What tests of loyalty to US principles would you be speaking of? I've certainly never had to pass any of them, except to sign lifetime non-disclosure agreements and take a polygraph. Neither of which amount to much of anything unless I actually disclose specific classified information.
"Oh, what's that? Yeah, you guys have a fair swing of power now and are still doing nothing."
Come on now, there was a whole quarter inch of snow in DC the other day for an hour or so. You can't expect them to go to work in that kind of weather can you?
The system is broken. Anyone who follows a party has missed the point of having a multi-party system anyway. Candidates should be elected based on their positions, not on their party. Unfortunately too many of us don't care enough about the "issues" and the rest of us can't outweigh the corporate and "special interest group" dollars that get thrown at Congress all the time.
Is it more insulting to use a string of consonants and make them a word or say the same thing 100 times in a briefing about that very thing? Re-use of a word is annoying in written form or verbal form. Re-use of a string of words is that much more annoying, very difficult to repeatedly say and when describing technical things gets very confusing very quickly for technical and non-technical people alike.
They do do it in the States. We have copies of Office X at University of Maryland for about $70. I believe the Windows price for 2003 was about $85 or something. I don't know if we've gotten Office 2007 yet, but I know they were going to sell it for similar prices when it comes in.
Not that I disagree but we use word constantly where I work to build documents that contain linked tables of contents, diagrams, tables that are linked to excel spreadsheets and many other "non-standard" functions. One of our most competent software guys who is very familiar with MS Office back through early versions spent almost 15 minutes finding the print tool. Eventually he used Control P and then went and found the tool later, but the fact that he, a windows application developer and expert user of previous versions of Office had to do that says an awful lot about the differences in the interface.
I'm certainly not looking forward to the transition since I think the last decent version of Office was 97. Then again, the new interface may be good for me considering my bias.
I think with $40 million in cash (at Apple) or whatever it is they have on the books, it's safe to say Jobs has a pretty good idea of what he's doing. Sure, he makes mistakes, we all do but in general, I think everyone can agree, ego or not, he's doing good things at/for Apple right now.
You've obviously never tried to build to someone elses legacy design. It's a nightmare, especially when the original design was incomplete.
Trying to design a spaceship without considering the propulsion system is tantamount to simply throwing away whatever billions/trillions of moneys get spent on it.
"Consider this: What if, say, Apple (cause everyone LOVES apple) discovered a factory in the US that would make counterfeits. So they represent themselves as "investors" and contact this factory and ask them to make a counterfeit iPod. The company agrees. During production, Apple contacts the authorities, and has the plant shut down. I doubt many slashdotters would be crying about such a scenario, and it's very analogous to what's happening here"
Perhaps people wouldn't be jumping on Apple in this scenario, but it's not the same at all. The record labels have already put contracts in place (and fulfilled them) to distribute albums these guys create. That's not the same as being a part of a "sting" as you suggest.
Where did the post mention sex as okay? I'm curious. And since when does nudity imply sex? we're born naked, it's the natural state, and for some reason the US seems to consider it the biggest taboo on the planet while simultaneously using Sex (not nudity) to sell everything from childrens candy to water. It's a pretty disgusting incongruity.
I'll disagree with your "without social importance" simply because television does give people something to talk about. It might e replacing a better conversation, but when people are from different social groups or differing jobs/education, it gives them a starting point. And I noticed you didn't say anything in your commentary about professional sports. Does that mean you think watching sports has some redeeming value or you just neglected to mention it?
"Another interesting thing is that in Sweden we have only a fraction of the level of violent crimes as compared to USA. I don't think we are by nature a more docile people, it's rather probably the result of a lack of handguns and generations of limited media violence. And we haven't had a war in 200 years."
Of course it couldn't possibly be a population difference or socio-economic differences between the two countries at all, could it?
Maybe it's me, but wouldn't it be easier to not put a tv in his room? Far easier to control content that way than by hoping the v-chip works as it's supposed to.
