Funny how Microsoft finds (1) a need for and (2) the utility of "free as in libre software" and the honest-to-god-truly Open Source Software. Considering they proclaim themselves to me masters of the software production game, you think they could generate a team to code up a useful game to showcase in their prototype like this. Somehow, they couldn't work together with the Halo guys and show Master Chief strutting his stuff? .
This is dripping with irony. However, they must have used an irony-proof filter when they created the video, as the delicious irony is not as apparent on the surface. ;>)
Okay, here's a simple one for the editors to fix:
Connecticut is the correct spelling, not Conneticut . http://www.ct.gov/ -- official Connecticut state government portal . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut -- wikipedia link .
Let's see how long it takes to fix it or continue to ignore it. It's 9:45 am PST now. Start counting.
Re: For fraks sake. Will SCOTUS please making a damn ruling that absolutely allows for any and all recording of police officers... .
SCOTUS can only make a ruling when a case finally gets in front of them which they decide to review and rule upon. So it's going to take a grave miscarriage of justice (possibly even someone's death) that occurs because of the presence/existence/enforcement of an unconstitutional law before a case gets appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court of the USA.
Here are the two relevant paragraphs from the Wikipedia article on the Unabomber that shows why it was the "manifesto", the writing style and the writing contents that were key in the family suspecting his involvement/"identity". They occur at the Search section of the article:
Before the publication of the manifesto, Theodore Kaczynski's brother, David Kaczynski, was encouraged by his wife Linda to follow up on suspicions that Ted was the Unabomber.[77] David Kaczynski was at first dismissive, but progressively began to take the likelihood more seriously after reading the manifesto a week after it was published in September 1995. David Kaczynski browsed through old family papers and found letters dating back to the 1970s written by Ted and sent to newspapers protesting the abuses of technology and which contained phrasing similar to what was found in the Unabomber Manifesto.[78]
Prior to the publishing of the manifesto, the FBI held numerous press conferences requesting the help of the public in identifying the Unabomber. They were convinced that the bomber was from the Chicago area (where he began his bombings), had worked or had some connection in Salt Lake City, and by the 1990s was associated with the San Francisco Bay Area. This geographical information, as well as the wording in excerpts from the manifesto that were released prior to the entire manifesto being published, was what had persuaded David Kaczynski's wife, Linda, to urge her husband to read the manifesto.
Sock puppet accounts are also apparent from these linguistic tics. Sometimes, resorting to a particular analogy or getting hot-tempered at a specific topic or a certain kind of point of view can also give away the identity of the author. So maybe limit oneself to 5000/144 = 34 tweets per tweeter account so that you can't be figured out. And writing style and favorite kinds of rant was also how the
Unabomber was found out: his family members recognized his particular pet peeves and rants and writing patterns and sent their suspicions in to the F.B. I.
Re: from your username . . . :>( Name yourself in haste.., ... Repent in leisure! .
Yeaaaaahhh, I goofed in picking my nick when I signed up and went with my nutty best friend's lemony-snickety nickname for me over the last year. I hadn't fully thought it out, and it sounded cute and funny. Is there any way to request just a change in your name without a change in your ID nubmer or your post identifications? Or do I just start over again with a new nick and build up from there???
;>) . Slashdot covered this earlier in the year with a judge saying that a high-schooler could write the range-check code from scratch with no difficulty. Yet Oracle was suing for millions for nine lines of code that checks and validates the input matching the expected range of values. .
If these court cases can hide what exactly the person is charged with doing wrong and illegally, then how can we even know if there is a potential miscarriage of justice?
Re: from your username... :>(
Name yourself in haste.., ... Repent in leisure! .
Yeaaaaah, I goofed in picking my nick when I signed up and went with my nutty best friend's lemony-snickety nickname for me over the last year. I hadn't fully thought it out, and it sounded cute and funny. Is there any way to request just a change in your name without a change in your ID nubmer or your post identifications? Or do I just start over again with a new nick and build up from there???
Name yourself in haste.., ... Repent in leisure! .
