Some people aren't, so they pay the premium. The producers of the content know that they want it so bad they can charge huge margins.
Over here, we only watch a few shows, but some of them are delayed a year on Netflix. They're just as enjoyable.
When I did have pay-tv service, I used to watch NFL Primetime - all the games of the week condensed into a half hour, which contained most of the plays that actually went anywhere. I don't watch it anymore, since we just have Netflix now - it was interesting, but I don't really miss it much.
I'm much happier to use the delta in cash for RL activities.
On any given issue, a representative will have to choose to represent one faction of his constituency and betray the other.
Then there are the people who voted for the other guy and the people who chose to cast no vote at all.
In a typical election, it's about 20% of the total population who supports the winning candidate, and on any given vote, he's representing only about 20% of that population (no matter which way he votes), assuuming a roughly 50/50 party system (plurality voting).
If you figure roughly 2/3 of his base will agree with him on a given issue, he's even betraying 1/3 of his base with each vote.
My knees already run into the back of the seat in front of me.
The most reasonable measure of airplane seating would be a tuple: the distance from the seat to the seat back in front - the latter in both in upright and reclined mode.
I'm an inch shorter than you, and frankly I'd rather sit on a metal chair with no cushioning and humanitarian leg room than a cushioned seat with no leg room.
Heaven forbid there's ever an accident - tall people will probably wind up with fractured femurs or hips or both. No safety specs on that?
"Good! Now maybe people will begin to see the others as stupid too!"
The odds are stacked against you - about 47% of the human population lacks a paracingulate sulcus, the brain structure most responsible for differentiating reality from imagined reality (as a consequence of memory processing). Somewhere over 90% of schizophrenics lack this structure, which lends credence to the theory of an evolution of consciousness and a natural origin of religions.
There appears to be a moderate evolutionary advantage to having the sulcus - we'd expect the presence of one to be lower in antiquity, but if we figure a halving in 10,000 years, you're going to be waiting a long time until it's a tiny minority.
You scoundrel! You can do pipes in Perl! Tsk, tsk, tsk!
it's not too bad if you don't care about getting the result back. I recently implemented an actual pipe-based system in perl where the results did need to be bidirectional, with open3, and... well, it ain't pretty.
It's a real shame perl doesn't have the capability integrated into the core language with nice syntactic sugar.
Murdock is a reliable corporatist, so he's considered mostly-harmless. I've been following @pierre for a while on Twitter - he's really pissed about the NSA scandal and has the money to draw attention to his concerns.
That's why we're seeing toady stories today bemoaning Rosebud - his reputation needs to be damaged in the court of public opinion, so that the real people who control the press can go about their business.
What good did handing $1T to bankers in "bailouts" do us?
But as a nation we seem incapable of spending on infrastructure these days. I think we've passed our peak.
Those aren't unrelated statements; the very best reason for fusion not happening is that the value of the USD depends mostly on the amount of oil that is being bought and sold and priced in USD. That's why Hussein's decision to switch to pricing oil in Euros was unforgivable.
The recent wars of the USG are most clearly sensible when viewed through the interests of the central bank and its owners.
For one, seizure of data meets a much higher standard. Then, try comparing the cost of storage vs. cloud rental and the cost of home-hosting vs. data-center hosting.
If you don't need a fat pipe and do need lots of storage, hiring it out is expensive. If you care about privacy, it's hideously expensive.
Those were my thoughts as well, but it's worth pointing out that if the US had poured $1T into fusion research instead of an Iraq War, we might be looking at 5 years out instead.
The false assumption there was that the Middle East oil was the primary motivation for the war (rather than the pricing of that oil), so it doesn't really make direct sense, but if we had better people running the society, better things would happen.
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People are not willing to delay viewing.
Some people aren't, so they pay the premium. The producers of the content know that they want it so bad they can charge huge margins.
Over here, we only watch a few shows, but some of them are delayed a year on Netflix. They're just as enjoyable.
When I did have pay-tv service, I used to watch NFL Primetime - all the games of the week condensed into a half hour, which contained most of the plays that actually went anywhere. I don't watch it anymore, since we just have Netflix now - it was interesting, but I don't really miss it much.
I'm much happier to use the delta in cash for RL activities.
excellent. :)
If we get rid of the roads, we might stand a chance at ending the Drug War.
OK, OK, aircraft carriers, yes, yes, but they're boring.
Don't forget about the Tomahawks - they can devastate a small village far from shore.
You vote for people who represent you
On any given issue, a representative will have to choose to represent one faction of his constituency and betray the other.
Then there are the people who voted for the other guy and the people who chose to cast no vote at all.
In a typical election, it's about 20% of the total population who supports the winning candidate, and on any given vote, he's representing only about 20% of that population (no matter which way he votes), assuuming a roughly 50/50 party system (plurality voting).
