I also went from basic to 6502 assembler on the c-64. I was lucky ( i think ) I liked numbers and was able to incorporate the graphics of the c-64 and then went on to speed the dam programs up with assembler ( I guess I was a natural optimizer )
I think back, if I wanted to do it over again, I would want to see graphic results and easy graphic routines, it inspired me to do a lot of wacky fun things. hell I can recall that I spent somewhere in the range of $140ish for a basic compiler in 1983 ( i think ).
so at the end of this, ask your child what would be of interest to them about the results of working on the computer, it might just be that he (she) wants math answers LOL
What needs to be done is a counter move to pollute the data-feed in twitter by getting the county address book and posting each person's name randomly until it's full, this way they are forced to remove the entire twitter account or published the results of the trial. So black hatters, boot those proxies and make it happen, kill it off as fast as possible.
like you said, on the internet, everything is still around, I have stuff that I posted 15 years back still around. I could only imagine this thing being around for 40+
and yes it's true, as an employer, I have two equal candidates, and one of them show up on a list like this, guess what? I'm not going to hire that person.
my buddy who is a cop administered a road side test to me once in the parking lot ( I asked him what it was about ), I failed the entire test from start to finish, and he said rather sternly to me, that when I get pulled over, to hand the PBA card along with his business card to whomever pulled me over.
I could not even do a figure 4 without falling, it was rather humorous, and he did ask me afterward if I drank anything or had any meds in me, LOL
I learned something recently from a police officer. If you get pulled and you are under the influence, Don't take the breathalyzer. it's the safest course of action since they can not prove that you are drunk... you end up on a lesser charge which you can fight in court, but you don't end up with DWI... and the long term associated punishments ( insurance, job risks, social stigma... ) are a lot less. IANAL so you need to reconfirm that this is valid outside of Florida.
You must live where there is bunch of common sense. I truly believe that what you stated, is what you know within your environment, can I join please, I would like to live in that town too.
I would agree that this is closer to a bug than anything else.
But good seo work will take advantage of any bug and I feel that they must have put someone in the SEO department and said " hey, let's try this".
When testing ideas on SEO you always take a tiny non revenue non supporting section that you play with and see how the search engine's behave. the best thing that Google ever did was create the button on webmaster control for "see how we crawl"... talk about properly learning the different tricks to feed a search engine...
anyway, this whole thing is a non-issue, give it 2 weeks and Google will be clearing this right up and problem solved.
>>Also, fewer gas stations carry diesel. Many stations do; it's not rare by any means. But I can think of several off the top of my head that don't carry diesel at all.
very true statement, also to add on to this, is driving distance. I don't know about everyone else, but when I take a drive just to clear my mind, I might do 500 to 800 miles in a day, I believe in Europe that might cross 1 or 2 country's, then again, if I was in Europe, the scenery might be more interesting so my driving distance would be less.
also in Europe, I think that the people have more say when it comes to the environment so you guys fight for cleaner long term goals.
Back in my day ( I hate saying that ), we had drag strips that were near by ( englishtown ) and we had street racing in the back of old warehousing districts or we would just cut off the highway for 10 minutes and put on 5 races. of course the cops would show up, but by that time we would be long gone.
Yah I saw some wrecks, all of them but 1 were from drunk drivers. the one wreck that was not from a drunk was when a guy in a 66 GTO tri-power painted candy apple red, his u-joint failed, we were doing 40ish, he was about 3 seconds in front of me, and all of a sudden his rear went up, spun like a top and smashed sideways into a pole, he walked out alive and shaken. we went over the car and figured out what happened, since then all my hot rod's had an angel.
drunks were the bane of the road for hot rods, if you drank in my day, you did not race, you were a spectator ( well at least in my area ) and if you drove home, someone would follow you to make sure you did not do anything stupid, or get caught, backup car all-ways played interference, it was just the rules and code we lived by. Sometimes someone would drive your car home.
I can tell you every story of every drunk wreck that I saw/witnessed in my life, and in some of the cases, the death of those kids inside those cars. every one was someone showing off 49%, or someone doing something stupid ( 49% cases) or fell asleep at the wheel.
the noise we made with our cars are nothing like the sounds I hear all day now, most motorcycles make more noise than most of the hot rod's.... talking about noise, you could be blind and know the sound of each persons car by the exhaust notes.
also back in my day ( god I hate that), at midnight, you were the only people out, not too many people would be driving at night. now the same street are full till 4am if not later. even the west side highway ( NYC ) was empty at 2am, not a soul in sight unless it was a cab.