Yeaaaaah, I goofed in picking my nick when I signed up and went with my nutty best friend's lemony-snickety nickname for me over the last year. I hadn't fully thought it out, and it sounded cute and funny. Is there any way to request just a change in your name without a change in your ID nubmer or your post identifications? Or do I just start over again with a new nick and build up from there???
So they want 7000 students enrolled?... Well, if they can continue their astounding record of quadrupling out-of-state enrollment every year, then they should have: .
$ seq 8 | awk '{print $1"\t"$1-1"\t"4**($1-1)}'
1 0 1
2 1 4
3 2 16
4 3 64
5 4 256
6 5 1024
7 6 4096
8 7 16384 hit their mark of 7000 enrollees at year 6.5 (or 7.5 depending on if you start count at 0 or 1).;>) .
May I add that past performance is no indicator of future performance, and that these results may not be replicated.
Now if you compare the $1400/semester cost per course to the out-of-state tuition normally charged, then perhaps it is a bargain.
Re: you're a frustrated high school student. .
Hey, I resent that! Don't lump those idiotic ACs in with frustrated high-school students! That insults those of us who happen to still be in HS as students!! ;>) I am a frustrated high-school student, yet I
1) Do not post as AC, but instead have a registered login account.
2) Don't go around saying things about other people that I do not know are true.
3) I do back up what I say usually with pointers to Wikipedia articles (e.g. "see the article about unfunded mandates if you want to know what it's like to go out on a date with a man who doesn't have a full enough wallet" from this comment of mine)
I think you're talking about "Unfunded Mandates" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfunded_mandates : which is not really about what it's like to go on a date with someone who doesn't have a full-enough wallet... Wait a minute, unfunded mandates actually are like going on a date with a man who is unfunded (or underfunded).;>)
Pretty much anything could be called a piracy enabler. Heck, why does us wee folks even need open source software? Can't we do everything we otter do with microsoft and apple giving us their breadcrumbs into their birdcages and walled gardens? Why we must want control over our hardware and software because we be pirates, AAArgh! .
I run Knoppix as a live distribution off a USB stick (a 64-GB one using K7.02 updated and upgraded to the latest level) and I'm hitting the end of the sticks capacity with all of the extra software I've installed on there. That's not even counting any media files on there beyond the "beeps-boops-doo-dah" sound effect OGG files on the OS. I can easily see lugging everything I want to around with me on a single stick. Every PDF and reference article I see and read, every page I want to review later when I'm offline, all of the sheet-music I've legally acquired and paid for could be with me on my person at all times. So where do you get off saying that there are no legal and legitimate reasons for wanting all of that capacity. ;>p Just because your brain needs only 2^19 + 2^18 bits doesn't mean that you can tell all of us that "640KB ought to be enough for everybody"!!
I am of two different minds about the Apple "App Store", so here's my list of Apple's Goods and Bads:
-- "App Store" is a walled garden designed to keep you in
-- "App Store" is well maintained and crapware/spamware does not sneak in that often
-- "App Store" has an opaque process for allowing or denying, whether you are a singleton programmer or a 8-kiloton-Grrrilla like google. You don't get to know why you got stymied or what you need to do to fix it.
-- It provides a good "storefront" for developers to sell their wares at a decent pricepoint with low overhead (30% is low, right?) added on to it
-- It makes it impossible to be an independent software developer and sell software that can be installed by the enduser so you could set up your own infrastructure and sell direct to the customer and keep more profits
-- Their awful awful policy makes it impossible to package and distribute any GPL code through their ecosystem. Das ist verboten. :>(
That last entry alone is enough to make the sumof(Goods+Bads)=Bad. That's my two centimes!
Re: Last I checked newspapers cost money. .
That's why I specifically mentioned the free paper giveaways before Thanksgiving and Christmas, when you get papers that are as thick as the Sunday weekend editions even on Thanksgiving thursday because they're chock ful o' advertisement fliers. .
