So registered charities with 81% overhead are ethical, or the registered ubercharity diverting 50% of a targeted donation for 9/11 victims is ethical, but this unregistered charity was deemed in advance to be unethical? PayPal decided where you could (or could not) spend your money for you - and that's ethical?
Google aids in the censoring of the Chinese populace for profit
Anytime you buy a product that is made is China you have aided the government of China in thier domination of the Chinese people. Are you going to quit buying anything made in China? - good luck with that endeavor.
While (mostly) all of us would like to see the Chinese people free, it's not gonna happen overnight or simply by us wishing upon a star. It will either happen quickly with war (damn unpleasant affair) or much more slowly with (ever growing) free markets. Every little thing that causes the Chinese people to improve their own standard of living will pressure their government to get more of it - the Chinese government likes being in power because that is where the wealth is in that country. Create a generally higher level of wealth and the country will become a better place, because the people there are far bigger than their government.
so Google starts a payment service. Would eBay (who owns PayPal) have to allow sellers / buyers to use it?
They definitely would have to let 'em use it - or face sudden competition from all the ebay-wannabes that were suddenly more attractive because of their acceptance of gPay.
One thing Paypal does not do well is micropayments, or payments under $1, but it's something Google does very well. Consider the millions of virtual pennies they daily count for AdSense. (or is it AdCents?!)
Exactly. Paypal could eliminate much of the incentive to produce an alternative by simply eliminating the $0.35 charge. The 2.9% is (barely) bearable, but the fixed-price charge eliminates the entire world of micropayments.
Additionally, when they started charging percentages for both personal accounts, a requirement to deal in any significant amount of money, they made a lot of people's shit lists. Paypal needs to get aggressive about being viewed as cost-effective at all price levels - their relatively high percentage rate and fixed minimal fee causes them to only be attractive to a general audience (which is most of the potential world) for a narrow price range. If a company can't make a profit by skimming a single penny from every online transaction then the problem is internal to the company.
we have 2 or 3 dimentions in time, we'd be able to move backward, up, down, left, and right in time -- people would be able to switch between several "tracks" in time.
This might work in theory, but I've never observed it.
What? You've never experienced deja-vu? That's what happens when you see the same cat twice, or something like that.
What? You've never experienced deja-vu? That's what happens when you see the same cat twice, or something like that.
TFA seems to say that the charge is only to be certified to send high volume email, like mailing lists or legit bulk mail (ie spam from somewhat reputable companies). Another/. headline making a mountain out of a molehill.
Those of us who manage free high-volume mailing lists will be removing aol addresses from those lists - we'll see if your statement that it's only slashdot making a mountain out of a molehill becomes truth.
have thoughts of law school, but I don't want to go through all of that if I end up disliking it as much.
My friends who have been to law school have become, ah, lawyers, judges, investigators, and venture capitalists. Law school sharpens the mind and teaches analysis and discipline and ethics (yeah, I know - lawyer jokes).
One man I've never met except virtually via email exchanges is Glenn Harlan Reynolds. He is on the University of Tenn Law Faculty, and writes (very well and) prolifically about technology. Send him a note - maybe you'll get an encouragement.
Another guy with a law degree who writes about a field completely tangental is Robert Freitas.
I'd quit if I had a choice, but I really need the money
You have to back away from that requirement to give yourself the needed maneuvering room to refocus your efforts on something more palatable. It takes a lot less than most believe to lead a decent life. Choose your vector first before you start accelerating so hard in that chosen direction - inertia makes it hard to change direction in job and life style, just like it does in physics.
Personally I'd be satisfied with some sort of a trusted archive
Personally, this is the only archive I trust to draw untested (by me) programs to be on my computer (companies I consult for of course frequently use "other" systems - and lose a lot of sleep and hair keeping it semi-clean). And the reason for that trust is driven by their simple, and effective, requirement to adhere Item 2 of this.
To be fair to the original poster, New Scientist has been going downhill very fast for some time. It is now basically a science tabloid. Most of the lead articles are about highly speculative almost-science.
To exerimentally verify this go and buy one copy of New Scientist and one copy of Scientific America. Compare.
Can't. Quit reading SA after they started publishing thinly vieled political hacks instead of science articles.
It would probably be cheaper, and perhaps lighter, to have a tough hull than a complex one than can close itself up.
A hull tough enough to not be punctured by debris will not exist. There is no abrasion in space - it's all puncture and heat expansion / cool contraction that causes problems.
An 8% dip in stock price could never be considered an entry point for a contrarian strategy
That depends on whether it's a dip or a trend. If it's a dip, mortgage your and your neighbor's and your dog's house and buy it - it's a "free" 8% gain when it recovers, plus all the new money when investors start saying "Wow - it's bulletproof". Of course, determining in advance whether it's a dip or a trend is your and everyone else's homework problem.
