Don't assume that the money is coming from mostly rank-and-file employees. It would be interesting to see the demographics of each company's donations.
Also, with the exception of laws governing the compensation, benefits and treatment of said employees, what's good for the company is often understood to mean more money available to go around to the employees plus better job security.
I wouldn't want to vote for a president who if voted in would put me at risk of losing my job and make a job search (for someone with skills specific to my industry) more difficult . I'd want one that my company/industry had in it's pocket so I would have better assurance that I wouldn't be looking for work again.
I figure that since the people that work for the big banks just so happen to spend so much more for Mitt's campaign than any other candidate, and since a much higher percentage of his campaign money comes from the banks then the other candidates (check opensecrets.org) then maybe it has something to do with him representing the best interests for the banking sector.
Whether the money came directly from the company or the employees should not make a huge difference. It means that this candidate is going to have a greater likelihood of being beneficial to that company's interests.
He's the only acceptable one in the GOP bunch. Romney is second but he's clearly a 1-percenter and beholden to big money so you can't expect any solutions from him.
Perry and Santorum are GWB squared and Libertarianism is a stupid outdated ideology so Paul doesn't make the cut either although he has a few good ideas. Gingrich has proven that he's an unethical asshole (just like Perry and Santorum.)
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for the banks. Let's take a look and see who's paying for his campaign. Shall we?
What went on in the video wasn't child abuse. When I was growing up my parents would hit me with the METAL END of the belt as hard as they could. Once, I called my Mom a bitch (under my breath) and my parents knocked me down to the floor. My Dad proceeded to repeatedly kick me in the stomach HARD while my Mom jumped on my head and chest. THAT was child abuse. My parents would beat the shit out of me if I ever stepped out of line and I still didn't turn into a sociopath. There are probably some emotional scars there but I managed to move past all that. I actually have a very good relationship with both of my parents now. My older sister, on the other hand, came to school with some marks on her body and Social Services came to the house and she didn't live with us anymore after that.
The father sounds like an asshole but it isn't child abuse unless it leaves a mark. Everyone needs to stop pushing their values on other people and telling them how to raise their kids. I don't advocate violence, but sometimes it doesn't hurt to spank a child when he misbehaves. It teaches the child that there are consequences to his actions.
More addicts would yield more crimes committed by people with no other means to feed their addiction.
If drugs were as cheap as coffee, people wouldn't need to resort to crime to get their fix. How many people do you know that are addicted to cigarettes or coffee? How many of those people rob and steal to get their fix?
His behavior is that of a sociopath, (characterized by "...a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others", to borrow from Wikipedia) not unlike a serial killer. An extreme example, yes, but appropriate.
Media Center never replaced the Windows Explorer and this won't either. They will just make it an option to boot to Explorer or to boot to the Windows Phone OS.
They can make this the default interface for retail disc installs if they want but there is nothing stop end users, admins or OEMs from setting it up to boot from Explorer.
Buying out competitors is "evil" because it reduces consumer choice in the market, which alters the supply/demand equation in favor of business. More market choice generally means lower prices.
I worked at a very large computer chain (MC) in the tech shop and we used to get FedEx delivering laptops to us that were supposed to be shipped to our competitors' shops; a couple miles away, on a different street, with a completely different business name. We had to call the competing tech shop up and let them know, "Yeah, it's Matt from MC, we got another one of your packages. You can come and pick it up"
The article said it would likely be able to switch between e-ink and back-lit.
No. The article said
This will be the first Kindle with a full-color screen. And yes, it is back-lit. There is no e-ink to be found anywhere on this device.
and then went on to say
Amazon has been working on a multi-touch screen/e-ink hybrid tablet device. But that’s nowhere near completion, I’m told. So for now, this new Kindle will have to do.
So, this version has no e-ink, but if we wait long enough, maybe we will see a multi-touch e-ink device, like the Sony reader.
Shittiest motherboard I ever had the misfortune of dealing with was an Asrock. It was my first computer and nothing worked right. I replaced the POS with an ASUS motherboard and overnight everything worked great. Moral of the story: Only a total noob would recommend Asrock to anyone they didn't hate.
The problem is that even if I do manage to get off Facebook, there is nothing to stop someone from tagging me in inappropriate photos. They can tag me in any photo they wish, set it to public and if I do not have an account then I can't do anything about it. If I have a Facebook account, at least I can delete the tagged photos one at a time as they crop up. Still annoying, but more do-able.
In my experience, I love buying from BestBuy. I have seen situations where the computers are opened with the mentioned seals, at least in the cases I have gone through, it tends to happen with very cheap, horrible quality machines that are returned way too often. Don't work there to know for sure, but if I was manager I'd tell my employees to go through all of them and make sure they are in working order before they leave the store.
