From that text, does that not also ban tatoos? They are subcutaneous ID as well, correct? Or are they technically not because they sit between two layers of skin, not all the way through the skin? Someone earn a +5 informative and explain this!
In additional to the Dublin Dr. Pepper already mentioned, most grocery stores here in Austin sell Mexican Coke (heh) and Sprite, and others on occasion. It has real sugar instead of corn syrup as well.
Unlike printed guides, which have to limit show descriptions to one or two lines at best, digital guides can be as detailed as you wish. By providing your own RSS feed of your schedule, you could increase the information given, which should increase the number of people willing to watch your channel. Even though I have a DVR I still watch (interesting) commercials, so don't completely write off my viewership.
And here's how you can directly make money: By providing your own guide information, you can insert sponsorship lines and charge for them.
"Tonight on Lost, sponsored by Coca-Cola, Jack and Kate have more awkward sexual tension, while Hurley tries to cheer everyone up, Sawyer acts rudely, and Sayid kills someone with his feet."
Even us DVR users will very often look at the guide information. Voila, you've just sold an ad!
Yeah, the "environment impact of farming" on a typical farm, which is mostly covered with a stable ecosystem of plants and animals, is a lot lighter than the impact of a power-sucking, air-conditioned, steel-and-concrete skyscraper.
Your "stable ecosystem" farm probably requires tankloads of fertilizers and pesticides to keep production going, and likely has a massive bio waste problem with methane and manure run off. Most farms are anything but "stable" and "environmentally friendly".
On the other hand, density can be used to compensate for poor environmental impact. For example, the environmental impact of a skyscraper is greater than that of a single-family house, but the environmental impact of a skyscraper is lower than that of 500 single-family houses, each on a 9000 square foot manicured lot where there used to be a forest, provided the land not used by the skyscraper is conserved as the forest.
#1: future potential employers who use juvenile commentary on someone's sexuality in a hiring decision are just as retarded and juvenile as the comments themselves, and therefore: a. aren't worth working for. b. actionable in a court of law WAY more than the juvenile commentary is.
A) The person doing the search probably isn't going to be your boss. It's going to be some tard in HR. You can't avoid working for any company with a tard in HR, unless you plan to be self-employed. =p
B) You'll never know that's why you were rejected, so you'll never have grounds to sue. Unless, of course, you sue because you "know you were better qualified than the other guy", which would again plaster bad info about you on the web.
obviously, that's stupid. so why is a G.I.S. that reveals the same puerile commentary any more respectable. "i saw it on the teh intarweb, so it must be respectable and true"
See point 1A. HR tards can be discriminatory in both fashions if they so choose. The odds are that they won't see the rest stop material, however.
There is a reason libel and slander are illegal. In this case, the anonymous nature of internet speech will protect the person who committed the libel, but the person or company hosting the libel, if it is proven to be such, should be required to take it down. Note I don't think the host committed the libel: the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA take care of that. The material should still be pulled in a no-fault action.
If an individual in China posted his "isellgold.ch" web site and asked for your credit card number, would you give it to him? If he doesn't farm your server, would you do a google search through hundreds of hack, warez, and cheats sites until you find one with a link to someone who farms your server and accepts credit cards?
The middlemen act as a "legitimate" front to a distributed back-end operation. I don't think there's any doubt that they are necessary for this operation.
Now, regarding the price, other posts have established that the farmers are paid a little better than the going rate for unskilled labor in China. US customers pay the going rate for gold, based on years of market experience on the part of the middlemen. The middlemen pocket the difference because neither end complains.
The free market doesn't work to minimize prices. It works to find a balance between bid and ask price in a transaction. In this case, ask prices on the farmer end are low, and bid prices on the consumer end are high, so the market acted to create middlemen to absorb the difference.
Bullshit. In both cases, if the hardware fails, the service tech can simply utilize his own software for the troubleshooting.
For the Victrola, the tech can play an RCA record, verify the player doesn't work, and perform amends. For the computer, the tech can boot the machine from CD or boot it into a special diagnostics partition, verify the hardware doesn't work, and perform amends. There's no difference.
If Dell would simply change their requirements so that you much retain their diagnostics partition to receive a hardware warranty, this problem would go away. I don't know anyone who needs 50MB that badly on their drive.
You can't recognize revenue for a service that has not yet been provided. Regulators will be all over your ass.
Heck, you can't even recognize revenue that you've already received for a service that has not yet been provided. If you sell something with a service contract attached, for example, you have to recognize the revenue for the service contract over the life of the contract, not at the time of sale, even though you collected all the revenue at the time of the sale.
