Funny how that's not true when it comes to landlords and tenants. In some countries it's even not true when it comes to landlords and squatters. Even squatters have rights.
In some countries it also applies to IT and e-mail. My employer has no business(and thus no right) reading my e-mail unless there is a valid reason such as a complaint about sexual harassment(involving e-mail). And yes, that includes the company e-mail passing through their own exchange servers.
"Some environmental groups". In other words, a couple of total fucking nutcases. Just like we have nutcases to criticize every other initiative, idea, concept etc.
Some idiot shouting is not what is noteworthy. What is, however, is that de media (and yes, that includes you kdawson) give them credence in order to stir up controversy and rack up the hits to score more ad income.
Might I suggest kdawson gets a new job where he tries to rickroll us once a day and otherwise loses all privileges? The end result would pretty much be the same.
And a lot of us upstanding citizens will happily join the police force once monetary compensation is no longer an issue. For every piece of degenerate scum there's someone to stop him. Besides, with all the toys they could dream of at their disposal...just how much fun is violence anyway?
People seem to be so enamored with the status quo, with our entire society based on the concept of scarcity and monetary value, they tend to freak out if the subject of abolishing it even comes up. I just hope when the time comes we'll make the right decision and let go of this model instead of keeping it alive artificially (as we do now with so many other bad ideas that have become obsolete but are still on life support)
That is because some people, including here on/., are incapable of dealing with the concept that one might take actions that are not directly in one's own interest. Greed is the greatest good, and money is their god.
I can't see how God hurts the world since he teaches us to love one another and forgive each other.
You know, if he actually came down to Times square in all His Glory, with a choir of angels singing in the background, I'd be the first on a plane to hear what he has to say.
Until such time, the only things we're being taught is what people, that is human beings like you and me, who are either delusional, eating mushrooms or looking for a way to control their fellow man say this hypothetical being wants us to do.
And if you want an example of how religion hurts the world(note I said religion and not God), what was the percentage of americans again who would never elect a president who wasn't of the christian faith? Heck, you're probably one of them. So either you get a liar or a nutcase.
Isn't the difference between killing and murder just that one is forbidden and the other isn't?
Murder means there was intent before the act, the willful and deliberate taking of a human life. Killing can happen because of accidents, in self-defence or even when the majority of people finds it an appropriate action for a certain crime.
Whether or not what some of the american states do is murder or not I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
You're absolutely right. Casual gamers aren't investing in a console or a high-end graphics card just to play a few games when they have a little time to kill.
So what *do* they buy them for, because I have a hard time thinking of a household near me that doesn't have one? To put it in horribly stereotypical terms, mom gets in a bit of wii fit during the day, son and dad play multiplayer $sportgame and the daughter has better things to do anyway.
Of course it helps if there's a family member to spread the love a bit(sorry mom for getting you hooked on the DS).
Oh, you mean racially homogeneous like the Netherlands that also have a social system quite similar to their fellow Nordic countries and lot's of emigrants?
In all fairness, it is showing quite a few cracks at the moment. 1 in 6 voted for someone whose political ideas conflict so badly with the various freedoms(speech, religion, assembly) that the very fact he's the leader of the Freedom Party nearly caused the universe to fold in on itself from the irony.
Despite how wrong he may be about how he wants to go about thing, we have to do *something* about the current immigrant issues. What that solution is I don't know but the current situation is untenable in the long run.
Thus, sales is the darling of the execs and everyone else gets the shaft.
Makes sense, right? In order to be a succesful top-level exec you *have* to sell your soul when you enter business school, assuming you had one to begin with. To be a good salesman...well, you get the point...
I have noticed that would you do mention potential problems, people see you as someone that is "not on board" or "not a team player." Sometimes they even go as far as to assume you are out to sabotage their brilliant plan.
When it turns out you were correct, people opinions of you do not change and they either are upset that you predicted the problems and now want to avoid any mention of your existence or blame you for somehow causing the problems that caused their brilliant plan or reform to fail. Those people who had ignored your warnings will go back to the planning board but now without you.
Although there are important questions to be asked in any endeavor, IT or otherwise, it is all about *how* you ask them. This is why often you see professional IT outfits and outsourcing parties hide their nerds behind a layer of business consultants etc.
When someone from "the business" talks to an IT guy, he does not want the hear the word "but". "But" is negative. The trick is to say to the guy "ok, let's look at the what we're going to need to turn your plan into reality". Your very use of the words "potential problems" is going to tick off business people. Your job isn't to look for problems, it's to look for solutions.
