Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks...
If it is true that Firefox users are a "somewhat small percentage" of the (users browsing) the Internet, then doesn't that also mean that the supposed loss of revenue incurred by these site owners is proportionally small? Based on this, we must assume that any site owner that purposefully blocks access by a Firefox browser actually believes that Firefox usage is significant, and not small.
It's not an uncommon practice: Belittle the enemy who is greater than you hoping that he will believe your words and not reason.
By the way... If a Firefox user is intelligent enough to install AdBlock in order to filter ads, wouldn't they also be intelligent enough to install User Agent Switcher in order to fool the site into thinking that they are borwsing the Internet with IE on Windows98?
Never heard of one (bigit). I have, however, heard of the "binary digit" that was shortened to "bit". Given that history, "qubit" is short for "quantum binary digit" - which is an oxymoron since quantum digits can be any (or all) of several states, not just on or off (binary). A more accurate acronymish shortening would be "quigit" - which sounds awkward enough to be shortened to "qit", (pronounced KIT rather than QUIT to avoid confusion).
Yes, Texas IS an employment at will state. No notice is required for termination from either side, and unless they can prove that you are stealing from them (taking and/or potentially sharing their confidential information or property), any suit from them would be considered baseless.
NEVERTHELESS, anyone can sue anyone for any reason.
You should contact an attorney IMMEDIATELY and have them advise you. More than likely, your employer made an idle threat and will not back it up with action. If they DO pursue a suit, your attorney will probably counter-sue charging them with harassment. Initially, he will just send their attorney a response to their suit and a letter claiming harassment with the threat to turn it into a full-fledged lawsuit should they pursue their claim.
It's sad, but the only winners here will be the attorneys. In all likelihood, your employer will do nothing but threaten you. jerks.
Interesting paragraph in the article mentioned seems to completely contradict the poster's point...
The researchers found no significant differences among the treatment groups in the primary composite endpoint. However, six-month mortality was lower in patients assigned bedside MIT, with the lowest absolute death rates observed in patients treated with both prayer and bedside MIT. Patients treated with bedside MIT also showed changes in self-rated emotional distress prior to catheterization and stenting.
I used to get my Hotmail through Outlook. Did it for a couple of years before M$ decided to charge for that service. Believe me, I tried to continue to get my mail, but the Oulook interface stopped working.
I am now slowly but surely migrating all the hotmail-associated accounts to gmail.
Live Mail is horrendous. I have it, it sucks. I keep it because it's marginally better than the old hotmail interface (that worked on Firefox - Live Mail is crippled on Firefox).
Like it's been said before, M$ just doesn't "get" the internet.
As much as I applaud the Answers in Genesis bunch for a lot of good work, they still sometimes get a bit dogmatic and try to respond to some "old earth" evidence with less-than-rational arguments. I think that the ID community should sometimes take a more scientific approach to their studies than they do (redshift, the age of the universe, stellar aging).
Instead of being able to say, "I don't know," like any reasonable scientist when given a problem whose solution is currently unknown, it seems that they feel obligated to come up with some kind of answer that supports ID. That is the kind of action that makes ID and ID proponents look so stupid sometimes. If you don't know, admit it and do like any good scientist. Hypothesize, theorize, experiment, experiment, experiment, adjust (repeat until solved).
I firmly believe that we will find a scientific explanation for everything, giving us enough reason to think that God was not necessary for all of this to happen. We're not going to see a miracle in the laboratory as such because the very nature of "miracle" is that it is unexplainable. If someone's cancer spontaneously heals and we are able to observe the entire process in a laboratory, we will be able to see exactly what physiological process were involved in the destruction of the tumor. We will be able to fully explain how it happened. But we will not necessarily be able to explain *why* it happened, or why it happened when it did. Science is not always good at coming up with the "why" even though it's remarkably good at the "how".
God and "intelligent design" are in no way contrary to science and the scientific method; however, ID is often at odds with the conclusions drawn by many scientists. Those conclusions are driven by philosophy, not science.
