This is a simple subsidy. Pay someone enough, and they will do anything. If there were a enough subsidy for drinking horse piss, you'd find a lot more horse farms.
Seriously, though, this is the modern, capitalist equivalent of paying for research. They pay a special premium in hopes that someone will take the bait and build the product. If they do, then there is a chance that the process will become more efficient, and the eventual cost will come down.
For those who have posted that the electricity rates are the same to the consumer, that's a red flag to keep close tabs on your wallet. While this one project may not necessarily change the rates on the electric bill, many projects of this type might. And for every extra dollar paid in premium for clean energy there's a dollar added to the government's budget. And we all who knows who pays for the budget costs, right?
I'm not saying this is bad...but it's really just a government test project. An industry is putting up the capital, but they are nearly guaranteed a handsome return. A properly managed government pilot would be more cost effective - but I'm not sure that "properly managed" is possible for any government body.
We can always make more money if we fritter it all away on silly social programs, but once the environment is trashed there's no amount of money the government can spend to clean it all up.
Actually, I read the entire ruling. The _only_ thing the content owners asked for and didn't get was a 25% premium for any content streamed to a mobile device.
Using your analogy:
The content owners asked for a pony. With a new barn, and tack, and a nice new trailer. Because, you see, they said that's really what they deserve. The webcasters said they could do a dog, as that's about what every other little girl on the block had, and they just didn't make enough money to buy a pony and everything that went with it.
The CRB told the webcasters that they were to by the content owners their pony, along with the barn and tack they'd picked out, but they should get a used trailer.
Actually, I view my self as net-centrist. I tend to be environmentally progressive, socially moderate, and fiscally conservative (and privitically(word?) semi-libertarian).
The easy way to determine where you are in the spectrum is simply make a list of everyone in congress you think is too far from your position to vote for, put them into two columns by "party", and then add up the sides. If you end up with about 275 in each column (provided you did all of them), you'd be dead center.
Center is not an absolute, but a position relative to society as a whole.
Then the sender should compile a relavent message with commentary and formatting. Unless, of course, you don't mind wasting your time sifting through several layers of quotes, signatures, top/bottom/inline replies. It is my belief that when you ask someone else's advice, you should minimize their time in the process. That's just common courtesy. Of course, if I'm billing you for my time, then it's simply economy, unless you happen to be billing at a substantially higher rate than I am.
...were're just constantly amazed that it is as bad as it is, and presumeit couldn't have always been like this. History tends to disagree - politics has always been a nasty, dirty, hellhole.
As a centrist, I would prefer neither end of the spectrum in the congress - we don't need a few more far-lefts to outweight the far-rights, we need less of both!
Your examples are of publishing - the OP was concerned about mutual shared scheduling, a very different beast.
As for the meetingitus, each person who works in management or higher staff positions understands that people/projects/items get allocated time on a sliding scale. You keep that heirarchy in mind when you get a meeting request and use that to determine when your schedule is "free" and when you just need to get work done. That is true for non-business appointments, too.
I do agree that publishing can have benefits, as can calendar sharing (for schedulers and assistants), but usually the result is just messy. It only takes one or two tech-control freaks in management to tie you up without any hope of getting work done.
I like tbird - really. I like it more than outlook, for certain.
However, I wish there were a WM(5/6) client that would sync through activesync. Call WM any names you want (I've used most of the profane ones at some point in the past 5 years) - but it's on practically all poratble devices that aren't named after a small fruit or body part (hmm, well it does have significant marketshare, even if I coulnd't say "most").
I'm tempted every now and then to want to switch to outlook for the simple reason that it Just Works (TM) with my mobile device. Then I remember how much I hated outlook for email when I used it, and I decide it's better not to have email at all than to use outlook. (I'd switch entirely to mozilla if they had a decent calendar and contact program which would sync with my mobile...but I've resigned myself that that will never happen)
Ahhh, you young kids are so amusing. The "correct" way to quote is to add your discussion after the text you're quoting. You should also snip out the parts of the email which you are not replying to. You see, that way you can actually read the discussion from top to bottom, just like a book, and have all the relavent information in proper order. Proper netiquette which, apparently, nobody remembers or follows.
I take it that you don't ever print on CDs or DVDs, or you use those nasty labels, and you never have to print anything larger than 8.5x14. Must be nice.
