Except christianity is based upon at least a partial set of facts (ie many of the people and events talked about in the bible have been proven to have actually existed or happened).
And, christianity doesn't demand that you give up anything from your life. Tithing is encouraged, but you can be a christian your entire life and never tithe a single cent. You aren't required to attend church or missions. Your thoughts and actions aren't restricted. And the basic set of sins described by christianity are mainly those that are required for any group of people or society to function properly. If everyone goes around murdering each other, or stealing each other's stuff, societies wouldn't work. Sure, we could survive as hunter-gatherers, but we would never move beyond that.
Christianity and scientology are nothing alike, and only someone with an irrational hatred for any religion would try to draw such a conclusion.
Actually, it's funny you spin it this way. Because in the current state of affairs, highly trained technicians handle these things because it's not "simplified for less qualified" IT personnel or otherwise to handle. These technicians are higher paid than the IT staff. Now this mainly has to do with these systems developing entirely separately from IT (ie the HVAC industry really had no incentives to make their systems IT friendly, nor did they really know otherwise - so they just developed the systems themselves).
But, despite what you may think about having an IT person jump right on the job because the system 'seems similar' to what they work on, the type of specialized training involved in dealing with building systems is much different than typical IT work. I would think at least a year-long training program would be required before anyone could become an apprentice. And then another year or two of on-the-job training before you are fully qualified to work on your own. If your project hiccups, fine... you might lose some sales, computers might go down temporarily, services might be unavailable. If your building systems hiccup, you might burn a building down, hinder hundreds of people from doing their jobs, or damage millions of dollars of equipment, samples, resarch, etc. Need me to prove my point? Give most IT staffers a wiring diagram, and they'll scratch their head and ask you what the hell it is...
I think the point of this program is to inspire you NOT to become a wage slave. If you can work a job and spend your spare time venturing off into new business or investing ideas, you can become independently wealthy by age 30. And then you can do whatever you feel like doing, while still being young enough to enjoy it.
Exactly, I wonder who the moron was that thought a stripped down version should limit the number of network connections or simultaneous running programs. They approached the situation from the wrong angle. They shouldn't inhibit base features, but should eliminate the extra features. Having network connections or programs running restricted would just piss me off. But, if they removed "extra" features like built-in games, built-in tools, management features, performance tools, support for multiple cpus, larger hard drives, more ram, etc... then I would weigh the benefits of having those extra tools to better use the computer with. Even then, in those kinds of countries it probably wouldn't flourish due to rampant piracy, but I think it would do better than their current attempt.
Has anyone else gotten that Gillette razor with the disposable heads near/around their 18th birthday? I got one. A few years later when my brother turned 18, he got one. These bastard companies are in every facet of our lives! But the joke is on them, I use a Schick razor now! Hahahahah. Wait, did they merge?
At something like $14,000 per standalone license, Unigraphics NX can afford to send out a custom-built hardware dongle with every copy purchased. But when you get a piece of software that can allow you to completely collaborate the design, test, and production of a new piece of hardware, it's worth it. The Boeing 777 was designed and tested in software (Unigraphics I believe), and then went straight to production... no prototype whatsoever. The millions upon millions of dollars Boeing saved by buying a few hundred or thousand licenses was worth it.
You know what else I don't get? Exactly how is all this going to work. In case you didn't RTFA, they said this:
"Griffiths, who is unemployed and lives with his parents, was ordered to pay costs."
So, since this is a civil suit and not a criminal suit, what exactly is this going to accomplish? He gets extradited to the US. They sue him in civil court. A $50 million judgement is given against him. He has no assets, no income, no wealth. So he can't pay them and just has his parents buy him a plane ticket home. I don't understand this. Unless copyright infringement became a criminal offense and I didn't notice it... Which is complete bullshit and a whole other discussion.
Does this mean that when the baby boomers all die off that there is going to be a huge surge of real estate supply? Their kids already have their own houses... they inherit their parents' house (and a condo too perhaps?) but have no use for it... so they put it on the market to sell. Everyone else does the same thing, and suddenly you have an order of magnitude more houses on the market than before. Increase supply, demand stays the same, prices go down.
You missed the point. You can stick with the girl, just leave the kids till later. After all, you can always have kids (through your 20s and 30s) but you can really only have a fun, fast-paced life in your 20s, maybe your 30s if you keep going strong.
