I don't have a single CD that has succumbed to "CD rot". I've had some rendered unuseable by scratches or by being left in the heat/sun too long by accident, but other than that all my CDs, even from the late 80s and early 90s are completely fine. The data CDs I burned in the early-mid 90s are also still fine.
I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, but people make far more of a big deal about it than is really warranted.
That said, anything I wanted to make sure was still good I'd "refresh" every 5 years or so.
A film being contrary to your politics doesn't mean it isn't a good film.
Hell, some of us even go out of our way to find examples of things that are contrary to our own beliefs, just to keep aware of why we believe what we believe.
You'll also find that individual "stings" are considered entrapment and are generally illegal unless conducted, from the start, by police.
If you wait until you receive the product, you are also breaking the law by having the contraband, whether you're the seller or buyer. So they can actually charge you with a crime in your little scenario.
Nobody said anything about waiting to get to market. What gmack said was to plan 5-10 years instead of expecting returns quickly.
The problem tech startups have is that they have what they think is a good product and somehow think it will market itself. The real world, especially the business world, doesn't work that way though. You have to plan everything on paper thoroughly to expect success. Otherwise you've just gotten lucky if you make any money at all.
Essentially you and gmack are saying the same thing, just in different ways.
The general reason is because more intelligent people tend to think they know more and are better qualified to determine "what's best", whether that's true or not.
Intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of laws we create. Common sense sometimes has something to do with the quality of laws and, unfortunately, common sense isn't.
The president should represent the average person of the United States of America. Someone who compiles Linux is not your average person.
So you're saying GWB was a good representative?
I'm being serious. If the President should represent the average person, I'd say Bush was a good candidate. I don't happen to think he has done this country any service, much less good service, but he does qualify as "average" in most aspects other than wealth.
If you believe that, you're not a very good judge of character. I'll grant you it's also helpful to know about the subject matter, but it's not necessary. Especially when you have more than one person who you can turn to for information.
That is assuming, of course, that your "advisors" aren't a bunch of yes men.
Yeah, I didn't find anything with specifics that included holidays. As I said in my post, I know Spain gets a whole lot of holidays on top of their vacation days. I assume the rest of Europe is at least vaguely similar.
I know Spain gets some 25+ and about 200 holidays so it seems. (My daughter is on break from school every couple weeks for at least 1 day due to some holiday or another)
That's a very interesting idea, actually. Teaching sabbaticals is a great thing to consider. It will give real world application experience to students, and give the rest of us a better appreciation for what teachers go through, thus changing the social structure surrounding the system.
There's a difference between not being average and lording that fact over "average" people. That's the difficult part I was talking about. I have no problem with people wanting to be elite. I have a problem with people choosing to show how elite they are just to feel "better" than the people around them.
The elite don't have to be asses. Einstein was the epitome of elite, but he was also, by all accounts I've seen, a very gracious man who understood that simply because he was smart didn't make him any better than people who weren't as smart as he was.
I use the clock widget to keep time in several different time zones because either I or someone I speak to regularly is traveling often. US, Europe, Asia, etc. One clock for every person/city. It's easy to know when they might be available. Sometimes I use it for weather too.
I did disable dashboard for a while, but left it enabled when I upgraded to Panther. Dashboard is a memory pig, but it's occasionally useful.
Attacks from the "opposing team" are completely different than attacks from your own.
I'm sure everyone on the Obama campaign expect and know how to deal with attacks from the Republicans. Attacks from within the party, though, are much more destructive because it splits the party and gives the Republicans more to point at and say "they can't even get it right between themselves".
Once there is a "unified" Democratic party I'm sure you'll see plenty of appropriate response to anything the Republicans can offer. Likewise, the Republicans had a short period where Romney and McCain were at odds and the same could have been said.
I think we'll see Obama offer the VP seat and Clinton decline because I believe neither honestly likes the other. That will align more of the Clinton supporters behind Obama and leave the door open for a Clinton campaign in 4 years (assuming she believes he'll lose the election.)
You see, that's the thing about us. In the US we routinely harass all of our Presidents, for at least as long as I can remember (I'm only 36). Political satire has been around a long time and isn't going to go away. Making fun of leaders, whether satire or not, is just one of the aspects of the job Presidents have to deal with. It doesn't take much searching to find a lot of similar videos about Clinton.
Because "elite" is another way of saying "better", which most people don't feel comfortable with either about themselves or someone else.
Being an elitist, or part of the elite according to other people, implies you're okay with the social classes we have in this country where "everyone is equal". It implies an "anti-American" stance of acceptance that some people just "deserve" more than others because they're "better" people.
Elitism is crap. Being elite and not being elitist is good. It's also very difficult to achieve.
That's an excellent point. I don't, however, want to leave social welfare up to the religious folks. I'm not saying all private charities are run by religious folks, just that I don't donate to charities run by churches or church groups. As a result my outlets are much more limited. I do donate both money and time to charities that I think are beneficial, but I don't have a lot of either to donate. If part of my taxes go to donating more than I can directly, I'm all for it.
I think we need to better implement the programs we put in place. I'd love to find a solution to that particular problem, but I've certainly never seen a way to do it on a large scale. I think that would also help alleviate the incentive issue you point out.
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Oh, come on, I speak 3 languages and I still thought it was fucking hilarious.
I don't have a single CD that has succumbed to "CD rot". I've had some rendered unuseable by scratches or by being left in the heat/sun too long by accident, but other than that all my CDs, even from the late 80s and early 90s are completely fine. The data CDs I burned in the early-mid 90s are also still fine.
I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, but people make far more of a big deal about it than is really warranted.
That said, anything I wanted to make sure was still good I'd "refresh" every 5 years or so.
