Poor-ER, not poor. I know the Gov't regulates prices, but these are obviously able to change. Just think for a minute how absurd it would be for the US to allow its own company's products to be routed through another country, with the idea that its somehow cheaper in the long run.
They are getting the medicine for less in Canada for two reasons:
1. They are a poorer country 2. It is not/barely legal to re-import drugs
If drug reimportation becomes legal, the prices will equalize, and unfortunately for Canada this means they will go up there alot more than they will go down here.
Sorry, but I don't think that being annoyed by other people's ignorance (excepting rare diseases/conditions) could be considered ignorant. I'm an exceptionally warm person (I'm sure someone has a name for such a condition), such that I live in Boston and don't own a sweater or sweatshirt, only a jacket for when its really cold and gloves when its under 10 degrees. An office at or above 70F would be almost intolerable, to the point where I would start failing at my duties. I don't think my reason (or the ignorant clod's) is any less valid than your GF's, its not like there's anything I can do about it.
Actually Average Joe the CEO/CTO sees the ad, and then the next day Bob the IT guy says "we want to switch to firefox" and Joe says "OK, I saw a big ad in the NYT yesterday, so it must be ok".
I don't think its as much of a language issue in that sense, but more so in a lingo/jargon sense. I've worked with people from more countries than most UN staffers probably have, and like you said, after a while adjsuting to accents becomes quick and easy. However, working with someone that doesn't know how people talk in a particular company or industry (regardless of their native tongue) can be confusing and, as a result, expensive. The only way for someone to adapt to a new environment quickly is through immersion, and offshore workers don't have that luxury.
You seem to be missing a pretty fundamental concept here, namely that we're each responsible for our own actions. It's all well and good to pretend that public corporations are vehicles strictly for financial gain, but this becomes highly dangerous when you remove responsibility for their actions, as we largely have here in the US.
If I pay somebody money to kill you or to dump toxic waste on your land, I'm responsible for doing so. How am I less responsible by paying money into a corporation that does the same?
You also seem to be missing a fundamental point here. Limited liability is not what encourages people to invest, it's what allows people to invest. If you have a typical 401k, you are part owner of hundreds of companies via mutual funds. Do you have time to make sure that each and every one of those is staffed only by lawful, good people? No, so if you were liable, you would be forced to invest in maybe one company, and you would still be unable to make informed decisions. No investment, no innovation, no growth, and we are back to a mid-1800's economy.
Your analogy also falls short. If you are a landlord, and your tenant kills someone in their apartment, are you liable? Stockholders don't run companies, the board and the officers do. I agree that these groups should have liability, but stockholders are not involved in the day-to-day operations, which is where all the nastiness happens. There are no shareholder votes to use unsafe machinery or dump chemicals in the river.
IIRC, CDRWIN (a cd-burning program) would slowly 'degrade' your burns over time if you used an invalid key. Very insiduous, as it would seem to work at first then slowly get worse and worse.
Transparent degredation isn't going to do much for the reputation of the product. I know we're talking about pirates and not customers here, but I think a more visible method, like burning a text file on the root of every data cd, and an audio track on the audio CD that say "This disc was authored with WINCD shareware version." would be a respectful but still encouraging method that didn't just make some think your software was crap.
I was actually wanting to e-mail them all yesterday and give them a piece of my mind, but decided not to because they would probably turn me in to home land security.
Wow. I'm guessing that most liberals don't have to fear personal retribution from their ideologues.
And how does this prevent sandbox pages from being targetted by spambots? If you think telling a spammer his technique doesn't work will stop him, you don't know spammers very well.
IANAL, but actually it is different. If they broke in and stole a disk, then Valve has one less disk and a broken window. Many anti-RIAA slashdotters have repeatedly claimed that music copying isn't stealing because they didn't actually take or deprive someone of anything, they just copied it, which to me seems like what happened here.
I'd have to say that copying (and subsequently distributing) the source code was a copyright violation just like downloading an unlicensed mp3. The network intrusion is also a crime. There are probably also laws which might consider unreleased source code to have "trade secrets", which would be yet another crime. Therefore the entire operation is far more serious than sharing a copied music file, but the root event is probably similar.
I'm not trying to start a flamewar here, but my main issue with anime is the extremely low signal to noise ratio. Whoever is making most of the crap I see on Adult Swim doesn't deserve more than $500/month. There is SO much junk anime out there that it simply isn't worth my time to look for good stuff, and in fact it's not even worth my time to consider the genre worthwhile. I rely on friends to point me to the good stuff, and even that has mixed results. I think the industry needs some serious quality control. Granted, Hollywood has a strong vetting process and still manages to churn out a ton of crap, but it is a fairly cohesive environment that makes it easy to self-select and find the stuff that appeals to a person's tastes.
