If this doesn't happen, you'll end up paying more and more as corporations figure out how to scam their way onto "basic cable" and stick you with the bill.
Look at what's happened here in New York with the YES network, which is the new sports network run by the NY Yankees. Cablevision, which is my cable provider, said they wouldn't carry YES on their basic cable package, since it was too expensive (around $2 per month per subcriber) and didn't offer enough value for that price. Cablevision offered to carry it as a premium channel, but that wasn't good enough for YES, so they sued and now every cable customer in the tri-state area is paying a two dollar a month "Yankee Tax".
Obviously there are other issues here, but if you're worrying about channels you pay for and don't watch, worry more about sports channels like YES and ESPN, since those are the ones that are often the most expensive.
Measure the employer as much as the contract. It's not always possible to gauge them if you don't know them well, but if they work with you in the beginning, it can tell you a lot about how they will react in the end.
Yes, but the problem with this is, what happens if FriendlyLittleBiz Ltd. that hired you gets bought out by MegaCorp Inc. a few years down the road? MegaCorp may decide that they like the "We Own Your Balls" clause and send you off to the company surgeon to get them removed.
A good relationship with the management is important, but don't let that lull you into a false sense of security. A contract is a contract. A verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Wikipedia isn't some slacker blog or camwhore site looking for a handout. They're a not for profit, charitable organization that provides a valuable resource to the internet community and they need funds to keep this resource available.
Isn't there some good scientific reason to bring it down? I imagine there are probably a lot of engineers who would like to get a chance to closely examine a large, complex object that just spent 20 years in LEO.
SNS is a way to produce high energy neutrons for different types of scientific research. Protons are fired at a liquid mercury target producing the neutrons. It's an alternative way to do neutron research without a nuclear reactor. Some of the staff from my lab are working on the project. It's pretty neat.
Ha! Well, I've thought about it. But seriously, I tried the "just eat less" approach. It didn't work. I tried a low-fat 1200 calorie-per-day approach for a few months quite a while ago and actually gained weight.
Bollocks. Nobody can gain weight on 1200 calories a day unless they're under 90 pounds or completely bedridden. What you mean is that you, like most people, were fooling yourself about how many calories you were eating. I'll bet you a that if I locked you in a room with no access to outside food and fed you on 1200 calories worth of bread, pasta and potatoes a day, you'd lose weight.
Atkins, and other reduced carb diets work. I lost over 85 pounds and my wife lost 40. She did Atkins and I designed my own diet based on Atkins and others ideas.
The reason they work is not beacause there's some sort of cool hack involved, but because you're almost certainly eating less calories. Examine your average hacker diet, all the high calorie, energy dense foods are either straight carbohydrates (like soda or candy) or carbs and fat (donuts, chips, etc.). Eliminate them, and you've just reduced your daily calorie intake by a large amount. Yes, you add back in some protein and fat calories, but it's actually hard to eat that much straight fat and protein. And fat and protein are slower to digest, so they make you feel more full and satisfied for a longer period of time.
For more information than you'd ever want to know about low carb dieting, pick up The Ketogenic Diet by Lyle McDonald.
Well, if the ACLU does not fight this then it would confirm suspicions that they care more about pushing a left-wing agenda than defending the rights of all Americans.
The ACLU has defended groups from one end of the political spectrum to the other, as long as the issues fall within their areas of concern.
Symantec is, or course, a private company, and so may block whatever sites they wish. However, since this type of software is specifed in CIPA, there certainly could be issues there.
I'm actually more on the gun control side of the fence, but this shows the real danger of these types of programs.
Other "nannyware" software in the past has been shown to block access to liberal political sites, now here's one that blocks conservative ones. Maybe this will wake up our elected leaders to the fact that mandating this type of software for libraries and such is bad idea.
I can see parents going to the software store in the future, asking for web filter software and having the retail-droid ask, "Would you like a liberal version or a conservative one?"
The fact that you didn't know this and reported it as fact makes you misinformed. But make no mistake, the people who disseminate this supply-side nonsense are first class liars. They know it's false, but they tell it to the gullible (like you) because it suits their agenda.
