Practically any website in the UK takes your credit card before giving you access to a promotional offer. Amazon, Ebay, HMV, you name it, they do it.
So either you are an Alien whose veins are filled with acid and that just landed on planet Earth, or you are being horrifcally pedantic.
This site, and the internet in general are full of reviews about emusic, so your nonsense about it being an scam site reflects more about your laziness that about a bussiness trying to provide a legitimate service. Because I suppose you did contact them in order for them to change this? Did you? No? Oh well...
Now, make sure you don't elect politicians whos most vocal suporters are kin to hurry up the end of times thus precipitating the second comming of Christ.
It may very well be that humanity is fucked by two polarized groups of lunatics.
What is dynamic is the movement of machines, not the cabling. End of life of a machine? No problem, remove it, put back one in place, the cable will be there, because all is tidy and no bozo is messing up with them.
In a well managed data centre you don;t need to move cables all around the place. If you need to move cables that means you need to go back to the drawing board and figure out what this is so.
Maybe your racks are no longer adequate for the kind of equipment you are using now, maybe the technology is changin and you need different type of cables. Maybe you need more shelfs per cabinet. Or more.
But once you identiy your needs, you shuld be able to provide for a solution that lsts several years (3,4,5) before you need to touch those cables again.
At this moment in time we are way beyond the stage in which we ponder if Linux is ready for the desktop.
Any rational person can see that it is ready and very usable.
But the point missed is that people do not know about Linux. Linux adoption is no longer a technical issue, Linux is good to go for the enormous majority of tasks and people. Linux adoption is a matter of marketing. Yep, there, I said it.
If you want people with basic computer literacy only to try Linux, they need to know it exists. And that my friends is the crux of the matter, because the Bazaar model work wonders for software development, but seems innefectual in the dissemenation of ideas.
People that would like to see more widespread use of Linux do not have the economic muscle to use big media outlets for promotion, and the Internet is not a medium for wide dissemination of ideas because its fragmented nature (what I mean with this is that most people using the Internet rarely venture beyond their comfort zone, thus are unlikely to stumble accrss the enthusiastic users of Linux).
If that was the case, executions would stop wherever they are used, people would be that scared of commiting any crime, but that is never the case (because no decent country uses them).
Here I am implying that the US should stand and look the fine company their are with (China, Saudi Arabia) when it comes to executions.
Executions are the tool of the despot, not of an enlightened democrat, it is a most puzzling anomaly of the US society that a democratic, mostly christian country, decides to use barbaric medieval methods to deal with criminals (which are disproportonately black, quelle surprise).
And that is making the activity they do completely lawful, or what is the same, to have complete free movement between Mexico and the US.
If the US goverment (of any colour) cared about improving their country, they would look at Europe and see how successful that policy can be, even between countries with very different economies (when Spain, Portugal and Greece joined the EU, the typical racists claimored the rich countries were going to be swamped. Well, it did not happen).
We are not prepared to take sensible solutions.
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-Ban advertisement of unhealty food and tax it accordingly. Too much fat? Tax it. Too much sugar? Tax it. Too much salt? Tax it.
-Tobacco should become a target in the "war on drugs". OR at least tax it more. Higher. Even higher!
You make it sound like if economics was based all in cold scietific facts.
If there is an area of human endeavour influenced by irrational decisions that is economics.
So emotion has its rightful place in economic planning, and frankly I don't wan to be let to die when I am 90 just beacuse some idiotic thirty something thought it makes great economic sense.
As for helthcare building none (allowing for your implicated hazy concept of value) a heltier person is in a better position to produce goods and services. A sick person is an economic sink. And here we enter all the intangibles that the economists don;t quantify. Will all the relatives of Aunty Tilly be more productie from now on because they don't need to take as much care of her now that she can sign for the Olympics thanks to her repaired arteries?
And as for the Exxon Valdez, you must be joking. The cost of paid insurance and the impact in the balance sheets of insurance companies most liekely evens out any cleaning efforst you are thinking about as a positive economic input in the economy. And of course, intangibles unnacounted for again, the economic impact of the environmental damaged is not easy to quantify, so the economists shrugg it off not because there is no impact, but because it is too difficult to measure.
Well, that is rich. Brussels, you may have heard the name of that town. Brussels is the political capital of Europe.
The funniest thing is when somebody pretnding to be wise, stumbles on the first stone. Zaire was renamed, ages ago. Go and find the name of the country and then come back and apologize. They speak French btw amongst many native languages (the country is the size of Westerm Europe). In Kenya they speak English and if memory serves me well Masai and some Arabic.
Chile? Easy: Amerindians (if you want the names of the tribes go and fluffify yourself), Caucasian mostly of Spanish origin and mixed from the two above.
Languages in India? Hindi, English, Guajarti, Punjabi, Tamil, etc. (but since they speak several hundreds I'll leave it at that).
