No one, or company should be allowed to act this way in any modern society.
What, charging the price that the market will bear? If you don't like it, do what I did and install Linux.
The world would be a much better place if people looked after their own business rather than crying for the government to come and help them all the time.
I suggested that to my boss, but my plan of only going to work 2 days a week didn't go down very well.
Ride a bike
Or why not walk, or crawl, save pollution from food delivery vans by eating mushrooms out of the garden? Imagine how much electricity we would save by living in caves or trees?
take a bus
Car: 10 minutes Bus: 90 minutes, including a 2 mile walk
Oh wait they cancelled that bus route, looks like that attractive option isn't available anymore. Shame.
Most of the corporations don't really give a fuck about the environment or social responsibility or even ethics. Their _only_ legal responsibility is to make more money for the shareholder.
Why do companies have a responsibility to absorb pollution made by other people?
You tirade might have carried some weight if you'd committed yourself to rebuilding your house/garden with this concrete.
If your lunch is more than 500 calories, chances are it's not healthy for you.
500 calories is too much for lunch if you weight 100 pounds, or you're in a coma. If you use 3000 calories a day, you'd need to eat six meals a day just to maintain yourself.
In my opinion, breakfast should be 500 calories, lunch a thousand calories, and dinner a thousand calories, with snacks etc taking up the remaining 500.
Well that's the point of that software, to work out if you're eating less.
And the important bit is *eat less* not *eat boring food*. You can have burgers, fries and a shake, just don't do it more than once every couple of weeks or so.
Why only that often? A burger is only a few hundred calories, and if you burn 3000 calories a day, you could eat a burger every day and lose weight.
Our conception of copyright is hampering creativity, not enabling it.
If you're talking about those awful homemade videos of various clips bolted together with the seamlessness of frankenstein, then I'm not too concerned about that being hampered.
Copyright law doesn't need to be changed just so someone can upload crap clips to youtube. If these people are so creative they should make their own videos, not just putting someone else's music over someone else's video with in a powerpoint-style slide show saying things like 'Made by Jim from Idaho' in comic sans ms.
The idea of laws is that they are supposed to be in the public interest.
Says who? The law is there to protect private individuals from the public also.
That's absolutely ridiculous. Ever heard of 'jack of all trades, master of none'? There's no need for everyone to know how to wrestle with Linux to use a computer, no more than there's a need to for everyone to know how to build a car in order to get to work.
Why do you think you're more intelligent because you spend more time and effort to achieve the same tasks?
Or perhaps only the super-intelligent understand the need to spend all day configuring devices before using them. Us 'dumb' people think of machines and tools merely as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself.
$300 for a $100 laptop means you're effectively donating $200 to charity. Other than the rich, I can't think of many people who'd hand over $200 to charity just like that. That's a month's food to people even in the developed world.
Better games? Maybe, unless you prefer RTS or MMORPG Better controls? I know purists that would barf at the tought of playing FPS games with anything other than a keyboard/mouse combo
MMORPGs are mindless timesinks, and Goldeneye is the most fun FPS I've ever played. But since when do purists care about fun?
And yes, gaps in a resume are a BAD thing. It also means that you could not see the handwriting on the wall and get out to a new job before the old one crashed and burned. Or didn't have anew one waiting when a contract ended.
So you want people who are most willing to jump ship and hunt other jobs whilst employed by you?
What if you have a 4x4 but hardly use it, and you end up paying more taxes than someone with an efficient car who drives it 10 hours a day, emitting far more carbon dioxide?
This isn't about global warming, it's about revenue generating, nothing more. The council proposing this is over a million pounds in the red, just says it all really. People with expensive cars are an easy target.
If Google achieves carbon neutrality, even partially, the message it will send to corporations, start-ups, and individuals will be, "You can be environmentally conscious and financially successful; the two are not mutually exclusive."
Yeah 'cos startups and small business on tight margins will be running out to emulate a company with billions of dollars they don't know what to do with.