A film being contrary to your politics doesn't mean it isn't a good film.
Hell, some of us even go out of our way to find examples of things that are contrary to our own beliefs, just to keep aware of why we believe what we believe.
You'll also find that individual "stings" are considered entrapment and are generally illegal unless conducted, from the start, by police.
If you wait until you receive the product, you are also breaking the law by having the contraband, whether you're the seller or buyer. So they can actually charge you with a crime in your little scenario.
Sorry, still won't work.
There are legitimate sales of ivory. Antiques dealers come to mind as the most obvious of them.
Unfortunately, eBay will probably cave on this as they do with so many other things.
Right, because drug companies selling legal drugs are so good about keeping the prices down.
Seriously, there's more at issue than just the cost of the drugs.
Seriously? You didn't get that? Credentials officially revoked.
Now back to our regularly scheduled non-RTFA programming.
The difference is that the less intelligent people are more likely to be wrong about their perceived abilities.
You just made my point. Thank you very much.
Nobody said anything about waiting to get to market. What gmack said was to plan 5-10 years instead of expecting returns quickly.
The problem tech startups have is that they have what they think is a good product and somehow think it will market itself. The real world, especially the business world, doesn't work that way though. You have to plan everything on paper thoroughly to expect success. Otherwise you've just gotten lucky if you make any money at all.
Essentially you and gmack are saying the same thing, just in different ways.
The general reason is because more intelligent people tend to think they know more and are better qualified to determine "what's best", whether that's true or not.
Intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of laws we create. Common sense sometimes has something to do with the quality of laws and, unfortunately, common sense isn't.
The president should represent the average person of the United States of America. Someone who compiles Linux is not your average person.
So you're saying GWB was a good representative?
I'm being serious. If the President should represent the average person, I'd say Bush was a good candidate. I don't happen to think he has done this country any service, much less good service, but he does qualify as "average" in most aspects other than wealth.
If you believe that, you're not a very good judge of character. I'll grant you it's also helpful to know about the subject matter, but it's not necessary. Especially when you have more than one person who you can turn to for information.
That is assuming, of course, that your "advisors" aren't a bunch of yes men.
Yeah, I didn't find anything with specifics that included holidays. As I said in my post, I know Spain gets a whole lot of holidays on top of their vacation days. I assume the rest of Europe is at least vaguely similar.
At least the answer in your example was funny, not just some douche-bag kid trying to be cool because he/she didn't bother learning.
45 is a bit of an exaggeration, but here's a link with some decent numbers:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922052.html
I know Spain gets some 25+ and about 200 holidays so it seems. (My daughter is on break from school every couple weeks for at least 1 day due to some holiday or another)
That's a very interesting idea, actually. Teaching sabbaticals is a great thing to consider. It will give real world application experience to students, and give the rest of us a better appreciation for what teachers go through, thus changing the social structure surrounding the system.
There's a difference between not being average and lording that fact over "average" people. That's the difficult part I was talking about. I have no problem with people wanting to be elite. I have a problem with people choosing to show how elite they are just to feel "better" than the people around them.
The elite don't have to be asses. Einstein was the epitome of elite, but he was also, by all accounts I've seen, a very gracious man who understood that simply because he was smart didn't make him any better than people who weren't as smart as he was.
I use the clock widget to keep time in several different time zones because either I or someone I speak to regularly is traveling often. US, Europe, Asia, etc. One clock for every person/city. It's easy to know when they might be available. Sometimes I use it for weather too.
I did disable dashboard for a while, but left it enabled when I upgraded to Panther. Dashboard is a memory pig, but it's occasionally useful.
Tool of choice for who? Maybe for geeks, but nobody else knew anything about it, I assure you.
Do you mean speak its name with reverence? If not, reference to what?
Attacks from the "opposing team" are completely different than attacks from your own.
I'm sure everyone on the Obama campaign expect and know how to deal with attacks from the Republicans. Attacks from within the party, though, are much more destructive because it splits the party and gives the Republicans more to point at and say "they can't even get it right between themselves".
Once there is a "unified" Democratic party I'm sure you'll see plenty of appropriate response to anything the Republicans can offer. Likewise, the Republicans had a short period where Romney and McCain were at odds and the same could have been said.
I think we'll see Obama offer the VP seat and Clinton decline because I believe neither honestly likes the other. That will align more of the Clinton supporters behind Obama and leave the door open for a Clinton campaign in 4 years (assuming she believes he'll lose the election.)
You see, that's the thing about us. In the US we routinely harass all of our Presidents, for at least as long as I can remember (I'm only 36). Political satire has been around a long time and isn't going to go away. Making fun of leaders, whether satire or not, is just one of the aspects of the job Presidents have to deal with. It doesn't take much searching to find a lot of similar videos about Clinton.
Because "elite" is another way of saying "better", which most people don't feel comfortable with either about themselves or someone else.
Being an elitist, or part of the elite according to other people, implies you're okay with the social classes we have in this country where "everyone is equal". It implies an "anti-American" stance of acceptance that some people just "deserve" more than others because they're "better" people.
Elitism is crap. Being elite and not being elitist is good. It's also very difficult to achieve.
Please look at the population and land area of those countries compared to the United States and get back to me.
That's an excellent point. I don't, however, want to leave social welfare up to the religious folks. I'm not saying all private charities are run by religious folks, just that I don't donate to charities run by churches or church groups. As a result my outlets are much more limited. I do donate both money and time to charities that I think are beneficial, but I don't have a lot of either to donate. If part of my taxes go to donating more than I can directly, I'm all for it.
I think we need to better implement the programs we put in place. I'd love to find a solution to that particular problem, but I've certainly never seen a way to do it on a large scale. I think that would also help alleviate the incentive issue you point out.