ITs not about the intellegence of the companies, tis about the intellegence of the investors. Google is wildly overpriced for its income. If google managed to take its (fairly well saturated) business model and grow it TEN FOLD it still wouldn't have the income of Time Warner.
The fault is that of the market, and of the people who invest because it's cool. Unless you count the data center (which is losing value every day) and a few aeron chairs, Google owns a bunch of expensive-to-maintain smart people, and they don't really sell for much on the open market. They have a great flagship product, and some cool second tier projects, but I'm not convinced they know how to take all this capital and really put it to work making money.
An impeachment hearing about perjury, where the perjurous testimony involved him getting a blowjob. Not exactly, say, outing a CIA agent, for example (though we know Clinton got a hummer, we're not really, truly 100% sure about the outing. Or Vince Foster, for that matter).
Anyway, Clinton at least tried to get congress to do something about North Korea, and then had to give up because the R congress blocked him at every turn. The lack of policy with N Korea, thanks to the total clusterfuck that Iraq has become , has effectively allowed them to get into the nuclear brotherhood. And don't talk to me about Iraq and terrorism in the same sentense - we invaded Afghanistan over terrorism. and don't bring oil into the picture - there are enough oil fields in the world, and "experts" tell us we're unlikely to run out any time soon - Iraq is a small player in the oil market. We invaded Iraq over a sense of revenge ("Don't worry dad, I'll got him for you"), ti just tooka couple of years to figure out a good excuse.
Yeah, don't cut their salaries. $300 million is barely enough to pay 535 people a living wage.
Thats not to say there isn't watse in government. There's huge waste - starting with more than $1000 per person, per year in interest on the national debt. But luckily the Republicans are in charge, and they know how to get spending down, and to have us keep more of our hard earned dollars.
Ooops, thats right, the debt has skyrocketed. Guess we can't trust them, either.
Sadly, both of my senators will (or have) confirmed yeah votes, the corporate/administration whores that thay are.
BTW - if any party decides to put forward Mark Warner, current governer of Virginia up as a candidate, consider voting for him. He's about as middle of the road as you can get, and seems to have a decent head on his shoulders. He's not perfect, as by definition a politican can't be, but he's better than most.
Perhaps you reserve some choice CW-only spectrum for those who've passed code tests. And, so long as there's a strong and active community of code lovers, we can always work to create other incentives with cw-only special event DX stations, extra cw points and freeby stations in contests, and so on. Is that enough to keep the hobby alive? I'm not sure. But if it isn't, then perhaps keeping cw alive isn't worth the cost.
This is a great idea. Although I've considered it, I don't have the time (or money) to add a hobby like ham. Reserving a section of spectrum for cw - and limiting its use to those who pass code tests is a great way to keep it alive. Even if it isn't used very much, there will always be a hrad core group which has to have access to it "all". And if code gets them bragging rights, it will be a worthwile tool to keep code alive.
I'd recommend you send this comment to the FCC, but based on the last 6 years (okay, more like all the years I've been alive), your good idea will be circular filed. There are rich people with agendas when the FCC wants policy making opinions. You're just a citizen, and not worthy of consideration.
The new way is now to sell this idea in TV commercials to suckers who think the idea is brilliant, and expect to rake in the thousands of dollars a week that the "pioneers" did. The registrations are probably from all the $79.95 instruction booklet, get rich quick wannabes.
This gets an Insightful mod? He (or she) is a freakin' Marine! It's his job to go where the commander in chief tells him to go. Ideally, that would involve defending our country. Sometimes it means helping victims of natural disasters. It almost always means he's putting himself in harms way.
You can bitch and complain about how our current President is exercising a personal vendetta and ignoring real problems in both our country and the world. I know that I often do - I even had to remind my right-leaning in-laws that the terrorist plot to bomb the WTC/Pent./? was mastermided in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Don't for a minute blame the soldiers on the ground. They are there to do their job. A job that puts food in their families mouth and a roof over their heads. And, ideally, a job that keeps us safe, should a country decide it would be a good idea to try and appropriate some real estate stateside.
Oh, I dont' know. This sounds like a very interesing "defense" item for a hardened compound. Given a wide dispersal of the energy, they could be set at overlapping points around a building. With enough juice, the approach to the building might be resonably impossible for unarmored infantry. The advantage being that no active aiming is necessary, and there's no worry about shrapnel/FA mixtures being close to the building itself.
I've heard it said that "When black people feel wronged, they destroy and loot their community. When white people feel wronged, they vote." I wish I had the proper attribution.
OT, probably, but its the first thing that came to mind.
