Nobody would want to go from "unlimited" service to a metered service where you have to watch how much you download as not to run up the bill. Seems like a step backward.
What bugs me more are the commercials for weight loss, memory enhancing, etc herbal-based drugs that have no FDA approval process like the pharmaceuticals do. As long as they flash the teeny tiny disclamer about not being intended to treat, diagnose, or cure any disease, blah blah, they can make all the claims they want. In the case of Hydroxycut, they have a doctor (really a med student) endorsing the product.
No, I don't have an answer for bullying. I wish I did. When ever a bully is punished for what they do, it's generally a detention, and then they're back dishing out more punishment because you turned them in.
There is no easy answer for this. Fighting back is the usual response given to those bullied, but that does nothing for a bully thats stronger, faster, etc. Even if you can beat them one time, they won't take kindly to having their asses handed to them and come back with friends to re-establish their place in the twisted schoolyard hierarchy. Looking over your shoulder all the time for the retribution that is surely coming to you when you least expect it is no way to spend your school days.
As part of the conditions of their frequency allocations, XM and Sirius had to work together for an interoperable receiver that will pick up both services. IIRC, there was no time limit or milestones to pass, so they're in no hurry to undercut the sales of their regular models by releasing a superreceiver like that. Google for "Sirius 10-k" for more info.
I don't think the GP is talking about people chowing down on cheezedoodles and BigMacs, wondering why they feel queasy and their cholesterol is through the roof. I think he was referring to the factory farming conditions that pump livestock full of antibiotics and steroids while living in squalid conditions. As long as they can hide behind the "cremate your food to 180 degrees before eating" caveat, they can continue selling sick and drugged up animals for food.
I could be wrong about the purpose but I think there is more to this scam than pump and dump
No, thats about the long and short of it. If you've ever seen the movie Boiler Room, substitute the room full of shysters making several hundred calls a piece per day with a zombienet pumping out millons of spams a day. Same aim, more coverage, lower cost.
As for the SEC involvment, IIRC, there are some basic regulations regarding seperation of investment bank and broker as well as some other stipulations that apply to any company trading public stock. The scrutiny and regulations multiply once you move onto the larger exchanges like NYSE, AMEX, etc. These kinds of places won't list penny stocks.
Get a hold of a made-for-tv movie where a teen gets raped/murdered by their online "buddy"
Lifetime TV movies and ABC Afterschool Specials aren't exactly credible sources of information. Material like that loses potency when they collide with reality. A kid that smokes a bowl and finds out that they're only a danger to twinkies isn't going to take that crap seriously any more. A kid who meets another kid off Myspace and finds out that he/she is a kid like them who isn't an ex-con that is going to make them their sex slave.
Kids will always find a way around their parents to do things that they disapprove of. If you can raise your child with a good head on their shoulders so that they can survive to maturity when Mom or Dad aren't around to stop them from doing dumb things, then you've done 9/10ths of your job as a parent.
The result: Every comment I've seen on this thread (ok, there are only about 20 of them) has been in MySpace's favor. Not what you'd expect from Slashdot, until you factor in the bigger picture.
Indeed. Some screechy ignorant asshole who believes that the internet is trying to fuck their children and thinks they deserve a free bag of money is far more distasteful than Myspace pages that could give Helen Keller a seizure.
Even if they can't make specific laws, the federal government has ways of bending the states to their will. Case in point: in the early 80s when the drinking ages were raised from 18 to 21, the feds threatened to withhold billions of dollars in highway funding to states that didn't raise the drinking age.
Either outsourcing isn't a problem and everything is fine, or it is a problem. If it is, then as other countries keep taking our money, they'll experience inflation and start demanding more money from us (this is already happening in India), and those employees will eventually cost too much to justify the added expense of importing them.
Just because Indian labor prices itself out of the outsourcing market doesn't mean those jobs will come flying back to the US. They'll just go to the next ambitious third-world country on the totem pole with meager wages and few pesky employment regulations.
Theres always another more desperate contestant to race you to bottom in this global economy.
1. turn the washing machine off, bail out the floodwater, and fix it so it doesn't flood your basement again;
2. think it's okay because in "the future" washing machines will be better designed and not flood your basement;
3. keep on going with it, because you need to get that laundry done and it's not your fault you're going to drown?