You'd better believe it. Did you mean 5si? $320, shipped, I got a 5si off of ebay, plus $170 fuser has gotten me a massive workhorse printer. We still use it instead of the new M118i copier/printer except for complex pdfs (which the 5si doesn't like) primarily for cost. A 15,000 page toner is about $90, installed, from the local service place, and a refill goes for about $20 if you're into that sort of thing. I'll get rid of it when it physically falls apart. Which may not be until I'm retired, and I'm only 38.;-)
The file copy would either be incomplete, or the booby trap - better known as a tell-tale - would have been broken. Had the OP glued his pages together with said wite-out ("inadvertently"), it would be no less valid. I presume the tell-tale was weak enough that only light force would have been necessary to break it, othwise the judge would become suspicious. In this case it appeared that the motion had barely been handled, much less read. If I did that in my line of business and missed a critical detail, I could lose my license and effectively my job (as my license is required to perform my duties as a principal of my company).
Which brings us back to the point others have made: why bother with spam laws if they will not be enforced and upheld?
Been a long time, but at one point, there were merit raises which could be made "out of step".
Also, you (use to) go up to the next-higher by 2 steps with each grade promotion.
Finally, there are locality adjustments (ddidn't look to see if the pay mentioned included locality).
Oh, and the benes are pretty good - almost 10 weeks of leave per year once you hit 12 years in (2.6 weeks sick + 5.2 weeks vacation + 2.1 weeks holidays + usually 1/2 day xmas eve).
Sorry about the caps, but I just had to let that out. For those who don't know, or were unable to see the convocation live, foxnews.com has the Nikki Giovanni closing speech here:
I just find the idea that people would be bringing guns to class at 9am in blacksburg virginia to be strange, regardless of what laws they have
You folks (GP and others) who live with the idea of violence all around you 24/7 miss what Blacksburg is all about. We have guns everywhere. The whole surrounding area practically shuts down in October and November for hunting. The level of crime - especially violent crime - is extremely low, especially on campus. It's generally considered a safe place. To have anyone carrying on campus for "personal protection" is a ludicrous idea.
For those, including the media, who mistakenly link this shooting with the shooting last summer, let me set the record straight: Last summer, a man in his early 20s who was not involved in any way with the university escaped from detention while at the local hospital, then ran to an area of town near the university, where he shot and killed a local town law enforcement officer. You may as well say that there are shootings "at" every college campus in every large city in the US. It's news because it almost never happens here.
Yes, but that's a war (and a civil one, at that). You expect people to die in a war. You don't expect people at a major university to get shot up by some lunatic.
In fact you don't really expect some idiot to blow away two people in a dorm room, then travel half way across campus to a dorm without vehicle access, while the campus is crawling with cops, and go apeshit on a couple of classrooms full of students. I guess the fact that he decided to eat the last one himself is the only "yeah, it figures" moment of the whole thing.
Somebody trying to take over (or take back, depending on your POV) a country can be expected to shoot people at random and set up roadside bombs intended to kill people.
By treating it well, I presume you mean that you never play it, except with some uber-expensive laser setup. Otherwise you're taking your delicate amalog recording and scratching a bitty hunk of diamond against it, wearing down those precious highs you covet.
How do you know it was the same guy? They were interviewing another "person of interest" when the second shooting started. The descriptions of the shooter at the first location apparently didn't match the second.
I'm not saying that there was someone on the grassy knoll, but there are still a lot of odd things about this. (like why someone would cap two people on the edge of campus, then go to the center of campus, to a building you can't even drive up to, and go on a rampage).
I have my.org, but I don't have my.com, which I would really like for my business (which bears my name). Unfortunately, it is farmed out as a pay-per-address email server (which should be serviced by.name now). I don't think I'll ever have a chance at getting it.
Sadly, I did check the registration before is was registered, but didn't have access to the servers required to reserve it (this was back before you could buy such things on the open market).
Yup, sometimes it works. Of course, if the CE end really ran the show, there's be no DRM, and dual disc writers. Talk about adoption of a new format and scrambling for more players. But, alas, the CE divisions don't have nearly the clout of the content divisions.
The quote is actually missing some words, let me fill it in for you:
"Our main concern is with guaranteeing that the consumer's money ends up in our pockets, and in ensuring that our revenue stream does not depend on a particular technology"
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This is a simple subsidy. Pay someone enough, and they will do anything. If there were a enough subsidy for drinking horse piss, you'd find a lot more horse farms.
Seriously, though, this is the modern, capitalist equivalent of paying for research. They pay a special premium in hopes that someone will take the bait and build the product. If they do, then there is a chance that the process will become more efficient, and the eventual cost will come down.