This is part of the problem, no offense to you (I've been guilty of it too), but parents using the television as a babysitter instead of doing things with their children. I'm not saying we've lost our way, but children need interaction and conversation. They need touch, and laughter, with their parents (or someone in a similar role), not just in general, in order to understand that life is full. Life has ups and downs, death happens life goes on. Violence isn't the way to deal with things, etc etc etc.
So you're blaming the doctor (who probably has to see 15-20 patients an hour in a big city ER) for the fact that he didn't see any fractures in your xray? Did you see them? If not, blame the x-ray tech, not the doctor.
That said, I generally agree. Too many doctors these days don't listen to their patients and don't treat the problem, they treat the symptoms. Don't even get me started on the pharmaceuticals backing this trend.
Interesting to note. I wonder how that works for online purchasing. I would assume it only applies if you are in the state the business is incorporated in (similar to tax) but that's a guess.
First off, you're still making the assumption that the consumer knew they hadn't paid the full price for the DVDs. That's not realistic at all. Second, "trying to get over on the big faceless corporation" isn't what all people are trying to do. I already agreed that those customers who did try that are, in my opinion, in the wrong as much as you suggest. That doesn't make the issue any less of a grey area because it's not the customer's responsibility to correct the mistakes of the business. Sure, it's a nice thing to do, but morals and nice aren't the same thing. Morals indicate obligation to do something because it's right, not because it's nice. They often overlap, but they aren't the same thing.
Nice to know your world is so black and white. It's not theft if both parties agree to a price. It's not theft if it's unintentional. In your example it would be theft because you didn't agree to a price, you paid for some items and received others that you didn't pay for. In the Amazon problem, customers didn't receive items they didn't pay for. They recieved items that they paid the wrong price for, whether or not they knew it was the wrong price is where the grey area comes in. Some surely did, and they were "morally" (whatever that means...morals are not universal) wrong by your standard. I would be most fit this category, but certainly not all.
your analogy doesn't hold because both parties knew the error before the transaction was finalized. From a customer perspective, if amazon does error checking and then asks you to confirm a price, then you've met your responsibility as a consumer to "do the right thing" by confirming the price. It's not the consumer's fault that Amazon screwed up.
A better analogy is if an item was marked $15 on the shelf but was charged as $5 at the register. That's happened to me several times and usually, if I catch the error, both cashier and I assume the item is on sale or entered incorrectly in the system. In either case, the price can not be changed by the cashier, it has to be changed in the system, and I get the price that is in the system at the time of checkout, not the correct price marked on the shelf. Yeah the company loses money, but that's the problem with using an automated system from the business' perspective. They took a chance and they lost this time. Usually it works in their favor, but sometimes it doesn't.
Designing for environment isn't hard, it's just expensive. Having a working prototype will allow them to get real funding (and fast) to pay for environmentally capable productio models. In the meantime, something that works part of the time (more often than not in most cases) is better than nothing at all.
Except that record companies don't fund the tours, the artists do. That's how an artist makes money off an album, by actually performing the music. Record companies make money by swindling the artists out of their rights to their own material.
What he said was that she had taken too long for him to be able to help her any longer. Specifically, she had taken longer than their 48 hour backup to take action, so her emails were no longer available. Now, whether that 48 hours began when she started making demands or when the mail was actually "deleted" isn't very clear, but either way, he gave her a specific timeline at some point.
More importantly, the woman clearly stated that she no longer used Lycos mail because it was such a poor service. The guy needs to learn some tact, but the "customer" here blew this way out of proportion. If I was the guy's boss, I'd probably reprimand him for the bad publicity and give him a class on proper ettiquette with regard to customer service but he wouldn't be fired. He did his job properly and gave the woman opportunity to recover her mail in the manner dictated by Lycos business practices.
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What tests of loyalty to US principles would you be speaking of? I've certainly never had to pass any of them, except to sign lifetime non-disclosure agreements and take a polygraph. Neither of which amount to much of anything unless I actually disclose specific classified information.
