Why do that when the government has proven itself utterly
incompetent so far?
Both the Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea coin were rolled out
with great fanfare, but people largely ignored them. Why?
Because there was no reason to change, since Uncle Stupid kept
printing paper dollars. Look at Canada -- they did the same
thing, except they stopped printing the paper. People
grumbled at first ("fear change"), but now it is all good.
Easy recipe for change:
At the next election, add a line item to the ballot: Replace dollar
bills with coins or add national sales tax of 1% to cover
cost of printing paper money?
When coins wins by 99 to 1, start minting coins to cover
supply
Stop printing dollars
"The problem will naturally work itself out."
...
Profit! (Actually yes, because a coin lasts 20+ years,
whereas a bill lasts only 18 months on avg)
Next, the Metric system: time to join the rest of the
planet.
You must have a stressful life, seeing as how you must drop what they're doing and rush to answer the phone everytime it rings, like a rabbit going for that food pellet.
I let my answering maching pick up all my calls. If someone calls when I'm doing something else, they can talk to the machine. If I feel like talking to 'em, then I pick up. In the 5 years I've been doing this, I have been bothered by exactly one telemarketer, who happened to call exactly when I picked up the phone to dial out. I hung up on the guy, then made my call. What's the hassle?
Imagine time management, where your things live to serve you, instead of you serving them... BRIIING! Hey, isn't that your phone? Better go get it! Food pellet time!!!
Bonus trick: the next time you're at work and you're talking to someone face-to-face, when the phone rings try not picking it up and let it roll to voicemail. You can do it!
Check out the facts
of the case
rather than regurgitating the company-issued spin.
McDonald's
knew their coffee was hot enough to cause third-degree burns
within a few seconds' contact, but said they did not intend on
lowering the temperature, because as one juror put it "[McDonald's
has a] callous disregard for the safety of the people."
Oh, and
by the way, the lady initially asked for compensation for her
medical bills but was offered a minuscule amount that wouldn't
cover the bills. The jury awarded $2.7 punitive and $160,000 in
compensatory damages (the latter reduced from $200,000 because she
was partially responsible), but the judge reduced the punitive to
$480,000. McDonald's then settled for something much less (sealed
to prevent curious eyes from seeing).
With the Google TOS, you don't have the choice. That's the point.
It is not about the rates, either. If you get dropped because they determine that you're cheating--especially if you're not---then you can't state your case publicly to try to get a dialog going. That represents a revenue risk that has a high impact and high probability of occuring.
Just flash 'em some Tobasco sauce (or anything stronger than black, fine-ground, sat in a warehouse for 18 months, freeze-dried pepper). They'll run home cryin' to mamma.
Heavy piracy is an indication of NOTHING except the
convenience of and lack of consequences for getting something that
costs money without paying for it.
Point of order.
It is not, nor shall it ever be piracy; it is copyright
infringement. When you download from Kazaa you are not stealing
anything, you are making a derivative work, despite what the RIAA would spew via
their propaganda.
Walking into a store, picking up a candy bar
and walking out without paying is theft. Walking into a store,
making a copy of a candy bar (with your matter replicator, natch)
and walking out without paying is not theft, unless the molecular
structure of the candybar is copyrighted---then it is copyright
infringement.
Combine a pinch of that perl script with this one to taste, and here's what you get:
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what you described ain't necessarily so. The electric motor/gas
engine tradeoff depends upon your driving habits, average speed,
temperature, and traffic. To those unfamiliar with the Prius, it
uses the electric motor to accelerate from stop and then again to
supplement the gas engine. The gas engine can kick in anywhere
from around as high as 34-36(?) MPH and as low as 1 MPH, depending
upon how much lead you have in your foot. Running cruise control
is the most fuel efficient way to drive the Prius. The moment you
touch the gas with your foot (even to hold speed constant), your
MPG goes down. The gas tank appears to be 11.45 gallons or so (the
owner's manual doesn't always jibe with what I put in the tank), and I
get in the range of 450-560 miles per tank, filling up every 9-12
days.
Driving habits I'm currently experimenting with
varying driving habits to see which way gets the best gas mileage.
I first tried maximizing mileage at expense of speed, so I tried
to running all on electric up to 34-36 MPH, then slowly
accelerating to the speed limit, but never more than 60 MPH (we
have 65 in places). The best I could do was average 54.5 MPG. I
then tried rapid, aggressive acceleration to the desired speed,
then kicking in the cruise control. This netted me approximately
47 MPG. Note that the first method appears (judging by the "you're
number one" signs I got from other drivers) to be more courteous,
as folks tend to get testy when they can't accelerate for 50' to
the next red light--even when you stay in the right lane. As for
power, when I'm in the pole position, I usually leave all the
other gaspigs in the dust. Despite
their eight or ten cylinders, they have a lot of mass to
move.