Newspapers are sold at way below cost of production (as are most magazines) because they are conveyances for advertisements. They can usually make enough money to cover their production costs from the advertisements alone. Most women's magazines (Vogue, Elle, other fashion mags) are greater than 80% advertisement pages (some are closer to 90% near key season times) .
They get paid by the advertisers to put advertisements on the page, and they get paid by subscribers or the "man on the street" when they buy it from a news-stand or a box. .
In answer to your "Magazines I don't understand" comment: think of it instead as the magazines are the delivery vehicle for getting the advertiser's pages and ads and perfume samples in front of your eyeballs and your nostrils. They make a lot more money from advertisers than they do from you, the dear reader. Source: look up almost any issue of "Adweek" magazine or "Advertising Age". to get the business side of things. And google, well you can google it and you can see that google's business is really selling ad impressions and learning everything it can about you helps it sell the ad impressions to the advertisers and marketers.
whoops! Please see my other response entitled "Re:Network Neutrality Violation" for what I really meant to say. The above response was actually meant for a reply to another poster, not to this poster about Network Neutrality. My apologies!
Network Neutrality is a great idea and should be applied and available everywhere. However the concept as law is only being bandied around by the FCC in the Etats Unis. I do not know that the concept of Network Neutrality is required to be implemented by the providers of internet access in France. . (I am situated in La Jolla, California, USA, not in France, so I do not know the details about France. But I do know that all of the arguments about whether or not Network Neutraility will be required of/from internet providers was and is of great concern to users in the USA and was of concern to the Federal Communications Commission. What they can actually do about it and whether they can enforce their regulations remains to be seen.)
You are the product!: re side business vs. main business (You actually wrote "Advertising should just be a side business" . Sometimes, people forget the obvious because it is well hidden from us with shell games. (Q1) Why are google and its googlicious products free of cost to use? (Q2) If newspapers cost so much money to buy, then why do they tend to give them out for free just before Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays? (Q3) What do magazines really sell if not the content which is in them? .
(a1) -- Google sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a2) -- Newspapers sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a3) -- Magazines sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a4) -- (not that you/I asked but also) Television sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product. ;>)
All of these products exist in order to market things or services available for purchase to you who thinks you are the consumer. You are not the consumer in these equations for Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4. You are the product (the eyeballs connected to desire and to a wallet to be emptied) that is sold to the advertisement makers who sell the advertisements to the merchants and makers of these things and services for sale.
You are the product!: re side business vs. main business . Sometimes, people forget the obvious because it is well hidden from us with shell games. (Q1) Why are google and its googlicious products free of cost to use? (Q2) If newspapers cost so much money to buy, then why do they tend to give them out for free just before Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays? (Q3) What do magazines really sell if not the content which is in them? .
(a1) -- Google sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a2) -- Newspapers sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a3) -- Magazines sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a4) -- (not that you/I asked but also) Television sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product. ;>)
All of these products exist in order to market things or services available for purchase to you who thinks you are the consumer. You are not the consumer in these equations for Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4. You are the product (the eyeballs connected to desire and to a wallet to be emptied) that is sold to the advertisement makers who sell the advertisements to the merchants and makers of these things and services for sale.
Isn't the Navy under the "umbrella" of the Department o' Defense? Strangely, the linked article states that the Navy inked its own contract for $700 million (USA dollars) back in July of 2012. :>(
How is that encouraging any sort of good volume pricing or agreements if each division (Military Branch) is negotiating its own separate deal with Microsoft individually. If there's anyone that could screw with the military contracting officers, it's IBM and Microsoft. :>)
Then again, this kind of volume license contract could be what they had to do in order to be able to keep their downgrade capability to keep XP running on their older personal computers.
So instead of complaining about not doing two things in one place (which might make it easier for someone to find both profiles swirling around, and let fbook know both your jekyll an d hyde personas), have it be that
Facebook is one of your two or more social media profiles. :>) At my school, Facebook is what your parents are on, so your profile on Facebook is the clean parentally approvable appearance of life: what you show to your parents may not be what you show to your friends on other networks or thru txting. If you want to keep X and Y separated, just keep them separated instead of complaining that you can't have X and Y separated on the same site. . You might as well go to the bank and complain that you want two different bank accounts for the same profile!!!! (wait, the local credit union will let you have your personal and other accounts as subaccounts on the same account number by appending a suffix digit). You could just as well also go to another bank and open a separate account with a different tax id number just for your business!! Only that bank and the IRS have to know the linkage! (and your states Business License division, etc.)