That's why, when something is sold with a service contract, somewhere the price of the item and the price of the contract will be broken out. That way it's clear what part they can recognize up front (the item price) and what part must be deferred (the contract price).
using your analogy, when you use a rest stop on the highway, and you see the retarded commentary on the walls, does it devastate you? emotionally damage you? no. you just roll your eyes and forget about it 10 seconds later. so why would the snarky juvenile idiocy damage you on the internet?
To be fair, future potential employers won't drive by that rest stop to see if there's anything written about you, and use that as part of the hiring decision.
Indeed. Until a few years ago, my company (a producer of electronic test and measurement equipment) washed every circuit board we made, just after they were assembled. This was with de-ionized water, and was used to clean the flux off the boards.
We only stopped because using no-clean flux and skipping the wash is cheaper.
Using de-i water might be better, but I've gotten electronics completely drenched before without a problem (car stereo soaked in a rain, digital camera underwater for several hours). In all cases, just making sure they are completely dry before being powered is fine. (Make sure you take the batteries out so asap!)
1001011010100100 - Well with this information I have no choice but to rule the defendant innocent... oh wait... 1001011010100101!! That changes everything! - I have no choice but to rule the defendant guilty !
Well, in your example, bit 0 is clearly the evil bit.
Aye, in the Ideal World our annual car registration cost would scale, based on A) the weight of our vehicle, and B) the number of miles we put the car that year.
The problem is that B) assumes we put all the miles on public roads, for which tax must be collected. If I spent my time driving around private neighborhoods, or on toll roads (which are funded separately), or driving in other states, then I shouldn't have to pay taxes on those miles.
Then the Powers That Be say "Well! We'll just put a GPS in your car and charge you for the miles you drive on our roads. That will be easy once we're tracking your every move!" Then I decide I'd rather just keep paying the gas tax.
Duh, I'm assuming that the Powers That Be decide everyone will now use this special, internal version of OpenOffice, then lock down the machines so nothing else can be installed. That's likely no different that now, except now they use Office and the Powers That Be have to go beg at Microsoft for changes.
Why should those who choose to pursue alternative fuel sources automatically get an out on paying for the roads they are going to be driving on with that alternative fuel?
Just because a business model (in this case, using fuel tax to fund roads) was profitable once, that does not guarantee it should or would be profitable for all time. Things change. They need a new way to tax road use.
Tolls are one way, but I find those regressive. Why? Because I drive a car that weighs about 2200 lbs. My car does less damage to roads that a sedan, SUV, or pickup truck that weights 4000-7000 lbs. Thus, I wear out roads less than other cars, but I have yet to see a toll based on weight for any passenger vehicles. The gas tax actually seems fairer to me in this case, because my car has better gas mileage than cars that weigh more.
If you worked with classified documents, you'd end up in jail if you wrote such a program.
Maybe instead the DoD should add a 1/2" red banner at the top of the window that warns "Hidden data exists". Again, much simpler to implement in any open source application than in Windows, especially if the machines cannot run the latest Office.
How hard would it be for you to add a warning box that pops up when you try to save, warning you that "hidden data exists, are you sure you want so save with it?"
Would it be easier for you to add that, say by next Tuesday, in Microsoft PowerPoint or an alternative solution?
If only the Feds were using an open-source solution. An open-source slide show program would have been smart enough to realize that they left classified data in the document and would have alerted them prior to the document being released to the public.
How hard would it be to add a feature where hidden text, and graph data off the currently-shown scales, caused the program to throw up a big red warning box whenever the document was saved?
Seems that would be trivial for the US intelligence services to add to OpenOffice.org, what with their $60 billion to spend on it.~~ Might be harder and costlier for them to get Microsoft to add it, especially if that meant they would need to upgrade all computers to Office 2007.
Yes, like everyone thinks that everyone who went to college between 1995 and today has no concept of paying fair value for products they enjoy, if those products happen to be digital.
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If you are a corporate execute at Sony's console division:
1. Buy Nintendo stock
2. Open your mouth
3. Profit!
From that text, does that not also ban tatoos? They are subcutaneous ID as well, correct? Or are they technically not because they sit between two layers of skin, not all the way through the skin? Someone earn a +5 informative and explain this!
In additional to the Dublin Dr. Pepper already mentioned, most grocery stores here in Austin sell Mexican Coke (heh) and Sprite, and others on occasion. It has real sugar instead of corn syrup as well.