Now you could not pull half of the stunts we did without getting caught ( like to see you guys closing off i-95 for 10 minutes ) or run a cannon ball rally to the beach at 4 am with 20 cars and 30 motorcycles ( we called them rice rockets back then )
if you are ever on the NJ parkway, just south of the route 4 entrance, there is a 3 or 4 lane stretch of about 5 miles long, clear visibility for about 2 miles all the way from start to finish, run that out at night, and you'll completely learn what your limit's are. never could run that at flat out but I learned what my limit was.
so goes another point of history, maybe for the better, but there was something about when you opened the hood and you saw one, now you look under the hood and it's confusing. I guess age is getting the better of me LOL.
well I guess you'll all start wondering what it was like to have 550hp+, and punching it, there is just a sound, not like any other sound, it's the sound of power, raw, and tamed by only your nerve as you head down the strip. light to light, pole to pole, neck to neck, blasting the traps at 145mph+ in mid 10's, then, only after the trophy is handed to you, you drive your car home, listening to the sweet rumble.
I never had the balls to put slicks on, always felt that control at that level of speed was worth my life. lost a few - won a few, made me money while I was in school and never lost on the street ( nor was I caught ) and earn the respect of my peers in the parking lot. Had geek cred - grease in my blood - and I loved my "RAT"... what more can you ask for when your 17 and it's 1983 ( well maybe DEC-VAX mainframe )
Wow, what an amazingly piece of ignorance, asking people "make sure they don't act obnoxiously so people get pissed-off at them and try to exterminate them yet another time"
I would think then we should eliminate all those that text while walking.
run this test ( which I have done )
find the most trafficked street in a town near where you live, go to the middle of the block, walk up to the curb line, take a half step back, then over the course of 10 minutes see how many times you get bumped. ( again you are just 1.5 feet from the curb almost in line with where a parking meter might be.
my NYC record for this is 43 times ( the 43rd time I whipped out my mace because the guy that nailed me dropped his phone and started to get rather rude and threatening, it ended real fast ). by the way New Yorkers seem to be the most polite about hitting you, almost everyone said sorry or excuse me or something polite as an apology.
In miami, they just hit you and keep going ( 17 times ).
weird but a fun way to see what humanity is all about.
I recall reading that a Jewish Torah scholar ( or rabbi ) calculated that the earths age was in the 3.1 to 6 billion year range. this was back in the 1600's. I am still searching for that reference, one day I'll find it.
yep I know about them, but they don't grow correctly for most lumber application. pulp mills love it and charcoal producers love it. I had a chance to visit a secret site once, in the middle of a field of trees, the tree grew right in front of me over the day. ( about 4 inches ). I look forward to the day that I can plant my first crop of these trees.
wait wait wait. If the paper industry needs wood, why not let them plant and reap that crop. same for the lumber industry, this way over time more and more virgin forest is left alone until one point the only crop they are harvesting is their own.
in reference to GM Woods, your right it's not a forest, it's a crop. and if you follow that crop ( which is some of the hardest data to get due to eco - terrorist burning down planted fields ), you'll find the creation of some interesting trees ( I am waiting for the 8' diameter tree with a height of 20 feet gown in 10 years to be published )
and just another note: we are seeing more responsible harvesting of forest over the last 40 years, it is progress, given it's not what I would be hoping for, but at least it's the right direction. I expect that in the next 100 years we will see more virgin type forest's and GM tree crops .
your argument might have been valid up to 10 years ago, but in the respective field of climate science, you better have some sort of proof that what you say might be right. I would rather see 2 guys with the correct level of understanding have the dispute than some Joe from the street saying it.
now don't get me wrong, an sailor might have some proof to add to the argument IE: currents have changed, depth of a port might have changed, more winter ports are open... but it's part of the observation in which both sides need to find out why.
in reference to everything else, I can still see regular layman doing some creative research that would lead to results IE new wing designs, motor designs, odd application that make sense.