"Oh, what's that? Yeah, you guys have a fair swing of power now and are still doing nothing."
Come on now, there was a whole quarter inch of snow in DC the other day for an hour or so. You can't expect them to go to work in that kind of weather can you?
The system is broken. Anyone who follows a party has missed the point of having a multi-party system anyway. Candidates should be elected based on their positions, not on their party. Unfortunately too many of us don't care enough about the "issues" and the rest of us can't outweigh the corporate and "special interest group" dollars that get thrown at Congress all the time.
Is it more insulting to use a string of consonants and make them a word or say the same thing 100 times in a briefing about that very thing? Re-use of a word is annoying in written form or verbal form. Re-use of a string of words is that much more annoying, very difficult to repeatedly say and when describing technical things gets very confusing very quickly for technical and non-technical people alike.
They do do it in the States. We have copies of Office X at University of Maryland for about $70. I believe the Windows price for 2003 was about $85 or something. I don't know if we've gotten Office 2007 yet, but I know they were going to sell it for similar prices when it comes in.
Not that I disagree but we use word constantly where I work to build documents that contain linked tables of contents, diagrams, tables that are linked to excel spreadsheets and many other "non-standard" functions. One of our most competent software guys who is very familiar with MS Office back through early versions spent almost 15 minutes finding the print tool. Eventually he used Control P and then went and found the tool later, but the fact that he, a windows application developer and expert user of previous versions of Office had to do that says an awful lot about the differences in the interface.
I'm certainly not looking forward to the transition since I think the last decent version of Office was 97. Then again, the new interface may be good for me considering my bias.
I think with $40 million in cash (at Apple) or whatever it is they have on the books, it's safe to say Jobs has a pretty good idea of what he's doing. Sure, he makes mistakes, we all do but in general, I think everyone can agree, ego or not, he's doing good things at/for Apple right now.
SBA.gov is usually a really good source for startup info including legalalities (in your locale) money issues, licensing and the like.
Obviously you've never read this blog: http://lustlaureate.blogspot.com/
You've obviously never tried to build to someone elses legacy design. It's a nightmare, especially when the original design was incomplete.
Trying to design a spaceship without considering the propulsion system is tantamount to simply throwing away whatever billions/trillions of moneys get spent on it.
"Consider this: What if, say, Apple (cause everyone LOVES apple) discovered a factory in the US that would make counterfeits. So they represent themselves as "investors" and contact this factory and ask them to make a counterfeit iPod. The company agrees. During production, Apple contacts the authorities, and has the plant shut down. I doubt many slashdotters would be crying about such a scenario, and it's very analogous to what's happening here"
Perhaps people wouldn't be jumping on Apple in this scenario, but it's not the same at all. The record labels have already put contracts in place (and fulfilled them) to distribute albums these guys create. That's not the same as being a part of a "sting" as you suggest.
"But cramming sex is OK?"
Where did the post mention sex as okay? I'm curious. And since when does nudity imply sex? we're born naked, it's the natural state, and for some reason the US seems to consider it the biggest taboo on the planet while simultaneously using Sex (not nudity) to sell everything from childrens candy to water. It's a pretty disgusting incongruity.
I'll disagree with your "without social importance" simply because television does give people something to talk about. It might e replacing a better conversation, but when people are from different social groups or differing jobs/education, it gives them a starting point. And I noticed you didn't say anything in your commentary about professional sports. Does that mean you think watching sports has some redeeming value or you just neglected to mention it?
"Another interesting thing is that in Sweden we have only a fraction of the level of violent crimes as compared to USA. I don't think we are by nature a more docile people, it's rather probably the result of a lack of handguns and generations of limited media violence. And we haven't had a war in 200 years."
Of course it couldn't possibly be a population difference or socio-economic differences between the two countries at all, could it?
Maybe it's me, but wouldn't it be easier to not put a tv in his room? Far easier to control content that way than by hoping the v-chip works as it's supposed to.