Unlike printed guides, which have to limit show descriptions to one or two lines at best, digital guides can be as detailed as you wish. By providing your own RSS feed of your schedule, you could increase the information given, which should increase the number of people willing to watch your channel. Even though I have a DVR I still watch (interesting) commercials, so don't completely write off my viewership.
And here's how you can directly make money:
By providing your own guide information, you can insert sponsorship lines and charge for them.
"Tonight on Lost, sponsored by Coca-Cola, Jack and Kate have more awkward sexual tension, while Hurley tries to cheer everyone up, Sawyer acts rudely, and Sayid kills someone with his feet."
Even us DVR users will very often look at the guide information. Voila, you've just sold an ad!
Yeah, the "environment impact of farming" on a typical farm, which is mostly covered with a stable ecosystem of plants and animals, is a lot lighter than the impact of a power-sucking, air-conditioned, steel-and-concrete skyscraper.
Your "stable ecosystem" farm probably requires tankloads of fertilizers and pesticides to keep production going, and likely has a massive bio waste problem with methane and manure run off. Most farms are anything but "stable" and "environmentally friendly".
On the other hand, density can be used to compensate for poor environmental impact. For example, the environmental impact of a skyscraper is greater than that of a single-family house, but the environmental impact of a skyscraper is lower than that of 500 single-family houses, each on a 9000 square foot manicured lot where there used to be a forest, provided the land not used by the skyscraper is conserved as the forest.
There are counties in Texas with as few as 60 residents.* What if one of them doesn't want to be a state legislator?
Why should those 60 people have as much say in the state's government as the 2.3 million people in Dallas or 1.7 million in Tarrant county?
* Loving County, from 2006 estimates
The post office will provide you with a money order for a reasonable fee, and there's no place in the country that will refuse a postal money order.
Yeah! That way Iowa, with its 99 counties, can have more representatives than Florida, with just 67.
Or wait.. then the Florida legislature redraws the state to have 1000 counties! Woo hoo they run the country!
#1: future potential employers who use juvenile commentary on someone's sexuality in a hiring decision are just as retarded and juvenile as the comments themselves, and therefore:
a. aren't worth working for.
b. actionable in a court of law WAY more than the juvenile commentary is.
A) The person doing the search probably isn't going to be your boss. It's going to be some tard in HR. You can't avoid working for any company with a tard in HR, unless you plan to be self-employed. =p
B) You'll never know that's why you were rejected, so you'll never have grounds to sue. Unless, of course, you sue because you "know you were better qualified than the other guy", which would again plaster bad info about you on the web.
obviously, that's stupid. so why is a G.I.S. that reveals the same puerile commentary any more respectable. "i saw it on the teh intarweb, so it must be respectable and true"
See point 1A. HR tards can be discriminatory in both fashions if they so choose. The odds are that they won't see the rest stop material, however.
There is a reason libel and slander are illegal. In this case, the anonymous nature of internet speech will protect the person who committed the libel, but the person or company hosting the libel, if it is proven to be such, should be required to take it down. Note I don't think the host committed the libel: the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA take care of that. The material should still be pulled in a no-fault action.
Somehow Spencer's manages to stay in business as a chain, so there must be quite a market for gag gifts...
If an individual in China posted his "isellgold.ch" web site and asked for your credit card number, would you give it to him? If he doesn't farm your server, would you do a google search through hundreds of hack, warez, and cheats sites until you find one with a link to someone who farms your server and accepts credit cards?
The middlemen act as a "legitimate" front to a distributed back-end operation. I don't think there's any doubt that they are necessary for this operation.
Now, regarding the price, other posts have established that the farmers are paid a little better than the going rate for unskilled labor in China. US customers pay the going rate for gold, based on years of market experience on the part of the middlemen. The middlemen pocket the difference because neither end complains.
The free market doesn't work to minimize prices. It works to find a balance between bid and ask price in a transaction. In this case, ask prices on the farmer end are low, and bid prices on the consumer end are high, so the market acted to create middlemen to absorb the difference.
Bullshit. In both cases, if the hardware fails, the service tech can simply utilize his own software for the troubleshooting.
For the Victrola, the tech can play an RCA record, verify the player doesn't work, and perform amends. For the computer, the tech can boot the machine from CD or boot it into a special diagnostics partition, verify the hardware doesn't work, and perform amends. There's no difference.
If Dell would simply change their requirements so that you much retain their diagnostics partition to receive a hardware warranty, this problem would go away. I don't know anyone who needs 50MB that badly on their drive.
