It was my +insightful moderation on a particularly good point that did the trick. Verisign, for your next attempt please note that I accept Paypal and Google Checkout.
If you know that people listen to your opinion and do what you say, and you say things that can harm someone else, you can be held accountable. See any cult or mob leader who knows his followers hang on his words. They just say "it would be a shame if something happened to that ISP" and suddenly its servers are underwater wearing concrete shoes.
Plenty of leaders have been convicted for crimes based on this chain of events.
I don't think we have any problems in situations where someone could stop by every 100 years or so and replace the signs that say "Keep out! Radiation danger!" with new ones in the new modern language. If they have a Geiger counter, then they could even move the signs in or out relative to the danger.
Because even if Yucca Mountain leaks in a few hundred years, it probably wouldn't be any worse than Chernobyl or Fukushima are right now.
I also have an old Mazda (Miata, not RXn) that I alternate driving to improve my overall mileage and to make the 6 new and exciting again every few weeks.
I never owned one (though I do have a Mazda), but I really appreciated their use of triangles in the RX-8's aesthetics. I felt their designers were carrying the spirit of the rotary engine out and into the car's artistic design. And I liked the fact that they did something different just because they could.
If the squid-shaped things you saw were lifeless stone, might you not grow more comfortable hanging out around them? Then when one suddenly moves and tries to eat you, you might just be caught off guard.
"it's pretty clear that [GSM] is superior to [CDMA and GSM with incompatible client devices for the two networks and customers locked in to one or the other depending on what phone they bought]."
"it's pretty clear that [GSM] is superior to [CDMA and GSM with incompatible client devices for the two networks and customers locked in to one or the other depending on what phone they bought]."
Yeah, and it was still pretty much a hobbyist market. It wasn't until the explosion of the Commodore that computing went mainstream. You can't argue with it being the top selling computer of all time.
There are some pretty rude people here, too. It never hurts to be nice.
Life is filled with completely random events. The guy living next door got cancer instead of me because he breathed in a particle that I didn't. Or maybe I breathed it in and back out, and it got stuck in him. It's no one's fault, unless we could figure out who put the particle in the air in the first place (assuming it wasn't natural).
Hence I support a social safety net, because I realize that things happen to everyone, good people, bad people, and even people who are sometimes good and sometimes bad. Condemning someone who suffers misfortune is irrational when the ultimate goal is to help them get back on their feet and become a contributing member of society once again.
This. It's really annoying that, when something really interesting comes up, it's a pain in the ass to see all the related comments.
Sometimes I scroll through the initial 50 comments and decide I want to read more, but the next 50 are dispersed through the ones I've already seen, forcing me to read back through them all.
Other times I know I want all the comments from the start, but I have to scroll to the bottom of the page, click the "get more" button, scroll again to the bottom of the page because it auto jumps to the top, click it again, and repeat 10 or 15 times. Annoying as fuck. If there's a better way hidden somewhere already let me know.
It's hard to say that the money was "lost to" anyone. They bought a security at a given price, so other people sold them at that price, yes. Later, the value of the security went down. Unless the people who sold them knew that the price was going to fall, those people did nothing wrong. (And if they did know and were acting on insider information, then that's a completely separated, basically unrelated crime.)
In the last year I've sold stock whose value subsequently went down, so as far as I know I took some of their money. Stock transactions are anonymous, and I don't know in what the rogue trader invested.
It's funny, right, that certain subsets of people can separate success and failure by source? I usually see this in terms of right-wingers who feel that their own success is earned by them alone, while their own failures are attributable to being let down by others. This then somehow translates into a belief that anyone else who fails is at fault, and thus is not worthy of empathy or a safety net.
Were I a psychologist, I think study of this phenomenon could occupy the next decade of my career. I find the concept that someone could think this way and not explode with internal conflict fascinating.
I think the Commodore 64 fills that step ahead of the Apple II.
Then there were the dark days of Apple, and then Steve came back and had more than a decade of near-consecutive hits. That's his most important legacy at Apple.