Though you've copped to the the goof, I've got to ask: What the fsck are you doing reading the articles on slashdot? Mixing up a dupe (they happen so often) is excusable, but RingTFA? Hand over your ID and step away from the keyboard. Slowly, please.
Man, I am sooooo glad that the FCC has decided that you and the telcos shouldn't have to share your infrastructure. It would totally defeat your artificial price-point plans. And that would be un-American.
Well, the all you can eat stuff is a good idea, if I had the time. As it is, I put $10 in AllofMP3 about two and a half years ago (longer?), and I've still got a balance of $3-4. I'm just not that big a consumer.
Well, that and I have easynews. Which is to say the AllofMP3 looks particulary legal in comparison. (Oh, and just to prove that I don't even use easynews much (several text groups, some binaries), they roll your unused gigs nowadays, and I've got something like 95GB of unused bandwidth, and growing every month.) As for legality, I have actually "replaced" a damaged CD using easynews to get a FLAC rip. I've also d/l albums for which I only have the LP (and I no longer own a turntable).
Never did memorize the whole thing...I'm not a big gilbert and sullivan fan. I did, however, know all of New Math at one point (you can't take three from two, two is less than three, so you look...)
Free assumes your incoming SMS is free. Most US phone services are finding way to charge for sneezing while wearing a phone - SMS is not free under many plans stateside.
Actually, its usually highly compensated employees or those in key knowledge-based positions. Execs happen to be a subset of those.
Non-competes are very common in these parts of business, principally to reduce the chance of prople coming in, learning the ropes, then either (a) going to a competitor with that knowledge or (b) opening their own shop.
Typically, courts will throw out non-compete clauses which prevent a seaparated employee from earningn a living in their chosen field. You can stipulate times and distances, but they'd better be reasonable (read: short) or you'll find the contract thrown out.
It is interesting that MS can sue Google for the assistance in breaking the contract, since if he had hired a lawyer directly to assist in finding a way out, I don't think MS could sue the lawyer.
$$$ to startup music co with limited selection or $$$ to lawyers for the RIAA suit filed about infringing content on your net.
This money hasn't been spent for your music enjoyment, its for plausible deniability.
Oh, and quit whining. The CA system is so cheap for in-state students its laughable. If you think UCs are expensive, I suggest you price a private college.
Oh, I don't know, AllOfMP3.com has complied with the law of their country (to the letter, if not to the spirit - would you expect more from the RIAA?), carries open formats (FLAC), and all of their downloads are unencumbered by DRM. Most are available up to lossless quality - a far sight better than 192kb lame, good though it may be for portable gear.
Here's what I like about them: if you don't really know whether you'll like th album, get it at low bitrate - It'll cost pennies. If it's a keeper, redownload at lossless or 320kb, or go pick up the album at the store and rip it yourself, should you be worried about the artists not getting their rubles. The fact is that it is on line, has a fairly good catalog, and it's cheap to try. Heck, I got a newish Jimmy Buffet album recently from them. Lets just say that if Jimmy gets his payment, it will be far more than the music was worth. I'm just happy I was out less than $1 for that crap.
I say instant transfers are instant transfers. Instantly out of my account should mean instantly into my account on the other side of the transaction. But I don't give millions to my* congressmen, so I don't think it will change.
*when I say "my congressmen", I mean the ones who serve the districts I vote in. When I'm talking about corporations, I mean bought and paid for.
This is part of the new electronic transfer legislation, I'm sure. You see, now it's okay for the bank to debit your account immediately for any funds you draw (instead of the potential 2-3 day "float" you used to get), but there isno change in the waiting period for them to credit your account with the actual money.
I don't know how otherwise intellegent people (congressmen) could think that this was a consumer protection act (aside from outright bribery), but the "banks to make additional money off of float" legislation sailed right though.
If you shoot me and take my wallet, you are a murderer and a thief.
If I shoot you before you do so, being reasonably certain that you intend to shoot me and take my wallet, I have acted in self defense, and there is no crime.
Not really a one-for-one analogy, but it does illustrate that shooting someone does have different consequences depending on the situation and purpose.
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ITs not about the intellegence of the companies, tis about the intellegence of the investors. Google is wildly overpriced for its income. If google managed to take its (fairly well saturated) business model and grow it TEN FOLD it still wouldn't have the income of Time Warner.
The fault is that of the market, and of the people who invest because it's cool. Unless you count the data center (which is losing value every day) and a few aeron chairs, Google owns a bunch of expensive-to-maintain smart people, and they don't really sell for much on the open market. They have a great flagship product, and some cool second tier projects, but I'm not convinced they know how to take all this capital and really put it to work making money.