When you're talking to the manager that came up with a grand plan, you act with enthusiasm and appear eager to get to work on making his vision a reality. He has minions to help you sort out all the little details, no need to bother him about that.
Are we? At some point it'll get bad enough that those among us who truly want to game the proper way will either buy indie titles exclusively or start collaborating and make our own bloody games...
I've been having a blast e-mailing companies with a form e-mail I created which summarized comes down to "Hi, I would have loved to have bought your game X, but unfortunately you chose to treat me, your potential customer, as a thief. Hence I have decided not to buy your game X and instead spend my money on the following companies that do treat treat their paying customers properly: Y and Z."
Now what I'm truly curious about is...is there *any* solid evidence where implementing DRM caused would-be pirates to buy the game instead of torrenting it?
I hire Ukrainians all the time. I've never hired a German. (and I'm of German descent.) I've never even had a German freelancer bid on my projects @ 99designs, elance, guru, etc.
Could this be due to the fact that what you're offering might be financially interesting for Ukranians, but isn't worth getting out of bed for for those us in Western Europe?
This is reality. This is business. If government stifles business, business leaves (as it should) and the economy shrinks and hopefully those idiots get voted out. If government invites business, economy grows, people get jobs, and (almost) everyone is happy. It's either a positive cycle or a negative one. Business needs government -- but government need business.
Or...we already have jobs and the piddly sum you're offering to do your project isn't interesting to us in our little "cradle to grave welfare states".
Don't get me wrong, I firmly believe that your ability to solicit work online and get reactions from all over the globe is fantastic and of long-term benefit to everyone. To turn that into the usual small government argument is taking it a bit far however. Ukraine is a good example of a disfunctional government, not one to be upheld as a shining beacon for libertards everywhere.
And for the record, my country (the Netherlands) has been actively working to make it *easier* for 1 man shops to do their thing, resulting in tons of them popping up. Some of them are good, some of them are awful, but there's nothing to stop them from making it big.
Little anecdote...a friend told me how his little brother, about 10 years old, was put into a sandbox which then had the cover placed on it. Since those things are bloody heavy, he wasn't able to lift it off and the other kids pretty much left him there for about 10 minutes.
Now think on that for a second. It's dark, moist, cramped and you're all alone in there in what could only be called the equivalent of being buried alive.
My first question was what they had reported to the police? I mean, it makes sense right? If an adult were to do this to another adult he'd be up on charges before he knew what hit him. But no, when it's kids doing it all of a sudden this is normal behavior.
Not sure what it's going to take for us to stop accepting behavior like this. "Your kid tormented mine, so either you teach him the difference between right and wrong or Í'll do it to you"? Beating up deadbeat dads till they get the message?
Telling the victims to stand up for themselves works to an extent, but honestly, what kind of society are we living in where that is necessary? What's the point of civilization if not to protect the (physically) weak from the strong?
Because short of the occasional driver update or patch it's been running on my pc smooth and stable for years?
Yes, 7 looks spiffy. I just can't be bothered to invest both time and money fixing something that to me is not broken.
Use a proper browser instead of IE and a hardware router that is properly configured to keep the majority of the naughty people out and there's very little you need to worry about...
Add me to the list of the of hopeless DS addicts. If someone makes a proper Knopfler Hero I'll get the console, the gadgets, the game and whatever else they decide to bring out:-)
It completely flabbergasted me that they could pull such feats off, given how obviously bad the service was, but the sales team was worth their weight in gold.
Any chance I could get to simply link your post as a clear example of why the theoretical free market doesn't quite work out in practice?;-)
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Funny how that's not true when it comes to landlords and tenants. In some countries it's even not true when it comes to landlords and squatters. Even squatters have rights.
In some countries it also applies to IT and e-mail. My employer has no business(and thus no right) reading my e-mail unless there is a valid reason such as a complaint about sexual harassment(involving e-mail). And yes, that includes the company e-mail passing through their own exchange servers.
I would be more happy, if some way the dessert is made green part by part, while we are in there. Just a wishful thinking.
So...are you gonna spend the next couple of millenia slowly turning into a sandworm while blabbering to a series of ghola's? Think of the worms man!
"Some environmental groups". In other words, a couple of total fucking nutcases. Just like we have nutcases to criticize every other initiative, idea, concept etc.