The brand renaming all at once is foolish. They should have tested the waters by renaming it "Netflix by Mail, Inc." or something in the short term.
Also, the separation of the two web sites is downright he-should-be-fired stupid. Give that way more time until the overlap between streaming and DVD customers has dwindled much more than it has already.
At this point I'm burning through DVDs as quickly as possible to use up my queue. But after that I'm not just dropping "Quackster" - I'm aiming to drop both. Amazon Prime is a better value proposition if they get the hardware support and the selection, since we pay for prime shipping anyway (making the streaming at this point free).
Because if he doesn't care about the privacy aspects, supporting his change could make things worse than they are now. The law could exempt the private companies from lawsuits, and there wouldn't even be a FOIA or a Congressional committee to uncover the uncalibrated machines spewing radiation, or the repeat molesters allowed to "retire" without prosecution.
If it remains illegal to walk away from your flight when you decide to not be groped or irradiated, then the organization running security is still the de-facto government no matter who pays their bills. In that case, I'd prefer it to be the government because they have better (if bloated and still not all that great) oversight.
Statistically, some percentage of people who try something "risky" will fail. Is it the fault of those people that they fail? Sometimes, maybe, but not every time.
And sometimes bad things happen to people who did nothing risky, or at least riskier than living and breathing within the means afforded them by their parentage and intelligence.
Well the people who deny global warming ultimately want free reign to pollute the global Commons without consequence. It's tragic.
This option, at least, doesn't involve us simultaneously convincing everyone on the planet to not be selfish bastards with shared resources. "You think it's okay to dump whatever crap you want to into the sky for a profit, consequences by damned? Well then you certainly can't stop us from shooting our own stuff into the sky and blocking out the sun a little."
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It was my +insightful moderation on a particularly good point that did the trick. Verisign, for your next attempt please note that I accept Paypal and Google Checkout.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp
Be careful, he might sell your email address to Viagra and 419 scammers.
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If you know that people listen to your opinion and do what you say, and you say things that can harm someone else, you can be held accountable. See any cult or mob leader who knows his followers hang on his words. They just say "it would be a shame if something happened to that ISP" and suddenly its servers are underwater wearing concrete shoes.
Plenty of leaders have been convicted for crimes based on this chain of events.
I don't think we have any problems in situations where someone could stop by every 100 years or so and replace the signs that say "Keep out! Radiation danger!" with new ones in the new modern language. If they have a Geiger counter, then they could even move the signs in or out relative to the danger.
Because even if Yucca Mountain leaks in a few hundred years, it probably wouldn't be any worse than Chernobyl or Fukushima are right now.
Doh, that's about what I get in a BMW 645.
I also have an old Mazda (Miata, not RXn) that I alternate driving to improve my overall mileage and to make the 6 new and exciting again every few weeks.
I never owned one (though I do have a Mazda), but I really appreciated their use of triangles in the RX-8's aesthetics. I felt their designers were carrying the spirit of the rotary engine out and into the car's artistic design. And I liked the fact that they did something different just because they could.
If the squid-shaped things you saw were lifeless stone, might you not grow more comfortable hanging out around them? Then when one suddenly moves and tries to eat you, you might just be caught off guard.
It is called the "Network Effect" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect . It is the same reason why so many people use eBay.
... instead of ... ?
ebid.net
Sprint owns Virgin Mobile, not that this detracts from your point about T-Mobile's plan.
"it's pretty clear that [GSM] is superior to [CDMA and GSM with incompatible client devices for the two networks and customers locked in to one or the other depending on what phone they bought]."
parsed that for you
sorry for being redundant
"it's pretty clear that [GSM] is superior to [CDMA and GSM with incompatible client devices for the two networks and customers locked in to one or the other depending on what phone they bought]."
parsed that for you
Yeah, and it was still pretty much a hobbyist market. It wasn't until the explosion of the Commodore that computing went mainstream. You can't argue with it being the top selling computer of all time.
There are some pretty rude people here, too. It never hurts to be nice.
