that last letter he received is a wonderful explication of his innocence. or maybe not. i'm not too solid on that language, which, to be honest, i can't identify. google, let's get some translation going, eh?
one point needs to be called out. the challenge with a flat tax is that, while high income earners will pay more in actual dollars, low income earners will pay more as a percentage of their income -- as they spend a higher percentage of their income than high income earners. which is a negative impact on low income workers, and why flat taxes are generally considered to be regressive.
as an introvert (to which i would testify in court), i take exception with the categorization of introverts as being loathe to make snap decisions and speak quickly. i hate going to parties or work events, and am most gleeful curling up with my laptop. but i speak extremely quickly and eat and make decisions very quickly. introversion is not the same thing as being shy. it is about whether or not you enjoy the company of other people. i don't. i get energy from spending quiet time by myself, not from other people. that's what distinguishes an introvert -- not social awkwardness.
since when does bill gates give even a moment's thought to stopping the proliferation of virii? i bet he is the one who unleashed all the mosquitoes there in the first place.
well, at least the constitution affords me the ability to find out who precisely my anonymous accuser is in a court of law. or is there an Anonymous Coward clause in the patriot act?
first of all, you seem to think that going to best buy is the same as buying things from people in alleys. which i have to say is a bit simplistic.
second, trusting complete strangers is a mark of being able to function in society. when you leave the house, do you need to ensure that everyone driving down the street is a friend or acquaintance? when you go to a restaurant, do you get background checks on the staff? from whom did you buy the aluminum foil to make your hat? mom?
i wish i could mod this up. particularly because i went to check the spelling of the last name in google after posting, and accidentally typed 'tedy' with only one d. imagine my surprise at not getting the 'did you mean...?' question.
i don't know why i'm engaging on this, but i will.
the vast majority of internet users are not idiots -- they are merely undereducated about computers and the internet.
my nice response to your comment is that you should try to appreciate that not everyone has the time, energy or will to learn computers to the extent that you or i have.
my mean response is as follows: i have a theory. kids start out life talking about how they want to be astronauts, or the president, or teddy bruschi.* they see a vast world of limitless possibility and imagine themselves filling up an enormous space within it. as people age, they start to realize that they most likely won't be a michael jordan or a bill gates, and their response is not to be content being a small fish in a big pond -- it's to reduce the size of the pond that is 'important'. so, i, for example, work in politics. it's easy for me to see the political world i inhabit as the most important thing locally, or even in the world, and to feel very self-important as a result. many users on slashdot see the world of tech as the pond. or their own i.t. departments. people reduce the scope of the important world, until they are a big fish. i call this, uncleverly, 'resizing the pond'.
i posit that you are resizing the pond. and, further, that you shouldn't.
</self-righteousness>
* don't know who this is? there are people who would call you an idiot if you didn't.
it is precisely circumstances like these that led to the development of labor unions (well, plus a few deaths-by-locked-door-in-a-fire)
it's alarming how many modern workers buy the company line about unions and how they're only in it for the dues. why is it ingrained in modern companies that teamwork is the solution to problems, but then teamwork is lambasted as a strategy to improve conditions?
i had a discussion with my sister once in which she railed against the organized workers at her job because they didn't have to work as much and got paid more. ? why is that bad? it's in the power of every worker! (except those working for the tsa, thanks to mr. bush.)
the communications workers is the first place to look if you're looking to get started. you have nothing to lose but your lousy schedule and crappy raise percentages. and your chains, but that's more metaphorical.
there definitely seems to be some time-based randomness in the selection of tunes. often, i'll hear a song pop up randomly on my ipod in the car on the way into work, and then the song come up again, randomly, while being played on itunes at my desk.
but, really. when it goes bad? i have yet to see an example when the cost savings to a multinational corporation justify the damage done by outsourcing work.
you'll have people point to the study that came out that says that outsourcing is good for the economy. but is it? what it really provides is a decline in the quality of jobs in america.
let's think about this. company x has $300,000 it spends on paying 100 engineers. then it discovers it can save $200,000 by sending those 100 jobs to india. so with that $200,000, it hires 200 more engineers in america! net gain of 100 jobs here, and 100 in india! everyone wins!
except, of course, that the jobs that remain here pay 1/3 of what they used to. and that doesn't even include benefits. the moral of the story is, as always: when the company and stockholders win, you better be a stockholder. because if you're an employee, you're screwed.
i know everyone is going to say this but two things immediately leap out at me.
1) don't use windows, for chrissakes. how many people out there in the world don't know that there are alternatives? is it really that many? is apple's media saturation here in the bay area completely nonexistent anywhere else?