CmndrTaco, You're doing a good job. You are approaching the issue circumspectly and openly. You are admitting that there are quirks in the system and that sometimes crap falls through.
Gee, sounds a whole lot like life to me.
My subject, "I actually have a life...". I spend too much time earning a living to go off on someone who posts utter crap. That's what the editors and moderators are for and they are doing a pretty damn fine job. How can I tell? Because I (and many like me) keep coming back. If you weren't doing a good job, I'd go elsewhere for my relevant geek news and never even tell you about it, probably.
I'm involved here. I Meta Moderate semi-frequently. I even used my Moerator points once (it took me an hour to figure out what they were for... it's not obvious to the unitiated).
You can't please all the people all of the time. Hell, you can't please most people some of the time. You gotta please yourself.
As you can see by the several posts in reply to yous that exaggeration is utterly unforgiveable in all circumstances is probably a little exaggerated itself. Humor is almost always based on some exaggeration. Think about it. We enjoy humorous exaggeration. At least I do.
I do agree, however, that exaggeration made just to "prove" a point or sway a decision is something that I personally see as intolerable.
That is a very lame argument, for you are declaring that the government of the United States of America makes decisions based on "fiscal sense." For that reason alone, it is totally reprehensible that the gov't should select Times New Roman when Arial / Helvetica are FAR MORE READABLE than TNR.
Besides, they could get a "site" license for any font they wanted, or they could legally have one of their hackers build a one-off clone of a copyrighted font.
Since when has our government considered COST to be an issue in purchasing?
Then some brilliant group of people will respond with a TOTALLY DIFFERENT alternative to POP and SMTP that GETS RID of SPAM. POP and SMTP are too open and too easy to spoof (I know, they COULD be fixed, but nobody will do it for the sake of "backward compatability).
It's time to let the existing system DIE so we can get ubiquitous, free, and secure, spamless email.
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Does anyone see the irony of this statement?
If it is true that Firefox users are a "somewhat small percentage" of the (users browsing) the Internet, then doesn't that also mean that the supposed loss of revenue incurred by these site owners is proportionally small? Based on this, we must assume that any site owner that purposefully blocks access by a Firefox browser actually believes that Firefox usage is significant, and not small.
It's not an uncommon practice: Belittle the enemy who is greater than you hoping that he will believe your words and not reason.
By the way... If a Firefox user is intelligent enough to install AdBlock in order to filter ads, wouldn't they also be intelligent enough to install User Agent Switcher in order to fool the site into thinking that they are borwsing the Internet with IE on Windows98?
RIAA for the InterWeb, Huh?
(nice tag, BTW)
Never heard of one (bigit). I have, however, heard of the "binary digit" that was shortened to "bit". Given that history, "qubit" is short for "quantum binary digit" - which is an oxymoron since quantum digits can be any (or all) of several states, not just on or off (binary). A more accurate acronymish shortening would be "quigit" - which sounds awkward enough to be shortened to "qit", (pronounced KIT rather than QUIT to avoid confusion).
I think "qubit" is here to stay, though.
Yes, Texas IS an employment at will state. No notice is required for termination from either side, and unless they can prove that you are stealing from them (taking and/or potentially sharing their confidential information or property), any suit from them would be considered baseless.
NEVERTHELESS, anyone can sue anyone for any reason.
You should contact an attorney IMMEDIATELY and have them advise you. More than likely, your employer made an idle threat and will not back it up with action. If they DO pursue a suit, your attorney will probably counter-sue charging them with harassment. Initially, he will just send their attorney a response to their suit and a letter claiming harassment with the threat to turn it into a full-fledged lawsuit should they pursue their claim.
It's sad, but the only winners here will be the attorneys. In all likelihood, your employer will do nothing but threaten you. jerks.
Interesting paragraph in the article mentioned seems to completely contradict the poster's point...
The researchers found no significant differences among the treatment groups in the primary composite endpoint. However, six-month mortality was lower in patients assigned bedside MIT, with the lowest absolute death rates observed in patients treated with both prayer and bedside MIT. Patients treated with bedside MIT also showed changes in self-rated emotional distress prior to catheterization and stenting.