Average speed The fewer stops and accelerations
you have, the better your gas mileage. The first 5-10 minutes of
any trip nets you crappy MPG, as everything needs to heat up
before it starts working efficiently. The electric motor doesn't
seem to like the cold, so it lets the gas engine do most/all the
work. That would be fine, except the gas engine also doesn't like
the cold. This brings us to...
Temperature When the
Prius is cold, it is not happy and gets poor(er) gas mileage.
Presumably driving the Prius during the Winter months in an area
with a propensity to snow would cause poor(er) gas
mileage.
Traffic The heavier the traffic, the slower
you go and the more you rely on the battery. At some point, there
will not be enough charge in the battery to run the electric
motor, so when you take your foot off the brake the gas engine
will start. When you come to a dead stop, the gas engine will cut
off (this technique also saves gas when one is waiting at a light,
railroad crossing, or the takeout line at White Castle (slammers,
baby!). The Prius likes relatively unclogged highway best, optimally between 55 and 60 MPH. Much faster than 63 MPH and the average MPG starts dropping.
So, by your logic, if a woman gets gang raped and beaten to death, its her fault because she should've worn her burka and not gone out of the house unaccompanied by a male relative. Red-blooded, honest men cannot control themselves from the intoxicating effects of nearby females, and she should've known that!
By eliminating the time it takes to grade papers, professors have many more hours to spend with students *doing* the humanizing.
I hate to break it to you, but most Profs would rather be working on their own research, getting grants, and publishing. Any chance they get to avoid contact with students, they will take. "Humanizing" doesn't get tenure; not even close. Publishing gets tenure. Bringing in multi-million dollar grants gets tenure. Spending time with Johnny Junior and Doris Post-Doc (unless Doris is your slave, er RA) doesn't get tenure.
This will last a few months, then they'll figure out that the required tech support ("No, ma'am, you need Quicktime!") and the cost of burning and stuffing will not result in additional sales.
The Marketing Drone that thought of this baby will be canned and sent back to Publix or wherever he came from.
For the sake of argument, I'll assume that your account here and on Greplaw are the same person. That being the case it wouldn't necessarily be plagiarism (depends upon either sites' policy), but as a courtesy to your readers, it would have been helpful to have some sort of disclaimer, or words to the effect of "As I mentioned in my post at Greplaw..."
In effect, you crossposted and you didn't add any value to the post here. Why even post the link to GrepLaw, when you could've crossposted the entire article (the Q&A) here?
As it happens too often here, the editor allowed
through a story that is plagiarized. The submitted text was cribbed verbatim from the site (the gratuitous addition
of links do not excuse the crime), which fit the definition
of plagiarism to a tee.
If one cannot bother to paraphrase,
then perhaps one might consider deferring one's submission, as a
courtesy to the original author. After all, some folks work hard
to craft the words that we enjoy reading. Why not provide them the
common courtesy of respecting their hard work?
I'm an American, too. Back in the day, I drank from the Bud/Miller/Coors trough often. Then one day I was in another country and sampled the local brew, and never looked back.
...the only thing I'm fit to take care of is a houseplant. [the plant is dead] Lousy houseplant! [shakes it] You son of a -- I'll teach you to -- [tires] [sighs] Oh.
Waste doesn't work unless you have a sufficiently large group of friends that have the music you're interested in. If the group is too large, then making sure its members are trustworthy becomes a difficult task.
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Why do that when the government has proven itself utterly incompetent so far?
Both the Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea coin were rolled out with great fanfare, but people largely ignored them. Why? Because there was no reason to change, since Uncle Stupid kept printing paper dollars. Look at Canada -- they did the same thing, except they stopped printing the paper. People grumbled at first ("fear change"), but now it is all good.
Easy recipe for change:
Next, the Metric system: time to join the rest of the planet.
I let my answering maching pick up all my calls. If someone calls when I'm doing something else, they can talk to the machine. If I feel like talking to 'em, then I pick up. In the 5 years I've been doing this, I have been bothered by exactly one telemarketer, who happened to call exactly when I picked up the phone to dial out. I hung up on the guy, then made my call. What's the hassle?
Imagine time management, where your things live to serve you, instead of you serving them... BRIIING! Hey, isn't that your phone? Better go get it! Food pellet time!!!
Bonus trick: the next time you're at work and you're talking to someone face-to-face, when the phone rings try not picking it up and let it roll to voicemail. You can do it!