Liechtesntein? German.
Monaco? French. The casino is overrated.
You either have culture or don't, making excuses for it does not make it any better.
Why every time there is talk about music, everyvbody by default begins to think about Madonna, Sir Elton John end the mega rich and famous?
What artists need is to get gigs. Period. The good ones will get high-paying ones, and will hire the aid they need as a consequence.
The not so good ones will get less gigs, will be paid less, and in consequence will require less help because the logistics will be more manageable.
There are also wonderful artists that the only thing they need is a musical instrument, a chair and a decent sound system to perform. I am sure that in a mature industry where the artist has recovered the right to make a living from performing there will be "ready made solutions" that will facilitate the life of any performing artist.
Recording as a means so revenue is the dependency drug many "artists" are afraid to let go, because then they will have to earn their living the old honourable way: working hard, not working for a couple of weeks in a record and then (if extremely lucky) waiting for the money to roll why they snort drugs and shag models....
In other countries (viva Mexico!) we can have in the same day elections for President, Senate, lower house, governor, major and local parliment.
You receive 6 or 7 clearly differentiated pieces of paper to vote on each election by depositing your vote in the same number of different ballot boxes.
Why would you want to keep all in one piece of paper is beyond me....
You agegate results from the smallest (poll station) 3 o 4 levels up all the way to nationwide results.
If you have 50000 poll stations counting a few hundred votes, there is no reason why the initial counting on each station can't be finished after a couple of hours. Then you agregate results of lets say, 100 poll stations in lets say 500 regional centers, and then lets say that at each state level you have to add the results of 10 or so regional centers.
GIve or take a few levels of aggregation depending on the size of your country, or the kind of election.
This is basic arithmetic we are talking about. Even with more complicated voting systems all this is perfectly doable manually.
Most people, even Apple fanboys, have mostly non DRMed MP3 in thei music players, legally obtained (ripping from CDs, but also increasingly from music stores and independent artists that are smalling the coffee, lik emusic).
A player that would not recognize this reality would be dead at birth.
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Now tell me that rock did not influence those people.
There is a counter that is visible when you login....
Practically any website in the UK takes your credit card before giving you access to a promotional offer. Amazon, Ebay, HMV, you name it, they do it.
So either you are an Alien whose veins are filled with acid and that just landed on planet Earth, or you are being horrifcally pedantic.
This site, and the internet in general are full of reviews about emusic, so your nonsense about it being an scam site reflects more about your laziness that about a bussiness trying to provide a legitimate service. Because I suppose you did contact them in order for them to change this? Did you? No? Oh well...
I like the concept, but I see it a bit, how can I put it?, upsetting...
Now, make sure you don't elect politicians whos most vocal suporters are kin to hurry up the end of times thus precipitating the second comming of Christ.
It may very well be that humanity is fucked by two polarized groups of lunatics.
One lives giving onself half assed excuses about whay good enough is about right.
.... it is because your data centre design is not good enough.
You are missing the point.
What is dynamic is the movement of machines, not the cabling. End of life of a machine? No problem, remove it, put back one in place, the cable will be there, because all is tidy and no bozo is messing up with them.
In a well managed data centre you don;t need to move cables all around the place. If you need to move cables that means you need to go back to the drawing board and figure out what this is so.
Maybe your racks are no longer adequate for the kind of equipment you are using now, maybe the technology is changin and you need different type of cables. Maybe you need more shelfs per cabinet. Or more.
But once you identiy your needs, you shuld be able to provide for a solution that lsts several years (3,4,5) before you need to touch those cables again.
At this moment in time we are way beyond the stage in which we ponder if Linux is ready for the desktop.
Any rational person can see that it is ready and very usable.
But the point missed is that people do not know about Linux. Linux adoption is no longer a technical issue, Linux is good to go for the enormous majority of tasks and people. Linux adoption is a matter of marketing. Yep, there, I said it.
If you want people with basic computer literacy only to try Linux, they need to know it exists. And that my friends is the crux of the matter, because the Bazaar model work wonders for software development, but seems innefectual in the dissemenation of ideas.
People that would like to see more widespread use of Linux do not have the economic muscle to use big media outlets for promotion, and the Internet is not a medium for wide dissemination of ideas because its fragmented nature (what I mean with this is that most people using the Internet rarely venture beyond their comfort zone, thus are unlikely to stumble accrss the enthusiastic users of Linux).
They will be good fo you, I promise.
If that was the case, executions would stop wherever they are used, people would be that scared of commiting any crime, but that is never the case (because no decent country uses them).
Here I am implying that the US should stand and look the fine company their are with (China, Saudi Arabia) when it comes to executions.
Executions are the tool of the despot, not of an enlightened democrat, it is a most puzzling anomaly of the US society that a democratic, mostly christian country, decides to use barbaric medieval methods to deal with criminals (which are disproportonately black, quelle surprise).