Re: In some cases, the takeover of state by religion was accomplished so long ago that the religion is even considered a state itself. [bold emphasis mine] . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City .
Whilst the Popesters and catholics may want you to think and believe that Vatican City always is and always has been considered a state, it was not considered at state unto itself until 1929 by the Lateran Treaty . :>) Religions, being mythology, likes to build even more grandiose mythologies about their own origin along with their standard domain of mythologies about the origin of this world.
re: NASA has strict regulations on what can be touched on the moon, [boldface emphasis mine] .
Thanks for the interesting link. I noticed that you said "strict regulations", while the article says "NASA ia asking them to comply with a set of guidelines to prevent them from damaging Apollo-era artifacts there" [boldface emphasis mine]. Here's the beginning of the 3rd paragraph from your linked article at http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1961/1
NASA is careful to point out that the "recommendations are not legal requirements"; rather, they are guidelines "offered to inform lunar spacecraft mission planners interested in helping preserve and protect lunar historic artifacts and potential science opportunities for future missions." Although complying with the NASA Recommendations will make mission planning more difficult and expensive, GLXP teams have non-legal incentives to operate responsibly near the Apollo sites, including public scrutiny of their missions and a desire to protect their reputations.... ... No US government agency, however, currently has jurisdiction to regulate the conduct of non-governmental spacecraft on the lunar surface. NASA can establish requirements for its own missions, but not for those conducted by a private entity.
What team were you on or were you working with for the Lunar X prize?
Slashdot Mirror
Funny how Microsoft finds (1) a need for and (2) the utility of "free as in libre software" and the honest-to-god-truly Open Source Software. Considering they proclaim themselves to me masters of the software production game, you think they could generate a team to code up a useful game to showcase in their prototype like this. Somehow, they couldn't work together with the Halo guys and show Master Chief strutting his stuff?
;>)
.
This is dripping with irony. However, they must have used an irony-proof filter when they created the video, as the delicious irony is not as apparent on the surface.
Okay, here's a simple one for the editors to fix:
Connecticut is the correct spelling, not Conneticut
.
http://www.ct.gov/ -- official Connecticut state government portal
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut -- wikipedia link
.
Let's see how long it takes to fix it or continue to ignore it. It's 9:45 am PST now. Start counting.
Re: For fraks sake. Will SCOTUS please making a damn ruling that absolutely allows for any and all recording of police officers...
.
SCOTUS can only make a ruling when a case finally gets in front of them which they decide to review and rule upon. So it's going to take a grave miscarriage of justice (possibly even someone's death) that occurs because of the presence/existence/enforcement of an unconstitutional law before a case gets appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court of the USA.
Here are the two relevant paragraphs from the Wikipedia article on the Unabomber that shows why it was the "manifesto", the writing style and the writing contents that were key in the family suspecting his involvement/"identity". They occur at the Search section of the article: Before the publication of the manifesto, Theodore Kaczynski's brother, David Kaczynski, was encouraged by his wife Linda to follow up on suspicions that Ted was the Unabomber.[77] David Kaczynski was at first dismissive, but progressively began to take the likelihood more seriously after reading the manifesto a week after it was published in September 1995. David Kaczynski browsed through old family papers and found letters dating back to the 1970s written by Ted and sent to newspapers protesting the abuses of technology and which contained phrasing similar to what was found in the Unabomber Manifesto.[78]
Prior to the publishing of the manifesto, the FBI held numerous press conferences requesting the help of the public in identifying the Unabomber. They were convinced that the bomber was from the Chicago area (where he began his bombings), had worked or had some connection in Salt Lake City, and by the 1990s was associated with the San Francisco Bay Area. This geographical information, as well as the wording in excerpts from the manifesto that were released prior to the entire manifesto being published, was what had persuaded David Kaczynski's wife, Linda, to urge her husband to read the manifesto.
