "roads", "bridges", "space flight", "aeronautics", "new materials", "solar energy", "improved batteries" };
for (this : things){
System.out.println("why oh why are scientists wasting time on " + this + "? one step at at time, for now figure out how to cure cancer before worrying about the big picture. you must unzip your pants before worrying about how much piss comes out");
}
No, it is still not even wrong, but we are closer to knowing if it could be right or wrong. This is not strong evidence, let alone proof, of string theory. This just gives it a way to be more compatible with relativity. The problem is that it could be just a good approximation of something else.
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Aww, is the little whiner so upset because someone is being forced to pay restitution for his crimes? What's the matter, did you participate in some of these crimes and now are afraid or guilty? If you feel so bad for the douche in the article, why don't you help him pay the cost?
Actually, there has been a proposal that moderates switch parties. So, moderate democrats would become republicans and vote for the most "liberal" republican candidates in the primaries and moderate republicans would become democrats voting for the most "conservative" democrat candidates. The end result would be more moderate candidates competing in the elections.
Then, there is also changing the way districts are drawn. Make it a legal requirement that they be as contiguous and compact as possible while following geographic and governmental boundaries and then turn over drawing the districts over to a non-partisan non-governmental company.
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PR person makes racist joke on social media? That isn't job job ending. That is a career ending move.
Does your day job provides you with enough money to pay for the servers and bandwidth needed by a service like SnapChat? That is the infrastructure to handle about 4,500+ "snaps" a second. Oh, and don't forget the 30 employees SnapChat employs. Assuming they earn $50,000.00 per year, that is $1.5 million in salary per year.
I am sure that your day job is paying you the $2 million or so need to keep SnapChat or a similarly sized service running.
I am sure that "[n]ot everything [you] do is for profit" but your job is one of those things you do for profit. For Spiegel, SnapChat is his job, so he is doing it for profit. SnapChat's employees are working as their day job. They want the company to turn a profit so the keep getting paid, just as you want whatever company you work for to turn a profit so you continue to get paid because you still have a day job.
So, you are suggesting they should act like Enron, Madoff, and all the other financial ripoff artists. Interesting morals you have there.
By "evil company", do you mean a company that charges for it's service or sells eyeballs? If so, how is that "nice company" supposed to pay it's bills?
Snapchat could emulate enterprise-centric vaporizing-message firms such as Silent Circle and start charging for subscriptions, but that would probably kill the service; a multitude of free rivals would likely spring up, with the express purpose of stealing irate customers away.
So, the end-user ends up with two choices
Those new free services will still have a revenue problem. And, if one is better capitalized, then it may buy up it's rivals and have an even bigger revenue problem.
Everyone needs to eat. Servers need power. It costs money to run servers, pay for bandwidth, pay for facilities, and have employees. If a company has no revenue then it is going to fail eventually.
Please tell me how you manage to have internet access and servers without paying for them.
The program as a whole hasn't worked.
That is a false statement, also know as a flat out lie. The article doesn't claim that the whole program hasn't work, rahter the article in question stated that "Program A didn't do B" when "Program A was never designed to do B". Perhaps you should stick with the facts.
The collection of metadata wasn't supposed to stop attacks. It was supposed to help identify possible terrorists That would allow applying for further surveillance to stop any attack and help identify other terrorists who helped with an attack, especially a suicide attack.
One of those mountain sized diamonds from The Core.
Yes, science fiction novels are a great source of political theory and quoting them definitely bolsters your point. Nothing better than that~
Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.
How about reading their their FAQ where it specifically says Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency? You might learn something.
If they qualify as sentient, then yes.
Where are the peer reviewed papers and corroborating research?
Enlightened idea? No, this is just foolishness.
You forgot the possibilities of malicious wounding, attempted murder, and murder. Chimpanzees are incredibly strong and often violent
for (this : things){
System.out.println("why oh why are scientists wasting time on " + this + "? one step at at time, for now figure out how to cure cancer before worrying about the big picture. you must unzip your pants before worrying about how much piss comes out");
}
Does that answer it for you?
No, it is still not even wrong, but we are closer to knowing if it could be right or wrong. This is not strong evidence, let alone proof, of string theory. This just gives it a way to be more compatible with relativity. The problem is that it could be just a good approximation of something else.
All the details are simply engineering.
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Yes, I am actually an American. The scary part is that I was born in Alabama and raised in Florida. I truly am an anomaly. Of course, I haver
HTML tags, give them a try.
I thought the US was supposed to be a christian country
Um, no. That would be Britain. The U.S. is supposed to be secular country populated many people who claim to be christians.
Aww, is the little whiner so upset because someone is being forced to pay restitution for his crimes? What's the matter, did you participate in some of these crimes and now are afraid or guilty? If you feel so bad for the douche in the article, why don't you help him pay the cost?
In both this crime and the crimes I mentioned, the crime was only committed for one minute.
Whether the crime is committed for a year, a day, an hour, a minute, or a second, the crime is still committed.
Actually, there has been a proposal that moderates switch parties. So, moderate democrats would become republicans and vote for the most "liberal" republican candidates in the primaries and moderate republicans would become democrats voting for the most "conservative" democrat candidates. The end result would be more moderate candidates competing in the elections.
Then, there is also changing the way districts are drawn. Make it a legal requirement that they be as contiguous and compact as possible while following geographic and governmental boundaries and then turn over drawing the districts over to a non-partisan non-governmental company.