also, spend some time at ted.org might just open everyone's eye's ( I loved the one with the guy from India talking about water in the desert, and how the community does gypsum water storage )
Anything at sea will always be slight more expensive when it comes to the ware-and-tear section of the spread sheet.
they have to deal with salt spray and fresh water rain. both different oxidation processes and air pollution ( amazingly enough from my own observations, salt spray does not increase damage on exhaust vents, but fresh water does, this is just an observation, I have yet to do a controlled experiment on this, i think it's based on the reaction of fresh water with the acids of the exhaust but salt water seems to do something to the acid, I really don't know )
that's why the navy always has people painting parts of the ship ( the old phrase " If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it )
Now on the other part of Google's problem with off shore parked vessels, is the navigation hazards and the right to moor the vessel on that area. Most likely they will have to lease the rights that area. ( this is from looking at the issues of the offshore wind farms )
I was thinking of that, but in reading the rules of it, they ask that you do not query them directly. here is the wiki about the root nameservers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver . In that report they say in 2003 that 2% of the request are legitimate the rest are problems.
What I think needs to be done, is more services similar to googles dns and opendns. this can only add to the performance of the internet.
Now If i am seeing googles game plan correctly, here is my prediction. A) if google is aiming to become a root name server of the future, they are beta testing the dns system. something to the level almost unshakable by the common hacker. so more security to the end user and a faster internet
b) google now having the control of the dns will use that power ( good bad whatever ) to bring into align all the other top level namespaces, it might just put it's foot down and say we won't resolve alternic and the few others.
c) google using it's domain registration company will offer a higher quality service against the top domain registra's (network solutions ) that are not price competitive and compete for the rights to run.com, or.biz or and of the others.
I look at google like playing a game of go ( not chess ). you fight to win overall, and targeting the weak structures ( that are important to the GEEK community ) is on the top of the list.
the GEEK community now controls most, if not all IT investments, if a firm like Google offers something for free, it's used. In the 70's and 80's we had a saying in the IT community, " you never get fired for buying IBM equipment ", it was fact that no mater how bad you screwed up, nothing would happen if you went the IBM way, your bosses you just put it as a problem with the vendor and not the IT department. I would not be surprised if that mindset has taken hold.
So, if the google game plan is to dominate the market, start looking and the weak points on the internet ( and the services ) and build up around that. hmmm... e-mail free, simple office stuff - free, simple web design - free, social networking -free, dns -free, let's chat - free
Let's sum it up, I watch you talk about something (chat), you design it (web design), cost it out (office), you write to your friends to see it (social networking), it goes to the market and people find your domain (dns)... google can offer a well targeted ad to those visitors
I'm about twice your age, and we had a hang-out spots for night time, one for day time ( arcade ), and out favorite fishing holes for Saturday morning. if you got lost from one spot to another, call your night quits or try to find us.
you could get blasted drunk ( 18 was the drinking age back then ) and get home safely in a cab and still make it to go fishing at 6am.
when you made plans, you stuck to them, "pick you up at 8" meant you are ready at 8pm. however when you are picking up a girl, 8pm is when you got there, she made you wait.
got a girls number from your going out the night before, answer the phone or hope that the answer machine is working, otherwise you missed the call ( or worst your mom got the phone )
I just want to get off topic here for 1 problem I had with what you wrote.
"Our suburbs already have vast areas for companies to expand into"
so you are going to trade off green space to work space horizontally ? i would think vertical would be the better of the 2 choices, this way you keep the green.
Darwinism at it's best. playing football after back pain is about the most foolish thing I can think of ( besides lifting heavy boxes). Of course the insurance company is going to reject him. he looks fine, and even if he's not fine, he now has aggravated the injury even more. If you don't follow the rules, you don't get the treatment.
I really wonder how dumb most people are.
I've had back pains, sprains, and a host of other problems. every time I have followed the instruction of my doctors, I recovered. given it's been painful, but I recovered back to 100 percent. no surgery as of yet ( hurray ).
if it works keep it running. You are correct in everything you point out. if anything, start first with a full replicated system setup, then a proper back up. next test the new systems, back up never seem to work on the first try so get the bug's worked out.
after this I have no real idea on what you need to do.
I hear what your saying, but the fault does not sit with the schools or non-profit's. the fault lies with the community leaders ( mayors, council members.... ). They have not fought hard enough to attract businesses that will want to stay in these communities.