Sock puppet accounts are also apparent from these linguistic tics. Sometimes, resorting to a particular analogy or getting hot-tempered at a specific topic or a certain kind of point of view can also give away the identity of the author. So maybe limit oneself to 5000/144 = 34 tweets per tweeter account so that you can't be figured out. And writing style and favorite kinds of rant was also how the Unabomber was found out: his family members recognized his particular pet peeves and rants and writing patterns and sent their suspicions in to the F.B. I.
Re: from your username . . .
:>(
... Repent in leisure!
Name yourself in haste..,
.
Yeaaaaahhh, I goofed in picking my nick when I signed up and went with my nutty best friend's lemony-snickety nickname for me over the last year. I hadn't fully thought it out, and it sounded cute and funny. Is there any way to request just a change in your name without a change in your ID nubmer or your post identifications? Or do I just start over again with a new nick and build up from there???
Was it oracle and the range-check function?
;>)
.
Slashdot covered this earlier in the year with a judge saying that a high-schooler could write the range-check code from scratch with no difficulty. Yet Oracle was suing for millions for nine lines of code that checks and validates the input matching the expected range of values.
.
If these court cases can hide what exactly the person is charged with doing wrong and illegally, then how can we even know if there is a potential miscarriage of justice?
Re: from your username...
:>(
... Repent in leisure!
Name yourself in haste..,
.
Yeaaaaah, I goofed in picking my nick when I signed up and went with my nutty best friend's lemony-snickety nickname for me over the last year. I hadn't fully thought it out, and it sounded cute and funny. Is there any way to request just a change in your name without a change in your ID nubmer or your post identifications? Or do I just start over again with a new nick and build up from there???
Re: from your username...
... Repent in leisure!
:>(
Name yourself in haste..,
.
Yeaaaaah, I goofed in picking my nick when I signed up and went with my nutty best friend's lemony-snickety nickname for me over the last year. I hadn't fully thought it out, and it sounded cute and funny. Is there any way to request just a change in your name without a change in your ID nubmer or your post identifications? Or do I just start over again with a new nick and build up from there???
So they want 7000 students enrolled? ... Well, if they can continue their astounding record of quadrupling out-of-state enrollment every year, then they should have:
. ;>)
.
$ seq 8 | awk '{print $1"\t"$1-1"\t"4**($1-1)}'
1 0 1
2 1 4
3 2 16
4 3 64
5 4 256
6 5 1024
7 6 4096
8 7 16384
hit their mark of 7000 enrollees at year 6.5 (or 7.5 depending on if you start count at 0 or 1).
May I add that past performance is no indicator of future performance, and that these results may not be replicated.
Now if you compare the $1400/semester cost per course to the out-of-state tuition normally charged, then perhaps it is a bargain.
Re: you're a frustrated high school student.
.
Hey, I resent that! Don't lump those idiotic ACs in with frustrated high-school students! That insults those of us who happen to still be in HS as students!!
;>)
I am a frustrated high-school student, yet I
1) Do not post as AC, but instead have a registered login account.
2) Don't go around saying things about other people that I do not know are true.
3) I do back up what I say usually with pointers to Wikipedia articles (e.g. "see the article about unfunded mandates if you want to know what it's like to go out on a date with a man who doesn't have a full enough wallet" from this comment of mine)
I think you're talking about "Unfunded Mandates" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfunded_mandates : which is not really about what it's like to go on a date with someone who doesn't have a full-enough wallet... Wait a minute, unfunded mandates actually are like going on a date with a man who is unfunded (or underfunded). ;>)
Pretty much anything could be called a piracy enabler. Heck, why does us wee folks even need open source software? Can't we do everything we otter do with microsoft and apple giving us their breadcrumbs into their birdcages and walled gardens? Why we must want control over our hardware and software because we be pirates, AAArgh!
.