Some idiot shouting is not what is noteworthy. What is, however, is that de media (and yes, that includes you kdawson) give them credence in order to stir up controversy and rack up the hits to score more ad income.
Might I suggest kdawson gets a new job where he tries to rickroll us once a day and otherwise loses all privileges? The end result would pretty much be the same.
Dun dun!
Usually at such a time when there is a convenient man to point to as the source of the mistake? ;-)
I kid ladies, I kid!
And a lot of us upstanding citizens will happily join the police force once monetary compensation is no longer an issue. For every piece of degenerate scum there's someone to stop him. Besides, with all the toys they could dream of at their disposal...just how much fun is violence anyway?
People seem to be so enamored with the status quo, with our entire society based on the concept of scarcity and monetary value, they tend to freak out if the subject of abolishing it even comes up. I just hope when the time comes we'll make the right decision and let go of this model instead of keeping it alive artificially (as we do now with so many other bad ideas that have become obsolete but are still on life support)
That is because some people, including here on /., are incapable of dealing with the concept that one might take actions that are not directly in one's own interest. Greed is the greatest good, and money is their god.
Car mechanics have a job with similar complexity to what doctors face.
Ehmm, no, they don't. Unless you own a car that *must* have the engine running at all times, even when you're trying to replace the fuel lines.
I can't see how God hurts the world since he teaches us to love one another and forgive each other.
You know, if he actually came down to Times square in all His Glory, with a choir of angels singing in the background, I'd be the first on a plane to hear what he has to say.
Until such time, the only things we're being taught is what people, that is human beings like you and me, who are either delusional, eating mushrooms or looking for a way to control their fellow man say this hypothetical being wants us to do.
And if you want an example of how religion hurts the world(note I said religion and not God), what was the percentage of americans again who would never elect a president who wasn't of the christian faith? Heck, you're probably one of them. So either you get a liar or a nutcase.
Indeed, but he did get one thing wrong in the sequels...we found a big pile of natural resources in Afghanistan, not in Russia.
Cue nuclear missiles inbound on american soil in 3...2...
Isn't the difference between killing and murder just that one is forbidden and the other isn't?
Murder means there was intent before the act, the willful and deliberate taking of a human life. Killing can happen because of accidents, in self-defence or even when the majority of people finds it an appropriate action for a certain crime.
Whether or not what some of the american states do is murder or not I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
You're absolutely right. Casual gamers aren't investing in a console or a high-end graphics card just to play a few games when they have a little time to kill.
So what *do* they buy them for, because I have a hard time thinking of a household near me that doesn't have one? To put it in horribly stereotypical terms, mom gets in a bit of wii fit during the day, son and dad play multiplayer $sportgame and the daughter has better things to do anyway.
Of course it helps if there's a family member to spread the love a bit(sorry mom for getting you hooked on the DS).
Exactly! And everyone knows only the 'merkins have the right to bear arms.
Exporting democracy is one thing, but god forbid the towelheads were to actually have freedom, right?
Oh, you mean racially homogeneous like the Netherlands that also have a social system quite similar to their fellow Nordic countries and lot's of emigrants?
In all fairness, it is showing quite a few cracks at the moment. 1 in 6 voted for someone whose political ideas conflict so badly with the various freedoms(speech, religion, assembly) that the very fact he's the leader of the Freedom Party nearly caused the universe to fold in on itself from the irony.
Despite how wrong he may be about how he wants to go about thing, we have to do *something* about the current immigrant issues. What that solution is I don't know but the current situation is untenable in the long run.
Thus, sales is the darling of the execs and everyone else gets the shaft.
Makes sense, right? In order to be a succesful top-level exec you *have* to sell your soul when you enter business school, assuming you had one to begin with. To be a good salesman...well, you get the point...
I have noticed that would you do mention potential problems, people see you as someone that is "not on board" or "not a team player." Sometimes they even go as far as to assume you are out to sabotage their brilliant plan.
When it turns out you were correct, people opinions of you do not change and they either are upset that you predicted the problems and now want to avoid any mention of your existence or blame you for somehow causing the problems that caused their brilliant plan or reform to fail. Those people who had ignored your warnings will go back to the planning board but now without you.
Although there are important questions to be asked in any endeavor, IT or otherwise, it is all about *how* you ask them. This is why often you see professional IT outfits and outsourcing parties hide their nerds behind a layer of business consultants etc.
