Considering they only need $1 million to do their core duties, I'd be asking for a fairly detailed itemized bill before I fork over twice as much as last year with no increase in operating costs.
1) Web-based company? Check.
2) Do one thing incredibly well? Check.
3) Do one thing so well you got MS nervous? Check.
4) Slowly expanding offerings that move more and more away from core competancy? Check.
5) Try and become everything for everyone? Check.
6) Spiral and burn?
And not only that, by its nature, mythology has a deeper meaning. Mythology is all about how a culture sees itself: its ideals, its evils, its values. When Tolkein said he was creating a mythology for England, he wasn't merely writing a story.
If the Treasury Deaprtment didn't post the comments, there would be talk of a government conspiracy to keep the public's voice from being heard.
I don't agree with the Treasury Department violating its stated policy. It's frankly chilling coming from a government agency. (Imagine if they had the same policy with witness protection. "Yeah, well, we were going to give you a new identity, but we ran out of budget money this month.") But either way, they were screwed.
I agree that the producers might have a lot to do with it, but frankly, a lot of it is just Jesse.
Sometimes Jesse tries to be big man and talk about how this is his "job" when people aren't being as serious as he'd like. Well, if he's going to take that attitude, he should be more professional all the time instead of being a total tool when he's cranky. The Delorean Hovercraft build is a prime example of him just not being professional at all. If this is his "job," he should be a part of it all the time or quit, not just throw tantrums when he's underwhelmed with something.
As a contrast, Steve on _Monster House_ really works as a team builder and only flips out when he has really been provoked, and even then is willing to accept apologies and chip in. Most of the time these days, Jesse is just throwing hissy fits and, at best, doing exhausts.
I used to really like this show, but not only does Jessie seem less and less interested, he's become more and more of an ass.
I understand that it is part of his whole "bad boy" persona, but he's just been a complete dick lately. Whenever anyone stands up to him, I find myself rooting for them, even though they get labelled the "bad" guy.
My Monday night viewing is narrowing down to Monster House and American Chopper.
I agree that Faramir in the books should not so easily shrug off the Ring. However, it is generally accepted that Tolkien was establishing him as the opposite of his brother, a man of pure heart without secret dreams of power. He represents the good and strength of men, which is why it is even more important that he is almost burned alive by his father.
That said, I agree that even with that, he should have been more tempted by the Ring, except after the changes made in the movies with the breaking of the Fellowship. Within the original context of the books, even Aragorn would have been tempted by the Ring to the point that he would eventually succumb, which is why the Fellowship had to be broken in secret. But in the movies, he established that men of pure heart could resist the Ring (temporarily, at least), so the original characterization of Farmir could have stood as is.
Once again, will the average user even care? What they will probably do is get frustrated because they can't find the two or three programs that they are used to running. "Where's my AOL?" "Where's my Word?"
And it's got an office app, that is free and does more or less everything the $500 Office
As far as this class of user is concerned, Office came free with their PC. "It said right in the ad that it was included as part of the budle for free!"
And when next they head off to Circuit City/Sears/Walmart shopping for that next PC for grandma/the kids/porn and they look at the prices for the box that runs Lindows vs. Windows (or whatever) their previous experience with Linux from that Live CD might amount to a bit of hand-holding that lets them steer clear of Windows.
First of all, this is the class of user that isn't going to upgrade for at least two to three years. At best, Linux will be a vague memory of that Windows theme that hid all their programs. They'll never even ask about OS. You're only hope that their next PC will have a Linux OS is if it is included by default.
That's true, but what, really, is that going to mean for Joe Sixpack?
So they boot CD run Linux. The average user is going to be expecting a program, not an OS, even if you tell them that. They'll just think that it is a new desktop theme for Windows that doesn't work quite right. Sure, its free, but what does that mean to them? As far as they're concerned, they got Windows for free when they bought their PC.
I would imagine because they can do a big mark-up on MS installations to cover costs + more, whereas you can't for the Linux installations because there are no costs.
I think the more likely way to kill this program is to overload it with false positives as opposed to finding a way to stealth contents.
Say you're one of these drug dealers that uses standard ground mail. All you need to do is figure out how to consistently generate false positives and then send get you and your associates to send out hundreds of flase positives.
The cost and time sink into opening all the false positives is guarunteed to kill it.
The solution is not a paper printout for the voter. The solution is a paper printout stored in the machine after each vote, visible by the voter to confirm it recorded his or her vote correctly, and usable in recounts or audits.