If you figure roughly 2/3 of his base will agree with him on a given issue, he's even betraying 1/3 of his base with each vote.
Why not quadruple and add four instead? Oh, right, you learned this from an assembly programmer.
assembly programmers always shift, they don't multiply by powers of 2.
if memory serves...
My knees already run into the back of the seat in front of me.
The most reasonable measure of airplane seating would be a tuple: the distance from the seat to the seat back in front - the latter in both in upright and reclined mode.
I'm an inch shorter than you, and frankly I'd rather sit on a metal chair with no cushioning and humanitarian leg room than a cushioned seat with no leg room.
Heaven forbid there's ever an accident - tall people will probably wind up with fractured femurs or hips or both. No safety specs on that?
and the leader was the leader of a cult ....(Stalin, Mao ...)
That's a very good insight.
"We can defeat death!"
"We can defeat scarcity!"
All evidence points to the contrary in both cases.
Not sure what the status is now, but it goes to show the extent these people will go.
It looks like one of the producers got blackmailed by them, put a hold on the distribution and now he's dead (2010).
Also, apparently 0C94DF875CD9E92D58707E45748C164B4BF7CF5F .
"Good! Now maybe people will begin to see the others as stupid too!"
The odds are stacked against you - about 47% of the human population lacks a paracingulate sulcus, the brain structure most responsible for differentiating reality from imagined reality (as a consequence of memory processing). Somewhere over 90% of schizophrenics lack this structure, which lends credence to the theory of an evolution of consciousness and a natural origin of religions.
There appears to be a moderate evolutionary advantage to having the sulcus - we'd expect the presence of one to be lower in antiquity, but if we figure a halving in 10,000 years, you're going to be waiting a long time until it's a tiny minority.
You scoundrel! You can do pipes in Perl! Tsk, tsk, tsk!
it's not too bad if you don't care about getting the result back. I recently implemented an actual pipe-based system in perl where the results did need to be bidirectional, with open3, and ... well, it ain't pretty.
It's a real shame perl doesn't have the capability integrated into the core language with nice syntactic sugar.
That theory that was published last month says it has to do more with gravity, with a pure superconductor being equivalent to a miniature black hole.
Who knows - not too long ago the idea that matter and energy were equivalent was wildly speculative.
We would only default if we chose to pay our debt with the lowest priority.
Right, spending cuts could have covered the difference, if credit worthiness was the top priority. Oh, but that's an unmentionable inside the beltway.
Why can't we just improve for the sake of improvement?
Don't worry, Intel doesn't invest in the next generation of chip technology and say to themselves, "this is cool, but we're never make money on it."
Murdock is a reliable corporatist, so he's considered mostly-harmless. I've been following @pierre for a while on Twitter - he's really pissed about the NSA scandal and has the money to draw attention to his concerns.
That's why we're seeing toady stories today bemoaning Rosebud - his reputation needs to be damaged in the court of public opinion, so that the real people who control the press can go about their business.
What good did handing $1T to bankers in "bailouts" do us?
But as a nation we seem incapable of spending on infrastructure these days. I think we've passed our peak.
Those aren't unrelated statements; the very best reason for fusion not happening is that the value of the USD depends mostly on the amount of oil that is being bought and sold and priced in USD. That's why Hussein's decision to switch to pricing oil in Euros was unforgivable.
The recent wars of the USG are most clearly sensible when viewed through the interests of the central bank and its owners.
If it ain't broke...
If it weren't broke, they wouldn't be getting new fixes every second Tuesday.
It's GPLv2. What are you talking about?
GP is a fool. But do contribute to Vanilla or similar open source projects.
They outraged "the public" because that's the way the news was reported.
yeah, remember the outrage at Gary Condit in the summer of 2001?
The real revelation was how much of it was going on domestically, before 9/11 the NSA was basically barred from operating domestically
What? No, Cheney's program began at the very latest in early 2001. 9/11 was just used as a fig leaf to cover it up.
Maybe so, but Comcast cut off my friend for running a low-volume mail server.
If you're on Comcast, get a business connection. Then they help you and don't complain. Yes, it's slightly more expensive, but only slightly.
For one, seizure of data meets a much higher standard. Then, try comparing the cost of storage vs. cloud rental and the cost of home-hosting vs. data-center hosting.
If you don't need a fat pipe and do need lots of storage, hiring it out is expensive. If you care about privacy, it's hideously expensive.
Glad to see Google is subsidizing the office costs for large corporations before helping entrepreneurs gain some economic advantage.
Those were my thoughts as well, but it's worth pointing out that if the US had poured $1T into fusion research instead of an Iraq War, we might be looking at 5 years out instead.
The false assumption there was that the Middle East oil was the primary motivation for the war (rather than the pricing of that oil), so it doesn't really make direct sense, but if we had better people running the society, better things would happen.