2) the solution isn't legislation -- it's people making crappy products. if toyota made a car that constantly ran into trees, the solution wouldn't be banning trees, it would be making toyota make some good friggin' cars.
i assume the title of this was supposed to read "Man oh man" -- unless you were suggesting a new type of porn. in which case, i'm pretty sure they're way ahead of you.
i'm going to rush out today and buy a nokia phone so that i can have this functionality the instant it is available in 2038. i mean, really. isn't this one of the main roadblocks to having a robot that can operate independently -- object recognition? i mean, if spam bots (the world's most advanced robots) get tripped up trying to read the word 'cat' behind some wavy lines while they're signing up for a hotmail account, you really think that i'll be able to photograph a car in 5 years and get info about it? highly improbable. a worthy goal, yes. but not likely in the near or near distant future.
i don't know about anyone else, but i don't accept any news about mini products on slashdot until they hit the front page again in a few days. wake me up on sunday.
i know this sounds like heresy, and i'm embarrassed to ask -- but does anyone know how effective these tools are in relation to the one that comes with the new version of AOL? the reason i ask is that, like many of you, i am the CIO of my family, and my family is at the lower end of the spectrum that defines excellent computer using. a few family members have AOL, so i'm curious as to whether it saves me time and headaches to use the AOL tool as opposed to another. because if i have to spend half my christmas fixing dad's xp home that my sister installed kazaa on, i'd like to get back to the egg nog as soon as possible.
the past 25 years have been so full of new technological advances that it's impossible to objectively determine what the top innovation has been, much less what a 3rd party that is the brainchild of ted turner would choose.
of course, they'll pick the web. but what about military applications, that are missing from the list? the american military has driven technology in to nearly incomprehensible realms, and they seem only to get recognition for doing so once the products are mainstreamed.
Insightful? Are you serious? The only thing this thing was missing is an actual definition of flamebait (e.g., flaym-bate, n.: a communication issued solely to elicit a negative or hostile reaction, perhaps with a gratuitous jab at Steve Jobs).
Anyone who has used a Mac in the past five years can tell you that it is about more than appearances and marketing. There is steak underneath the sizzle, as our marketing friends would say. I mean, it runs on f*cking Unix! If the Mac OS appeared out of the ether on someone's Dell, they'd think Christ himself had coded the fantastic Expose features.
This is about protecting IP. Apple wants to keep its new things hush-hush so people keep buying the old ones. It's actually quite common among, well, everybody. But hey! Google it yourself!
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that last letter he received is a wonderful explication of his innocence. or maybe not. i'm not too solid on that language, which, to be honest, i can't identify. google, let's get some translation going, eh?
The Grinch uses a Mac.
one point needs to be called out. the challenge with a flat tax is that, while high income earners will pay more in actual dollars, low income earners will pay more as a percentage of their income -- as they spend a higher percentage of their income than high income earners. which is a negative impact on low income workers, and why flat taxes are generally considered to be regressive.
as an introvert (to which i would testify in court), i take exception with the categorization of introverts as being loathe to make snap decisions and speak quickly. i hate going to parties or work events, and am most gleeful curling up with my laptop. but i speak extremely quickly and eat and make decisions very quickly. introversion is not the same thing as being shy. it is about whether or not you enjoy the company of other people. i don't. i get energy from spending quiet time by myself, not from other people. that's what distinguishes an introvert -- not social awkwardness.
since when does bill gates give even a moment's thought to stopping the proliferation of virii? i bet he is the one who unleashed all the mosquitoes there in the first place.
she did, but i still got chlamydia.
well, at least the constitution affords me the ability to find out who precisely my anonymous accuser is in a court of law. or is there an Anonymous Coward clause in the patriot act?
first of all, you seem to think that going to best buy is the same as buying things from people in alleys. which i have to say is a bit simplistic.
second, trusting complete strangers is a mark of being able to function in society. when you leave the house, do you need to ensure that everyone driving down the street is a friend or acquaintance? when you go to a restaurant, do you get background checks on the staff? from whom did you buy the aluminum foil to make your hat? mom?
i wish i could mod this up. particularly because i went to check the spelling of the last name in google after posting, and accidentally typed 'tedy' with only one d. imagine my surprise at not getting the 'did you mean...?' question.
i don't know why i'm engaging on this, but i will.
the vast majority of internet users are not idiots -- they are merely undereducated about computers and the internet.
my nice response to your comment is that you should try to appreciate that not everyone has the time, energy or will to learn computers to the extent that you or i have.
my mean response is as follows: i have a theory. kids start out life talking about how they want to be astronauts, or the president, or teddy bruschi.* they see a vast world of limitless possibility and imagine themselves filling up an enormous space within it. as people age, they start to realize that they most likely won't be a michael jordan or a bill gates, and their response is not to be content being a small fish in a big pond -- it's to reduce the size of the pond that is 'important'. so, i, for example, work in politics. it's easy for me to see the political world i inhabit as the most important thing locally, or even in the world, and to feel very self-important as a result. many users on slashdot see the world of tech as the pond. or their own i.t. departments. people reduce the scope of the important world, until they are a big fish. i call this, uncleverly, 'resizing the pond'.
i posit that you are resizing the pond. and, further, that you shouldn't.
