so, unplugging it all weekend cleared it's ram...i'm assuming the ram contained some sort of instructions that disabeled the machine during lunch hours???...if this is the case, did they reprogram it every week to shut off during lunch hours, or was this a one time thing you erased it, and they never bothered to fix it???
Yes, generations of overweight kids, with diabetes and heart problems, is a "relatively benign side effect".
i didn't advocate schools selling any specific product...i cited an example that schools currently take money for soft drink vending machines...i also stated that i was not against schools using advertising...i never said schools should start serving McDonald's or Pizza Hut in the lunch room (which some schools do, and i think is wrong)...in any case, i just condoned schools letting companies sell advertising space...that alone won't be leading to "generations of overweight kids, with diabetes and heart problems"...
why is advertising so scary? schools already take money from soft drink makers (mostly Pepsi) to have their vending machines solely in their school districts...school districts advertising has a couple of possible benefits as far as i see...first, schools would have more money to spend on quality teachers, materials, facilities, etc...second, with the added income, the money the schools would need from taxes could go down, and thus taxes would go down...both of these are positive benefits to something that has relatively benign side effects...
It's kinda like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer gets the job writing as restaraunt reviewer for the Springfield Shopper...problem is, he likes food so much, he gives everything a 5 star review...so, everyone buys the product (or Homer's case, goes to the restaraunt) and gets fat...eventually he starts to only give bad reviews, and the restaraunt owners gang up and attempt to kill Homer with a lethal eclair...you listening Gail???
ok, she's a professional reviewer...so, does this mean she's posting lots of reviews on amazon to gain experience? or name recognition, or what? she's certainly not getting paid for it...i hope...
great excerpt taken from the fourth article (for those of you who don't read the articles)...note, RT is referring to Real Time (as apposed to turn based RPG)...
Myths
"RT is cool" - As defined by who? Don't believe the hype kiddies, and besides, as an avid RPGer, I know we have nothing to do with cool. While we're sitting in a basement rolling dice, swilling Mountain Dew and other snacks while pretending to be mighty warriors in an alternate universe, cool people are out doing lines off naked women because they can. It still puzzles me why certain RPG developers seem so intent on following trends, when their consumer base couldn't be trendy, even with a +10 Bag of Conforming to the Social Norm.
sorry, just had to post that, it cracked me up...especially the "+10 Bag of Conforming to the Social Norm" line...how bout that, a RPG developer with a sense of humor...
of course i remember them...they were from 1987 and 1991 respectively...but you forgot to post the obligatory IMDB links to Mannequin and Mannquein 2: On the Move...even better, do you remember who plays the Mannequin in each movie (I didn't)...it's Kim Cattral (of "Sex and the City") in the original, and Kristy Swanson (of the original "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie)...
obviously, if your level is $50, then most spammers aren't going to spam you...i'm assuming there would be some ability for the spammer to know what your "token level" is set at...therefore, the spammer could have their spam program send spam to all recipients on their list, where their "token level" = X, where X is the maximum amount they want to pay for someone to see their spam...i don't think anyone is gonna pay you $50 to read their spam...however, you might have a good number of people who would intnetionally leave their settings at say 5 cents with the theory that if they recieve enough 5 cent pieces of spam, they can earn a little pocket change...i calculated in a seperate post that if you recieved 5000 pieces of spam a day (at 5 cents a piece), you could make opening spam your job (and be compensated rather well...like $90,000)...of course that would be incredibly boring, although you could have a program that automatically opens your messages and accepts the spammers tokens, but i digress...
i dunno, i still get plenty of junk mail in my snail mail box...i'm guessing those companies don't pay the normal 37 cents an item mailing rate (i'm assuming they get some sort of bulk mailer rate? am i wrong?)...in any case, i don't think this would really be any different for e-mail spammers...they could probably absorb the cost of a few pennies an e-mail...
also, from this previous article we know that approxiately 1/4 of 1% of spam gets a response for a company (let's assume that means a product order)...
so, if a company send out 1 million spams, at 5 cents a spam (for nice round number), that's $50,000...they can expect a response of 1,000,000 *.01 *.025 = 2,500 people...if they're making a $20 profit on the item, they've broke even right there...
that's probably not a realistic business model though, i didn't include the fact that most companies don't send their own spam, they pay others to do it, so that's additional overhead...5 cents an e-mail is also probably too much, it would probably be less...
ok, you're right on the telephone one...but, if i restricted it to only recieving e-mail spam, then i'm sure i could have some sort of automated program or such that goes through my messages and automatically accepts the spammers token, etc...
