These idiots are not "being burned". They are being billed for PPV that they ordered.
I'd say the people buying the devices are 'badder'. The people selling the devices are only targeting fellow crimminals. The guys selling the devices know that inthe long run the cable company is going to get their money. The people buying the devices KNOW what the device claims to do is illegal. They buy it, hook it up, and use it. They are trying to steal from a non-crook (ok, cable companies are a grey area:) )so the people buying the devices are 'badder'.
These people buying the 'free cable links' are thieves. The people selling the devices are cons looking for dishonest people to fleece. I have no sympathy for someone getting conned when they buy a device that is meant to help them steal.
The illegal drug analogy doesn't work, this is more like buying a set of lock picks then going to the police to complain they don't work on the local liquor store.
Of course you give your kids more freedom as they grow older. As your kids grow you give them more responsabilities, and more freedom. I fully expect that by the time my kids are 17 they will be able to set their own curfew, decide what movies they want to watch, and what they want to surf on the net - freedoms I don't give to an 8 year old.
As for the parent child bond - being a parent is much more important than being a "friend". If you as a parent act in a way to promote trust and respect your children will come to you for help.
You obvioulsy have no children. I consider my self an open minded person, but I censor lots of things when it comes to my kids. Violent movies, pornography, movies and books with adult themes that they wouldn't understand. I also don't let them play on the highway - no matter how much they think it would be an enriching experience.
Children are happier, and grow up more confident if their parents set firm, fair rules and limits. Does this mean I pretend that sex and violence doesn't exist? No. The evening news, books, the birth of a cousin, all can prompt kids to ask questions that I answer with information appropriate to their age.
"How would you feel if your child was talking with their friends about homosexuality and decided they wanted to be gay? "
I doubt very much that anyone has ever decided to be gay. Experiment maybe, but it would be like deciding you like tomatoes - either you do or you don't. The idea that being exposed to the idea of honosexuality could in any way make any sort of permanent change in a person is ludicrous.
I was working on a small custom db (in c, way back in the PC dark ages)that was going to hold confidential data, and had a simple user login coded up. Management insisted on putting in a back-door because past experience indicated that a few times a year a customer would ask us to "recover" a lost password. The back door was used to get into the system as an admin and reset the other user passwords for customers.
Over a hundred tons a day of meteorites falls to the Earth every day. I don't think mining the Moon is going to make much difference. The Earth is VERY big compared to the works of humanity.
General info on meteorites
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But companies DO actually do risk analysis. Take for example a dam. Rivers have normal water flows, small storms, medium storms, and big storms. Generally, when designing a dam you build it to handle a "once in 200 years" storm, and to handle a fairly large earthquake. You could spend more and make it handle a "once in 1000 year flood/storm", but that costs a LOT extra for very little gain in real, day to day, safety. I don't know how car companies deal with the cost of human life in risk analysis, but a very carefully guarded figure that stands in for the value of a human life is input into programs that help calculate these risks (and for example, choose the largest storm event to engineer for). I know because I helped to set one of these programs up. And in this case it led to a lot of dams getting siesmic upgrades.
Maybe they could have change they re-entry flight program, but sending up a recue shuttle before it's ready is plain stupid. Why take a huge risk with another 3lives?
30,000 people die in road accidents every year in the USA. Hasn't stopped car sales.
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Footfall was ok. The Mote in God's Eye was much better! and you didn't mention that Larry niven is the co-author (of both books)
I don't know anyone who improved their situation by becoming a drug addict. Rich friends who took up drugs were soon not rich. Poor friends stayed poor. Taking drugs is ALWAYS a bad choice if you care about your health, social life or career.
Being a single, young, parent is very hard. It makes it very difficult to work. Modern birth control makes becoming a parent a choice more often than an accident, but once you have a child to look after that pretty much stops your education and career if you are single. I'm a single parent, but due to divorce, so I already had a well established career that allows me to pay for daycare etc... This isn't the case with young people.
Dropping out of school rarely is a good decision. It shuts off many avenues of growth. If you want the standard Western "good life" a good education is a must.
Not everyone is equally talented, but hard work and good choices will bring you much more success than whining about your terrible circumstances.
