so lets latch on to something generic... even though it occurs all the time we seem to think its only bad now.
Its always worse for those of the current generation, we conveniently forget the previous ones. I have some grandparents who can tell you about the real hell they faced in Kansas during those drought days way back when, makes the pansy crap we complain about today just that.
I guess with all the stories about the earth having not warmed recently, taken a year or two dive, that the lead off words must change to fuel this engine of profit for certain groups and businesses. How much barley production is lost to other more cash ready crops? With the current increases in the value of corn and wheat because of the misguided ethanol production in the US would it not make sense that other areas shift to fill the gap?
Putting climate change in the same story as beer either points out the hypocrisy of it all or just shows how silly we are willing to become
Army of Darkness : The BluRay Edition is certainly worthy of an oscar or two compared to that blurry old DVD version, the acting becomes much more apparent with all those extra pixels
Let alone they eat about anything which doesn't eat them first.
My only concern with this type of approach is how hamstrung will we get when the first protesters arrive? Can we replicate it or at least identify WHY it is so useful or different?
only the rich have computers anyway they need to pay their fair share those dirty rotten music down loaders we are taxing perverts, you want to tax them, right? it is for the children. the revenue will go towards reducing our impact on the environment!
which statements can we queue up to support this? I expect the bulk of them to show up at one time or the other
Sorry, it never ceases to amaze me that when facing a spending problem their first reaction is to increase taxes.
So the signal from my local station should always look better, unless of course they broadcast from a compressed source.
Besides, blu-ray and even hd-dvd players love nothing better than to tell me I don't have a HDMI connector, especially on dvd movies (not the hd versions) so it won't even upconvert!
Somehow I think this is a PR release for stock holders.
There have been a number of stories posted here and at Digg about payouts that were voided because of courts siding with casinos when they declared the winner only won because of a bug or the jackpot was wrong because of a bug.
So they aren't a great example.
Its not like either party wants it fixed, they do far better crying an election was stolen than do actual work.
It also gives them an out, elections are the ultimate ego bitch slap, its no fun when people don't vote for you and you lose, it means people didn't like you and that hurts
There were only three things from the movie that "irked" me as a big fan of the books.
1. The sound weapons. (but wasn't the author there at the time and approved it?) 2. That STUPID EFFING CAT 3. Rain at the end.
Now I like the SCI-FI version too, but I like the movie more because... 1. The characters actually look like they were described in the book, hair color anyone? 2. The costumes were good and looked right. 3. Because I really liked how Paul and his relationship to Gurney, his dad, and his mom, came across on the screen.
I am with others, there are other books they can make movies out of instead, do them. I would love to see someone pull off the books, or even some of the newer books, with their ever so NOT-PC issues. (like using women for wombs)
basically the only thing the recording industry didn't toss out there was "its for the children"
My question about ISPs in Britain is, how much say does the EU have over them? How does the EU versus the law of England stack up in regards to this situation?
that IBM got suspended or that IBM only earned 1.5 Billion dollars of the US business.
The government spends a fortune on IT, I can't imagine a company as large as IBM not having a bigger piece of the pie. Perhaps they don't pay Congress enough during elections?
Sorry, just had to vent. In my office the trash can is out of site but easily accessible. So should it be on my computer desktop.
On XP I just removed it totally from the desktop and get at it through explorer. I saw a mod that allowed it to live in the system tray which I think is a better solution. I understand that on my Mac that its a native part of how the UI operates but at least I can keep the whole bar down there off my screen or scale it so its not annoying.
Still... in real life we don't sit them on our desks.... maybe they should use the ashtray instead - because thats the only "trash" thing ever to sit on a desk
Hell you can kill someone and not even get that much time. If your rich or a politician you can get off completely.
I agree with punishment fitting the crime but I think you put too much value on the damage the cause. The simple fact is that too few of people take the required steps to protect themselves. People have locks on their homes and cars, they don't normally allow complete strangers inside, and most people won't give out personal information to complete strangers they meet. Yet when it comes to the net it seems as if all bets are off, you never know what they will do - other than it being stupid.
