You are suppose to pay taxes on things that you buy on the internet. There's a little box on your California state tax return(if you live in California) where you put the amount of money that you spent on untaxed web purchases. How many people fill that box in? How many people are going to report their income from selling virtual items?
And prove that the text books they give to students are all 100% accurate. Besides being poorly written, textbooks will contain inaccuracies, mistakes, and I'm sure there are a few lies in there too. Ever wonder why certain subjects become more interesting when you're older? It isn't just you becoming more mature and more interested in these subjects, it's because schools buy crappy textbooks written by people with an uncanny ability to make interesting things seem boring.
There was a rumor back in January that MS was going to buy Vivendi games, who own Blizzard, but it was only a rumor. There is no mention of the acquisition on Blizzard's or Vivendi's corporate pages. Multiple articles that reported the acquisition have been deleted from various news outlets. It was in fact a hoax. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Feb0 3/02-03HoaxWebsitePR.mspx
...more than ever before? You don't need games, you need good teachers, and good teachers need more of a budget. Kids don't need computers, they need reality. They need to interact with the real world. Take them on field trips if you want them to learn about fish dieing in a pond. Go to an actual pond. Wow, what concept. They can learn about computers in computer class.
The RIAA, an American lobby group, represents what is a bunch of companies that are mostly owned by European super companies. The government seems to be bending over for them, making the DMCA and enforcing this BS. The artists certainly aren't being protected. It's the giant corporations that make their money from record sales. If anything the artists, benefit from music sharing, more people hear their songs and go to their concerts.
I'd say a large chunk of construction workers/companies in Canada didn't switch to metric simply because what they are using works for them and they don't want to learn something new when they have something that already works. And I say that because my father owns a construction company and still uses the old system. It has nothing to do with the US. In fact I'd wager that most Canadians don't give a rats ass what the US is doing.
Instead of redirecting you and having you enter your banking details they could simply send you to a toll number, charge you five cents and then redirect your call back to your bank. You call your bank at most a few times a month. So you won't notice 25 cents in extra charges on your phone bill if you aren't paying attention. If they do this to enough people they could go unnoticed for months, meanwhile racking up millions in small charges. Of course I'd rather I lose a few cents than have all of my banking information stolen. But they're much less likely to get caught this way.
You don't buy a Desktop from HP and expect it to work great as a backup server. You buy a backup server or you build one yourself with an OEM Windows License. Granted the RAID should have had a driver that loads from CD. That's their stupid fault, you can't go blaming Microsoft and HP for this problem.
We thought we were the third most intelligent species, behind mice and dolphins, but we are in fact fourth, right behind penguins, who are currently in the process of beaming up to the mother ship, before the hyperspace highway is put in.
Here's one scenario. You get an RFID enabled credit card. It's probably not encrypted. Even if it is, it doesn't matter, because the encrypted data never changes. You walk into a store, an RFID reader mounted on the door reads your card. From then on, they know how often you enter the store, how long you stay and if the items you buy are tagged, they know what you buy, and even who you are if you make a purchase because they can compare the data they read off your card when you walked in with the data off your card when you made the purchase. You make a purchase but the clerk doesn't scan one of your items, you walk out of the store with something you didn't pay for, but they know who you are, and your credit card company knows where you live. The police show up the next day.
Here's another scenario. You're at a coffee shop. Some crazy creep with an RFID reader reads your card from a few seats away. He installs an RFID reader somewhere in the store and checks on the data every day. He knows how often you come into that coffee shop. He installs more RFID readers in places you might frequent. He knows your every move.
I didn't read the bill because I just don't care that much about a bill that never passed but it seems obvious to me that this bill shouldn't pass. Police use pretext all the time to gather information. Wouldn't this essentially outlaw that? There goes the vice squad. No more undercover work.
What computer science course did you take? None of the ones I went to even mentioned people with a handicap. When building a website, designers don't consider the handicapped either. I'm willing to bet most designers don't even know how a screen reader works. The market will have to teach them. They aren't going to learn because of a law. Browsing the web is normal but it is by no means a necessary part of life. The proof is in the pudding, if it was necessary it would exist for everyone, handicapped or otherwise. You can't force the billions of websites on the internet to comply. Most of them couldn't afford it or wouldn't even know how to go about doing it.
It does take much to accommodate the blind at design and implementation time. Thats why people don't do it. They don't know how and their client or employer doesn't care so they don't offer it.
I know a great many scientists who would tell you that science has very little to do with actual research and everything to do with publishing papers that seem right to the people in power so they can get their next grant.
It's not only funny, it's true. Microsoft isn't the only company though. Companies are constantly using software designed out side of house. Sometimes the company gets acquired in the process.
Are you working on any innovations to the browser that you feel could revolutionize the internet? Do you think we are on the brink of a big change or do you feel that the internet experience will continue to improve in small steps as it has been lately.
That's like saying calling a pipe bomb a bomb takes away the relevance of calling a nuclear bomb a bomb. Some addictions are chemical dependencies, some are not. Some are easier to control than others. You tend to gravitate towards situations that you enjoy. If you can't control yourself it becomes an addiction.
addiction (-dk'shn) pronunciation n.
1.
1. Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance: a drug used in the treatment of heroin addiction.
2. An instance of this: a person with multiple chemical addictions.
2.
1. The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or involved in something.
2. An instance of this: had an addiction for fast cars.
I just figured it out. Jack is friends with that judge and the judge is a big fan of Rockstar so he got Jack to bring this lawsuit so he could get paid to sit on his ass and play Bully for 100 hours.
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the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
You are suppose to pay taxes on things that you buy on the internet. There's a little box on your California state tax return(if you live in California) where you put the amount of money that you spent on untaxed web purchases. How many people fill that box in? How many people are going to report their income from selling virtual items?