One good thing about where I live is that the good and bad areas and schools are very diffuse. So most kids from even the poorest homes attend decent schools and can see what the "good" part of the world has to offer, and make friends from different parts of scociety. In college a good friend of mine lived with his parents. His rec room was bigger than my whole apartment. I had other friends who lived in places I would rather of not known existed . Knowing both people taught me many things about myself, and the world I live in.
The unicode article was horrid, and riddled with technical inaccuracies, but this piece on reputation, which is 'soft', is somewhat interesting. I recommend giving him a second chance.
You have to take all that with a grain of salt. I have tons of righ-wing, libertarian, anarchist ravings in Usenet, but in real life my politics are much more moderate. Usenet is to explore ideas, not make real world policy.
I guess how someone handles being flamed might be an indicator of some sort.
The "Asteroid Belt" is still pretty much empty space, just a bit less empty than most space out in that part of the solar system. You might as well just head straight for Mars and get your rocks there if looking for signs of life.
You hit the nail on the head. Too many people no longer want to take responsability for themselves and their actions. The want the government to act like an all powerful babysitter and protect them from everything.
Too many parents thinks schools should not only educate their kids, but also teach them morals, table manners, and personal hygiene. There are too many laws regulating too many aspects of everyday life. The government intrudes into more and more parts of your life, but the "american public" takes it and asks for more.
You CAN'T legislate a safe and happy life.
I fully expect the American empire to wither and die as its citizens cower in fear, afraid to compete (lets extend copyright, patent everything, and bully the rest of the world with our economic dominance), afraid to explore (can't go to Mars if its more dangerous than crossing the street), afraid of my neighbours on my block (that's why I need a gun for "home defence". You won't hear the phrase "home defence" in reference to a gun outside of the USA, and coutries actively at war), afraid of anyone who is different.
The USA has done many admirable things over the years, and made some horrible mistakes. But now it is headed into a cosy shell where it will fade away, frightened to act (except against countries its been bombing for ten years that have no real way of defending themselves), and coasting the achievements of the past, thinking their glory will last forever.
I have to agree completely. When I was a kid you could buy all sorts of comics (Goldkey, DC, Marvel, Harvey) for 25 cents. Then comics became "collector's items", the price shot through the roof, they disappeared from the local corner-store and became the exclusive domain of "serious" collectors. In North America, comics are for kids, but they are too expensive for kids! I can buy a novel for the price of some comics. Same thing happened to hockey cards.
My favorite bad sub-title comes from a low budget Hong Kong Kungfu flick:
As always, the young hero has just had his ass kick by the bad guy that just killed his family. The hero is back at the wise teacher's home and he wants to go straight back out (before getting the usual 1/2 movie training period required to thump the bad guy), but the teacher gives him a 3 minute speech. There are NO subtitles during this speech, none for 3 minutes. Then at the end a single word: NO!
I've also rented the same movie with some what different sub-titles. The sub-titles can make a huge diference in the movie.
Hate to burst your bubble, but the reason you can only go a few days without a smoke is that you are ADDICTED to nicotine.
If you only need "something for your hands" bring a toy, a key-chain, a pencil, carrot sticks, whatever. HA! but you don't bacause your body is hooked on nicotine. Don't delude yourself. If you realy are not addicted then QUIT.
If I'm paying for support, I expect to have support for the currently installed version for at LEAST 5 years. Why pay for support if you don't get what you need? I don't want to update 10,000 desktops every year. RedHat will have to come up with some sort of long term support option, at a fair price, if they want to land BIG contracts.
No it isn't free. It costs time, labour, planning, etc... to update a large number of servers or desktops. Big corps will answer back, "well I guess I should have stuck with MS, at least they give updates for 5 to 8 years."
Have you ever planned then executed that plan to update 10,000 or so computers? Licensing costs are not the big issue.
Several years just isn't good enough. Desktop OS's should be supported for at least 5 years if you are paying for support, and server OS's for 10. Otherwise you'll only land accounts at small firms.
This may reduce costs, but it will certainly reduce sales. Support is WAY more important than the initial cost to large corporations. License cost's are only a modest part of the total cost of rolling out a new desktop OS to thousands of users.