I am all for punishment, but damn, people put more value on things and animals than human life.
Because tax payer money will be used to maintain this setup. I am quite sure the residents in these lower income areas could be better served by improving existing city services in their area, health clinics, and job training. Instead some politician gets to feel good and get face time by wasting tax payer dollars. I bet when challenged they will throw back "its for the children".
Yet sure as rain the next budget rolls along and they will have to get more money for the programs they should have done.
Tax payer money really isn't in endless supply. Go ask Detroit just how well that works
I am pretty sure that you would not see something vastly different. In fact I am not surprised how much is lost to "marketing/promotion", packaging, and overhead.
The problem many consumers have is they don't know all the variables and grossly underestimate many of them. The company I work for sells to both consumers and businesses. We have different price structures based on who we sell to. In my position I see the distribution centers cost and the prices they sell at. That cost is already significantly over the price is actually cost us to buy it from someone as we have all those costs you listed embedded as well BEFORE it gets to the store.
In fact some of the costs you listed is simply because many items before reaching retail are affected by multiple groups and each of their costs affects the final. When someone breaks it down like you have it may fail to take into account that some categories comprise multiple companies in that final cost
Do I think CDs are overpriced. Damn right, most are just overpriced simply because its one or two good songs and twelve items which are filler.
What about DVDs, let alone Blu-Ray. Thirty for a blu-ray version compared to 14.99 for the regular? Is there really that much more in cost in making it? After CDs we need to DVD/Blu-Ray. I won't even touch game cartridges. Then again I don't know all the people who have hands in the chain for these items so some may be justified
Why? Because even with all the previous threats and actual atrocities they committed they were granted the Olympics. Every time they threaten Taiwan and the US responds in the political arena its the US who is chastised for being the war mongers.
The real question is, what is the fate of places like Tibet and Taiwan during and AFTER the Olympics?
as a lot of those high A people will be either writing or delivering your paper
Why should anything hard and intellectually rewarding be anything but challenging? The best thing is that it weeds out most people you would never a) want to work with b) trust your life too.
Kind of like the medical field... those who can put up with it usually are good people
Many pundits made fun of his presentations but they worked because he didn't insult the audience.
I look at this issue this way. 1. Many of the people don't care, don't even try to inform them. 2. Don't insult the rest by assuming anything 3. Don't come at it from the angle that religious beliefs cloud their judgment, the approach I have seen from some anti-religious showed more ignorance than die-hard believers
The real questions, how to present this in school in an environment hostile to achievement? I think religions are the least of our problems with upcoming generations. The real problem is this idea that we cannot acknowledge the fact that some kids are genuinely better than others. Worse is getting past the idea that hard work really does pay off. I can't tell you how many kids won't put the effort forward because they are told it doesn't matter. Hell a school system which does not celebrate hard work is not going to do squat with science.
You were right in a way, keep the politicians away from science and the schools and the problem might solve itself. Politicians do as much if not more damage to the acceptance science than religious zealots... While one may not want it the other burdens it with too many requirements to overcome
because the show jumped the shark in the third season killing off Starbuck only to show her coming back next season.
Really, I was enjoying the show very well until deep into the third we had four lead character singing that damn song and Starbuck dieing and coming back.
One application I think would be good for this type of device is during disasters. Think about it, if they are allowed to roam with supplies they could get into areas at night that would be too dangerous to send people.
I can also imagine them carrying cell phone capability besides food and medical. Let alone the fact that once if finds someone you know where they are too. Throw some thermal sensors in there and it might be able to scout the interior of partially collapsed structures to identify where people may be
If their contract declares as such then they are in the right.
However, it should be a requirement at the state level, if not federal, to require this sort of outside verification and study. If a manufacturer does not agree to it then they should be considered for the application. Fair is fair.
