The technology is here to meet customers with professionals. Why people are insisting on migrating old world exploitation models to the Internet and give a significant chunk of their proceeding to sites like uber or elance? I am not really against the model per se, they are just being too greedy.
The problem is that the main costs are hiking up my percentile of IRS of my main job; having to hire an accountant, paying VAT and social security as a liberal worker. In essence, more bureaucracy and taxes to avoid people having second jobs and not steal jobs from others.
buying the junior edition, or got 2nd hand. I never got a junior edition in my mother tongue, got myself a junior edition from oxford as a EFL student much later in file.
I could swear a very well known software making company for filling tax returns that is again under the fire sued the USA government when it tried to make things more easy for the people. Pity I can't find the appropriate link.
Actually our tax filling form is already automatised here in this shit country, and the platform fills all the values already reported to the IRS. So you just have to fill the blanks, mainly yearly deductions. The interface is a shit, and not for the fain hearted. It is also a Java program that each year got different problems, mainly because Oracle likes to play with the security model of different Java versions. From one year it only ran in Windows, next year could not delete fields, had to save it all the way and load when I inputed a wrong number, other year I could not save and print due to changes in the security model of Java, and I guess this year I will have to go to System Preferences and open an exception in Java Control Center. Nevertheless, the fine from filling a wrong application and submit it again is around 150 euros, so there is a strong incentive to fill it online. The sweet irony in all of this is that you cannot have all this kind of automation in the USA because actually TurboTax already sued the government (more than one time?) for making too easy to fill taxes, and thus killing their business model.
Indeed. I remember all the brouhaha when cinemas were showing 3D movies, and even an old 3D movie was displayed on our national broadcasted channels. It was a MAJOR disappointment. A couple of years ago bought a small 3D TV for my bedroom. Numbers I have seen 3D movie? Two movies at all. One was horrible, and the other passable. I bought recently a TV for the living room, thanks goodness I did not worry about 3D.
That bunch of monkeys have do something better than most, they have given their free time for the project, they have advanced our knowledge of security, they have built a product use by a myriad of OS and vendors for almost 2 decades FOR FREE. Much more than some smuck than comes here ranting, and the idiots that mod him informative.
All this articles, and even this one is seriously. All the commercial chocolates, even the darker ones, are essentiality over priced milk and sugar spiked with cocoa. GMO corn is also used to give them body, including in sugar form in what you know as high-fructose corn syrup well because it is cheap. So telling people chocolate is healthy because is based in cocoa is a delusion, deception or rather, being ignorant most of the processed stuff is no longer food.
When you can prove me the money will actually start going to those doing the creation and not the middle men...the talk about recouping costs is just bullshit. Pure bullshit to justify draconian DRM and strong arming unfair protectionist laws. As you say nobody is forcing to buy nothing, or should not be, because, politicians have been bribed to charge as a fee for DVDs and now RAM in devices, treating us as pirates and being forced to see movies and music, apparently. And now that bullshit as Obama declaring war as proxy from Sony?...Tell me about an entitled generation. What I am actually against is the tendency to pay inflated money for films and books, and worse yet, not actually own them, but rent them. The fact is the media cartels are not interested in the e-media for now, as it is a drawback to selling physical media while the market is dying, and then they complain customers are not interest in a dying market model. And they then strong-arm and bribe politicians for a situation caused by their own incompetency. Face it, movies are terribly expensive. The price on the Apple store for a movie should be the price that is charged to rent it for 24h/48h - no thanks, I prefer to watch chinese and korean movies at the moment. The ebooks price are too high, with a few indie exceptions that I have been actually buying. Music the same - I prefer to hear it on youtube. Software, I have actually spent some money in that, the prices are normally reasonable and often I get to pay directly the author and not to some media moguls. (talking about books, do you know that aside some indie outlets, authors are ripped off and only get 5%-10% of the net profits? - and lets not start about net profits being cooked )
You were lucky. I had an external drive, and wanted to put it on an enclosure, I think it was seagate, and the damn thing was glued. On the process I broke up the controller. Good think some friend was needing a disk, and I sold it to him. Some things are not built to be open.
It is not just time and energy. Most of the cheaper appliances, and sadly the expensive ones too, are not anymore built to last. So you might be very well trying to fix something that won't work anymore.
Oh tell me about it. I could easily have a 2nd job on my own, but starting doing the math, and factoring the taxes, at the end of the day I may very well spend more money than I am able to earn.
Thanks for the comment about the battery being low. I will surely use your insight in my next car purchase. I also have an Opel Meriva, know as vauxhall in the uk. The headlights are not a small feat to exchange, the rear lights are too much work to bother, much better taking the car to the garage. Last time I did that, I almost break some of the shell where they are all enclosed.
This https://www.dnsleaktest.com/wh.... And indeed, some shady ISPs and a lot of corporations block DNS, this promises to be a lot of fun. oh, I cannot see my series anymore while on wifi in my lunch break. It also promises to be a very interesting "work-related" network ticket...
Pretty amazing the lengths they are willing to go to enforce an outdated business model and alienate potencial customers. I am at loss for words that describe this stupidity and arrogance of the media cartels.
It is more problematic than prices. Availability, delays for years sometimes, the licenses being used to sell something else (shitty cable service). A whole host of problems.
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The technology is here to meet customers with professionals. Why people are insisting on migrating old world exploitation models to the Internet and give a significant chunk of their proceeding to sites like uber or elance? I am not really against the model per se, they are just being too greedy.