I wonder who was prejudicing the report...
I used to get my Hotmail through Outlook. Did it for a couple of years before M$ decided to charge for that service. Believe me, I tried to continue to get my mail, but the Oulook interface stopped working.
I am now slowly but surely migrating all the hotmail-associated accounts to gmail.
Live Mail is horrendous. I have it, it sucks. I keep it because it's marginally better than the old hotmail interface (that worked on Firefox - Live Mail is crippled on Firefox).
Like it's been said before, M$ just doesn't "get" the internet.
As much as I applaud the Answers in Genesis bunch for a lot of good work, they still sometimes get a bit dogmatic and try to respond to some "old earth" evidence with less-than-rational arguments. I think that the ID community should sometimes take a more scientific approach to their studies than they do (redshift, the age of the universe, stellar aging).
Instead of being able to say, "I don't know," like any reasonable scientist when given a problem whose solution is currently unknown, it seems that they feel obligated to come up with some kind of answer that supports ID. That is the kind of action that makes ID and ID proponents look so stupid sometimes. If you don't know, admit it and do like any good scientist. Hypothesize, theorize, experiment, experiment, experiment, adjust (repeat until solved).
I firmly believe that we will find a scientific explanation for everything, giving us enough reason to think that God was not necessary for all of this to happen. We're not going to see a miracle in the laboratory as such because the very nature of "miracle" is that it is unexplainable. If someone's cancer spontaneously heals and we are able to observe the entire process in a laboratory, we will be able to see exactly what physiological process were involved in the destruction of the tumor. We will be able to fully explain how it happened. But we will not necessarily be able to explain *why* it happened, or why it happened when it did. Science is not always good at coming up with the "why" even though it's remarkably good at the "how".
God and "intelligent design" are in no way contrary to science and the scientific method; however, ID is often at odds with the conclusions drawn by many scientists. Those conclusions are driven by philosophy, not science.
Think I've said enough.
CmndrTaco, You're doing a good job. You are approaching the issue circumspectly and openly. You are admitting that there are quirks in the system and that sometimes crap falls through.
Gee, sounds a whole lot like life to me.
My subject, "I actually have a life...". I spend too much time earning a living to go off on someone who posts utter crap. That's what the editors and moderators are for and they are doing a pretty damn fine job. How can I tell? Because I (and many like me) keep coming back. If you weren't doing a good job, I'd go elsewhere for my relevant geek news and never even tell you about it, probably.
I'm involved here. I Meta Moderate semi-frequently. I even used my Moerator points once (it took me an hour to figure out what they were for... it's not obvious to the unitiated).
You can't please all the people all of the time. Hell, you can't please most people some of the time. You gotta please yourself.
As you can see by the several posts in reply to yous that exaggeration is utterly unforgiveable in all circumstances is probably a little exaggerated itself. Humor is almost always based on some exaggeration. Think about it. We enjoy humorous exaggeration. At least I do.
I do agree, however, that exaggeration made just to "prove" a point or sway a decision is something that I personally see as intolerable.
That is a very lame argument, for you are declaring that the government of the United States of America makes decisions based on "fiscal sense." For that reason alone, it is totally reprehensible that the gov't should select Times New Roman when Arial / Helvetica are FAR MORE READABLE than TNR.
Besides, they could get a "site" license for any font they wanted, or they could legally have one of their hackers build a one-off clone of a copyrighted font.
Since when has our government considered COST to be an issue in purchasing?
I agree completely. Garamond is the Font that has lasted with dignity through ages. It is the font of the illuminated, the cogniscenti.
Why, it's my favorite font!
I say let 'em charge.
Then some brilliant group of people will respond with a TOTALLY DIFFERENT alternative to POP and SMTP that GETS RID of SPAM. POP and SMTP are too open and too easy to spoof (I know, they COULD be fixed, but nobody will do it for the sake of "backward compatability).
It's time to let the existing system DIE so we can get ubiquitous, free, and secure, spamless email.