Don't want to be hold accountable then don't expect our money.
I am quite sure some other company will step forward if there is money to be made and their intellectual property rights are protected. I am all for testing and certification by outside groups but I also realize that there is investment here and that needs protected first. What must come first is OUR rights, our rights to know that outside experts have certified a solution and future implementations will protect our vote. Surely some company will step up to this for the money. Maybe it will be the kick in the pants for some group already in place to do so.
I already know of a few mildly disabled friends who do nothing more than sponge off the government because of their disabilities. From rent controlled housing; not allowed to cost them more than 30% of their income; to free transportation to get even more benefits.
This is about creating another dependent class. About opening the doors to new lawsuits because if someone is addicted then their has to be someone causing it and if they have deep pockets the blame shifts from the one addicted to the one with the money (see cigarette suits - sorry, but we've known that truth since like, when, the 70s, yet people still act as if they were fooled - worse we let them vote?).
Some times with all these declarations of what is an addiction or what is a mental illness I begin to think Tom Cruise isn't such a bad guy
Because harping about Corporations while giving the governments of the world a pass is beyond reason.
Look, the IOC with the blessings of governments around the world awarded China the Olympics. Just what in the hell were they thinking?
You bring up ethics and profits as if it were a Corporate issue, its not. Why should any Corporation care when world governments, including the UN, don't?
huh? Do we hold our elected officials and those of other countries to lower standards? Or is because we give into the idea we can't do jack shit about our elected officials but we might be able to embarrass a CEO instead into doing something?
Frankly I think its far more worrisome that as a public we don't hold elected officials to higher standards and worse we don't try because we no longer think we can
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Because the fact they are willing to put forth the effort to do better they have already done half the battle.
so lets latch on to something generic... even though it occurs all the time we seem to think its only bad now.
Its always worse for those of the current generation, we conveniently forget the previous ones. I have some grandparents who can tell you about the real hell they faced in Kansas during those drought days way back when, makes the pansy crap we complain about today just that.
I guess with all the stories about the earth having not warmed recently, taken a year or two dive, that the lead off words must change to fuel this engine of profit for certain groups and businesses. How much barley production is lost to other more cash ready crops? With the current increases in the value of corn and wheat because of the misguided ethanol production in the US would it not make sense that other areas shift to fill the gap?
Putting climate change in the same story as beer either points out the hypocrisy of it all or just shows how silly we are willing to become
Army of Darkness : The BluRay Edition is certainly worthy of an oscar or two compared to that blurry old DVD version, the acting becomes much more apparent with all those extra pixels
Let alone they eat about anything which doesn't eat them first.
My only concern with this type of approach is how hamstrung will we get when the first protesters arrive? Can we replicate it or at least identify WHY it is so useful or different?
only the rich have computers anyway
they need to pay their fair share those dirty rotten music down loaders
we are taxing perverts, you want to tax them, right?
it is for the children.
the revenue will go towards reducing our impact on the environment!
which statements can we queue up to support this? I expect the bulk of them to show up at one time or the other
Sorry, it never ceases to amaze me that when facing a spending problem their first reaction is to increase taxes.
So the signal from my local station should always look better, unless of course they broadcast from a compressed source.
Besides, blu-ray and even hd-dvd players love nothing better than to tell me I don't have a HDMI connector, especially on dvd movies (not the hd versions) so it won't even upconvert!
Somehow I think this is a PR release for stock holders.
There have been a number of stories posted here and at Digg about payouts that were voided because of courts siding with casinos when they declared the winner only won because of a bug or the jackpot was wrong because of a bug.
So they aren't a great example.
Its not like either party wants it fixed, they do far better crying an election was stolen than do actual work.
It also gives them an out, elections are the ultimate ego bitch slap, its no fun when people don't vote for you and you lose, it means people didn't like you and that hurts
There were only three things from the movie that "irked" me as a big fan of the books.