Nope, they open them so that they can have their "Geek Squad" optimize the machine, they then add the fee for that service onto the invoice. They do this so that they do not have to upsell the service to their customers, it's already included.
I used to work at Circuit City and they would do exactly that. I had customers that wanted a specific model laptop and the only one available was "pre-optimized". They charged an extra $75.00 for the tech to open the box, go through the initial setup prompts and uninstall maybe one or two things. The customers came in looking for a laptop advertised at a specific price and it was my job to tell them that they would have to pay an additional $75.00 on top of that price because all we had left was the "optimized" version.
I keep evangelizing to my friends and family about how happy I am with my Kindle and how I can carry entire libraries with me at any given time. However, most of the non-techie people I speak with seem to be attached to the idea of physical books. While, the trend is clearly going towards digital, I see a very real market continuing for dead-tree books and that may shrink, but it is clearly in no real danger of evaporating completely. POD is a novel idea and while I do not see it making any huge waves, I think there is clearly a niche for it. i wonder how they would go about enforcing copyright. Would the POD stations treat it like a copier, where there is a big warning not to print off a physical copy of a book you do not have the rights to or would they be influenced to actively police it? Would I be able to walk in there with torrented ebooks on my flash drive and walk out with unlicensed realistic-looking copies? That seems like a potential legal issue for sure.
... Edison didn't just think, "Hey, I could put a filament in a jar and run electricity through it to make it glow" and patent that. He actually did the work to make a light bulb, and it took a lot of trial and error. It was not just a mental process, but a physical process.
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Also, with the exception of laws governing the compensation, benefits and treatment of said employees, what's good for the company is often understood to mean more money available to go around to the employees plus better job security.
I wouldn't want to vote for a president who if voted in would put me at risk of losing my job and make a job search (for someone with skills specific to my industry) more difficult . I'd want one that my company/industry had in it's pocket so I would have better assurance that I wouldn't be looking for work again.
I figure that since the people that work for the big banks just so happen to spend so much more for Mitt's campaign than any other candidate, and since a much higher percentage of his campaign money comes from the banks then the other candidates (check opensecrets.org) then maybe it has something to do with him representing the best interests for the banking sector. Whether the money came directly from the company or the employees should not make a huge difference. It means that this candidate is going to have a greater likelihood of being beneficial to that company's interests.
He's the only acceptable one in the GOP bunch. Romney is second but he's clearly a 1-percenter and beholden to big money so you can't expect any solutions from him. Perry and Santorum are GWB squared and Libertarianism is a stupid outdated ideology so Paul doesn't make the cut either although he has a few good ideas. Gingrich has proven that he's an unethical asshole (just like Perry and Santorum.)
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for the banks. Let's take a look and see who's paying for his campaign. Shall we?
Goldman Sachs $367,200
Credit Suisse Group $203,750
Morgan Stanley $199,800
HIG Capital $186,500
Barclays $157,750
Kirkland & Ellis $132,100
Bank of America $126,500
PriceWaterhouseCoopers $118,250
EMC Corp $117,300
JPMorgan Chase & Co $112,250
The Villages $97,500
Vivint Inc $80,750
Marriott International $79,837
Sullivan & Cromwell $79,250
Bain Capital $74,500
UBS AG $73,750
Wells Fargo $61,500
Blackstone Group $59,800
Citigroup Inc $57,050
Bain & Co $52,500
Courtesy of Open Secrets:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?cycle=2012&id=N00000286
They make a tablet exactly as you describe. It's called the wifi Xoom. Yes, I have one. I paid $350 on ebay for it.
You don't need to hack a Xoom. It's pure Android.
Aphex Twin uses fractals and logarithmic functions in his music. There's patterns there, just not what most people pick up on.
What went on in the video wasn't child abuse. When I was growing up my parents would hit me with the METAL END of the belt as hard as they could. Once, I called my Mom a bitch (under my breath) and my parents knocked me down to the floor. My Dad proceeded to repeatedly kick me in the stomach HARD while my Mom jumped on my head and chest. THAT was child abuse. My parents would beat the shit out of me if I ever stepped out of line and I still didn't turn into a sociopath. There are probably some emotional scars there but I managed to move past all that. I actually have a very good relationship with both of my parents now. My older sister, on the other hand, came to school with some marks on her body and Social Services came to the house and she didn't live with us anymore after that. The father sounds like an asshole but it isn't child abuse unless it leaves a mark. Everyone needs to stop pushing their values on other people and telling them how to raise their kids. I don't advocate violence, but sometimes it doesn't hurt to spank a child when he misbehaves. It teaches the child that there are consequences to his actions.
they run really fast for a few hours and then crash!