Corps need support for the OS because hardware changes more often than software. Our desktop PC's have new motherboards, video cards, etc... every 8 to 12 months. We upgrade the desktop os every 4 to 5 years. Guess what? We need OS support for new motherboard's, bios'es, bigger hard-drivers, usb, firewire, PCI-2, etc...
We are only now upgrading from win95 to win2k on our desktops. If you want corporate desktop contracts from medium to big firms you better offer LONG term OS support. Even MS's support of win2k is pissing us off compared to most commercial unix'es and big iron support.
You don't upgrade ten's of thousands of desktops just because a new version came out.
I'm not quite sure what you are upset about. Whatever method Starbucks used to expand, they certainly did it well and should be congratulated for their good business sense. I, for one, will never buy their over-priced coffee, but you have to admit they run their business well. And they didn't even need to bribe any congressmen to protect their market.
If you want to buy fair-market coffee search the web for a local supplier. It costs a bit more than most coffee beans, but sure is a LOT cheaper than going to Star-Bucks.
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I'd say the people buying the devices are 'badder'. The people selling the devices are only targeting fellow crimminals. The guys selling the devices know that inthe long run the cable company is going to get their money. The people buying the devices KNOW what the device claims to do is illegal. They buy it, hook it up, and use it. They are trying to steal from a non-crook (ok, cable companies are a grey area :) )so the people buying the devices are 'badder'.
These people buying the 'free cable links' are thieves. The people selling the devices are cons looking for dishonest people to fleece. I have no sympathy for someone getting conned when they buy a device that is meant to help them steal.
The illegal drug analogy doesn't work, this is more like buying a set of lock picks then going to the police to complain they don't work on the local liquor store.
As for the parent child bond - being a parent is much more important than being a "friend". If you as a parent act in a way to promote trust and respect your children will come to you for help.
You obvioulsy have no children. I consider my self an open minded person, but I censor lots of things when it comes to my kids. Violent movies, pornography, movies and books with adult themes that they wouldn't understand. I also don't let them play on the highway - no matter how much they think it would be an enriching experience.
Children are happier, and grow up more confident if their parents set firm, fair rules and limits. Does this mean I pretend that sex and violence doesn't exist? No. The evening news, books, the birth of a cousin, all can prompt kids to ask questions that I answer with information appropriate to their age.
I doubt very much that anyone has ever decided to be gay. Experiment maybe, but it would be like deciding you like tomatoes - either you do or you don't. The idea that being exposed to the idea of honosexuality could in any way make any sort of permanent change in a person is ludicrous.
I was working on a small custom db (in c, way back in the PC dark ages)that was going to hold confidential data, and had a simple user login coded up. Management insisted on putting in a back-door because past experience indicated that a few times a year a customer would ask us to "recover" a lost password. The back door was used to get into the system as an admin and reset the other user passwords for customers.
Over a hundred tons a day of meteorites falls to the Earth every day. I don't think mining the Moon is going to make much difference. The Earth is VERY big compared to the works of humanity. General info on meteorites
But companies DO actually do risk analysis. Take for example a dam. Rivers have normal water flows, small storms, medium storms, and big storms. Generally, when designing a dam you build it to handle a "once in 200 years" storm, and to handle a fairly large earthquake. You could spend more and make it handle a "once in 1000 year flood/storm", but that costs a LOT extra for very little gain in real, day to day, safety. I don't know how car companies deal with the cost of human life in risk analysis, but a very carefully guarded figure that stands in for the value of a human life is input into programs that help calculate these risks (and for example, choose the largest storm event to engineer for). I know because I helped to set one of these programs up. And in this case it led to a lot of dams getting siesmic upgrades.
30,000 people die in road accidents every year in the USA. Hasn't stopped car sales.
Being a single, young, parent is very hard. It makes it very difficult to work. Modern birth control makes becoming a parent a choice more often than an accident, but once you have a child to look after that pretty much stops your education and career if you are single. I'm a single parent, but due to divorce, so I already had a well established career that allows me to pay for daycare etc... This isn't the case with young people.
Dropping out of school rarely is a good decision. It shuts off many avenues of growth. If you want the standard Western "good life" a good education is a must.