Yeh, but to be fair Cecila's defense was rather pitiful. She admitted to the infringement, but said she was just "sampling" the music for other reasons. I think a wifi defense claiming that you believe in copyrights, don't have time to listen to music, here's my laptop check it out, my neighbor accesses my wifi all the time, etc would sound a lot better.
Engaged at 19 and your first kid at 21? Why are you throwing your life away so early? Live a little man, sheesh. You know all those fun things people do in their early 20s? Road trips with their buds, mountain climbing, sky diving, any extreme sport, weekend trips, risky stuff, weird stuff, etc. Starting a startup, doing a fast climb up the corporate ladder, whatever. If you find the right girl, sure stick with her. But delay the marriage and the little poop-machines until your late 20s or something. Enjoy life without having to worry about who is gonna take care of the kid. I know a couple people that got married right around 20 years old, it's insane - their life is practically over now. Their wives have them under lock and key, they can hardly ever do anything fun, and when they can then they're always asking for permission. It's pitiful.
In th end, they chose to make a movie about it all and rake in a few thousand dollars to cover some of their losses... the first good business decision they made:)
Yeh, but what happens when you drop these things? I am very abusive to my cellphone and have dropped it hard enough for the battery to fly off and land a few feet away from the phone... several times over. I bang it up against the walls when it is on my belt clip and I'm working. I toss it on my desk. Etc. So far it seems to be in good working order. But if it had a mechanical device in it rather than solid state memory, I'm sure it would have died by now.
And you think this is really going to change all that? There will always be corrupt, unethical MBAs and there will always be MBAs that don't use their judgement and just follow the laws strictly.
Well, some people are retarded like that, but plenty are not (including myself:D). There's a station I fill up along my commute route that typically has the lowest price (within 5 or 10 cents). But not always. It's right on my commute route, so it's an easy routine to get into by always filling up at this station when I'm low. Sometimes I'll see them at like 1.80 and notice another station somewhere else at 1.70 or something. But I don't go to the other station, because it'll be 5 minutes out of my way when I'm ready to fill up. And.10 for 15 gallons is only $1.50 - I've got better things to do with my time, even if that includes sitting on my ass playing video games. Now when I look at prices, I do just drop the 9/10 off because EVERYBODY has the 9/10. So for comparison, 1.80 & 9/10 versus 1.70 & 9/10 is nearly the same thing as 1.80 versus 1.70.
Having said that, if I noticed another station along my commute route that consistently had lower prices than the current station I go to, I would change over. I'm not loyal to any one station or anything, heh.
Actually, subsidies for anything but a fledgling industry are bad. They lead to higher prices for consumers and reduced competition, while the consumers continue to get taxed the same amount or more. For a fledgling industry it is ok, because the industry needs to plant some roots first to become stable. But once they're going strong they need to be gradually let go.
John Stossel did a good piece for 20/20 (I love how he exposes the "bullshit" happening all over the place to average Americans) a few weeks ago that spent 5 or 10 minutes on cotton farm subsidies. The online article (which sounds to me exactly like a transcript from the show) is italicised at the end of this post.
A few good points he made:
1) Some guy living in New York bought some land in the country that changed hands a few times. He doesn't do anything with it, but for some reason he gets cotton subsidies - and he doesn't know why. Heh.
2) Lettuce, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, plums, peaches, broccoli, green beans, and many other crops are not subsidized. Do you have problems getting any of these at the market? No. Are they prohibitively expensive? No, they actually seem to be quite cheap.
3) The only argument the farmers on the show could come up with was: (paraphrased) "What are we supposed to do with our land if the subsidies are gone?" Here's an idea... become a more efficient business or sell the land.
President Bush gave away $83 billion of your money to farmers when he signed the 2002 Farm Security and Rural Investment Act, and Congress applauded him for it. Americans like the idea of supporting family farms, but you'd be surprised to learn where that money goes.
Hundreds of those farmers who benefited from our generosity live in New York City. Some of those farmers who are collecting farm subsidies are pretty well-off. Mike Sonnenfeldt, for example, lives in a building where Steven Spielberg and Steve Martin have apartments.