McDonald's knew their coffee was hot enough to cause third-degree burns within a few seconds' contact, but said they did not intend on lowering the temperature, because as one juror put it "[McDonald's has a] callous disregard for the safety of the people."
Oh, and by the way, the lady initially asked for compensation for her medical bills but was offered a minuscule amount that wouldn't cover the bills. The jury awarded $2.7 punitive and $160,000 in compensatory damages (the latter reduced from $200,000 because she was partially responsible), but the judge reduced the punitive to $480,000. McDonald's then settled for something much less (sealed to prevent curious eyes from seeing).
It is not about the rates, either. If you get dropped because they determine that you're cheating--especially if you're not---then you can't state your case publicly to try to get a dialog going. That represents a revenue risk that has a high impact and high probability of occuring.
You can get dropped from service (fegettabout gettin' paid) any time without recourse.
Oh, did I mention they have some laywers that probably were cast from the same mold as them RIAA thugs?
Just flash 'em some Tobasco sauce (or anything stronger than black, fine-ground, sat in a warehouse for 18 months, freeze-dried pepper). They'll run home cryin' to mamma.
Walking into a store, picking up a candy bar and walking out without paying is theft. Walking into a store, making a copy of a candy bar (with your matter replicator, natch) and walking out without paying is not theft, unless the molecular structure of the candybar is copyrighted---then it is copyright infringement.
Don't forget the 1/2-hour "smoke" break every 1.5 hours, the 2 hour lunch, and the automatic billing for 8 hrs
but NOT very well with the barcode tattooed on your forehead.
Driving habits
I'm currently experimenting with varying driving habits to see which way gets the best gas mileage. I first tried maximizing mileage at expense of speed, so I tried to running all on electric up to 34-36 MPH, then slowly accelerating to the speed limit, but never more than 60 MPH (we have 65 in places). The best I could do was average 54.5 MPG. I then tried rapid, aggressive acceleration to the desired speed, then kicking in the cruise control. This netted me approximately 47 MPG. Note that the first method appears (judging by the "you're number one" signs I got from other drivers) to be more courteous, as folks tend to get testy when they can't accelerate for 50' to the next red light--even when you stay in the right lane. As for power, when I'm in the pole position, I usually leave all the other gaspigs in the dust. Despite their eight or ten cylinders, they have a lot of mass to move.
Average speed
The fewer stops and accelerations you have, the better your gas mileage. The first 5-10 minutes of any trip nets you crappy MPG, as everything needs to heat up before it starts working efficiently. The electric motor doesn't seem to like the cold, so it lets the gas engine do most/all the work. That would be fine, except the gas engine also doesn't like the cold. This brings us to...
Temperature
When the Prius is cold, it is not happy and gets poor(er) gas mileage. Presumably driving the Prius during the Winter months in an area with a propensity to snow would cause poor(er) gas mileage.
Traffic
The heavier the traffic, the slower you go and the more you rely on the battery. At some point, there will not be enough charge in the battery to run the electric motor, so when you take your foot off the brake the gas engine will start. When you come to a dead stop, the gas engine will cut off (this technique also saves gas when one is waiting at a light, railroad crossing, or the takeout line at White Castle (slammers, baby!). The Prius likes relatively unclogged highway best, optimally between 55 and 60 MPH. Much faster than 63 MPH and the average MPG starts dropping.
So, by your logic, if a woman gets gang raped and beaten to death, its her fault because she should've worn her burka and not gone out of the house unaccompanied by a male relative. Red-blooded, honest men cannot control themselves from the intoxicating effects of nearby females, and she should've known that!
isn't everyone 25/F/NYC? That's what I always put!
Why bother when others have done all the the hard work for you?
The Marketing Drone that thought of this baby will be canned and sent back to Publix or wherever he came from.
In effect, you crossposted and you didn't add any value to the post here. Why even post the link to GrepLaw, when you could've crossposted the entire article (the Q&A) here?
If one cannot bother to paraphrase, then perhaps one might consider deferring one's submission, as a courtesy to the original author. After all, some folks work hard to craft the words that we enjoy reading. Why not provide them the common courtesy of respecting their hard work?
Cheers.
I'm an American, too. Back in the day, I drank from the Bud/Miller/Coors trough often. Then one day I was in another country and sampled the local brew, and never looked back.
You can entertain a kid for months with nothing more elaborate than a wooden top...
Waste doesn't work unless you have a sufficiently large group of friends that have the music you're interested in. If the group is too large, then making sure its members are trustworthy becomes a difficult task.