</self-righteousness>
* don't know who this is? there are people who would call you an idiot if you didn't.
it is precisely circumstances like these that led to the development of labor unions (well, plus a few deaths-by-locked-door-in-a-fire)
it's alarming how many modern workers buy the company line about unions and how they're only in it for the dues. why is it ingrained in modern companies that teamwork is the solution to problems, but then teamwork is lambasted as a strategy to improve conditions?
i had a discussion with my sister once in which she railed against the organized workers at her job because they didn't have to work as much and got paid more. ? why is that bad? it's in the power of every worker! (except those working for the tsa, thanks to mr. bush.)
the communications workers is the first place to look if you're looking to get started. you have nothing to lose but your lousy schedule and crappy raise percentages. and your chains, but that's more metaphorical.
You might want to check out this place called 'Blockbuster'.
If only he could have interpreted the Constitution correctly. Now that would have been helpful.
as for number 1, ever wonder what that little check box was for?
there definitely seems to be some time-based randomness in the selection of tunes. often, i'll hear a song pop up randomly on my ipod in the car on the way into work, and then the song come up again, randomly, while being played on itunes at my desk.
yes, it has an optional feature that does this. and that optional feature has different levels of link creation.
and for pete's sake, slashdot, if you're going to get paranoid and argumentative, at least do it on the day the story broke so it has some currency.
disclaimer: i am a progressive democrat.
but, really. when it goes bad? i have yet to see an example when the cost savings to a multinational corporation justify the damage done by outsourcing work.
you'll have people point to the study that came out that says that outsourcing is good for the economy. but is it? what it really provides is a decline in the quality of jobs in america.
let's think about this. company x has $300,000 it spends on paying 100 engineers. then it discovers it can save $200,000 by sending those 100 jobs to india. so with that $200,000, it hires 200 more engineers in america! net gain of 100 jobs here, and 100 in india! everyone wins!
except, of course, that the jobs that remain here pay 1/3 of what they used to. and that doesn't even include benefits. the moral of the story is, as always: when the company and stockholders win, you better be a stockholder. because if you're an employee, you're screwed.
i know everyone is going to say this but two things immediately leap out at me.
1) don't use windows, for chrissakes. how many people out there in the world don't know that there are alternatives? is it really that many? is apple's media saturation here in the bay area completely nonexistent anywhere else?
2) the solution isn't legislation -- it's people making crappy products. if toyota made a car that constantly ran into trees, the solution wouldn't be banning trees, it would be making toyota make some good friggin' cars.
lord stuff like this makes me pissy.
i assume the title of this was supposed to read "Man oh man" -- unless you were suggesting a new type of porn. in which case, i'm pretty sure they're way ahead of you.
i'm going to rush out today and buy a nokia phone so that i can have this functionality the instant it is available in 2038.
i mean, really. isn't this one of the main roadblocks to having a robot that can operate independently -- object recognition? i mean, if spam bots (the world's most advanced robots) get tripped up trying to read the word 'cat' behind some wavy lines while they're signing up for a hotmail account, you really think that i'll be able to photograph a car in 5 years and get info about it? highly improbable. a worthy goal, yes. but not likely in the near or near distant future.
i don't know about anyone else, but i don't accept any news about mini products on slashdot until they hit the front page again in a few days. wake me up on sunday.
hopefully it can also draw those bitchin' lens flares so prominently featured in the 'photo'. curse photoshop for popularizing those things...
i know this sounds like heresy, and i'm embarrassed to ask -- but does anyone know how effective these tools are in relation to the one that comes with the new version of AOL?
the reason i ask is that, like many of you, i am the CIO of my family, and my family is at the lower end of the spectrum that defines excellent computer using. a few family members have AOL, so i'm curious as to whether it saves me time and headaches to use the AOL tool as opposed to another. because if i have to spend half my christmas fixing dad's xp home that my sister installed kazaa on, i'd like to get back to the egg nog as soon as possible.
the past 25 years have been so full of new technological advances that it's impossible to objectively determine what the top innovation has been, much less what a 3rd party that is the brainchild of ted turner would choose.
of course, they'll pick the web. but what about military applications, that are missing from the list? the american military has driven technology in to nearly incomprehensible realms, and they seem only to get recognition for doing so once the products are mainstreamed.
Insightful? Are you serious? The only thing this thing was missing is an actual definition of flamebait (e.g., flaym-bate, n.: a communication issued solely to elicit a negative or hostile reaction, perhaps with a gratuitous jab at Steve Jobs).
Anyone who has used a Mac in the past five years can tell you that it is about more than appearances and marketing. There is steak underneath the sizzle, as our marketing friends would say. I mean, it runs on f*cking Unix! If the Mac OS appeared out of the ether on someone's Dell, they'd think Christ himself had coded the fantastic Expose features.
This is about protecting IP. Apple wants to keep its new things hush-hush so people keep buying the old ones. It's actually quite common among, well, everybody. But hey! Google it yourself!