actually, not a half bad idea...i figure if i accepted 5,000 spams/calls a day, at 5 cents a call, i could make it my full-time job...what the heck would i list as occupation on my income taxes though...
ummm, it doesn't say anything about when he found out about it, just that he installed it a year ago...personally, i've been aware of SETI@HOME for a couple of years now...that doesn't mean that i've installed it on my computer though...
i have no idea, but what does it cost to leave each computer running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in terms of power consumption...as apposed to leaving each computer on during store hours, and then turning them off at night...just curious, cause it seems that would be additional overhead in this plan...i'm sure it's not on the $10 billion level though...
hmmmm...a company selling idle time with their product models to make money...doesn't sound like a bad idea...i think victoria's secret should get in on this...
ok, that's fine...i learned something...but it still deosn't change my point that the drivers wouldn't see a real increase in earnings if the fare was raised by 25 cents...they'd just see an increase in the percentage of money brought in due to fare as opposed to the percentage of money brought in due to tips...atleast, that's how i see it....
ah, no, you wouldn't notice the extra 25 cents a share...but you know who would lose that money??? the cabbie, out of his tips...let's say my normal fare is $6.25, and i throw him $8, for a roughly 25% tip...well, if my fare is now $6.50, i'm still throwing him the $8...yeah, the fare just increased 25 cents, but is that really gonna increase the overall amount you pay? probably not...it's just more of the money will go to the company, and the driver will make less tips...
I used to love this game, we played it all the time when i was in high school...the Chmmer (which reminded me of a modified X-wing rocked)...then there was the big green Urquan ship with the little fighting pods you could release...and the Korah, which shot the big spinning Chinese stars...awesome game...the story was pretty cool (although could take a while), but I was all for the Melee mode...
shoot..what was the name of the Ship where it's special weapon was self destruction???? was it Bonsai, or something else? Bonsai might have been the pilot's name...hmmmm, i forget...
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just curious about your post...
so, unplugging it all weekend cleared it's ram...i'm assuming the ram contained some sort of instructions that disabeled the machine during lunch hours???...if this is the case, did they reprogram it every week to shut off during lunch hours, or was this a one time thing you erased it, and they never bothered to fix it???
Yes, generations of overweight kids, with diabetes and heart problems, is a "relatively benign side effect".
i didn't advocate schools selling any specific product...i cited an example that schools currently take money for soft drink vending machines...i also stated that i was not against schools using advertising...i never said schools should start serving McDonald's or Pizza Hut in the lunch room (which some schools do, and i think is wrong)...in any case, i just condoned schools letting companies sell advertising space...that alone won't be leading to "generations of overweight kids, with diabetes and heart problems"...
how much do you think he has to pay for a hummer?
why is advertising so scary? schools already take money from soft drink makers (mostly Pepsi) to have their vending machines solely in their school districts...school districts advertising has a couple of possible benefits as far as i see...first, schools would have more money to spend on quality teachers, materials, facilities, etc...second, with the added income, the money the schools would need from taxes could go down, and thus taxes would go down...both of these are positive benefits to something that has relatively benign side effects...
another good one is where the springfield police run the "you've won a free boat" scam, to catch dead-beats (including Homer)...
It's kinda like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer gets the job writing as restaraunt reviewer for the Springfield Shopper...problem is, he likes food so much, he gives everything a 5 star review...so, everyone buys the product (or Homer's case, goes to the restaraunt) and gets fat...eventually he starts to only give bad reviews, and the restaraunt owners gang up and attempt to kill Homer with a lethal eclair...you listening Gail???
ok, she's a professional reviewer...so, does this mean she's posting lots of reviews on amazon to gain experience? or name recognition, or what? she's certainly not getting paid for it...i hope...
great excerpt taken from the fourth article (for those of you who don't read the articles)...note, RT is referring to Real Time (as apposed to turn based RPG)...
Myths
"RT is cool" - As defined by who? Don't believe the hype kiddies, and besides, as an avid RPGer, I know we have nothing to do with cool. While we're sitting in a basement rolling dice, swilling Mountain Dew and other snacks while pretending to be mighty warriors in an alternate universe, cool people are out doing lines off naked women because they can. It still puzzles me why certain RPG developers seem so intent on following trends, when their consumer base couldn't be trendy, even with a +10 Bag of Conforming to the Social Norm.
sorry, just had to post that, it cracked me up...especially the "+10 Bag of Conforming to the Social Norm" line...how bout that, a RPG developer with a sense of humor...
of course i remember them...they were from 1987 and 1991 respectively...but you forgot to post the obligatory IMDB links to Mannequin and Mannquein 2: On the Move...even better, do you remember who plays the Mannequin in each movie (I didn't)...it's Kim Cattral (of "Sex and the City") in the original, and Kristy Swanson (of the original "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie)...