There seem to be two kinds of chiropractors: 1) ones that focus solely on the neck/back/joints and treatment of pain by aligning them properly. 2)All-out quacks who claim that anything can be cured by an adjustment.
Treating every issue as if it has two sides means that often you have to go out and invent a second side.
That might make for more interesting newscasts.
Police at this hour are still looking for the perpetrator of that big warehouse fire. Now, here is Joe Blow with the counterpoint titled "Arson makes my pee-pee hard".
I work as a contractor for the DOD. A few years ago, a government employee did that. He was the boss of the shop, developed a cool DB system. Quit. Opened his shop, sold his system. Profit.
Would the government sue an employee the same way a corporation would? If that situation took place in the private sector, the company would have him tied up in court for years, bleeding him dry until he signed over the source.
Owner: "What do you think of customers who know absolutely nothing about tooth care?"
Mechanic: "I think they'll probably cause a lot of damage to their teeth which means we'll make a lot of money doing the repairs. Do we have literature I can recommend to them?"
and if you have your mechanic working on your teeth, you've got a bigger problem on your hands...
As harsh as AC sounds, this can easily be the case. Many people scrimp and save just to make a down payment on a house and have most of their income thereafter go toward the mortgage, utilities, and a million and one other things that you pay for when you have a house. All it takes is a accident, prolonged illness, layoff, etc disrupting that cash supply and you're out in the street.
I'm not dissuading the GP from fulfilling his goal, but he has to leave enough of a financial cushion for the unforeseen. Too many rush into getting a house and wind up in foreclosure. Take the time to do it right the first time, the penalty for messing it up may be too high to bear.
Temporarily it may be a job lost, but cutting costs allows for further expansion of a business.
Expansion to where? Third world countries may benefit from having a pool of low-cost labor with little regulation, but that doesn't help the labor at home. Even if they are lower level IT/support jobs that are typically affected by outsourcing. How can you expect to train the next generation of workers if theres no bottom rung for them to start from? Take a look at Monster.com postings and see the experience demanded for jobs. A system where the entry level really doesn't exist cannot sustain itself for the long term.
If you don't want the risks of losing your job due to IT off-shoring, go move to France. I'm sure you'll find the rewards there are in much less frequent supply than here in the U.S.
I know France is used as an insult, but if they protect their middle class rather than let the greedheads in corporate management gut their job base for their short term gain before ejecting with their golden parachutes onto their next abomination, maybe its not so bad.
I've seen a similar tactic in a book like that where it says to just come right out and ask for the job. I can easily see that as backfiring by coming off as cocky, presumptous, and dismissive of the fact that they probably have procedures to follow and more candidates they're obligated to see. Perhaps in some fields, like sales, that could go over. Thats the tough thing about interview techniques/strategies;what impresses one interviewer can completely turn off another.
I've seen several posts here from employers saying *they* are the ones giving a job...why should they do anything for the interviewee. I found this outlook to be pretty amusing. I go into every interview with the attitude that its the company who needs me. I have a valuable skill set, the employer advertised because they need someone with my skillset. I've never gone for more then a week or two without work and I've never been fired.
Not everybody has the luxury of having a nebulous in-demand skill. In reality, an employer can put out an ad on Monster and have more resumes than they know what to do with in a matter of hours. They have their pick of people of varying degrees of skill, desperation, etc. In todays climate, the average worker is more expendable than ever before and that situation is probably going to get even worse.
What makes the process so tough is two factors at odds with each other: 1)A glut of books, videos, seminars, coaches, etc that will provide a million and one ways to act in an interview. Questions to ask, body language, and so on. 2)Your interviewer is a unique person who has their own idea of what an ideal candidate should be and act. What one interviewer will eat up, another will be turned off.
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Nobody would want to go from "unlimited" service to a metered service where you have to watch how much you download as not to run up the bill. Seems like a step backward.
What bugs me more are the commercials for weight loss, memory enhancing, etc herbal-based drugs that have no FDA approval process like the pharmaceuticals do. As long as they flash the teeny tiny disclamer about not being intended to treat, diagnose, or cure any disease, blah blah, they can make all the claims they want. In the case of Hydroxycut, they have a doctor (really a med student) endorsing the product.