Sonnenfeldt gets a cotton subsidy from the government. "I bought a piece of property, that got traded for a piece of property... And I'm not sure exactly even why I get it," he said.
Most of the money goes to real farms big agribusiness, actually. But politicians talk about family farms.
Some subsidies do go to family farms, like one run by Fred and Larry Starrh. But does that entitle them to $3.5 million of your money? That's what they've received over seven years.
I called them welfare queens -- and they objected. "Change it to king," Larry Starrh joked, "Welfare kings. Because 'queens' is bad in California, believe me."
The Starrhs grow mostly cotton on their 12,000-acre spread in California. It's hard to think of them as needy with all that land, but costs have increased faster than prices. Subsidies, they say, are just a small part of their income, but they and their 100 employees depend on them. Without them, they say, they can't make a profit.
Now most businesses that can't make a profit go out of business. Woolworth closed. So did TWA. So do 20,000 restaurants every year. It's that freedom to fail that's helped make America as prosperous as she is, because it frees people to do more productive things.
But subsidized farms get different treatment. When Fred and Larry can't make a profit, taxpayers give them a handout.
"I don't look at it as a handout whatsoever. I absolutely refuse to accept that," Fred Starrh said.
But it is. It's welfare.
Fred Starrh said he looks at it as "a way to maintain a viable agriculture in this country."
That's the myth. Subsidies don't maintain a viable agriculture. Lettuce isn't subsidized. In fact, most crops are not. Not peas or potatoes or tomatoes. Not plums, peaches, broccoli, green beans. Th
I wonder if places such as AllOfMP3.com are linked to the Russian mafia as well? The world seems to have moved out of the mafia related businesses such as racing tracks, casinos, construction companies, etc... where huge conglomerate companies have taken over. So the mafia is left with finding new ways to do business (besides the tried and true like drugs, counterfeiting, weapons, etc).
It wouldn't surprise me all that much if the link really existed.
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Except christianity is based upon at least a partial set of facts (ie many of the people and events talked about in the bible have been proven to have actually existed or happened).
And, christianity doesn't demand that you give up anything from your life. Tithing is encouraged, but you can be a christian your entire life and never tithe a single cent. You aren't required to attend church or missions. Your thoughts and actions aren't restricted. And the basic set of sins described by christianity are mainly those that are required for any group of people or society to function properly. If everyone goes around murdering each other, or stealing each other's stuff, societies wouldn't work. Sure, we could survive as hunter-gatherers, but we would never move beyond that.
Christianity and scientology are nothing alike, and only someone with an irrational hatred for any religion would try to draw such a conclusion.
Actually, it's funny you spin it this way. Because in the current state of affairs, highly trained technicians handle these things because it's not "simplified for less qualified" IT personnel or otherwise to handle. These technicians are higher paid than the IT staff. Now this mainly has to do with these systems developing entirely separately from IT (ie the HVAC industry really had no incentives to make their systems IT friendly, nor did they really know otherwise - so they just developed the systems themselves).
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But, despite what you may think about having an IT person jump right on the job because the system 'seems similar' to what they work on, the type of specialized training involved in dealing with building systems is much different than typical IT work. I would think at least a year-long training program would be required before anyone could become an apprentice. And then another year or two of on-the-job training before you are fully qualified to work on your own. If your project hiccups, fine... you might lose some sales, computers might go down temporarily, services might be unavailable. If your building systems hiccup, you might burn a building down, hinder hundreds of people from doing their jobs, or damage millions of dollars of equipment, samples, resarch, etc. Need me to prove my point? Give most IT staffers a wiring diagram, and they'll scratch their head and ask you what the hell it is
I think the point of this program is to inspire you NOT to become a wage slave. If you can work a job and spend your spare time venturing off into new business or investing ideas, you can become independently wealthy by age 30. And then you can do whatever you feel like doing, while still being young enough to enjoy it.
Exactly, I wonder who the moron was that thought a stripped down version should limit the number of network connections or simultaneous running programs. They approached the situation from the wrong angle. They shouldn't inhibit base features, but should eliminate the extra features. Having network connections or programs running restricted would just piss me off. But, if they removed "extra" features like built-in games, built-in tools, management features, performance tools, support for multiple cpus, larger hard drives, more ram, etc ... then I would weigh the benefits of having those extra tools to better use the computer with. Even then, in those kinds of countries it probably wouldn't flourish due to rampant piracy, but I think it would do better than their current attempt.
