Honestly, I am sure you are not as dumb as the respective starlet but nevertheless ignore completely the context in which the comment was made.
You are only 5 degrees away from anybody.
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I can trace paths to many world leaders, classical music stars (Placido Domingo for example is an astounding 2 degrees only from me, as is Dmitri Shostakovich now that I think about it) and several Nobel Prize laureates.
There's a rash of hyperbolic commentary lately about the "death of newspapers" from people who have no idea what they're talking about. snip... snip... snip...
I fully expect to see some big bankruptcies in the next several months. Journal Register Co. declared bankruptcy Saturday, following the overleveraged (Chicago) Tribune Co. and the Minneapolis Star Tribune in seeking protection from creditors. Some big dailies, such as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Rocky Mountain News, will close, along with a lot of weeklies.
But hundreds of other papers will continue to operate profitably.
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Talk about split personality disorder. Contradict yourself in the same post...
I don't want to worry about a penny for each article, post, or item I access.
I will pay one or two bucks for a year of access to website I like. If I really like the website that amount, divided by the number of articles, becomes a micropayment system.
I think that what people object to is to the idea of constantly checking the bill. Make people pay a small fee (very small) in a one off fashion (yearly I think is the one that would be more acceptable) and I think people would not object much.
The calculations that the RIAA and its accomplices come up with are pulled out of thin air.
They have no base in logic, common sense or even an attempt to be fair.
How can you put value to something that you yourself make unsaleable? You can't, unless you are a RIAA lawyer, in which case you can throw any numbers you dreamed off.
I have never ever downloaded copyrighted material that is distributed without the permission of the copyright holder, but have used the Pirate Bay to locate legitimate content authorized by the copyright holder to be distributed freely.
The police should go for the people infringing copyright, they go for the torrent trackers because they are an easy target, but I hope that at least in Sweden the authorities will find that you have to do immensely better if you want to probe that somebody is committing a crime by refering to torrent trackers...
Conceding this would be common practice (I have never seen this done) then I suppose it would be done professionally, in which case it would become obvious at some point if the information on the Internet is about the person applying for a job.
If you know you are going to have a certain connector in the phone, then 3rd parties can step up to the challenge and build the chargers (since the other side of the power cable is already standardized up to a practical point: it wasn't always like that).
A friend of mine had her Win laptop infested by malware, she could not even access the net (the net was live, IE was infected by something that was making it act up as if there was no network connection).
I installed Firefox and then proceeded to download all the software and information needed to leave the machine in a passable state.
Now my friend knows about Firefox and Opera.
With the cost an intrusiveness of Windows and Office the time is now to help people take the plunge.
In a course I am taking I challenged the orthodoxy of using Word for everything. I told people about OpenOffice and now we are interchanging documents in OpenOffice native formats.
Now all my classmates know MS Office is replaceable.
It will take time and effort, but we will eventually get to the goal of having a free computing platform for all, free from government and big conglomerates interference (ironically big conglomerates that are not involved in the software industry are beginning to wake up to this realization, any visit to a modern data centre will attest to this).
In the US the powerful lobbies (which exist in an incestuous relationship with government agencies, with government employees and officials jumping happily to the lobbying side of things), paid by industry cartels, make sure laws are passed that favour their clients.
Once the cartel decides on a course of action you have no choice in the matter. Oh wait, you have an option: to break the law. Great option we have been left with there.
The system of government in the US is currently broken, and this matters worldwide because the US still has the muscle to push through its own vision of the world when dealing with international treaties (with the helpful aid of the cartels that do as much as they can for their cause elsewhere).
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Honestly, I am sure you are not as dumb as the respective starlet but nevertheless ignore completely the context in which the comment was made.
I can trace paths to many world leaders, classical music stars (Placido Domingo for example is an astounding 2 degrees only from me, as is Dmitri Shostakovich now that I think about it) and several Nobel Prize laureates.
There's a rash of hyperbolic commentary lately about the "death of newspapers" from people who have no idea what they're talking about.
snip...
snip...
snip...
I fully expect to see some big bankruptcies in the next several months. Journal Register Co. declared bankruptcy Saturday, following the overleveraged (Chicago) Tribune Co. and the Minneapolis Star Tribune in seeking protection from creditors. Some big dailies, such as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Rocky Mountain News, will close, along with a lot of weeklies.
But hundreds of other papers will continue to operate profitably.
snip...
snip...
snip...
Talk about split personality disorder. Contradict yourself in the same post...