Life is filled with completely random events. The guy living next door got cancer instead of me because he breathed in a particle that I didn't. Or maybe I breathed it in and back out, and it got stuck in him. It's no one's fault, unless we could figure out who put the particle in the air in the first place (assuming it wasn't natural).
Hence I support a social safety net, because I realize that things happen to everyone, good people, bad people, and even people who are sometimes good and sometimes bad. Condemning someone who suffers misfortune is irrational when the ultimate goal is to help them get back on their feet and become a contributing member of society once again.
This. It's really annoying that, when something really interesting comes up, it's a pain in the ass to see all the related comments.
Sometimes I scroll through the initial 50 comments and decide I want to read more, but the next 50 are dispersed through the ones I've already seen, forcing me to read back through them all.
Other times I know I want all the comments from the start, but I have to scroll to the bottom of the page, click the "get more" button, scroll again to the bottom of the page because it auto jumps to the top, click it again, and repeat 10 or 15 times. Annoying as fuck. If there's a better way hidden somewhere already let me know.
It's hard to say that the money was "lost to" anyone. They bought a security at a given price, so other people sold them at that price, yes. Later, the value of the security went down. Unless the people who sold them knew that the price was going to fall, those people did nothing wrong. (And if they did know and were acting on insider information, then that's a completely separated, basically unrelated crime.)
In the last year I've sold stock whose value subsequently went down, so as far as I know I took some of their money. Stock transactions are anonymous, and I don't know in what the rogue trader invested.
It's funny, right, that certain subsets of people can separate success and failure by source? I usually see this in terms of right-wingers who feel that their own success is earned by them alone, while their own failures are attributable to being let down by others. This then somehow translates into a belief that anyone else who fails is at fault, and thus is not worthy of empathy or a safety net.
Were I a psychologist, I think study of this phenomenon could occupy the next decade of my career. I find the concept that someone could think this way and not explode with internal conflict fascinating.
I think the Commodore 64 fills that step ahead of the Apple II.
Then there were the dark days of Apple, and then Steve came back and had more than a decade of near-consecutive hits. That's his most important legacy at Apple.
It's the RIAA extortion racket all over again.
Write the AG and tell him to get RICO on their asses for racketeering.
In a First to File world, prior art is meaningless unless it was published.
The brand renaming all at once is foolish. They should have tested the waters by renaming it "Netflix by Mail, Inc." or something in the short term.
Also, the separation of the two web sites is downright he-should-be-fired stupid. Give that way more time until the overlap between streaming and DVD customers has dwindled much more than it has already.
At this point I'm burning through DVDs as quickly as possible to use up my queue. But after that I'm not just dropping "Quackster" - I'm aiming to drop both. Amazon Prime is a better value proposition if they get the hardware support and the selection, since we pay for prime shipping anyway (making the streaming at this point free).
Because if he doesn't care about the privacy aspects, supporting his change could make things worse than they are now. The law could exempt the private companies from lawsuits, and there wouldn't even be a FOIA or a Congressional committee to uncover the uncalibrated machines spewing radiation, or the repeat molesters allowed to "retire" without prosecution.
If it remains illegal to walk away from your flight when you decide to not be groped or irradiated, then the organization running security is still the de-facto government no matter who pays their bills. In that case, I'd prefer it to be the government because they have better (if bloated and still not all that great) oversight.
My opinion was concurring, not dissenting. I did agree with him.
Statistically, some percentage of people who try something "risky" will fail. Is it the fault of those people that they fail? Sometimes, maybe, but not every time.
And sometimes bad things happen to people who did nothing risky, or at least riskier than living and breathing within the means afforded them by their parentage and intelligence.
This is why I believe in a social safety net.
Well the people who deny global warming ultimately want free reign to pollute the global Commons without consequence. It's tragic.
This option, at least, doesn't involve us simultaneously convincing everyone on the planet to not be selfish bastards with shared resources. "You think it's okay to dump whatever crap you want to into the sky for a profit, consequences by damned? Well then you certainly can't stop us from shooting our own stuff into the sky and blocking out the sun a little."
It's not ideal, but it may be viable.