1. The sound weapons. (but wasn't the author there at the time and approved it?)
2. That STUPID EFFING CAT
3. Rain at the end.
Now I like the SCI-FI version too, but I like the movie more because...
1. The characters actually look like they were described in the book, hair color anyone?
2. The costumes were good and looked right.
3. Because I really liked how Paul and his relationship to Gurney, his dad, and his mom, came across on the screen.
I am with others, there are other books they can make movies out of instead, do them. I would love to see someone pull off the books, or even some of the newer books, with their ever so NOT-PC issues. (like using women for wombs)
basically the only thing the recording industry didn't toss out there was "its for the children"
My question about ISPs in Britain is, how much say does the EU have over them? How does the EU versus the law of England stack up in regards to this situation?
that IBM got suspended or that IBM only earned 1.5 Billion dollars of the US business.
The government spends a fortune on IT, I can't imagine a company as large as IBM not having a bigger piece of the pie. Perhaps they don't pay Congress enough during elections?
I hate THAT!
Sorry, just had to vent. In my office the trash can is out of site but easily accessible. So should it be on my computer desktop.
On XP I just removed it totally from the desktop and get at it through explorer. I saw a mod that allowed it to live in the system tray which I think is a better solution. I understand that on my Mac that its a native part of how the UI operates but at least I can keep the whole bar down there off my screen or scale it so its not annoying.
Still... in real life we don't sit them on our desks.... maybe they should use the ashtray instead - because thats the only "trash" thing ever to sit on a desk
of Eastern Europe during the grand old days of Communism...
you were not allowed to walk along some of them
you also were greeted with scenes that would best reserved to hollywood sci fi
Communism abuses both the people and the land... while the ideal may not the reality was far harsher than most people are willing to believe
Hell you can kill someone and not even get that much time. If your rich or a politician you can get off completely.
I agree with punishment fitting the crime but I think you put too much value on the damage the cause. The simple fact is that too few of people take the required steps to protect themselves. People have locks on their homes and cars, they don't normally allow complete strangers inside, and most people won't give out personal information to complete strangers they meet. Yet when it comes to the net it seems as if all bets are off, you never know what they will do - other than it being stupid.
I am all for punishment, but damn, people put more value on things and animals than human life.
Because tax payer money will be used to maintain this setup. I am quite sure the residents in these lower income areas could be better served by improving existing city services in their area, health clinics, and job training. Instead some politician gets to feel good and get face time by wasting tax payer dollars. I bet when challenged they will throw back "its for the children".
Yet sure as rain the next budget rolls along and they will have to get more money for the programs they should have done.
Tax payer money really isn't in endless supply. Go ask Detroit just how well that works
I am pretty sure that you would not see something vastly different. In fact I am not surprised how much is lost to "marketing/promotion", packaging, and overhead.
The problem many consumers have is they don't know all the variables and grossly underestimate many of them. The company I work for sells to both consumers and businesses. We have different price structures based on who we sell to. In my position I see the distribution centers cost and the prices they sell at. That cost is already significantly over the price is actually cost us to buy it from someone as we have all those costs you listed embedded as well BEFORE it gets to the store.
In fact some of the costs you listed is simply because many items before reaching retail are affected by multiple groups and each of their costs affects the final. When someone breaks it down like you have it may fail to take into account that some categories comprise multiple companies in that final cost
Do I think CDs are overpriced. Damn right, most are just overpriced simply because its one or two good songs and twelve items which are filler.
What about DVDs, let alone Blu-Ray. Thirty for a blu-ray version compared to 14.99 for the regular? Is there really that much more in cost in making it? After CDs we need to DVD/Blu-Ray. I won't even touch game cartridges. Then again I don't know all the people who have hands in the chain for these items so some may be justified
that is the real question. I think they don't.
Why? Because even with all the previous threats and actual atrocities they committed they were granted the Olympics. Every time they threaten Taiwan and the US responds in the political arena its the US who is chastised for being the war mongers.