Call me a cynic, but I've lost count of the number of times that MS forced upgrade cycles were going to be the end of the company. It hasn't yet, and won't be in the future, even with this. Enough people and companies will pay to make it a non-issue. Watch.
3) The companies who emply spammers should be held responsible.
This will never work, although that is the real source of the problem. The spammers will never outright say in any contract that they are going to do illegal spamming. The company can always claim they never knew what was going to be done outside the "opt-out electronic marketing" promised in the contract. In that sense, they're untouchable.
The only way to move illegally move responsibility to the clients is to somehow make it "terrorist" or "war on drugs" related, because then, as we know, all rules of law go out the window.
Of course, unless they are stupid enough to sign on for anything that clearly says the spammer will do something illegal. Then, hang them.
Mind you, I totally agree with the sentiment of going after the spammer clients, but in practice, it will be next to impossible.
I don't necessarily agree with that judicial set-up however. It allows for a crusading judiciary or petty suits tying up the system. (Can you imagine if corproations were able to challenge any law they wanted to? It would make the post-colonial Indian judicial system look like a model of efficiency.)
However, I think there should be a special provision in cases like this where the law itself takes any possible plantif to remove the law out of the regular judicial system by its very function.
I think it points out that the umpires are actually pretty damn accurate all things considering.
These machines will never replace actual human umpires. Traditionalists like myself would launch a Butlerian jihad before that were to happen.
What good I think can come of this is the absolute lunacy of umpires with different strike zones. The actual strike zone as described in the rules hasn't been called in decades. If this system can force umpires to call close to the real zone instead of their "personal" zone, I am all for it.
That was how they ended the second (?) movie, but in the regular series, I vaguely remember they had established that the red chemical was, in fact, harmful to humans, so they had to stop using it, but they tried to keep that facts under wraps from the aliens.
It was pointing out my above point that even if the directors made some big deal about putting in Christian symbolism, any relevant message is lost in the absolute carnage and lack of respect for human life in the movies that goes completely against these religous teachings.
Just because a director tries to put symbolism in a film:
1) It does not auctomatically make him successful.
2) It does not make the film have a plot. (And before the sheep come out, I understood what they thought the plot was [It didn't "go over my head."], but it was not internally consistent or logical enough to warrant a suspension of disbelief.)
Because when I think of eastern religion and Christianity (as in its core teachings and not as practiced), I think of a casual disregard for human life and mindless slaughter.
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Considering they only need $1 million to do their core duties, I'd be asking for a fairly detailed itemized bill before I fork over twice as much as last year with no increase in operating costs.
Can't imagine what each channel will be if this goes through.
Ha. Looks like we had the same thought at the same time.
2) Do one thing incredibly well? Check.
3) Do one thing so well you got MS nervous? Check.
4) Slowly expanding offerings that move more and more away from core competancy? Check.
5) Try and become everything for everyone? Check.
6) Spiral and burn?
The pencil is poised. I hope to god its not true.
And not only that, by its nature, mythology has a deeper meaning. Mythology is all about how a culture sees itself: its ideals, its evils, its values. When Tolkein said he was creating a mythology for England, he wasn't merely writing a story.
I don't agree with the Treasury Department violating its stated policy. It's frankly chilling coming from a government agency. (Imagine if they had the same policy with witness protection. "Yeah, well, we were going to give you a new identity, but we ran out of budget money this month.") But either way, they were screwed.
Sometimes Jesse tries to be big man and talk about how this is his "job" when people aren't being as serious as he'd like. Well, if he's going to take that attitude, he should be more professional all the time instead of being a total tool when he's cranky. The Delorean Hovercraft build is a prime example of him just not being professional at all. If this is his "job," he should be a part of it all the time or quit, not just throw tantrums when he's underwhelmed with something.
As a contrast, Steve on _Monster House_ really works as a team builder and only flips out when he has really been provoked, and even then is willing to accept apologies and chip in. Most of the time these days, Jesse is just throwing hissy fits and, at best, doing exhausts.
I understand that it is part of his whole "bad boy" persona, but he's just been a complete dick lately. Whenever anyone stands up to him, I find myself rooting for them, even though they get labelled the "bad" guy.
My Monday night viewing is narrowing down to Monster House and American Chopper.
The sad part is, I don't even have that anymore. I, for one, welcome our new RIAA overlords.