I run Knoppix as a live distribution off a USB stick (a 64-GB one using K7.02 updated and upgraded to the latest level) and I'm hitting the end of the sticks capacity with all of the extra software I've installed on there. That's not even counting any media files on there beyond the "beeps-boops-doo-dah" sound effect OGG files on the OS. I can easily see lugging everything I want to around with me on a single stick. Every PDF and reference article I see and read, every page I want to review later when I'm offline, all of the sheet-music I've legally acquired and paid for could be with me on my person at all times. So where do you get off saying that there are no legal and legitimate reasons for wanting all of that capacity.
;>p
Just because your brain needs only 2^19 + 2^18 bits doesn't mean that you can tell all of us that "640KB ought to be enough for everybody"!!
re GPLv3, not GPLv2
Thanks for the clarification. I did not know that fine point!
I am of two different minds about the Apple "App Store", so here's my list of Apple's Goods and Bads:
-- "App Store" is a walled garden designed to keep you in
-- "App Store" is well maintained and crapware/spamware does not sneak in that often
-- "App Store" has an opaque process for allowing or denying, whether you are a singleton programmer or a 8-kiloton-Grrrilla like google. You don't get to know why you got stymied or what you need to do to fix it.
-- It provides a good "storefront" for developers to sell their wares at a decent pricepoint with low overhead (30% is low, right?) added on to it
-- It makes it impossible to be an independent software developer and sell software that can be installed by the enduser so you could set up your own infrastructure and sell direct to the customer and keep more profits
-- Their awful awful policy makes it impossible to package and distribute any GPL code through their ecosystem. Das ist verboten.
:>(
That last entry alone is enough to make the sumof(Goods+Bads)=Bad. That's my two centimes!
damn, forgot to close my italtics bracket indicator with the corresponding !!! Sorry for the overly emphasized paragraphs. :>(
Re: Last I checked newspapers cost money.
.
That's why I specifically mentioned the free paper giveaways before Thanksgiving and Christmas, when you get papers that are as thick as the Sunday weekend editions even on Thanksgiving thursday because they're chock ful o' advertisement fliers.
.
Newspapers are sold at way below cost of production (as are most magazines) because they are conveyances for advertisements. They can usually make enough money to cover their production costs from the advertisements alone. Most women's magazines (Vogue, Elle, other fashion mags) are greater than 80% advertisement pages (some are closer to 90% near key season times)
.
They get paid by the advertisers to put advertisements on the page, and they get paid by subscribers or the "man on the street" when they buy it from a news-stand or a box.
.
In answer to your "Magazines I don't understand" comment: think of it instead as the magazines are the delivery vehicle for getting the advertiser's pages and ads and perfume samples in front of your eyeballs and your nostrils. They make a lot more money from advertisers than they do from you, the dear reader. Source: look up almost any issue of "Adweek" magazine or "Advertising Age". to get the business side of things. And google, well you can google it and you can see that google's business is really selling ad impressions and learning everything it can about you helps it sell the ad impressions to the advertisers and marketers.
whoops! Please see my other response entitled "Re:Network Neutrality Violation" for what I really meant to say. The above response was actually meant for a reply to another poster, not to this poster about Network Neutrality. My apologies!
Network Neutrality is a great idea and should be applied and available everywhere. However the concept as law is only being bandied around by the FCC in the Etats Unis. I do not know that the concept of Network Neutrality is required to be implemented by the providers of internet access in France.
.
(I am situated in La Jolla, California, USA, not in France, so I do not know the details about France. But I do know that all of the arguments about whether or not Network Neutraility will be required of/from internet providers was and is of great concern to users in the USA and was of concern to the Federal Communications Commission. What they can actually do about it and whether they can enforce their regulations remains to be seen.)
You are the product!: re side business vs. main business (You actually wrote "Advertising should just be a side business"
.
Sometimes, people forget the obvious because it is well hidden from us with shell games. (Q1) Why are google and its googlicious products free of cost to use? (Q2) If newspapers cost so much money to buy, then why do they tend to give them out for free just before Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays? (Q3) What do magazines really sell if not the content which is in them?