For those who have posted that the electricity rates are the same to the consumer, that's a red flag to keep close tabs on your wallet. While this one project may not necessarily change the rates on the electric bill, many projects of this type might. And for every extra dollar paid in premium for clean energy there's a dollar added to the government's budget. And we all who knows who pays for the budget costs, right?
I'm not saying this is bad...but it's really just a government test project. An industry is putting up the capital, but they are nearly guaranteed a handsome return. A properly managed government pilot would be more cost effective - but I'm not sure that "properly managed" is possible for any government body.
I find it interesting that there is a relatively standard settlement fee that gets offered "up front". Sounds a lot like extortion if you ask me...
Actually, that's my stance, too.
We can always make more money if we fritter it all away on silly social programs, but once the environment is trashed there's no amount of money the government can spend to clean it all up.
Actually, I read the entire ruling. The _only_ thing the content owners asked for and didn't get was a 25% premium for any content streamed to a mobile device.
Using your analogy:
The content owners asked for a pony. With a new barn, and tack, and a nice new trailer. Because, you see, they said that's really what they deserve. The webcasters said they could do a dog, as that's about what every other little girl on the block had, and they just didn't make enough money to buy a pony and everything that went with it.
The CRB told the webcasters that they were to by the content owners their pony, along with the barn and tack they'd picked out, but they should get a used trailer.
Actually, I view my self as net-centrist. I tend to be environmentally progressive, socially moderate, and fiscally conservative (and privitically(word?) semi-libertarian).
The easy way to determine where you are in the spectrum is simply make a list of everyone in congress you think is too far from your position to vote for, put them into two columns by "party", and then add up the sides. If you end up with about 275 in each column (provided you did all of them), you'd be dead center.
Center is not an absolute, but a position relative to society as a whole.
or is it improper, even on /., to use profanity on the front page?
Hah! Accidentally read that as Limbaugh cheese. Public nuisance, indeed!
Then the sender should compile a relavent message with commentary and formatting. Unless, of course, you don't mind wasting your time sifting through several layers of quotes, signatures, top/bottom/inline replies. It is my belief that when you ask someone else's advice, you should minimize their time in the process. That's just common courtesy. Of course, if I'm billing you for my time, then it's simply economy, unless you happen to be billing at a substantially higher rate than I am.
...were're just constantly amazed that it is as bad as it is, and presumeit couldn't have always been like this. History tends to disagree - politics has always been a nasty, dirty, hellhole.
As a centrist, I would prefer neither end of the spectrum in the congress - we don't need a few more far-lefts to outweight the far-rights, we need less of both!
Your examples are of publishing - the OP was concerned about mutual shared scheduling, a very different beast.
As for the meetingitus, each person who works in management or higher staff positions understands that people/projects/items get allocated time on a sliding scale. You keep that heirarchy in mind when you get a meeting request and use that to determine when your schedule is "free" and when you just need to get work done. That is true for non-business appointments, too.
I do agree that publishing can have benefits, as can calendar sharing (for schedulers and assistants), but usually the result is just messy. It only takes one or two tech-control freaks in management to tie you up without any hope of getting work done.
I like tbird - really. I like it more than outlook, for certain.
However, I wish there were a WM(5/6) client that would sync through activesync. Call WM any names you want (I've used most of the profane ones at some point in the past 5 years) - but it's on practically all poratble devices that aren't named after a small fruit or body part (hmm, well it does have significant marketshare, even if I coulnd't say "most").
I'm tempted every now and then to want to switch to outlook for the simple reason that it Just Works (TM) with my mobile device. Then I remember how much I hated outlook for email when I used it, and I decide it's better not to have email at all than to use outlook. (I'd switch entirely to mozilla if they had a decent calendar and contact program which would sync with my mobile...but I've resigned myself that that will never happen)
Ahhh, you young kids are so amusing. The "correct" way to quote is to add your discussion after the text you're quoting. You should also snip out the parts of the email which you are not replying to. You see, that way you can actually read the discussion from top to bottom, just like a book, and have all the relavent information in proper order. Proper netiquette which, apparently, nobody remembers or follows.
Now get off my lawn.
I take it that you don't ever print on CDs or DVDs, or you use those nasty labels, and you never have to print anything larger than 8.5x14. Must be nice.