That said, I agree that even with that, he should have been more tempted by the Ring, except after the changes made in the movies with the breaking of the Fellowship. Within the original context of the books, even Aragorn would have been tempted by the Ring to the point that he would eventually succumb, which is why the Fellowship had to be broken in secret. But in the movies, he established that men of pure heart could resist the Ring (temporarily, at least), so the original characterization of Farmir could have stood as is.
Fastlane. That and Andy Richter were the last straws for me. I'm never watching a new show on Fox again.
Once again, will the average user even care? What they will probably do is get frustrated because they can't find the two or three programs that they are used to running. "Where's my AOL?" "Where's my Word?"
And it's got an office app, that is free and does more or less everything the $500 Office
As far as this class of user is concerned, Office came free with their PC. "It said right in the ad that it was included as part of the budle for free!"
And when next they head off to Circuit City/Sears/Walmart shopping for that next PC for grandma/the kids/porn and they look at the prices for the box that runs Lindows vs. Windows (or whatever) their previous experience with Linux from that Live CD might amount to a bit of hand-holding that lets them steer clear of Windows.
First of all, this is the class of user that isn't going to upgrade for at least two to three years. At best, Linux will be a vague memory of that Windows theme that hid all their programs. They'll never even ask about OS. You're only hope that their next PC will have a Linux OS is if it is included by default.
So they boot CD run Linux. The average user is going to be expecting a program, not an OS, even if you tell them that. They'll just think that it is a new desktop theme for Windows that doesn't work quite right. Sure, its free, but what does that mean to them? As far as they're concerned, they got Windows for free when they bought their PC.
Say you're one of these drug dealers that uses standard ground mail. All you need to do is figure out how to consistently generate false positives and then send get you and your associates to send out hundreds of flase positives.
The cost and time sink into opening all the false positives is guarunteed to kill it.
The solution is not a paper printout for the voter. The solution is a paper printout stored in the machine after each vote, visible by the voter to confirm it recorded his or her vote correctly, and usable in recounts or audits.
How hard is this?
Dream on.
Call me a cynic, but I've lost count of the number of times that MS forced upgrade cycles were going to be the end of the company. It hasn't yet, and won't be in the future, even with this. Enough people and companies will pay to make it a non-issue. Watch.
This will never work, although that is the real source of the problem. The spammers will never outright say in any contract that they are going to do illegal spamming. The company can always claim they never knew what was going to be done outside the "opt-out electronic marketing" promised in the contract. In that sense, they're untouchable.
The only way to move illegally move responsibility to the clients is to somehow make it "terrorist" or "war on drugs" related, because then, as we know, all rules of law go out the window.
Of course, unless they are stupid enough to sign on for anything that clearly says the spammer will do something illegal. Then, hang them.
Mind you, I totally agree with the sentiment of going after the spammer clients, but in practice, it will be next to impossible.
Make your own joke.
I don't necessarily agree with that judicial set-up however. It allows for a crusading judiciary or petty suits tying up the system. (Can you imagine if corproations were able to challenge any law they wanted to? It would make the post-colonial Indian judicial system look like a model of efficiency.)
However, I think there should be a special provision in cases like this where the law itself takes any possible plantif to remove the law out of the regular judicial system by its very function.
PATRIOT is a scary, scary law.
These machines will never replace actual human umpires. Traditionalists like myself would launch a Butlerian jihad before that were to happen.
What good I think can come of this is the absolute lunacy of umpires with different strike zones. The actual strike zone as described in the rules hasn't been called in decades. If this system can force umpires to call close to the real zone instead of their "personal" zone, I am all for it.
That was how they ended the second (?) movie, but in the regular series, I vaguely remember they had established that the red chemical was, in fact, harmful to humans, so they had to stop using it, but they tried to keep that facts under wraps from the aliens.
It was pointing out my above point that even if the directors made some big deal about putting in Christian symbolism, any relevant message is lost in the absolute carnage and lack of respect for human life in the movies that goes completely against these religous teachings.
1) It does not auctomatically make him successful.
2) It does not make the film have a plot. (And before the sheep come out, I understood what they thought the plot was [It didn't "go over my head."], but it was not internally consistent or logical enough to warrant a suspension of disbelief.)
Because when I think of eastern religion and Christianity (as in its core teachings and not as practiced), I think of a casual disregard for human life and mindless slaughter.