obviously, if your level is $50, then most spammers aren't going to spam you...i'm assuming there would be some ability for the spammer to know what your "token level" is set at...therefore, the spammer could have their spam program send spam to all recipients on their list, where their "token level" = X, where X is the maximum amount they want to pay for someone to see their spam...i don't think anyone is gonna pay you $50 to read their spam...however, you might have a good number of people who would intnetionally leave their settings at say 5 cents with the theory that if they recieve enough 5 cent pieces of spam, they can earn a little pocket change...i calculated in a seperate post that if you recieved 5000 pieces of spam a day (at 5 cents a piece), you could make opening spam your job (and be compensated rather well...like $90,000)...of course that would be incredibly boring, although you could have a program that automatically opens your messages and accepts the spammers tokens, but i digress...
would have been 4 sharp, 'cept the cabbie bringing the bride got lost...
sure, i bet that why Kathleen *said* she was late...
on the next HBO taxicab confessions:
Kathleen: "Can we take the long way to the church, I still need some time to think about this..."
seriously though, congratulations...
i dunno, i still get plenty of junk mail in my snail mail box...i'm guessing those companies don't pay the normal 37 cents an item mailing rate (i'm assuming they get some sort of bulk mailer rate? am i wrong?)...in any case, i don't think this would really be any different for e-mail spammers...they could probably absorb the cost of a few pennies an e-mail...
.01 * .025 = 2,500 people...if they're making a $20 profit on the item, they've broke even right there...
also, from this previous article we know that approxiately 1/4 of 1% of spam gets a response for a company (let's assume that means a product order)...
so, if a company send out 1 million spams, at 5 cents a spam (for nice round number), that's $50,000...they can expect a response of 1,000,000 *
that's probably not a realistic business model though, i didn't include the fact that most companies don't send their own spam, they pay others to do it, so that's additional overhead...5 cents an e-mail is also probably too much, it would probably be less...
ok, you're right on the telephone one...but, if i restricted it to only recieving e-mail spam, then i'm sure i could have some sort of automated program or such that goes through my messages and automatically accepts the spammers token, etc...
actually, not a half bad idea...i figure if i accepted 5,000 spams/calls a day, at 5 cents a call, i could make it my full-time job...what the heck would i list as occupation on my income taxes though...
there might be a problem with you, if those are the victoria's secret models you think of first...
ummm, it doesn't say anything about when he found out about it, just that he installed it a year ago...personally, i've been aware of SETI@HOME for a couple of years now...that doesn't mean that i've installed it on my computer though...
i have no idea, but what does it cost to leave each computer running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in terms of power consumption...as apposed to leaving each computer on during store hours, and then turning them off at night...just curious, cause it seems that would be additional overhead in this plan...i'm sure it's not on the $10 billion level though...
hmmmm...a company selling idle time with their product models to make money...doesn't sound like a bad idea...i think victoria's secret should get in on this...
why...are...his answers...so...short...
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ok, that's fine...i learned something...but it still deosn't change my point that the drivers wouldn't see a real increase in earnings if the fare was raised by 25 cents...they'd just see an increase in the percentage of money brought in due to fare as opposed to the percentage of money brought in due to tips...atleast, that's how i see it....
ah, no, you wouldn't notice the extra 25 cents a share...but you know who would lose that money??? the cabbie, out of his tips...let's say my normal fare is $6.25, and i throw him $8, for a roughly 25% tip...well, if my fare is now $6.50, i'm still throwing him the $8...yeah, the fare just increased 25 cents, but is that really gonna increase the overall amount you pay? probably not...it's just more of the money will go to the company, and the driver will make less tips...
that reminds me of the simpsons episode where Stan Lee forces the "Thing" into the Batmobile, thereby breaking it...
Kid: "You broke my batmobile"
Lee: "Broke? or made better?"
something like that...hilarious though...
can we please have a new slashdot topic for something like "minor releases" so i can filter these stories out...
I used to love this game, we played it all the time when i was in high school...the Chmmer (which reminded me of a modified X-wing rocked)...then there was the big green Urquan ship with the little fighting pods you could release...and the Korah, which shot the big spinning Chinese stars...awesome game...the story was pretty cool (although could take a while), but I was all for the Melee mode...
shoot..what was the name of the Ship where it's special weapon was self destruction???? was it Bonsai, or something else? Bonsai might have been the pilot's name...hmmmm, i forget...
i dunno...i'm guessing...
"Sex and the City"
"Will and Grace"
"Dr. Phil"