.
(a1) -- Google sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a2) -- Newspapers sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a3) -- Magazines sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a4) -- (not that you/I asked but also) Television sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
;>)
All of these products exist in order to market things or services available for purchase to you who thinks you are the consumer. You are not the consumer in these equations for Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4. You are the product (the eyeballs connected to desire and to a wallet to be emptied) that is sold to the advertisement makers who sell the advertisements to the merchants and makers of these things and services for sale.
You are the product!: re side business vs. main business
.
Sometimes, people forget the obvious because it is well hidden from us with shell games. (Q1) Why are google and its googlicious products free of cost to use? (Q2) If newspapers cost so much money to buy, then why do they tend to give them out for free just before Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays? (Q3) What do magazines really sell if not the content which is in them?
.
(a1) -- Google sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a2) -- Newspapers sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a3) -- Magazines sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
(a4) -- (not that you/I asked but also) Television sells an advertising service: their ability to connect your eyeballs to the advertisers selling their product.
;>)
All of these products exist in order to market things or services available for purchase to you who thinks you are the consumer. You are not the consumer in these equations for Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4. You are the product (the eyeballs connected to desire and to a wallet to be emptied) that is sold to the advertisement makers who sell the advertisements to the merchants and makers of these things and services for sale.
Isn't the Navy under the "umbrella" of the Department o' Defense? Strangely, the linked article states that the Navy inked its own contract for $700 million (USA dollars) back in July of 2012.
:>)
:>(
How is that encouraging any sort of good volume pricing or agreements if each division (Military Branch) is negotiating its own separate deal with Microsoft individually. If there's anyone that could screw with the military contracting officers, it's IBM and Microsoft.
Then again, this kind of volume license contract could be what they had to do in order to be able to keep their downgrade capability to keep XP running on their older personal computers.
So instead of complaining about not doing two things in one place (which might make it easier for someone to find both profiles swirling around, and let fbook know both your jekyll an d hyde personas), have it be that Facebook is one of your two or more social media profiles.
:>)
At my school, Facebook is what your parents are on, so your profile on Facebook is the clean parentally approvable appearance of life: what you show to your parents may not be what you show to your friends on other networks or thru txting. If you want to keep X and Y separated, just keep them separated instead of complaining that you can't have X and Y separated on the same site.
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You might as well go to the bank and complain that you want two different bank accounts for the same profile!!!! (wait, the local credit union will let you have your personal and other accounts as subaccounts on the same account number by appending a suffix digit). You could just as well also go to another bank and open a separate account with a different tax id number just for your business!! Only that bank and the IRS have to know the linkage! (and your states Business License division, etc.)
Re: In some cases, the takeover of state by religion was accomplished so long ago that the religion is even considered a state itself. [bold emphasis mine]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City
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Whilst the Popesters and catholics may want you to think and believe that Vatican City always is and always has been considered a state, it was not considered at state unto itself until 1929 by the Lateran Treaty .
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Religions, being mythology, likes to build even more grandiose mythologies about their own origin along with their standard domain of mythologies about the origin of this world.
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Thanks for the interesting link. I noticed that you said "strict regulations", while the article says "NASA ia asking them to comply with a set of guidelines to prevent them from damaging Apollo-era artifacts there" [boldface emphasis mine]. Here's the beginning of the 3rd paragraph from your linked article at http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1961/1
NASA is careful to point out that the "recommendations are not legal requirements"; rather, they are guidelines "offered to inform lunar spacecraft mission planners interested in helping preserve and protect lunar historic artifacts and potential science opportunities for future missions." Although complying with the NASA Recommendations will make mission planning more difficult and expensive, GLXP teams have non-legal incentives to operate responsibly near the Apollo sites, including public scrutiny of their missions and a desire to protect their reputations. ...
... No US government agency, however, currently has jurisdiction to regulate the conduct of non-governmental spacecraft on the lunar surface. NASA can establish requirements for its own missions, but not for those conducted by a private entity.
What team were you on or were you working with for the Lunar X prize?