Has anyone else gotten that Gillette razor with the disposable heads near/around their 18th birthday? I got one. A few years later when my brother turned 18, he got one. These bastard companies are in every facet of our lives! But the joke is on them, I use a Schick razor now! Hahahahah. Wait, did they merge?
On this topic: Does signing a credit card receipt actually mean anything?
Apparently not.
English please?
At something like $14,000 per standalone license, Unigraphics NX can afford to send out a custom-built hardware dongle with every copy purchased. But when you get a piece of software that can allow you to completely collaborate the design, test, and production of a new piece of hardware, it's worth it. The Boeing 777 was designed and tested in software (Unigraphics I believe), and then went straight to production ... no prototype whatsoever. The millions upon millions of dollars Boeing saved by buying a few hundred or thousand licenses was worth it.
You know what else I don't get? Exactly how is all this going to work. In case you didn't RTFA, they said this:
... Which is complete bullshit and a whole other discussion.
"Griffiths, who is unemployed and lives with his parents, was ordered to pay costs."
So, since this is a civil suit and not a criminal suit, what exactly is this going to accomplish? He gets extradited to the US. They sue him in civil court. A $50 million judgement is given against him. He has no assets, no income, no wealth. So he can't pay them and just has his parents buy him a plane ticket home. I don't understand this. Unless copyright infringement became a criminal offense and I didn't notice it
Does this mean that when the baby boomers all die off that there is going to be a huge surge of real estate supply? Their kids already have their own houses... they inherit their parents' house (and a condo too perhaps?) but have no use for it... so they put it on the market to sell. Everyone else does the same thing, and suddenly you have an order of magnitude more houses on the market than before. Increase supply, demand stays the same, prices go down.
You missed the point. You can stick with the girl, just leave the kids till later. After all, you can always have kids (through your 20s and 30s) but you can really only have a fun, fast-paced life in your 20s, maybe your 30s if you keep going strong.
Also the spanish verb for pain.
Yo tengo un dolor de cabeza. I have a head ache.
Wow, I didn't realize we were all considered George's friends. Thanks George, I understand why you made the changes now.
Yeh, but to be fair Cecila's defense was rather pitiful. She admitted to the infringement, but said she was just "sampling" the music for other reasons. I think a wifi defense claiming that you believe in copyrights, don't have time to listen to music, here's my laptop check it out, my neighbor accesses my wifi all the time, etc would sound a lot better.
I didn't see it. Firefox 1.0
holy crap, hopefully you won't make a career out of this... what a waste of time
Engaged at 19 and your first kid at 21? Why are you throwing your life away so early? Live a little man, sheesh. You know all those fun things people do in their early 20s? Road trips with their buds, mountain climbing, sky diving, any extreme sport, weekend trips, risky stuff, weird stuff, etc. Starting a startup, doing a fast climb up the corporate ladder, whatever. If you find the right girl, sure stick with her. But delay the marriage and the little poop-machines until your late 20s or something. Enjoy life without having to worry about who is gonna take care of the kid. I know a couple people that got married right around 20 years old, it's insane - their life is practically over now. Their wives have them under lock and key, they can hardly ever do anything fun, and when they can then they're always asking for permission. It's pitiful.
In th end, they chose to make a movie about it all and rake in a few thousand dollars to cover some of their losses ... the first good business decision they made :)
Yeh, but what happens when you drop these things? I am very abusive to my cellphone and have dropped it hard enough for the battery to fly off and land a few feet away from the phone ... several times over. I bang it up against the walls when it is on my belt clip and I'm working. I toss it on my desk. Etc. So far it seems to be in good working order. But if it had a mechanical device in it rather than solid state memory, I'm sure it would have died by now.
"and I think it's time for that to change"
And you think this is really going to change all that? There will always be corrupt, unethical MBAs and there will always be MBAs that don't use their judgement and just follow the laws strictly.
Really, what sort of problems?