I don't want to worry about a penny for each article, post, or item I access.
I will pay one or two bucks for a year of access to website I like. If I really like the website that amount, divided by the number of articles, becomes a micropayment system.
I think that what people object to is to the idea of constantly checking the bill. Make people pay a small fee (very small) in a one off fashion (yearly I think is the one that would be more acceptable) and I think people would not object much.
... but most companies I know about have a strict policy of not hiring people that have worked there before.
Corporations have a legal obligation to make a profit. They do not have a legal obligation to do the right thing.
Where, please pray tell, is this so?
Companies face a barrage of legal requirements (the right things to do) which they are *legally obliged* to obey.
It is the damned law for grace sakes...
I got my redundancy payment and other such formalities done and dusted one week after I left.
At least drop the market speak when astro turfing.
The pleas for technically savy people to talk about MS dispassionately are completely ludicrous.
The only way that would happen is if they would do monumental gestures to clean their reputation.
That isn't going to happen.
And apparently, you are his prophet ....
They are haemorrhaging cash, in spite of relatively good numbers elsewhere.
Which is why investors are not buying into the company.
The irreplaceableness of their batteries is an anti consumer decision.
To try to paint this as a wise design decision is frankly ridiculous.
The calculations that the RIAA and its accomplices come up with are pulled out of thin air.
They have no base in logic, common sense or even an attempt to be fair.
How can you put value to something that you yourself make unsaleable? You can't, unless you are a RIAA lawyer, in which case you can throw any numbers you dreamed off.
I have never ever downloaded copyrighted material that is distributed without the permission of the copyright holder, but have used the Pirate Bay to locate legitimate content authorized by the copyright holder to be distributed freely.
The police should go for the people infringing copyright, they go for the torrent trackers because they are an easy target, but I hope that at least in Sweden the authorities will find that you have to do immensely better if you want to probe that somebody is committing a crime by refering to torrent trackers...
Any other insightful questions?
There is a Law & Order spin off coming to the UK...
I mean, really?
How do they know what is there is true?
Conceding this would be common practice (I have never seen this done) then I suppose it would be done professionally, in which case it would become obvious at some point if the information on the Internet is about the person applying for a job.
If you know you are going to have a certain connector in the phone, then 3rd parties can step up to the challenge and build the chargers (since the other side of the power cable is already standardized up to a practical point: it wasn't always like that).
They have used this as a cash cow for no good technical reason.
One step at the time.
A friend of mine had her Win laptop infested by malware, she could not even access the net (the net was live, IE was infected by something that was making it act up as if there was no network connection).
I installed Firefox and then proceeded to download all the software and information needed to leave the machine in a passable state.
Now my friend knows about Firefox and Opera.
With the cost an intrusiveness of Windows and Office the time is now to help people take the plunge.
In a course I am taking I challenged the orthodoxy of using Word for everything. I told people about OpenOffice and now we are interchanging documents in OpenOffice native formats.
Now all my classmates know MS Office is replaceable.
It will take time and effort, but we will eventually get to the goal of having a free computing platform for all, free from government and big conglomerates interference (ironically big conglomerates that are not involved in the software industry are beginning to wake up to this realization, any visit to a modern data centre will attest to this).
That is the crux of the matter.
In the US the powerful lobbies (which exist in an incestuous relationship with government agencies, with government employees and officials jumping happily to the lobbying side of things), paid by industry cartels, make sure laws are passed that favour their clients.
Once the cartel decides on a course of action you have no choice in the matter. Oh wait, you have an option: to break the law. Great option we have been left with there.
The system of government in the US is currently broken, and this matters worldwide because the US still has the muscle to push through its own vision of the world when dealing with international treaties (with the helpful aid of the cartels that do as much as they can for their cause elsewhere).
Your war of independence for example ?
WWI?
WWII?
First Gulf War?
Afghanistan invasion?
Should I carry on?
Saved the asses of the UK in the war against Argentina.
Francois Mitterand convinced the company that produced the Exocet missiles to give access to the UK to the designs of these weapons.
Argentina had these missiles and were using them successfully against British ships.
And France is there in Afghanistan, fighting a fight which many other countries are reluctant to fight...
And this is just for starters. The Brits have ground to be ambivalent about France, but the US?
Check the history about the US war of independence.
I love people that think they have nothing to hide.
Sooner or later they find out they actually have...
In the Terms of Service it will say which legal authority they want to use for any disputes.
Anchorage High Court sounds like an appropriate place.