I would rather have 100 employee business, that pays a middle of the road tax, than to have a business that has 50 people at full rate ( 100 employees inject more money as a group into the local community than 50 ).
it's time that communities like businesses, start creating business plans that are geared for a certain way of life, want a peaceful & quiet community, have lot's of parks, and recreation. Want the next Manhattan, make it easy for a businesses to set up shop, have multiple outlets for public music and entertainment, great mass transit and boom your the next place.
in real estate dynamics, you have an attraction ( also known as an anchor property in commercial ). Good schools are the attraction, people come to spend money near those good schools, Real estate investors know that a business that keeps that attraction going or improves upon it bring more revenue to the area.
communities know this also, and therefore tax accordingly the real estate values of commercial properties, residential properties that are 5 minutes walking to good schools are always in demand, hence the have a slight upward bias over a long term in the value of that property and therefore pay an increase in property tax (on the value).
It would be rather ignorant of a community to tax a student, since when calculating the cost of an education, some people will see the word TAX and say " fuck paying taxes, that's the last thing on my mind " and just skip over that school.
Now, which schools would this tax affect if it was nation wide, the worst schools or the schools with no reputation. since a degree from a BRANDED school ( MIT, Berkley, Princeton ) is worth more, some people will not care about the taxes.
Now, Which students would this tax affect the most, those that are on a limited resources, when push comes to shove, that extra 1 percent might force them to think of another school.
this is a sad state of affairs, I feel very sorry for these students that will have to deal with an education tax.
I once saw this in action, said right to a cop. I first was shocked, then I broke out in laughter when the cop pulled out his cuffs, read the kid his rights, tossed him in the car.
this was a top 100 moment of my life with a funny ending.
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I also went from basic to 6502 assembler on the c-64. I was lucky ( i think ) I liked numbers and was able to incorporate the graphics of the c-64 and then went on to speed the dam programs up with assembler ( I guess I was a natural optimizer )
I think back, if I wanted to do it over again, I would want to see graphic results and easy graphic routines, it inspired me to do a lot of wacky fun things. hell I can recall that I spent somewhere in the range of $140ish for a basic compiler in 1983 ( i think ).
so at the end of this, ask your child what would be of interest to them about the results of working on the computer, it might just be that he (she) wants math answers LOL
What needs to be done is a counter move to pollute the data-feed in twitter by getting the county address book and posting each person's name randomly until it's full, this way they are forced to remove the entire twitter account or published the results of the trial. So black hatters, boot those proxies and make it happen, kill it off as fast as possible.
like you said, on the internet, everything is still around, I have stuff that I posted 15 years back still around. I could only imagine this thing being around for 40+
and yes it's true, as an employer, I have two equal candidates, and one of them show up on a list like this, guess what? I'm not going to hire that person.
my buddy who is a cop administered a road side test to me once in the parking lot ( I asked him what it was about ), I failed the entire test from start to finish, and he said rather sternly to me, that when I get pulled over, to hand the PBA card along with his business card to whomever pulled me over.
I could not even do a figure 4 without falling, it was rather humorous, and he did ask me afterward if I drank anything or had any meds in me, LOL
I learned something recently from a police officer. If you get pulled and you are under the influence, Don't take the breathalyzer. it's the safest course of action since they can not prove that you are drunk... you end up on a lesser charge which you can fight in court, but you don't end up with DWI... and the long term associated punishments ( insurance, job risks, social stigma ... ) are a lot less. IANAL so you need to reconfirm that this is valid outside of Florida.
You must live where there is bunch of common sense. I truly believe that what you stated, is what you know within your environment, can I join please, I would like to live in that town too.
I would agree that this is closer to a bug than anything else.
But good seo work will take advantage of any bug and I feel that they must have put someone in the SEO department and said " hey, let's try this".
When testing ideas on SEO you always take a tiny non revenue non supporting section that you play with and see how the search engine's behave. the best thing that Google ever did was create the button on webmaster control for "see how we crawl" ... talk about properly learning the different tricks to feed a search engine ...
anyway, this whole thing is a non-issue, give it 2 weeks and Google will be clearing this right up and problem solved.