When someone from "the business" talks to an IT guy, he does not want the hear the word "but". "But" is negative. The trick is to say to the guy "ok, let's look at the what we're going to need to turn your plan into reality". Your very use of the words "potential problems" is going to tick off business people. Your job isn't to look for problems, it's to look for solutions.
When you're talking to the manager that came up with a grand plan, you act with enthusiasm and appear eager to get to work on making his vision a reality. He has minions to help you sort out all the little details, no need to bother him about that.
and hence WE. ARE. FUCKED.
Are we? At some point it'll get bad enough that those among us who truly want to game the proper way will either buy indie titles exclusively or start collaborating and make our own bloody games...
I've been having a blast e-mailing companies with a form e-mail I created which summarized comes down to "Hi, I would have loved to have bought your game X, but unfortunately you chose to treat me, your potential customer, as a thief. Hence I have decided not to buy your game X and instead spend my money on the following companies that do treat treat their paying customers properly: Y and Z."
Now what I'm truly curious about is...is there *any* solid evidence where implementing DRM caused would-be pirates to buy the game instead of torrenting it?
That, and I expect he's a console gamer ;-)
Get off my lawn!
*pines about the days of x-com*
I hire Ukrainians all the time. I've never hired a German. (and I'm of German descent.) I've never even had a German freelancer bid on my projects @ 99designs, elance, guru, etc.
Could this be due to the fact that what you're offering might be financially interesting for Ukranians, but isn't worth getting out of bed for for those us in Western Europe?
This is reality. This is business. If government stifles business, business leaves (as it should) and the economy shrinks and hopefully those idiots get voted out. If government invites business, economy grows, people get jobs, and (almost) everyone is happy. It's either a positive cycle or a negative one. Business needs government -- but government need business.
Or...we already have jobs and the piddly sum you're offering to do your project isn't interesting to us in our little "cradle to grave welfare states".
Don't get me wrong, I firmly believe that your ability to solicit work online and get reactions from all over the globe is fantastic and of long-term benefit to everyone. To turn that into the usual small government argument is taking it a bit far however. Ukraine is a good example of a disfunctional government, not one to be upheld as a shining beacon for libertards everywhere.
And for the record, my country (the Netherlands) has been actively working to make it *easier* for 1 man shops to do their thing, resulting in tons of them popping up. Some of them are good, some of them are awful, but there's nothing to stop them from making it big.
or have the magazine's editors gotten over their adolescent fascination with boobies?
Hah. All heterosexual men are fascinated with boobies...some of us are just more honest about it than others ;-)
Little anecdote...a friend told me how his little brother, about 10 years old, was put into a sandbox which then had the cover placed on it. Since those things are bloody heavy, he wasn't able to lift it off and the other kids pretty much left him there for about 10 minutes.
Now think on that for a second. It's dark, moist, cramped and you're all alone in there in what could only be called the equivalent of being buried alive.
My first question was what they had reported to the police? I mean, it makes sense right? If an adult were to do this to another adult he'd be up on charges before he knew what hit him. But no, when it's kids doing it all of a sudden this is normal behavior.
Not sure what it's going to take for us to stop accepting behavior like this. "Your kid tormented mine, so either you teach him the difference between right and wrong or Í'll do it to you"? Beating up deadbeat dads till they get the message?
Telling the victims to stand up for themselves works to an extent, but honestly, what kind of society are we living in where that is necessary? What's the point of civilization if not to protect the (physically) weak from the strong?
Because short of the occasional driver update or patch it's been running on my pc smooth and stable for years?
Yes, 7 looks spiffy. I just can't be bothered to invest both time and money fixing something that to me is not broken.
Use a proper browser instead of IE and a hardware router that is properly configured to keep the majority of the naughty people out and there's very little you need to worry about...
2 men say they're Jesus, 1 of them must be wrong!
Add me to the list of the of hopeless DS addicts. If someone makes a proper Knopfler Hero I'll get the console, the gadgets, the game and whatever else they decide to bring out :-)
It completely flabbergasted me that they could pull such feats off, given how obviously bad the service was, but the sales team was worth their weight in gold.
Any chance I could get to simply link your post as a clear example of why the theoretical free market doesn't quite work out in practice? ;-)
but you can't assert that Catholic religious belief involves belief in something without evidence. This is completely false.
Heck, I'll do you one better. I'll assert that Catholic religious belief involves belief in something despite evidence.
Case in point: condoms not preventing aids.