Also, I think some fragmentation would be good. Alot of anime is made for kids/teenagers and it's hard to find the stuff that is for an adult audience (excepting the porn stuff). To make things even worse, they try to make stuff appeal to too broad of an audience. Cowboy Bebop is a good example, it had me hooked with the first dark, slick episode but morphed into typical junk over the course of the series. I knew as soon as Edward was a character that it had probably gone past the point of no return, and was half-expecting Pikachu to appear.
I think the genre has promise, and has shown its potential from time to time, but a lot of the people like me out there who can, and would, support the form are simply deterred from doing so.
You know what would be great? If they would get around to building a hybrid SUV or a decent hybrid car. Some of us like to have a vehicle that is capable in bad weather and has enough power to escape jealous, self-righteous, SUV-hating drivers and their slow cars.
Avoiding premature optimization is wise, but taking advantage of the vendor specific options becomes part of your system and code design. I'm thinking of mysql's REPLACE and DELAYED keywords as examples of this.
Well if you're going that route you could say it started about 2/3 the way through snow crash. This guy needs to learn how to end a book. They start off great and exciting, settle down a bit, and then wimp out.
A tuned query set is pretty much unportable no matter what DBMS you are using. Once you start getting into maintenance tasks, vendor-specific performance boosting options (which are often the reason you've chosen a vendor), and basically anything beyound the most basic selects and inserts, you code becomes tied down to a server. Also the general disregard most servers have for ANSI means that it is only a standard in theory, not in practice.
"The spammers don't care about the laws of the U.S. when they can just spoof the headers into thinking they came from outside the U.S.; and the U.S., despite whatever delusions my duly elected officials may be believing right now, can't enforce something like this on spam originating outside the States."
If the spammer is in America (as the vast majority supposedly are), then the email originates with them, even if the first mail server exists elsewhere. The reason people spam is because it's easy, I doubt any of them are going to move to another country just to be able to continue legally.
Let's say that most spam did move offshore, it becomes that much easier to identify through rules and such. If a particular country becomes a haven for them, and they get blocked wholesale, that country will likely take action as well lest they lose their legitimate businesses.
Also as some other people noted, they find spammers find following the money, and it's going to be hard for a spammer to claim they don't know where that came from.
Silly me, I thought he meant bolls, "The seed-bearing capsule of certain plants, especially cotton and flax", and was using it as a subtle reference to testicles.
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Poor-ER, not poor. I know the Gov't regulates prices, but these are obviously able to change. Just think for a minute how absurd it would be for the US to allow its own company's products to be routed through another country, with the idea that its somehow cheaper in the long run.
I tried that, but they sent me back a bag of dirt with "puto" written on it.
They are getting the medicine for less in Canada for two reasons:
1. They are a poorer country
2. It is not/barely legal to re-import drugs
If drug reimportation becomes legal, the prices will equalize, and unfortunately for Canada this means they will go up there alot more than they will go down here.
Sorry, but I don't think that being annoyed by other people's ignorance (excepting rare diseases/conditions) could be considered ignorant. I'm an exceptionally warm person (I'm sure someone has a name for such a condition), such that I live in Boston and don't own a sweater or sweatshirt, only a jacket for when its really cold and gloves when its under 10 degrees. An office at or above 70F would be almost intolerable, to the point where I would start failing at my duties. I don't think my reason (or the ignorant clod's) is any less valid than your GF's, its not like there's anything I can do about it.
Actually Average Joe the CEO/CTO sees the ad, and then the next day Bob the IT guy says "we want to switch to firefox" and Joe says "OK, I saw a big ad in the NYT yesterday, so it must be ok".
I don't think its as much of a language issue in that sense, but more so in a lingo/jargon sense. I've worked with people from more countries than most UN staffers probably have, and like you said, after a while adjsuting to accents becomes quick and easy. However, working with someone that doesn't know how people talk in a particular company or industry (regardless of their native tongue) can be confusing and, as a result, expensive. The only way for someone to adapt to a new environment quickly is through immersion, and offshore workers don't have that luxury.
You seem to be missing a pretty fundamental concept here, namely that we're each responsible for our own actions. It's all well and good to pretend that public corporations are vehicles strictly for financial gain, but this becomes highly dangerous when you remove responsibility for their actions, as we largely have here in the US.
If I pay somebody money to kill you or to dump toxic waste on your land, I'm responsible for doing so. How am I less responsible by paying money into a corporation that does the same?
You also seem to be missing a fundamental point here. Limited liability is not what encourages people to invest, it's what allows people to invest. If you have a typical 401k, you are part owner of hundreds of companies via mutual funds. Do you have time to make sure that each and every one of those is staffed only by lawful, good people? No, so if you were liable, you would be forced to invest in maybe one company, and you would still be unable to make informed decisions. No investment, no innovation, no growth, and we are back to a mid-1800's economy.
Your analogy also falls short. If you are a landlord, and your tenant kills someone in their apartment, are you liable? Stockholders don't run companies, the board and the officers do. I agree that these groups should have liability, but stockholders are not involved in the day-to-day operations, which is where all the nastiness happens. There are no shareholder votes to use unsafe machinery or dump chemicals in the river.