An impeachment hearing about perjury, where the perjurous testimony involved him getting a blowjob. Not exactly, say, outing a CIA agent, for example (though we know Clinton got a hummer, we're not really, truly 100% sure about the outing. Or Vince Foster, for that matter).
Anyway, Clinton at least tried to get congress to do something about North Korea, and then had to give up because the R congress blocked him at every turn. The lack of policy with N Korea, thanks to the total clusterfuck that Iraq has become , has effectively allowed them to get into the nuclear brotherhood. And don't talk to me about Iraq and terrorism in the same sentense - we invaded Afghanistan over terrorism. and don't bring oil into the picture - there are enough oil fields in the world, and "experts" tell us we're unlikely to run out any time soon - Iraq is a small player in the oil market. We invaded Iraq over a sense of revenge ("Don't worry dad, I'll got him for you"), ti just tooka couple of years to figure out a good excuse.
Yeah, don't cut their salaries. $300 million is barely enough to pay 535 people a living wage.
Thats not to say there isn't watse in government. There's huge waste - starting with more than $1000 per person, per year in interest on the national debt. But luckily the Republicans are in charge, and they know how to get spending down, and to have us keep more of our hard earned dollars.
Ooops, thats right, the debt has skyrocketed. Guess we can't trust them, either.
YEAH, BABY! Rick Boucher in the nay column.
Sadly, both of my senators will (or have) confirmed yeah votes, the corporate/administration whores that thay are.
BTW - if any party decides to put forward Mark Warner, current governer of Virginia up as a candidate, consider voting for him. He's about as middle of the road as you can get, and seems to have a decent head on his shoulders. He's not perfect, as by definition a politican can't be, but he's better than most.
I guess the question is, if its okay for agovernment official to out an agent, why would you worry about a "known terrorist" doing the same?
You can't have it both ways, either.
Perhaps you reserve some choice CW-only spectrum for those who've passed code tests. And, so long as there's a strong and active community of code lovers, we can always work to create other incentives with cw-only special event DX stations, extra cw points and freeby stations in contests, and so on. Is that enough to keep the hobby alive? I'm not sure. But if it isn't, then perhaps keeping cw alive isn't worth the cost.
This is a great idea. Although I've considered it, I don't have the time (or money) to add a hobby like ham. Reserving a section of spectrum for cw - and limiting its use to those who pass code tests is a great way to keep it alive. Even if it isn't used very much, there will always be a hrad core group which has to have access to it "all". And if code gets them bragging rights, it will be a worthwile tool to keep code alive.
I'd recommend you send this comment to the FCC, but based on the last 6 years (okay, more like all the years I've been alive), your good idea will be circular filed. There are rich people with agendas when the FCC wants policy making opinions. You're just a citizen, and not worthy of consideration.
The new way is now to sell this idea in TV commercials to suckers who think the idea is brilliant, and expect to rake in the thousands of dollars a week that the "pioneers" did. The registrations are probably from all the $79.95 instruction booklet, get rich quick wannabes.
This gets an Insightful mod? He (or she) is a freakin' Marine! It's his job to go where the commander in chief tells him to go. Ideally, that would involve defending our country. Sometimes it means helping victims of natural disasters. It almost always means he's putting himself in harms way.
You can bitch and complain about how our current President is exercising a personal vendetta and ignoring real problems in both our country and the world. I know that I often do - I even had to remind my right-leaning in-laws that the terrorist plot to bomb the WTC/Pent./? was mastermided in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Don't for a minute blame the soldiers on the ground. They are there to do their job. A job that puts food in their families mouth and a roof over their heads. And, ideally, a job that keeps us safe, should a country decide it would be a good idea to try and appropriate some real estate stateside.
Oh, I dont' know. This sounds like a very interesing "defense" item for a hardened compound. Given a wide dispersal of the energy, they could be set at overlapping points around a building. With enough juice, the approach to the building might be resonably impossible for unarmored infantry. The advantage being that no active aiming is necessary, and there's no worry about shrapnel/FA mixtures being close to the building itself.
But they still do less damage than lead, on the whole.
I've heard it said that "When black people feel wronged, they destroy and loot their community. When white people feel wronged, they vote." I wish I had the proper attribution.
OT, probably, but its the first thing that came to mind.
Though you've copped to the the goof, I've got to ask: What the fsck are you doing reading the articles on slashdot? Mixing up a dupe (they happen so often) is excusable, but RingTFA? Hand over your ID and step away from the keyboard. Slowly, please.