>>Also, fewer gas stations carry diesel. Many stations do; it's not rare by any means. But I can think of several off the top of my head that don't carry diesel at all.
very true statement, also to add on to this, is driving distance. I don't know about everyone else, but when I take a drive just to clear my mind, I might do 500 to 800 miles in a day, I believe in Europe that might cross 1 or 2 country's, then again, if I was in Europe, the scenery might be more interesting so my driving distance would be less.
also in Europe, I think that the people have more say when it comes to the environment so you guys fight for cleaner long term goals.
Back in my day ( I hate saying that ), we had drag strips that were near by ( englishtown ) and we had street racing in the back of old warehousing districts or we would just cut off the highway for 10 minutes and put on 5 races. of course the cops would show up, but by that time we would be long gone.
Yah I saw some wrecks, all of them but 1 were from drunk drivers. the one wreck that was not from a drunk was when a guy in a 66 GTO tri-power painted candy apple red, his u-joint failed, we were doing 40ish, he was about 3 seconds in front of me, and all of a sudden his rear went up, spun like a top and smashed sideways into a pole, he walked out alive and shaken. we went over the car and figured out what happened, since then all my hot rod's had an angel.
drunks were the bane of the road for hot rods, if you drank in my day, you did not race, you were a spectator ( well at least in my area ) and if you drove home, someone would follow you to make sure you did not do anything stupid, or get caught, backup car all-ways played interference, it was just the rules and code we lived by. Sometimes someone would drive your car home.
I can tell you every story of every drunk wreck that I saw/witnessed in my life, and in some of the cases, the death of those kids inside those cars. every one was someone showing off 49%, or someone doing something stupid ( 49% cases) or fell asleep at the wheel.
the noise we made with our cars are nothing like the sounds I hear all day now, most motorcycles make more noise than most of the hot rod's. ... talking about noise, you could be blind and know the sound of each persons car by the exhaust notes.
also back in my day ( god I hate that), at midnight, you were the only people out, not too many people would be driving at night. now the same street are full till 4am if not later. even the west side highway ( NYC ) was empty at 2am, not a soul in sight unless it was a cab.
Now you could not pull half of the stunts we did without getting caught ( like to see you guys closing off i-95 for 10 minutes ) or run a cannon ball rally to the beach at 4 am with 20 cars and 30 motorcycles ( we called them rice rockets back then )
if you are ever on the NJ parkway, just south of the route 4 entrance, there is a 3 or 4 lane stretch of about 5 miles long, clear visibility for about 2 miles all the way from start to finish, run that out at night, and you'll completely learn what your limit's are. never could run that at flat out but I learned what my limit was.
so goes another point of history, maybe for the better, but there was something about when you opened the hood and you saw one, now you look under the hood and it's confusing. I guess age is getting the better of me LOL.
well I guess you'll all start wondering what it was like to have 550hp+, and punching it, there is just a sound, not like any other sound, it's the sound of power, raw, and tamed by only your nerve as you head down the strip. light to light, pole to pole, neck to neck, blasting the traps at 145mph+ in mid 10's, then, only after the trophy is handed to you, you drive your car home, listening to the sweet rumble.
I never had the balls to put slicks on, always felt that control at that level of speed was worth my life. lost a few - won a few, made me money while I was in school and never lost on the street ( nor was I caught ) and earn the respect of my peers in the parking lot. Had geek cred - grease in my blood - and I loved my "RAT" ... what more can you ask for when your 17 and it's 1983 ( well maybe DEC-VAX mainframe )
anyway thanks for reading
Wow, what an amazingly piece of ignorance, asking people "make sure they don't act obnoxiously so people get pissed-off at them and try to exterminate them yet another time"
I would think then we should eliminate all those that text while walking.
run this test ( which I have done )
find the most trafficked street in a town near where you live, go to the middle of the block, walk up to the curb line, take a half step back, then over the course of 10 minutes see how many times you get bumped. ( again you are just 1.5 feet from the curb almost in line with where a parking meter might be.
my NYC record for this is 43 times ( the 43rd time I whipped out my mace because the guy that nailed me dropped his phone and started to get rather rude and threatening, it ended real fast ). by the way New Yorkers seem to be the most polite about hitting you, almost everyone said sorry or excuse me or something polite as an apology.