You'd better believe it. Did you mean 5si? $320, shipped, I got a 5si off of ebay, plus $170 fuser has gotten me a massive workhorse printer. We still use it instead of the new M118i copier/printer except for complex pdfs (which the 5si doesn't like) primarily for cost. A 15,000 page toner is about $90, installed, from the local service place, and a refill goes for about $20 if you're into that sort of thing. I'll get rid of it when it physically falls apart. Which may not be until I'm retired, and I'm only 38. ;-)
The file copy would either be incomplete, or the booby trap - better known as a tell-tale - would have been broken. Had the OP glued his pages together with said wite-out ("inadvertently"), it would be no less valid. I presume the tell-tale was weak enough that only light force would have been necessary to break it, othwise the judge would become suspicious. In this case it appeared that the motion had barely been handled, much less read. If I did that in my line of business and missed a critical detail, I could lose my license and effectively my job (as my license is required to perform my duties as a principal of my company).
Which brings us back to the point others have made: why bother with spam laws if they will not be enforced and upheld?
Been a long time, but at one point, there were merit raises which could be made "out of step".
Also, you (use to) go up to the next-higher by 2 steps with each grade promotion.
Finally, there are locality adjustments (ddidn't look to see if the pay mentioned included locality).
Oh, and the benes are pretty good - almost 10 weeks of leave per year once you hit 12 years in (2.6 weeks sick + 5.2 weeks vacation + 2.1 weeks holidays + usually 1/2 day xmas eve).
Sorry about the caps, but I just had to let that out. For those who don't know, or were unable to see the convocation live, foxnews.com has the Nikki Giovanni closing speech here:
7 /041707_giovanni_convocation&Studio_B&'We%20Are%20 Virginia%20Tech!'&acc&US&-1&News&206&&&new
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?04170
We are the Hokies. We will prevail. We are Virginia Tech.
I just find the idea that people would be bringing guns to class at 9am in blacksburg virginia to be strange, regardless of what laws they have
You folks (GP and others) who live with the idea of violence all around you 24/7 miss what Blacksburg is all about. We have guns everywhere. The whole surrounding area practically shuts down in October and November for hunting. The level of crime - especially violent crime - is extremely low, especially on campus. It's generally considered a safe place. To have anyone carrying on campus for "personal protection" is a ludicrous idea.
For those, including the media, who mistakenly link this shooting with the shooting last summer, let me set the record straight: Last summer, a man in his early 20s who was not involved in any way with the university escaped from detention while at the local hospital, then ran to an area of town near the university, where he shot and killed a local town law enforcement officer. You may as well say that there are shootings "at" every college campus in every large city in the US. It's news because it almost never happens here.
Yes, but that's a war (and a civil one, at that). You expect people to die in a war. You don't expect people at a major university to get shot up by some lunatic.
In fact you don't really expect some idiot to blow away two people in a dorm room, then travel half way across campus to a dorm without vehicle access, while the campus is crawling with cops, and go apeshit on a couple of classrooms full of students. I guess the fact that he decided to eat the last one himself is the only "yeah, it figures" moment of the whole thing.
Somebody trying to take over (or take back, depending on your POV) a country can be expected to shoot people at random and set up roadside bombs intended to kill people.
By treating it well, I presume you mean that you never play it, except with some uber-expensive laser setup. Otherwise you're taking your delicate amalog recording and scratching a bitty hunk of diamond against it, wearing down those precious highs you covet.
And this has been verified with a double blind test using uninterested parties in an ABX format?
How do you know it was the same guy? They were interviewing another "person of interest" when the second shooting started. The descriptions of the shooter at the first location apparently didn't match the second.
I'm not saying that there was someone on the grassy knoll, but there are still a lot of odd things about this. (like why someone would cap two people on the edge of campus, then go to the center of campus, to a building you can't even drive up to, and go on a rampage).
I have my .org, but I don't have my .com, which I would really like for my business (which bears my name). Unfortunately, it is farmed out as a pay-per-address email server (which should be serviced by .name now). I don't think I'll ever have a chance at getting it.
Sadly, I did check the registration before is was registered, but didn't have access to the servers required to reserve it (this was back before you could buy such things on the open market).
Yup, sometimes it works. Of course, if the CE end really ran the show, there's be no DRM, and dual disc writers. Talk about adoption of a new format and scrambling for more players. But, alas, the CE divisions don't have nearly the clout of the content divisions.
The quote is actually missing some words, let me fill it in for you:
"Our main concern is with guaranteeing that the consumer's money ends up in our pockets, and in ensuring that our revenue stream does not depend on a particular technology"
There, that makes more sense.