Man, I am sooooo glad that the FCC has decided that you and the telcos shouldn't have to share your infrastructure. It would totally defeat your artificial price-point plans. And that would be un-American.
Well, the all you can eat stuff is a good idea, if I had the time. As it is, I put $10 in AllofMP3 about two and a half years ago (longer?), and I've still got a balance of $3-4. I'm just not that big a consumer.
Well, that and I have easynews. Which is to say the AllofMP3 looks particulary legal in comparison. (Oh, and just to prove that I don't even use easynews much (several text groups, some binaries), they roll your unused gigs nowadays, and I've got something like 95GB of unused bandwidth, and growing every month.) As for legality, I have actually "replaced" a damaged CD using easynews to get a FLAC rip. I've also d/l albums for which I only have the LP (and I no longer own a turntable).
...until it's confirmed by Netcraft.
Never did memorize the whole thing...I'm not a big gilbert and sullivan fan. I did, however, know all of New Math at one point (you can't take three from two, two is less than three, so you look...)
Free assumes your incoming SMS is free. Most US phone services are finding way to charge for sneezing while wearing a phone - SMS is not free under many plans stateside.
Actually, its usually highly compensated employees or those in key knowledge-based positions. Execs happen to be a subset of those.
Non-competes are very common in these parts of business, principally to reduce the chance of prople coming in, learning the ropes, then either (a) going to a competitor with that knowledge or (b) opening their own shop.
Typically, courts will throw out non-compete clauses which prevent a seaparated employee from earningn a living in their chosen field. You can stipulate times and distances, but they'd better be reasonable (read: short) or you'll find the contract thrown out.
It is interesting that MS can sue Google for the assistance in breaking the contract, since if he had hired a lawyer directly to assist in finding a way out, I don't think MS could sue the lawyer.
$$$ to startup music co with limited selection or $$$ to lawyers for the RIAA suit filed about infringing content on your net.
This money hasn't been spent for your music enjoyment, its for plausible deniability.
Oh, and quit whining. The CA system is so cheap for in-state students its laughable. If you think UCs are expensive, I suggest you price a private college.
Oh, I don't know, AllOfMP3.com has complied with the law of their country (to the letter, if not to the spirit - would you expect more from the RIAA?), carries open formats (FLAC), and all of their downloads are unencumbered by DRM. Most are available up to lossless quality - a far sight better than 192kb lame, good though it may be for portable gear.
Here's what I like about them: if you don't really know whether you'll like th album, get it at low bitrate - It'll cost pennies. If it's a keeper, redownload at lossless or 320kb, or go pick up the album at the store and rip it yourself, should you be worried about the artists not getting their rubles. The fact is that it is on line, has a fairly good catalog, and it's cheap to try. Heck, I got a newish Jimmy Buffet album recently from them. Lets just say that if Jimmy gets his payment, it will be far more than the music was worth. I'm just happy I was out less than $1 for that crap.
Oh, I don't know. The last 8 years isn't too bad.
Burning CDs to burning DVDs for storage; Blu-ray if you're cutting edge.
Solid state memory (flash cards) going from esoteric to cheaper than bubble-gum.
The internet, or more specifically, broadband (vs dialup).
Floppies were still commonplace in 1997, yet many computers now don't even come with a floppy drive.
Did they have beowolf clusters back then? (sorry, couldn't resist)
We're not going to get the average 'net user to switch to Firefox by pissing him/her off with incompatibilities.
I don't know, that seems to be the response of microsoft-centric web designers, and it's worked pretty well for them.
I say instant transfers are instant transfers. Instantly out of my account should mean instantly into my account on the other side of the transaction. But I don't give millions to my* congressmen, so I don't think it will change.
*when I say "my congressmen", I mean the ones who serve the districts I vote in. When I'm talking about corporations, I mean bought and paid for.
This is part of the new electronic transfer legislation, I'm sure. You see, now it's okay for the bank to debit your account immediately for any funds you draw (instead of the potential 2-3 day "float" you used to get), but there isno change in the waiting period for them to credit your account with the actual money.
I don't know how otherwise intellegent people (congressmen) could think that this was a consumer protection act (aside from outright bribery), but the "banks to make additional money off of float" legislation sailed right though.
If you shoot me and take my wallet, you are a murderer and a thief.
If I shoot you before you do so, being reasonably certain that you intend to shoot me and take my wallet, I have acted in self defense, and there is no crime.
Not really a one-for-one analogy, but it does illustrate that shooting someone does have different consequences depending on the situation and purpose.