You can't recognize revenue for a service that has not yet been provided. Regulators will be all over your ass.
Heck, you can't even recognize revenue that you've already received for a service that has not yet been provided. If you sell something with a service contract attached, for example, you have to recognize the revenue for the service contract over the life of the contract, not at the time of sale, even though you collected all the revenue at the time of the sale.
That's why, when something is sold with a service contract, somewhere the price of the item and the price of the contract will be broken out. That way it's clear what part they can recognize up front (the item price) and what part must be deferred (the contract price).
using your analogy, when you use a rest stop on the highway, and you see the retarded commentary on the walls, does it devastate you? emotionally damage you? no. you just roll your eyes and forget about it 10 seconds later. so why would the snarky juvenile idiocy damage you on the internet?
To be fair, future potential employers won't drive by that rest stop to see if there's anything written about you, and use that as part of the hiring decision.
Indeed. Until a few years ago, my company (a producer of electronic test and measurement equipment) washed every circuit board we made, just after they were assembled. This was with de-ionized water, and was used to clean the flux off the boards.
We only stopped because using no-clean flux and skipping the wash is cheaper.
Using de-i water might be better, but I've gotten electronics completely drenched before without a problem (car stereo soaked in a rain, digital camera underwater for several hours). In all cases, just making sure they are completely dry before being powered is fine. (Make sure you take the batteries out so asap!)
I don't know, perhaps there is a gadget that can tell me how long I would live without my gadgets.
There is.
1001011010100100 - Well with this information I have no choice but to rule the defendant innocent... oh wait...
1001011010100101!! That changes everything! - I have no choice but to rule the defendant guilty !
Well, in your example, bit 0 is clearly the evil bit.
Aye, in the Ideal World our annual car registration cost would scale, based on A) the weight of our vehicle, and B) the number of miles we put the car that year.
The problem is that B) assumes we put all the miles on public roads, for which tax must be collected. If I spent my time driving around private neighborhoods, or on toll roads (which are funded separately), or driving in other states, then I shouldn't have to pay taxes on those miles.
Then the Powers That Be say "Well! We'll just put a GPS in your car and charge you for the miles you drive on our roads. That will be easy once we're tracking your every move!" Then I decide I'd rather just keep paying the gas tax.
Duh, I'm assuming that the Powers That Be decide everyone will now use this special, internal version of OpenOffice, then lock down the machines so nothing else can be installed. That's likely no different that now, except now they use Office and the Powers That Be have to go beg at Microsoft for changes.
Why should those who choose to pursue alternative fuel sources automatically get an out on paying for the roads they are going to be driving on with that alternative fuel?
Just because a business model (in this case, using fuel tax to fund roads) was profitable once, that does not guarantee it should or would be profitable for all time. Things change. They need a new way to tax road use.
Tolls are one way, but I find those regressive. Why? Because I drive a car that weighs about 2200 lbs. My car does less damage to roads that a sedan, SUV, or pickup truck that weights 4000-7000 lbs. Thus, I wear out roads less than other cars, but I have yet to see a toll based on weight for any passenger vehicles. The gas tax actually seems fairer to me in this case, because my car has better gas mileage than cars that weigh more.
If you worked with classified documents, you'd end up in jail if you wrote such a program.
Maybe instead the DoD should add a 1/2" red banner at the top of the window that warns "Hidden data exists". Again, much simpler to implement in any open source application than in Windows, especially if the machines cannot run the latest Office.
Dell has an agreement with Goodwill so that computers can be dropped off at Goodwill donation sites to be recycled.
It started here in Austin in 2004, but now I see that they've expanded it to several more states. See the Dell recycling website.
How hard would it be for you to add a warning box that pops up when you try to save, warning you that "hidden data exists, are you sure you want so save with it?"
Would it be easier for you to add that, say by next Tuesday, in Microsoft PowerPoint or an alternative solution?
If only the Feds were using an open-source solution. An open-source slide show program would have been smart enough to realize that they left classified data in the document and would have alerted them prior to the document being released to the public.
How hard would it be to add a feature where hidden text, and graph data off the currently-shown scales, caused the program to throw up a big red warning box whenever the document was saved?
Seems that would be trivial for the US intelligence services to add to OpenOffice.org, what with their $60 billion to spend on it.~~ Might be harder and costlier for them to get Microsoft to add it, especially if that meant they would need to upgrade all computers to Office 2007.
Yes, like everyone thinks that everyone who went to college between 1995 and today has no concept of paying fair value for products they enjoy, if those products happen to be digital.