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What, charging the price that the market will bear? If you don't like it, do what I did and install Linux.
The world would be a much better place if people looked after their own business rather than crying for the government to come and help them all the time.
I suggested that to my boss, but my plan of only going to work 2 days a week didn't go down very well.
Or why not walk, or crawl, save pollution from food delivery vans by eating mushrooms out of the garden? Imagine how much electricity we would save by living in caves or trees?
Car: 10 minutes
Bus: 90 minutes, including a 2 mile walk
Oh wait they cancelled that bus route, looks like that attractive option isn't available anymore. Shame.
Why do companies have a responsibility to absorb pollution made by other people?
You tirade might have carried some weight if you'd committed yourself to rebuilding your house/garden with this concrete.
300ms ping times?
500 calories is too much for lunch if you weight 100 pounds, or you're in a coma. If you use 3000 calories a day, you'd need to eat six meals a day just to maintain yourself.
In my opinion, breakfast should be 500 calories, lunch a thousand calories, and dinner a thousand calories, with snacks etc taking up the remaining 500.
Well that's the point of that software, to work out if you're eating less.
Why only that often? A burger is only a few hundred calories, and if you burn 3000 calories a day, you could eat a burger every day and lose weight.
You can make the same argument about expensive cars, but what do you see more of on the roads, Diablos or Corsas?
They'll buy a wii or 360, along with the 90% of people who wait until their TV breaks before getting a new one.
A very small demographic. Is this the generation that the PS becomes a niche?
He didn't emphasise anything, the rednecks did it to themselves.
Have you seen the shit on TV in other countries? Those south american telenovelas make Lost look like the Godfather in comparision.
If you're talking about those awful homemade videos of various clips bolted together with the seamlessness of frankenstein, then I'm not too concerned about that being hampered.
Copyright law doesn't need to be changed just so someone can upload crap clips to youtube. If these people are so creative they should make their own videos, not just putting someone else's music over someone else's video with in a powerpoint-style slide show saying things like 'Made by Jim from Idaho' in comic sans ms.
Says who? The law is there to protect private individuals from the public also.
How does that pay the bills?
If he doesn't get a job, how is he supposed to pay for rent, food, tuition etc?
That's absolutely ridiculous. Ever heard of 'jack of all trades, master of none'? There's no need for everyone to know how to wrestle with Linux to use a computer, no more than there's a need to for everyone to know how to build a car in order to get to work.
Why do you think you're more intelligent because you spend more time and effort to achieve the same tasks?
Or perhaps only the super-intelligent understand the need to spend all day configuring devices before using them. Us 'dumb' people think of machines and tools merely as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself.
I only wish Linux had such functionality. Or Windows 95...
This is progress?
Would the tax deduction be greater or lesser than the $200 extra you're paying for the laptop?
I think the main problem is that the sort of people who would think nothing of donating $200 to charity have zero use for a $100 laptop.
$300 for a $100 laptop means you're effectively donating $200 to charity. Other than the rich, I can't think of many people who'd hand over $200 to charity just like that. That's a month's food to people even in the developed world.
MMORPGs are mindless timesinks, and Goldeneye is the most fun FPS I've ever played. But since when do purists care about fun?
So you want people who are most willing to jump ship and hunt other jobs whilst employed by you?
I'd be happy if Linux had fonts where one half of the letter was thicker than the other half.
Britain already has massive taxation on fuel. It's the equivalent to $7 a gallon. This is just double taxation, i.e. revenue raising.
What if you have a 4x4 but hardly use it, and you end up paying more taxes than someone with an efficient car who drives it 10 hours a day, emitting far more carbon dioxide?
This isn't about global warming, it's about revenue generating, nothing more. The council proposing this is over a million pounds in the red, just says it all really. People with expensive cars are an easy target.
Yeah 'cos startups and small business on tight margins will be running out to emulate a company with billions of dollars they don't know what to do with.