Is this what you're looking for? Seems to have the right content... it may just be someone else's story though.
http://www.fantasyland.com/ticketbastard/
Well, some people are retarded like that, but plenty are not (including myself :D). There's a station I fill up along my commute route that typically has the lowest price (within 5 or 10 cents). But not always. It's right on my commute route, so it's an easy routine to get into by always filling up at this station when I'm low. Sometimes I'll see them at like 1.80 and notice another station somewhere else at 1.70 or something. But I don't go to the other station, because it'll be 5 minutes out of my way when I'm ready to fill up. And .10 for 15 gallons is only $1.50 - I've got better things to do with my time, even if that includes sitting on my ass playing video games. Now when I look at prices, I do just drop the 9/10 off because EVERYBODY has the 9/10. So for comparison, 1.80 & 9/10 versus 1.70 & 9/10 is nearly the same thing as 1.80 versus 1.70.
Having said that, if I noticed another station along my commute route that consistently had lower prices than the current station I go to, I would change over. I'm not loyal to any one station or anything, heh.
Actually, subsidies for anything but a fledgling industry are bad. They lead to higher prices for consumers and reduced competition, while the consumers continue to get taxed the same amount or more. For a fledgling industry it is ok, because the industry needs to plant some roots first to become stable. But once they're going strong they need to be gradually let go.
John Stossel did a good piece for 20/20 (I love how he exposes the "bullshit" happening all over the place to average Americans) a few weeks ago that spent 5 or 10 minutes on cotton farm subsidies. The online article (which sounds to me exactly like a transcript from the show) is italicised at the end of this post.
A few good points he made:
1) Some guy living in New York bought some land in the country that changed hands a few times. He doesn't do anything with it, but for some reason he gets cotton subsidies - and he doesn't know why. Heh.
2) Lettuce, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, plums, peaches, broccoli, green beans, and many other crops are not subsidized. Do you have problems getting any of these at the market? No. Are they prohibitively expensive? No, they actually seem to be quite cheap.
3) The only argument the farmers on the show could come up with was: (paraphrased) "What are we supposed to do with our land if the subsidies are gone?" Here's an idea
From: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=448934&page=2
No. 5 -- NASTY BEHAVIOR -- Welfare for Farmers
President Bush gave away $83 billion of your money to farmers when he signed the 2002 Farm Security and Rural Investment Act, and Congress applauded him for it. Americans like the idea of supporting family farms, but you'd be surprised to learn where that money goes.
Hundreds of those farmers who benefited from our generosity live in New York City. Some of those farmers who are collecting farm subsidies are pretty well-off. Mike Sonnenfeldt, for example, lives in a building where Steven Spielberg and Steve Martin have apartments.
Sonnenfeldt gets a cotton subsidy from the government. "I bought a piece of property, that got traded for a piece of property
Most of the money goes to real farms big agribusiness, actually. But politicians talk about family farms.
Some subsidies do go to family farms, like one run by Fred and Larry Starrh. But does that entitle them to $3.5 million of your money? That's what they've received over seven years.
I called them welfare queens -- and they objected. "Change it to king," Larry Starrh joked, "Welfare kings. Because 'queens' is bad in California, believe me."
The Starrhs grow mostly cotton on their 12,000-acre spread in California. It's hard to think of them as needy with all that land, but costs have increased faster than prices. Subsidies, they say, are just a small part of their income, but they and their 100 employees depend on them. Without them, they say, they can't make a profit.
Now most businesses that can't make a profit go out of business. Woolworth closed. So did TWA. So do 20,000 restaurants every year. It's that freedom to fail that's helped make America as prosperous as she is, because it frees people to do more productive things.
But subsidized farms get different treatment. When Fred and Larry can't make a profit, taxpayers give them a handout.
"I don't look at it as a handout whatsoever. I absolutely refuse to accept that," Fred Starrh said.
But it is. It's welfare.
Fred Starrh said he looks at it as "a way to maintain a viable agriculture in this country."
That's the myth. Subsidies don't maintain a viable agriculture. Lettuce isn't subsidized. In fact, most crops are not. Not peas or potatoes or tomatoes. Not plums, peaches, broccoli, green beans. Th
I wonder if places such as AllOfMP3.com are linked to the Russian mafia as well? The world seems to have moved out of the mafia related businesses such as racing tracks, casinos, construction companies, etc ... where huge conglomerate companies have taken over. So the mafia is left with finding new ways to do business (besides the tried and true like drugs, counterfeiting, weapons, etc).
It wouldn't surprise me all that much if the link really existed.