The era of snake oil hasn't left us.
No, I don't have an answer for bullying. I wish I did. When ever a bully is punished for what they do, it's generally a detention, and then they're back dishing out more punishment because you turned them in.
There is no easy answer for this. Fighting back is the usual response given to those bullied, but that does nothing for a bully thats stronger, faster, etc. Even if you can beat them one time, they won't take kindly to having their asses handed to them and come back with friends to re-establish their place in the twisted schoolyard hierarchy. Looking over your shoulder all the time for the retribution that is surely coming to you when you least expect it is no way to spend your school days.
When looking at Boulder, the only comparison I can think of are the richer neighbourhoods in Finland (like Espoo)
Finn #1: What is that smell?
Finn #2: Is poo!
Finn #1: So named. Next town!
As part of the conditions of their frequency allocations, XM and Sirius had to work together for an interoperable receiver that will pick up both services. IIRC, there was no time limit or milestones to pass, so they're in no hurry to undercut the sales of their regular models by releasing a superreceiver like that. Google for "Sirius 10-k" for more info.
I don't think the GP is talking about people chowing down on cheezedoodles and BigMacs, wondering why they feel queasy and their cholesterol is through the roof. I think he was referring to the factory farming conditions that pump livestock full of antibiotics and steroids while living in squalid conditions. As long as they can hide behind the "cremate your food to 180 degrees before eating" caveat, they can continue selling sick and drugged up animals for food.
I could be wrong about the purpose but I think there is more to this scam than pump and dump
No, thats about the long and short of it. If you've ever seen the movie Boiler Room, substitute the room full of shysters making several hundred calls a piece per day with a zombienet pumping out millons of spams a day. Same aim, more coverage, lower cost.
As for the SEC involvment, IIRC, there are some basic regulations regarding seperation of investment bank and broker as well as some other stipulations that apply to any company trading public stock. The scrutiny and regulations multiply once you move onto the larger exchanges like NYSE, AMEX, etc. These kinds of places won't list penny stocks.
Get a hold of a made-for-tv movie where a teen gets raped/murdered by their online "buddy"
Lifetime TV movies and ABC Afterschool Specials aren't exactly credible sources of information. Material like that loses potency when they collide with reality. A kid that smokes a bowl and finds out that they're only a danger to twinkies isn't going to take that crap seriously any more. A kid who meets another kid off Myspace and finds out that he/she is a kid like them who isn't an ex-con that is going to make them their sex slave.
Kids will always find a way around their parents to do things that they disapprove of. If you can raise your child with a good head on their shoulders so that they can survive to maturity when Mom or Dad aren't around to stop them from doing dumb things, then you've done 9/10ths of your job as a parent.
The result: Every comment I've seen on this thread (ok, there are only about 20 of them) has been in MySpace's favor. Not what you'd expect from Slashdot, until you factor in the bigger picture.
Indeed. Some screechy ignorant asshole who believes that the internet is trying to fuck their children and thinks they deserve a free bag of money is far more distasteful than Myspace pages that could give Helen Keller a seizure.
Even if they can't make specific laws, the federal government has ways of bending the states to their will. Case in point: in the early 80s when the drinking ages were raised from 18 to 21, the feds threatened to withhold billions of dollars in highway funding to states that didn't raise the drinking age.
Either outsourcing isn't a problem and everything is fine, or it is a problem. If it is, then as other countries keep taking our money, they'll experience inflation and start demanding more money from us (this is already happening in India), and those employees will eventually cost too much to justify the added expense of importing them.
Just because Indian labor prices itself out of the outsourcing market doesn't mean those jobs will come flying back to the US. They'll just go to the next ambitious third-world country on the totem pole with meager wages and few pesky employment regulations.
Theres always another more desperate contestant to race you to bottom in this global economy.
This is where the slashdot moderation system breaks down.
Thats because they've rerouted power to the anti-missle defense system.
and the lameness filter killed my ascii missle. That system sure works.
The water is up to your crotch. Do you:
1. turn the washing machine off, bail out the floodwater, and fix it so it doesn't flood your basement again;
2. think it's okay because in "the future" washing machines will be better designed and not flood your basement;
3. keep on going with it, because you need to get that laundry done and it's not your fault you're going to drown?
or 4. Wash your damn balls for a change.