In miami, they just hit you and keep going ( 17 times ).
weird but a fun way to see what humanity is all about.
onepoint
I recall reading that a Jewish Torah scholar ( or rabbi ) calculated that the earths age was in the 3.1 to 6 billion year range. this was back in the 1600's. I am still searching for that reference, one day I'll find it.
yep I know about them, but they don't grow correctly for most lumber application. pulp mills love it and charcoal producers love it. I had a chance to visit a secret site once, in the middle of a field of trees, the tree grew right in front of me over the day. ( about 4 inches ). I look forward to the day that I can plant my first crop of these trees.
wait wait wait. If the paper industry needs wood, why not let them plant and reap that crop. same for the lumber industry, this way over time more and more virgin forest is left alone until one point the only crop they are harvesting is their own.
in reference to GM Woods, your right it's not a forest, it's a crop. and if you follow that crop ( which is some of the hardest data to get due to eco - terrorist burning down planted fields ), you'll find the creation of some interesting trees ( I am waiting for the 8' diameter tree with a height of 20 feet gown in 10 years to be published )
and just another note: we are seeing more responsible harvesting of forest over the last 40 years, it is progress, given it's not what I would be hoping for, but at least it's the right direction. I expect that in the next 100 years we will see more virgin type forest's and GM tree crops .
your argument might have been valid up to 10 years ago, but in the respective field of climate science, you better have some sort of proof that what you say might be right. I would rather see 2 guys with the correct level of understanding have the dispute than some Joe from the street saying it.
now don't get me wrong, an sailor might have some proof to add to the argument IE: currents have changed, depth of a port might have changed, more winter ports are open ... but it's part of the observation in which both sides need to find out why.
in reference to everything else, I can still see regular layman doing some creative research that would lead to results IE new wing designs, motor designs, odd application that make sense.
also, spend some time at ted.org might just open everyone's eye's ( I loved the one with the guy from India talking about water in the desert, and how the community does gypsum water storage )
Anything at sea will always be slight more expensive when it comes to the ware-and-tear section of the spread sheet.
they have to deal with salt spray and fresh water rain. both different oxidation processes and air pollution ( amazingly enough from my own observations, salt spray does not increase damage on exhaust vents, but fresh water does, this is just an observation, I have yet to do a controlled experiment on this, i think it's based on the reaction of fresh water with the acids of the exhaust but salt water seems to do something to the acid, I really don't know )
that's why the navy always has people painting parts of the ship ( the old phrase " If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it )
Now on the other part of Google's problem with off shore parked vessels, is the navigation hazards and the right to moor the vessel on that area. Most likely they will have to lease the rights that area. ( this is from looking at the issues of the offshore wind farms )
I might be wrong, but I sure as heck see similarities to WW2 Nazi prototype aircraft ( might have been Japan's) if I can find the source I'll post it.
I was thinking of that, but in reading the rules of it, they ask that you do not query them directly. here is the wiki about the root nameservers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver . In that report they say in 2003 that 2% of the request are legitimate the rest are problems.
What I think needs to be done, is more services similar to googles dns and opendns. this can only add to the performance of the internet.
Now If i am seeing googles game plan correctly, here is my prediction.
A) if google is aiming to become a root name server of the future, they are beta testing the dns system. something to the level almost unshakable by the common hacker. so more security to the end user and a faster internet
b) google now having the control of the dns will use that power ( good bad whatever ) to bring into align all the other top level namespaces, it might just put it's foot down and say we won't resolve alternic and the few others.
c) google using it's domain registration company will offer a higher quality service against the top domain registra's (network solutions ) that are not price competitive and compete for the rights to run .com, or .biz or and of the others.
I look at google like playing a game of go ( not chess ). you fight to win overall, and targeting the weak structures ( that are important to the GEEK community ) is on the top of the list.
the GEEK community now controls most, if not all IT investments, if a firm like Google offers something for free, it's used. In the 70's and 80's we had a saying in the IT community, " you never get fired for buying IBM equipment ", it was fact that no mater how bad you screwed up, nothing would happen if you went the IBM way, your bosses you just put it as a problem with the vendor and not the IT department. I would not be surprised if that mindset has taken hold.