And prove that the text books they give to students are all 100% accurate. Besides being poorly written, textbooks will contain inaccuracies, mistakes, and I'm sure there are a few lies in there too. Ever wonder why certain subjects become more interesting when you're older? It isn't just you becoming more mature and more interested in these subjects, it's because schools buy crappy textbooks written by people with an uncanny ability to make interesting things seem boring.
I know a number of people who were going to buy Dells but instead went to a custom PC store because they couldn't get Windows XP from Dell.
There was a rumor back in January that MS was going to buy Vivendi games, who own Blizzard, but it was only a rumor. There is no mention of the acquisition on Blizzard's or Vivendi's corporate pages. Multiple articles that reported the acquisition have been deleted from various news outlets. It was in fact a hoax. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Feb0 3/02-03HoaxWebsitePR.mspx
...more than ever before? You don't need games, you need good teachers, and good teachers need more of a budget. Kids don't need computers, they need reality. They need to interact with the real world. Take them on field trips if you want them to learn about fish dieing in a pond. Go to an actual pond. Wow, what concept. They can learn about computers in computer class.
Well, I do. Can't you smell it? It must be my 6th or perhaps even 7th sense.
The RIAA, an American lobby group, represents what is a bunch of companies that are mostly owned by European super companies. The government seems to be bending over for them, making the DMCA and enforcing this BS. The artists certainly aren't being protected. It's the giant corporations that make their money from record sales. If anything the artists, benefit from music sharing, more people hear their songs and go to their concerts.
If I had mod points I'd mark you up for the Venture Brothers quote. Go Team Venture!
I'd say a large chunk of construction workers/companies in Canada didn't switch to metric simply because what they are using works for them and they don't want to learn something new when they have something that already works. And I say that because my father owns a construction company and still uses the old system. It has nothing to do with the US. In fact I'd wager that most Canadians don't give a rats ass what the US is doing.
Instead of redirecting you and having you enter your banking details they could simply send you to a toll number, charge you five cents and then redirect your call back to your bank. You call your bank at most a few times a month. So you won't notice 25 cents in extra charges on your phone bill if you aren't paying attention. If they do this to enough people they could go unnoticed for months, meanwhile racking up millions in small charges. Of course I'd rather I lose a few cents than have all of my banking information stolen. But they're much less likely to get caught this way.
You don't buy a Desktop from HP and expect it to work great as a backup server. You buy a backup server or you build one yourself with an OEM Windows License. Granted the RAID should have had a driver that loads from CD. That's their stupid fault, you can't go blaming Microsoft and HP for this problem.
We thought we were the third most intelligent species, behind mice and dolphins, but we are in fact fourth, right behind penguins, who are currently in the process of beaming up to the mother ship, before the hyperspace highway is put in.
Here's one scenario. You get an RFID enabled credit card. It's probably not encrypted. Even if it is, it doesn't matter, because the encrypted data never changes. You walk into a store, an RFID reader mounted on the door reads your card. From then on, they know how often you enter the store, how long you stay and if the items you buy are tagged, they know what you buy, and even who you are if you make a purchase because they can compare the data they read off your card when you walked in with the data off your card when you made the purchase. You make a purchase but the clerk doesn't scan one of your items, you walk out of the store with something you didn't pay for, but they know who you are, and your credit card company knows where you live. The police show up the next day.
Here's another scenario. You're at a coffee shop. Some crazy creep with an RFID reader reads your card from a few seats away. He installs an RFID reader somewhere in the store and checks on the data every day. He knows how often you come into that coffee shop. He installs more RFID readers in places you might frequent. He knows your every move.
They were sued for sharing music.
I didn't read the bill because I just don't care that much about a bill that never passed but it seems obvious to me that this bill shouldn't pass. Police use pretext all the time to gather information. Wouldn't this essentially outlaw that? There goes the vice squad. No more undercover work.
Agreed, but these are the people getting grants and giving internships.
What computer science course did you take? None of the ones I went to even mentioned people with a handicap. When building a website, designers don't consider the handicapped either. I'm willing to bet most designers don't even know how a screen reader works. The market will have to teach them. They aren't going to learn because of a law. Browsing the web is normal but it is by no means a necessary part of life. The proof is in the pudding, if it was necessary it would exist for everyone, handicapped or otherwise. You can't force the billions of websites on the internet to comply. Most of them couldn't afford it or wouldn't even know how to go about doing it.
It does take much to accommodate the blind at design and implementation time. Thats why people don't do it. They don't know how and their client or employer doesn't care so they don't offer it.
I know a great many scientists who would tell you that science has very little to do with actual research and everything to do with publishing papers that seem right to the people in power so they can get their next grant.
It's not only funny, it's true. Microsoft isn't the only company though. Companies are constantly using software designed out side of house. Sometimes the company gets acquired in the process.
Are you working on any innovations to the browser that you feel could revolutionize the internet? Do you think we are on the brink of a big change or do you feel that the internet experience will continue to improve in small steps as it has been lately.
That's like saying calling a pipe bomb a bomb takes away the relevance of calling a nuclear bomb a bomb. Some addictions are chemical dependencies, some are not. Some are easier to control than others. You tend to gravitate towards situations that you enjoy. If you can't control yourself it becomes an addiction.
addiction (-dk'shn) pronunciation
n.
1.
1. Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance: a drug used in the treatment of heroin addiction.
2. An instance of this: a person with multiple chemical addictions.
2.
1. The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or involved in something.
2. An instance of this: had an addiction for fast cars.
I just figured it out. Jack is friends with that judge and the judge is a big fan of Rockstar so he got Jack to bring this lawsuit so he could get paid to sit on his ass and play Bully for 100 hours.
I have a spamblocker. It's called my nose.