There seem to be two kinds of chiropractors: 1) ones that focus solely on the neck/back/joints and treatment of pain by aligning them properly. 2)All-out quacks who claim that anything can be cured by an adjustment.
Those Trek season sets cost a fortune. I sure wouldn't have money left over to pick those up at $100+ a pop.
Treating every issue as if it has two sides means that often you have to go out and invent a second side.
That might make for more interesting newscasts.
Police at this hour are still looking for the perpetrator of that big warehouse fire. Now, here is Joe Blow with the counterpoint titled "Arson makes my pee-pee hard".
And we don't want those bases blown up by terrorists with bad credit.
Come on down for our jihad financing special. Bad credit? No credit? You work, you jihad!
Actually, it looks like her family won themselves a radio station...
I work as a contractor for the DOD. A few years ago, a government employee did that. He was the boss of the shop, developed a cool DB system. Quit. Opened his shop, sold his system. Profit.
Would the government sue an employee the same way a corporation would? If that situation took place in the private sector, the company would have him tied up in court for years, bleeding him dry until he signed over the source.
"Hey baby, guess what time it is?"
Woman - squinting: I can't tell, this clock only has a little hand.
Owner: "What do you think of customers who know absolutely nothing about tooth care?"
Mechanic: "I think they'll probably cause a lot of damage to their teeth which means we'll make a lot of money doing the repairs. Do we have literature I can recommend to them?"
and if you have your mechanic working on your teeth, you've got a bigger problem on your hands...
As harsh as AC sounds, this can easily be the case. Many people scrimp and save just to make a down payment on a house and have most of their income thereafter go toward the mortgage, utilities, and a million and one other things that you pay for when you have a house. All it takes is a accident, prolonged illness, layoff, etc disrupting that cash supply and you're out in the street.
I'm not dissuading the GP from fulfilling his goal, but he has to leave enough of a financial cushion for the unforeseen. Too many rush into getting a house and wind up in foreclosure. Take the time to do it right the first time, the penalty for messing it up may be too high to bear.
Temporarily it may be a job lost, but cutting costs allows for further expansion of a business.
Expansion to where? Third world countries may benefit from having a pool of low-cost labor with little regulation, but that doesn't help the labor at home. Even if they are lower level IT/support jobs that are typically affected by outsourcing. How can you expect to train the next generation of workers if theres no bottom rung for them to start from? Take a look at Monster.com postings and see the experience demanded for jobs. A system where the entry level really doesn't exist cannot sustain itself for the long term.
If you don't want the risks of losing your job due to IT off-shoring, go move to France. I'm sure you'll find the rewards there are in much less frequent supply than here in the U.S.
I know France is used as an insult, but if they protect their middle class rather than let the greedheads in corporate management gut their job base for their short term gain before ejecting with their golden parachutes onto their next abomination, maybe its not so bad.
I've seen a similar tactic in a book like that where it says to just come right out and ask for the job. I can easily see that as backfiring by coming off as cocky, presumptous, and dismissive of the fact that they probably have procedures to follow and more candidates they're obligated to see. Perhaps in some fields, like sales, that could go over. Thats the tough thing about interview techniques/strategies;what impresses one interviewer can completely turn off another.
I've seen several posts here from employers saying *they* are the ones giving a job...why should they do anything for the interviewee. I found this outlook to be pretty amusing. I go into every interview with the attitude that its the company who needs me. I have a valuable skill set, the employer advertised because they need someone with my skillset. I've never gone for more then a week or two without work and I've never been fired.
Not everybody has the luxury of having a nebulous in-demand skill. In reality, an employer can put out an ad on Monster and have more resumes than they know what to do with in a matter of hours. They have their pick of people of varying degrees of skill, desperation, etc. In todays climate, the average worker is more expendable than ever before and that situation is probably going to get even worse.
What makes the process so tough is two factors at odds with each other: 1)A glut of books, videos, seminars, coaches, etc that will provide a million and one ways to act in an interview. Questions to ask, body language, and so on. 2)Your interviewer is a unique person who has their own idea of what an ideal candidate should be and act. What one interviewer will eat up, another will be turned off.