Not everyone is equally talented, but hard work and good choices will bring you much more success than whining about your terrible circumstances.
One good thing about where I live is that the good and bad areas and schools are very diffuse. So most kids from even the poorest homes attend decent schools and can see what the "good" part of the world has to offer, and make friends from different parts of scociety. In college a good friend of mine lived with his parents. His rec room was bigger than my whole apartment. I had other friends who lived in places I would rather of not known existed . Knowing both people taught me many things about myself, and the world I live in.
The unicode article was horrid, and riddled with technical inaccuracies, but this piece on reputation, which is 'soft', is somewhat interesting. I recommend giving him a second chance.
I guess how someone handles being flamed might be an indicator of some sort.
The "Asteroid Belt" is still pretty much empty space, just a bit less empty than most space out in that part of the solar system. You might as well just head straight for Mars and get your rocks there if looking for signs of life.
Yes it was the Hollies who performed it, released 1966. Graham Gouldman wrote the song. Good Hollies page at Hollies History
Too many parents thinks schools should not only educate their kids, but also teach them morals, table manners, and personal hygiene. There are too many laws regulating too many aspects of everyday life. The government intrudes into more and more parts of your life, but the "american public" takes it and asks for more.
You CAN'T legislate a safe and happy life.
I fully expect the American empire to wither and die as its citizens cower in fear, afraid to compete (lets extend copyright, patent everything, and bully the rest of the world with our economic dominance), afraid to explore (can't go to Mars if its more dangerous than crossing the street), afraid of my neighbours on my block (that's why I need a gun for "home defence". You won't hear the phrase "home defence" in reference to a gun outside of the USA, and coutries actively at war), afraid of anyone who is different.
The USA has done many admirable things over the years, and made some horrible mistakes. But now it is headed into a cosy shell where it will fade away, frightened to act (except against countries its been bombing for ten years that have no real way of defending themselves), and coasting the achievements of the past, thinking their glory will last forever.
I have to agree completely. When I was a kid you could buy all sorts of comics (Goldkey, DC, Marvel, Harvey) for 25 cents. Then comics became "collector's items", the price shot through the roof, they disappeared from the local corner-store and became the exclusive domain of "serious" collectors. In North America, comics are for kids, but they are too expensive for kids! I can buy a novel for the price of some comics. Same thing happened to hockey cards.
As always, the young hero has just had his ass kick by the bad guy that just killed his family. The hero is back at the wise teacher's home and he wants to go straight back out (before getting the usual 1/2 movie training period required to thump the bad guy), but the teacher gives him a 3 minute speech. There are NO subtitles during this speech, none for 3 minutes. Then at the end a single word: NO!
I've also rented the same movie with some what different sub-titles. The sub-titles can make a huge diference in the movie.
If you only need "something for your hands" bring a toy, a key-chain, a pencil, carrot sticks, whatever. HA! but you don't bacause your body is hooked on nicotine. Don't delude yourself. If you realy are not addicted then QUIT.
If I'm paying for support, I expect to have support for the currently installed version for at LEAST 5 years. Why pay for support if you don't get what you need? I don't want to update 10,000 desktops every year. RedHat will have to come up with some sort of long term support option, at a fair price, if they want to land BIG contracts.
Have you ever planned then executed that plan to update 10,000 or so computers? Licensing costs are not the big issue.
Several years just isn't good enough. Desktop OS's should be supported for at least 5 years if you are paying for support, and server OS's for 10. Otherwise you'll only land accounts at small firms.
This may reduce costs, but it will certainly reduce sales. Support is WAY more important than the initial cost to large corporations. License cost's are only a modest part of the total cost of rolling out a new desktop OS to thousands of users.
We are only now upgrading from win95 to win2k on our desktops. If you want corporate desktop contracts from medium to big firms you better offer LONG term OS support. Even MS's support of win2k is pissing us off compared to most commercial unix'es and big iron support.
You don't upgrade ten's of thousands of desktops just because a new version came out.
If you want to buy fair-market coffee search the web for a local supplier. It costs a bit more than most coffee beans, but sure is a LOT cheaper than going to Star-Bucks.
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