This is part of the problem, no offense to you (I've been guilty of it too), but parents using the television as a babysitter instead of doing things with their children. I'm not saying we've lost our way, but children need interaction and conversation. They need touch, and laughter, with their parents (or someone in a similar role), not just in general, in order to understand that life is full. Life has ups and downs, death happens life goes on. Violence isn't the way to deal with things, etc etc etc.
Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now.
Or see the program trying to eat them... but that's pretty damned funny too.
So you're blaming the doctor (who probably has to see 15-20 patients an hour in a big city ER) for the fact that he didn't see any fractures in your xray? Did you see them? If not, blame the x-ray tech, not the doctor.
That said, I generally agree. Too many doctors these days don't listen to their patients and don't treat the problem, they treat the symptoms. Don't even get me started on the pharmaceuticals backing this trend.
Interesting to note. I wonder how that works for online purchasing. I would assume it only applies if you are in the state the business is incorporated in (similar to tax) but that's a guess.
First off, you're still making the assumption that the consumer knew they hadn't paid the full price for the DVDs. That's not realistic at all. Second, "trying to get over on the big faceless corporation" isn't what all people are trying to do. I already agreed that those customers who did try that are, in my opinion, in the wrong as much as you suggest. That doesn't make the issue any less of a grey area because it's not the customer's responsibility to correct the mistakes of the business. Sure, it's a nice thing to do, but morals and nice aren't the same thing. Morals indicate obligation to do something because it's right, not because it's nice. They often overlap, but they aren't the same thing.
Nice to know your world is so black and white. It's not theft if both parties agree to a price. It's not theft if it's unintentional. In your example it would be theft because you didn't agree to a price, you paid for some items and received others that you didn't pay for. In the Amazon problem, customers didn't receive items they didn't pay for. They recieved items that they paid the wrong price for, whether or not they knew it was the wrong price is where the grey area comes in. Some surely did, and they were "morally" (whatever that means...morals are not universal) wrong by your standard. I would be most fit this category, but certainly not all.
your analogy doesn't hold because both parties knew the error before the transaction was finalized. From a customer perspective, if amazon does error checking and then asks you to confirm a price, then you've met your responsibility as a consumer to "do the right thing" by confirming the price. It's not the consumer's fault that Amazon screwed up.
A better analogy is if an item was marked $15 on the shelf but was charged as $5 at the register. That's happened to me several times and usually, if I catch the error, both cashier and I assume the item is on sale or entered incorrectly in the system. In either case, the price can not be changed by the cashier, it has to be changed in the system, and I get the price that is in the system at the time of checkout, not the correct price marked on the shelf. Yeah the company loses money, but that's the problem with using an automated system from the business' perspective. They took a chance and they lost this time. Usually it works in their favor, but sometimes it doesn't.
Designing for environment isn't hard, it's just expensive. Having a working prototype will allow them to get real funding (and fast) to pay for environmentally capable productio models. In the meantime, something that works part of the time (more often than not in most cases) is better than nothing at all.
I always understood artists get 100% of the merchandising. I don't know about tour profits but I thought it was higher than 50% as well.
Except that record companies don't fund the tours, the artists do. That's how an artist makes money off an album, by actually performing the music. Record companies make money by swindling the artists out of their rights to their own material.
What he said was that she had taken too long for him to be able to help her any longer. Specifically, she had taken longer than their 48 hour backup to take action, so her emails were no longer available. Now, whether that 48 hours began when she started making demands or when the mail was actually "deleted" isn't very clear, but either way, he gave her a specific timeline at some point.
More importantly, the woman clearly stated that she no longer used Lycos mail because it was such a poor service. The guy needs to learn some tact, but the "customer" here blew this way out of proportion. If I was the guy's boss, I'd probably reprimand him for the bad publicity and give him a class on proper ettiquette with regard to customer service but he wouldn't be fired. He did his job properly and gave the woman opportunity to recover her mail in the manner dictated by Lycos business practices.