I submitted it for the Space section, and only added the flamebait/discussion fodder last sentence as I knew it had a cat in hell's chance of being accepted as a story without it.
Well done - you've figured out the secret slashdot sauce.
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So registered charities with 81% overhead are ethical, or the registered ubercharity diverting 50% of a targeted donation for 9/11 victims is ethical, but this unregistered charity was deemed in advance to be unethical? PayPal decided where you could (or could not) spend your money for you - and that's ethical?
And you are free to own a piece of the ... action
I see - so you'd like to say "thank you Paypal for not letting me decide how to spend my own money"?
Being a "registered charity" doesn't necessarily mean much charity gets done.
Anytime you buy a product that is made is China you have aided the government of China in thier domination of the Chinese people. Are you going to quit buying anything made in China? - good luck with that endeavor.
While (mostly) all of us would like to see the Chinese people free, it's not gonna happen overnight or simply by us wishing upon a star. It will either happen quickly with war (damn unpleasant affair) or much more slowly with (ever growing) free markets. Every little thing that causes the Chinese people to improve their own standard of living will pressure their government to get more of it - the Chinese government likes being in power because that is where the wealth is in that country. Create a generally higher level of wealth and the country will become a better place, because the people there are far bigger than their government.
They definitely would have to let 'em use it - or face sudden competition from all the ebay-wannabes that were suddenly more attractive because of their acceptance of gPay.
Exactly. Paypal could eliminate much of the incentive to produce an alternative by simply eliminating the $0.35 charge. The 2.9% is (barely) bearable, but the fixed-price charge eliminates the entire world of micropayments.
Additionally, when they started charging percentages for both personal accounts, a requirement to deal in any significant amount of money, they made a lot of people's shit lists. Paypal needs to get aggressive about being viewed as cost-effective at all price levels - their relatively high percentage rate and fixed minimal fee causes them to only be attractive to a general audience (which is most of the potential world) for a narrow price range. If a company can't make a profit by skimming a single penny from every online transaction then the problem is internal to the company.
Because all roads lead to Rome?
This might work in theory, but I've never observed it.
What? You've never experienced deja-vu? That's what happens when you see the same cat twice, or something like that.
What? You've never experienced deja-vu? That's what happens when you see the same cat twice, or something like that.
Actually you do. Bulk rate postage is subsidized by first class mail, and you have no way to stop it (your tax dollars at work).
Nope. They're private mailing lists, not piece of crap blogs.
Those of us who manage free high-volume mailing lists will be removing aol addresses from those lists - we'll see if your statement that it's only slashdot making a mountain out of a molehill becomes truth.
Last I heard, all genes were passed on by women.
I've found it to be an excellent attention getter.
My friends who have been to law school have become, ah, lawyers, judges, investigators, and venture capitalists. Law school sharpens the mind and teaches analysis and discipline and ethics (yeah, I know - lawyer jokes).
One man I've never met except virtually via email exchanges is Glenn Harlan Reynolds. He is on the University of Tenn Law Faculty, and writes (very well and) prolifically about technology. Send him a note - maybe you'll get an encouragement.
Another guy with a law degree who writes about a field completely tangental is Robert Freitas.
But do whatever you do, do it at your own pace.
You have to back away from that requirement to give yourself the needed maneuvering room to refocus your efforts on something more palatable. It takes a lot less than most believe to lead a decent life. Choose your vector first before you start accelerating so hard in that chosen direction - inertia makes it hard to change direction in job and life style, just like it does in physics.
Personally, this is the only archive I trust to draw untested (by me) programs to be on my computer (companies I consult for of course frequently use "other" systems - and lose a lot of sleep and hair keeping it semi-clean). And the reason for that trust is driven by their simple, and effective, requirement to adhere Item 2 of this .
To exerimentally verify this go and buy one copy of New Scientist and one copy of Scientific America. Compare.
Can't. Quit reading SA after they started publishing thinly vieled political hacks instead of science articles.
When people bring me an infected computer, I simply answer yes to the short-form questionairre: FORMAT C: (Y/N)?
A hull tough enough to not be punctured by debris will not exist. There is no abrasion in space - it's all puncture and heat expansion / cool contraction that causes problems.
That depends on whether it's a dip or a trend. If it's a dip, mortgage your and your neighbor's and your dog's house and buy it - it's a "free" 8% gain when it recovers, plus all the new money when investors start saying "Wow - it's bulletproof". Of course, determining in advance whether it's a dip or a trend is your and everyone else's homework problem.
Then don't buy it! Buy content from someone who releases it without DRM - the market will see who's making the money and react to it.
Well done - you've figured out the secret slashdot sauce.
Not until after breakfast.
Thank goodness .. and I was thinking we'd sold out.
It wouldn't have for Neo.