The real question is, what is the fate of places like Tibet and Taiwan during and AFTER the Olympics?
as a lot of those high A people will be either writing or delivering your paper
Why should anything hard and intellectually rewarding be anything but challenging? The best thing is that it weeds out most people you would never a) want to work with b) trust your life too.
Kind of like the medical field... those who can put up with it usually are good people
States lost a lot of their rights when they permitted people to choose Senators and ever since then the Federal Government has run over the states...
Many pundits made fun of his presentations but they worked because he didn't insult the audience.
I look at this issue this way.
1. Many of the people don't care, don't even try to inform them.
2. Don't insult the rest by assuming anything
3. Don't come at it from the angle that religious beliefs cloud their judgment, the approach I have seen from some anti-religious showed more ignorance than die-hard believers
The real questions, how to present this in school in an environment hostile to achievement? I think religions are the least of our problems with upcoming generations. The real problem is this idea that we cannot acknowledge the fact that some kids are genuinely better than others. Worse is getting past the idea that hard work really does pay off. I can't tell you how many kids won't put the effort forward because they are told it doesn't matter. Hell a school system which does not celebrate hard work is not going to do squat with science.
You were right in a way, keep the politicians away from science and the schools and the problem might solve itself. Politicians do as much if not more damage to the acceptance science than religious zealots... While one may not want it the other burdens it with too many requirements to overcome
of the damn contest, the car has to be practical, has to be able to be manufactured on a large scale.
Apparently quite a few companies think they can meet that objective.
because the show jumped the shark in the third season killing off Starbuck only to show her coming back next season.
Really, I was enjoying the show very well until deep into the third we had four lead character singing that damn song and Starbuck dieing and coming back.
Caprica - subtitled "Oops, sorry 'bout that"
One application I think would be good for this type of device is during disasters. Think about it, if they are allowed to roam with supplies they could get into areas at night that would be too dangerous to send people.
I can also imagine them carrying cell phone capability besides food and medical. Let alone the fact that once if finds someone you know where they are too. Throw some thermal sensors in there and it might be able to scout the interior of partially collapsed structures to identify where people may be
and you too.
If their contract declares as such then they are in the right.
However, it should be a requirement at the state level, if not federal, to require this sort of outside verification and study. If a manufacturer does not agree to it then they should be considered for the application. Fair is fair.
Don't want to be hold accountable then don't expect our money.
I am quite sure some other company will step forward if there is money to be made and their intellectual property rights are protected. I am all for testing and certification by outside groups but I also realize that there is investment here and that needs protected first. What must come first is OUR rights, our rights to know that outside experts have certified a solution and future implementations will protect our vote. Surely some company will step up to this for the money. Maybe it will be the kick in the pants for some group already in place to do so.
I already know of a few mildly disabled friends who do nothing more than sponge off the government because of their disabilities. From rent controlled housing; not allowed to cost them more than 30% of their income; to free transportation to get even more benefits.
This is about creating another dependent class. About opening the doors to new lawsuits because if someone is addicted then their has to be someone causing it and if they have deep pockets the blame shifts from the one addicted to the one with the money (see cigarette suits - sorry, but we've known that truth since like, when, the 70s, yet people still act as if they were fooled - worse we let them vote?).
Some times with all these declarations of what is an addiction or what is a mental illness I begin to think Tom Cruise isn't such a bad guy
Because harping about Corporations while giving the governments of the world a pass is beyond reason.
Look, the IOC with the blessings of governments around the world awarded China the Olympics. Just what in the hell were they thinking?
You bring up ethics and profits as if it were a Corporate issue, its not. Why should any Corporation care when world governments, including the UN, don't?
huh? Do we hold our elected officials and those of other countries to lower standards? Or is because we give into the idea we can't do jack shit about our elected officials but we might be able to embarrass a CEO instead into doing something?
Frankly I think its far more worrisome that as a public we don't hold elected officials to higher standards and worse we don't try because we no longer think we can