IIRC, CDRWIN (a cd-burning program) would slowly 'degrade' your burns over time if you used an invalid key. Very insiduous, as it would seem to work at first then slowly get worse and worse.
Transparent degredation isn't going to do much for the reputation of the product. I know we're talking about pirates and not customers here, but I think a more visible method, like burning a text file on the root of every data cd, and an audio track on the audio CD that say "This disc was authored with WINCD shareware version." would be a respectful but still encouraging method that didn't just make some think your software was crap.
How much does a CD cost?
I was actually wanting to e-mail them all yesterday and give them a piece of my mind, but decided not to because they would probably turn me in to home land security.
Wow. I'm guessing that most liberals don't have to fear personal retribution from their ideologues.
And how does this prevent sandbox pages from being targetted by spambots? If you think telling a spammer his technique doesn't work will stop him, you don't know spammers very well.
IANAL, but actually it is different. If they broke in and stole a disk, then Valve has one less disk and a broken window. Many anti-RIAA slashdotters have repeatedly claimed that music copying isn't stealing because they didn't actually take or deprive someone of anything, they just copied it, which to me seems like what happened here.
I'd have to say that copying (and subsequently distributing) the source code was a copyright violation just like downloading an unlicensed mp3. The network intrusion is also a crime. There are probably also laws which might consider unreleased source code to have "trade secrets", which would be yet another crime. Therefore the entire operation is far more serious than sharing a copied music file, but the root event is probably similar.
I'm not trying to start a flamewar here, but my main issue with anime is the extremely low signal to noise ratio. Whoever is making most of the crap I see on Adult Swim doesn't deserve more than $500/month. There is SO much junk anime out there that it simply isn't worth my time to look for good stuff, and in fact it's not even worth my time to consider the genre worthwhile. I rely on friends to point me to the good stuff, and even that has mixed results. I think the industry needs some serious quality control. Granted, Hollywood has a strong vetting process and still manages to churn out a ton of crap, but it is a fairly cohesive environment that makes it easy to self-select and find the stuff that appeals to a person's tastes.
Also, I think some fragmentation would be good. Alot of anime is made for kids/teenagers and it's hard to find the stuff that is for an adult audience (excepting the porn stuff). To make things even worse, they try to make stuff appeal to too broad of an audience. Cowboy Bebop is a good example, it had me hooked with the first dark, slick episode but morphed into typical junk over the course of the series. I knew as soon as Edward was a character that it had probably gone past the point of no return, and was half-expecting Pikachu to appear.
I think the genre has promise, and has shown its potential from time to time, but a lot of the people like me out there who can, and would, support the form are simply deterred from doing so.
You know what would be great? If they would get around to building a hybrid SUV or a decent hybrid car. Some of us like to have a vehicle that is capable in bad weather and has enough power to escape jealous, self-righteous, SUV-hating drivers and their slow cars.
"My THIRD Prius, an 04 (I've owned an 01 and 03 - both completely problem-free)"
3 of the same car in 3 years? You realize that you are supposed to refill the gas tank, not buy a new car, right?
How about this for quotes: "If you write code I can't understand I don't hire you"
Which of the 2000 is the good one?
Wow, I must have missed the memo where a bad joke is now called a troll.
Avoiding premature optimization is wise, but taking advantage of the vendor specific options becomes part of your system and code design. I'm thinking of mysql's REPLACE and DELAYED keywords as examples of this.
What's exim?
Well if you're going that route you could say it started about 2/3 the way through snow crash. This guy needs to learn how to end a book. They start off great and exciting, settle down a bit, and then wimp out.
A tuned query set is pretty much unportable no matter what DBMS you are using. Once you start getting into maintenance tasks, vendor-specific performance boosting options (which are often the reason you've chosen a vendor), and basically anything beyound the most basic selects and inserts, you code becomes tied down to a server. Also the general disregard most servers have for ANSI means that it is only a standard in theory, not in practice.
Well, actually a degree is proof of:
(I don't have anything against degrees, I only take issue with people's misunderstanding of their meaning and value)
"The spammers don't care about the laws of the U.S. when they can just spoof the headers into thinking they came from outside the U.S.; and the U.S., despite whatever delusions my duly elected officials may be believing right now, can't enforce something like this on spam originating outside the States."
If the spammer is in America (as the vast majority supposedly are), then the email originates with them, even if the first mail server exists elsewhere. The reason people spam is because it's easy, I doubt any of them are going to move to another country just to be able to continue legally.
Let's say that most spam did move offshore, it becomes that much easier to identify through rules and such. If a particular country becomes a haven for them, and they get blocked wholesale, that country will likely take action as well lest they lose their legitimate businesses.
Also as some other people noted, they find spammers find following the money, and it's going to be hard for a spammer to claim they don't know where that came from.
Silly me, I thought he meant bolls, "The seed-bearing capsule of certain plants, especially cotton and flax", and was using it as a subtle reference to testicles.