More addicts would yield more crimes committed by people with no other means to feed their addiction.
If drugs were as cheap as coffee, people wouldn't need to resort to crime to get their fix. How many people do you know that are addicted to cigarettes or coffee? How many of those people rob and steal to get their fix?
His behavior is that of a sociopath, (characterized by "...a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others", to borrow from Wikipedia) not unlike a serial killer. An extreme example, yes, but appropriate.
I bet that they turn WMC into a Metro app now.
It's still a BSOD!
Media Center never replaced the Windows Explorer and this won't either. They will just make it an option to boot to Explorer or to boot to the Windows Phone OS. They can make this the default interface for retail disc installs if they want but there is nothing stop end users, admins or OEMs from setting it up to boot from Explorer.
Buying out competitors is "evil" because it reduces consumer choice in the market, which alters the supply/demand equation in favor of business. More market choice generally means lower prices.
I worked at a very large computer chain (MC) in the tech shop and we used to get FedEx delivering laptops to us that were supposed to be shipped to our competitors' shops; a couple miles away, on a different street, with a completely different business name. We had to call the competing tech shop up and let them know, "Yeah, it's Matt from MC, we got another one of your packages. You can come and pick it up"
...if Apple's injunction against Samsung has anything to do with there supposedly only being 20,000 out of a million units sold?
The article said it would likely be able to switch between e-ink and back-lit.
No. The article said
This will be the first Kindle with a full-color screen. And yes, it is back-lit. There is no e-ink to be found anywhere on this device.
and then went on to say
Amazon has been working on a multi-touch screen/e-ink hybrid tablet device. But that’s nowhere near completion, I’m told. So for now, this new Kindle will have to do.
So, this version has no e-ink, but if we wait long enough, maybe we will see a multi-touch e-ink device, like the Sony reader.
Shittiest motherboard I ever had the misfortune of dealing with was an Asrock. It was my first computer and nothing worked right. I replaced the POS with an ASUS motherboard and overnight everything worked great. Moral of the story: Only a total noob would recommend Asrock to anyone they didn't hate.
The problem is that even if I do manage to get off Facebook, there is nothing to stop someone from tagging me in inappropriate photos. They can tag me in any photo they wish, set it to public and if I do not have an account then I can't do anything about it. If I have a Facebook account, at least I can delete the tagged photos one at a time as they crop up. Still annoying, but more do-able.
In my experience, I love buying from BestBuy. I have seen situations where the computers are opened with the mentioned seals, at least in the cases I have gone through, it tends to happen with very cheap, horrible quality machines that are returned way too often. Don't work there to know for sure, but if I was manager I'd tell my employees to go through all of them and make sure they are in working order before they leave the store.
Nope, they open them so that they can have their "Geek Squad" optimize the machine, they then add the fee for that service onto the invoice. They do this so that they do not have to upsell the service to their customers, it's already included.
I used to work at Circuit City and they would do exactly that. I had customers that wanted a specific model laptop and the only one available was "pre-optimized". They charged an extra $75.00 for the tech to open the box, go through the initial setup prompts and uninstall maybe one or two things. The customers came in looking for a laptop advertised at a specific price and it was my job to tell them that they would have to pay an additional $75.00 on top of that price because all we had left was the "optimized" version.
This is correct. Mod parent up!!
I keep evangelizing to my friends and family about how happy I am with my Kindle and how I can carry entire libraries with me at any given time. However, most of the non-techie people I speak with seem to be attached to the idea of physical books. While, the trend is clearly going towards digital, I see a very real market continuing for dead-tree books and that may shrink, but it is clearly in no real danger of evaporating completely. POD is a novel idea and while I do not see it making any huge waves, I think there is clearly a niche for it. i wonder how they would go about enforcing copyright. Would the POD stations treat it like a copier, where there is a big warning not to print off a physical copy of a book you do not have the rights to or would they be influenced to actively police it? Would I be able to walk in there with torrented ebooks on my flash drive and walk out with unlicensed realistic-looking copies? That seems like a potential legal issue for sure.
... Edison didn't just think, "Hey, I could put a filament in a jar and run electricity through it to make it glow" and patent that. He actually did the work to make a light bulb, and it took a lot of trial and error. It was not just a mental process, but a physical process.
Edison did not come up with that idea. He stole most of his "inventions" from other people and claimed them for himself. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/edison/lightbulb.shtml
Like a kangaroo?
The Mac-compatible Velcro is better because It Just Works!(TM)