And that is making the activity they do completely lawful, or what is the same, to have complete free movement between Mexico and the US.
If the US goverment (of any colour) cared about improving their country, they would look at Europe and see how successful that policy can be, even between countries with very different economies (when Spain, Portugal and Greece joined the EU, the typical racists claimored the rich countries were going to be swamped. Well, it did not happen).
-Ban advertisement of unhealty food and tax it accordingly. Too much fat? Tax it. Too much sugar? Tax it. Too much salt? Tax it.
-Tobacco should become a target in the "war on drugs". OR at least tax it more. Higher. Even higher!
-Preventive medicine: yearly checkups. BMI > 25? Tax the fat bastard.
I hope you get my drift. Do this and most people that reach old age will do it in a state that demands less care and less drain in resources....
You make it sound like if economics was based all in cold scietific facts.
If there is an area of human endeavour influenced by irrational decisions that is economics.
So emotion has its rightful place in economic planning, and frankly I don't wan to be let to die when I am 90 just beacuse some idiotic thirty something thought it makes great economic sense.
Define value.
As for helthcare building none (allowing for your implicated hazy concept of value) a heltier person is in a better position to produce goods and services. A sick person is an economic sink. And here we enter all the intangibles that the economists don;t quantify. Will all the relatives of Aunty Tilly be more productie from now on because they don't need to take as much care of her now that she can sign for the Olympics thanks to her repaired arteries?
And as for the Exxon Valdez, you must be joking. The cost of paid insurance and the impact in the balance sheets of insurance companies most liekely evens out any cleaning efforst you are thinking about as a positive economic input in the economy. And of course, intangibles unnacounted for again, the economic impact of the environmental damaged is not easy to quantify, so the economists shrugg it off not because there is no impact, but because it is too difficult to measure.
But they would be all footballers and cyclists.
Well, that is rich. Brussels, you may have heard the name of that town. Brussels is the political capital of Europe.
The funniest thing is when somebody pretnding to be wise, stumbles on the first stone. Zaire was renamed, ages ago. Go and find the name of the country and then come back and apologize. They speak French btw amongst many native languages (the country is the size of Westerm Europe). In Kenya they speak English and if memory serves me well Masai and some Arabic.
Chile? Easy: Amerindians (if you want the names of the tribes go and fluffify yourself), Caucasian mostly of Spanish origin and mixed from the two above.
Languages in India? Hindi, English, Guajarti, Punjabi, Tamil, etc. (but since they speak several hundreds I'll leave it at that).
Liechtesntein? German.
Monaco? French. The casino is overrated.
You either have culture or don't, making excuses for it does not make it any better.
Why every time there is talk about music, everyvbody by default begins to think about Madonna, Sir Elton John end the mega rich and famous?
What artists need is to get gigs. Period. The good ones will get high-paying ones, and will hire the aid they need as a consequence.
The not so good ones will get less gigs, will be paid less, and in consequence will require less help because the logistics will be more manageable.
There are also wonderful artists that the only thing they need is a musical instrument, a chair and a decent sound system to perform. I am sure that in a mature industry where the artist has recovered the right to make a living from performing there will be "ready made solutions" that will facilitate the life of any performing artist.
Recording as a means so revenue is the dependency drug many "artists" are afraid to let go, because then they will have to earn their living the old honourable way: working hard, not working for a couple of weeks in a record and then (if extremely lucky) waiting for the money to roll why they snort drugs and shag models....
Mexico: 100m
Mexico City 20m.
Paper ballots.
Enough said.
In other countries (viva Mexico!) we can have in the same day elections for President, Senate, lower house, governor, major and local parliment.
You receive 6 or 7 clearly differentiated pieces of paper to vote on each election by depositing your vote in the same number of different ballot boxes.
Why would you want to keep all in one piece of paper is beyond me....
A democratic republic is by pure semantics a democracy.
.... the work is done by volunteers.
It is everybody's democracy after all.
You agegate results from the smallest (poll station) 3 o 4 levels up all the way to nationwide results.
If you have 50000 poll stations counting a few hundred votes, there is no reason why the initial counting on each station can't be finished after a couple of hours. Then you agregate results of lets say, 100 poll stations in lets say 500 regional centers, and then lets say that at each state level you have to add the results of 10 or so regional centers.
GIve or take a few levels of aggregation depending on the size of your country, or the kind of election.
This is basic arithmetic we are talking about. Even with more complicated voting systems all this is perfectly doable manually.
Most people, even Apple fanboys, have mostly non DRMed MP3 in thei music players, legally obtained (ripping from CDs, but also increasingly from music stores and independent artists that are smalling the coffee, lik emusic).
A player that would not recognize this reality would be dead at birth.
The bad reputation they would create would kill them commercially.
And lets not even mention lawsuits.
Well, what the heck, lets do it: lawsuits.