The problem is that the main costs are hiking up my percentile of IRS of my main job; having to hire an accountant, paying VAT and social security as a liberal worker. In essence, more bureaucracy and taxes to avoid people having second jobs and not steal jobs from others.
buying the junior edition, or got 2nd hand. I never got a junior edition in my mother tongue, got myself a junior edition from oxford as a EFL student much later in file.
How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing http://www.propublica.org/arti...
Fuck the damn kids writing whoosh in slashdot.
I could swear a very well known software making company for filling tax returns that is again under the fire sued the USA government when it tried to make things more easy for the people. Pity I can't find the appropriate link.
Actually our tax filling form is already automatised here in this shit country, and the platform fills all the values already reported to the IRS. So you just have to fill the blanks, mainly yearly deductions. The interface is a shit, and not for the fain hearted. It is also a Java program that each year got different problems, mainly because Oracle likes to play with the security model of different Java versions. From one year it only ran in Windows, next year could not delete fields, had to save it all the way and load when I inputed a wrong number, other year I could not save and print due to changes in the security model of Java, and I guess this year I will have to go to System Preferences and open an exception in Java Control Center. Nevertheless, the fine from filling a wrong application and submit it again is around 150 euros, so there is a strong incentive to fill it online. The sweet irony in all of this is that you cannot have all this kind of automation in the USA because actually TurboTax already sued the government (more than one time?) for making too easy to fill taxes, and thus killing their business model.
To pedophile priests. How christian!
Indeed. I remember all the brouhaha when cinemas were showing 3D movies, and even an old 3D movie was displayed on our national broadcasted channels. It was a MAJOR disappointment. A couple of years ago bought a small 3D TV for my bedroom. Numbers I have seen 3D movie? Two movies at all. One was horrible, and the other passable. I bought recently a TV for the living room, thanks goodness I did not worry about 3D.
That bunch of monkeys have do something better than most, they have given their free time for the project, they have advanced our knowledge of security, they have built a product use by a myriad of OS and vendors for almost 2 decades FOR FREE. Much more than some smuck than comes here ranting, and the idiots that mod him informative.
All this articles, and even this one is seriously. All the commercial chocolates, even the darker ones, are essentiality over priced milk and sugar spiked with cocoa. GMO corn is also used to give them body, including in sugar form in what you know as high-fructose corn syrup well because it is cheap. So telling people chocolate is healthy because is based in cocoa is a delusion, deception or rather, being ignorant most of the processed stuff is no longer food.
making up new words, and doing studies for what we take for granted.
Ever heard about browser plug-ins?
oh yeah, you precious entiltled flock, pay our extortionist fee, watch x-factor and shut up your communist mouth.
When you can prove me the money will actually start going to those doing the creation and not the middle men...the talk about recouping costs is just bullshit. Pure bullshit to justify draconian DRM and strong arming unfair protectionist laws. As you say nobody is forcing to buy nothing, or should not be, because, politicians have been bribed to charge as a fee for DVDs and now RAM in devices, treating us as pirates and being forced to see movies and music, apparently. And now that bullshit as Obama declaring war as proxy from Sony?...Tell me about an entitled generation. What I am actually against is the tendency to pay inflated money for films and books, and worse yet, not actually own them, but rent them. The fact is the media cartels are not interested in the e-media for now, as it is a drawback to selling physical media while the market is dying, and then they complain customers are not interest in a dying market model. And they then strong-arm and bribe politicians for a situation caused by their own incompetency. Face it, movies are terribly expensive. The price on the Apple store for a movie should be the price that is charged to rent it for 24h/48h - no thanks, I prefer to watch chinese and korean movies at the moment. The ebooks price are too high, with a few indie exceptions that I have been actually buying. Music the same - I prefer to hear it on youtube. Software, I have actually spent some money in that, the prices are normally reasonable and often I get to pay directly the author and not to some media moguls. (talking about books, do you know that aside some indie outlets, authors are ripped off and only get 5%-10% of the net profits? - and lets not start about net profits being cooked )
You were lucky. I had an external drive, and wanted to put it on an enclosure, I think it was seagate, and the damn thing was glued. On the process I broke up the controller. Good think some friend was needing a disk, and I sold it to him. Some things are not built to be open.
It is not just time and energy. Most of the cheaper appliances, and sadly the expensive ones too, are not anymore built to last. So you might be very well trying to fix something that won't work anymore.
Is it? The new rage on compact/small systems is to glue everything.
Oh tell me about it. I could easily have a 2nd job on my own, but starting doing the math, and factoring the taxes, at the end of the day I may very well spend more money than I am able to earn.
Many also forgot how to cook real meals...
Thanks for the comment about the battery being low. I will surely use your insight in my next car purchase. I also have an Opel Meriva, know as vauxhall in the uk. The headlights are not a small feat to exchange, the rear lights are too much work to bother, much better taking the car to the garage. Last time I did that, I almost break some of the shell where they are all enclosed.
This https://www.dnsleaktest.com/wh.... And indeed, some shady ISPs and a lot of corporations block DNS, this promises to be a lot of fun. oh, I cannot see my series anymore while on wifi in my lunch break. It also promises to be a very interesting "work-related" network ticket...
Pretty amazing the lengths they are willing to go to enforce an outdated business model and alienate potencial customers. I am at loss for words that describe this stupidity and arrogance of the media cartels.
The best think we can do is boycott sony, disney, all the studios under the MPAA umbrella, and revoke cable and netflix service.
It is more problematic than prices. Availability, delays for years sometimes, the licenses being used to sell something else (shitty cable service). A whole host of problems.