So, if the google game plan is to dominate the market, start looking and the weak points on the internet ( and the services ) and build up around that. hmmm ... e-mail free, simple office stuff - free, simple web design - free, social networking -free, dns -free, let's chat - free
Let's sum it up, I watch you talk about something (chat), you design it (web design), cost it out (office), you write to your friends to see it (social networking), it goes to the market and people find your domain (dns)... google can offer a well targeted ad to those visitors
-onepoint
I'm about twice your age, and we had a hang-out spots for night time, one for day time ( arcade ), and out favorite fishing holes for Saturday morning. if you got lost from one spot to another, call your night quits or try to find us.
you could get blasted drunk ( 18 was the drinking age back then ) and get home safely in a cab and still make it to go fishing at 6am.
when you made plans, you stuck to them, "pick you up at 8" meant you are ready at 8pm. however when you are picking up a girl, 8pm is when you got there, she made you wait.
got a girls number from your going out the night before, answer the phone or hope that the answer machine is working, otherwise you missed the call ( or worst your mom got the phone )
some funny moments.
I just want to get off topic here for 1 problem I had with what you wrote.
"Our suburbs already have vast areas for companies to expand into"
so you are going to trade off green space to work space horizontally ?
i would think vertical would be the better of the 2 choices, this way you keep the green.
something to think about
Darwinism at it's best. playing football after back pain is about the most foolish thing I can think of ( besides lifting heavy boxes). Of course the insurance company is going to reject him. he looks fine, and even if he's not fine, he now has aggravated the injury even more. If you don't follow the rules, you don't get the treatment.
I really wonder how dumb most people are.
I've had back pains, sprains, and a host of other problems. every time I have followed the instruction of my doctors, I recovered. given it's been painful, but I recovered back to 100 percent. no surgery as of yet ( hurray ).
if it works keep it running. You are correct in everything you point out. if anything, start first with a full replicated system setup, then a proper back up. next test the new systems, back up never seem to work on the first try so get the bug's worked out.
after this I have no real idea on what you need to do.
I hear what your saying, but the fault does not sit with the schools or non-profit's. the fault lies with the community leaders ( mayors, council members .... ). They have not fought hard enough to attract businesses that will want to stay in these communities.
I would rather have 100 employee business, that pays a middle of the road tax, than to have a business that has 50 people at full rate ( 100 employees inject more money as a group into the local community than 50 ).
it's time that communities like businesses, start creating business plans that are geared for a certain way of life, want a peaceful & quiet community, have lot's of parks, and recreation. Want the next Manhattan, make it easy for a businesses to set up shop, have multiple outlets for public music and entertainment, great mass transit and boom your the next place.
You hit the point dead center.
in real estate dynamics, you have an attraction ( also known as an anchor property in commercial ). Good schools are the attraction, people come to spend money near those good schools, Real estate investors know that a business that keeps that attraction going or improves upon it bring more revenue to the area.
communities know this also, and therefore tax accordingly the real estate values of commercial properties, residential properties that are 5 minutes walking to good schools are always in demand, hence the have a slight upward bias over a long term in the value of that property and therefore pay an increase in property tax (on the value).
It would be rather ignorant of a community to tax a student, since when calculating the cost of an education, some people will see the word TAX and say " fuck paying taxes, that's the last thing on my mind " and just skip over that school.
Now, which schools would this tax affect if it was nation wide, the worst schools or the schools with no reputation. since a degree from a BRANDED school ( MIT, Berkley, Princeton ) is worth more, some people will not care about the taxes.
Now, Which students would this tax affect the most, those that are on a limited resources, when push comes to shove, that extra 1 percent might force them to think of another school.
this is a sad state of affairs, I feel very sorry for these students that will have to deal with an education tax.
>>Possession being nine tenths of the law.
I once saw this in action, said right to a cop.
I first was shocked, then I broke out in laughter
when the cop pulled out his cuffs, read the kid his rights,
tossed him in the car.
this was a top 100 moment of my life with a funny ending.
bing cash back is not something that I am involved in ( trying but not yet )
issue that you bring up is interesting ( cookie deletion ), it's known to happen, and I figured that it was happening in about 25%+ of my business.
I might have to look at the stat's for browsers vrs. earnings. it might be a clue.
and yes I agree with the statement "Bing and Yahoo users are easier to convert than a google user"