First, look at what you wrote. Tax revenues doubled over 10 years (1980 -1990)? Reagan was only president for 8 years. This calculation include a nearly 17% increase in revenue from 1980 to 1981, when Jimmy Carter was president.
Reagan passed his first tax cut in 1982, so why are we talking about 1980? Income tax revenues fell.8% in 1983 and rose 8.5% in 1984. The second tax cut took effect in 1986 and that year income tax revenues rose 5.3 %, compared to 9.2% the year before and 13.3% the year after.
Historically, tax revenues have gone up an average of 11% in the years from 1969 to 1997, so we need to judge the Reagan years versus history
The truth is, when Reagan cut taxes, revenues were less than they should have been. There is no refuting this basic and simple fact.
Judging the Reagan tax cut years (1982 - 1989) by history, we find that revenues increased about 7% a year, 4% less than the historical avaerage. So there was no tidal wave of money from these tax cuts. There was less money in the till than there should have been.
Here's the
Tax Stats Page, all the stats are in Excel files, so I don't want to link to them directly, but if you want to take a little time, you can run all the numbers yourself.
Actually it did work. Reagan said that if you cut taxes across the board (which includes tax cuts for wealthy people) you would increase revenue. The next year, revenue almost doubled.
This is a lie.
Revenue went down after both Reagan tax cuts. It's amazing that idealogues will tell this lie over and over again and people will believe it, when it's trivial to go to the IRS web site and check for yourself.
Copying software isn't stealing it's violation of copyrights and it generally isn't a crime, it's a civil tort.
Installing spy programs on someone elses computer and misapproriating their resources to send information about that computer back to you, OTOH, may certainly be a crime.
I don't see the newsworthy content. In a nutshell, it boils down to:
I've used DOS and Windows for my entire 20 year computer career, except for brief flirtations with Macs and OS/2. Now I've tried Linux and it seems OK.
Is this really news? People try Linux every day. Who is this curly-haired kiwi that his experience is noteworthy?
Are there any real discussion shows left, outside of PBS or NPR.
These shows are all the same, just the faces are different. The whole point of them is to have people scream at each other for 15 minutes and then bring on the next guest.
Even if Jenkins thought Donahue was "different", he should have had his "attack dog" strategy ready to go as a backup.
I remeber my first hard drive, a 40MB Miniscribe RLL drive I bought from Hard Drive International from an they ran in the Computer Shopper.$249 plus shipping.
I went through three of them failing right of the box before I asked them to send me something else.That one was a 60MB drive, but I don't remember the make. Wow, 60 megs. I partitioned it into three drives. I mean, how could anyone use that much storage capacity?
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Look at what's happened here in New York with the YES network, which is the new sports network run by the NY Yankees. Cablevision, which is my cable provider, said they wouldn't carry YES on their basic cable package, since it was too expensive (around $2 per month per subcriber) and didn't offer enough value for that price. Cablevision offered to carry it as a premium channel, but that wasn't good enough for YES, so they sued and now every cable customer in the tri-state area is paying a two dollar a month "Yankee Tax".
Obviously there are other issues here, but if you're worrying about channels you pay for and don't watch, worry more about sports channels like YES and ESPN, since those are the ones that are often the most expensive.
A good relationship with the management is important, but don't let that lull you into a false sense of security. A contract is a contract. A verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on.
It only matters who is intepreting it and who is enforcing it. This is a lesson Microsoft has learned well.
Wikipedia isn't some slacker blog or camwhore site looking for a handout. They're a not for profit, charitable organization that provides a valuable resource to the internet community and they need funds to keep this resource available.
Isn't there some good scientific reason to bring it down? I imagine there are probably a lot of engineers who would like to get a chance to closely examine a large, complex object that just spent 20 years in LEO.
The what and why of the SNS
Has anyone used Tiny Cobol or Open Cobol
---Carl Sagan
Bollocks. Nobody can gain weight on 1200 calories a day unless they're under 90 pounds or completely bedridden. What you mean is that you, like most people, were fooling yourself about how many calories you were eating. I'll bet you a that if I locked you in a room with no access to outside food and fed you on 1200 calories worth of bread, pasta and potatoes a day, you'd lose weight.
Atkins, and other reduced carb diets work. I lost over 85 pounds and my wife lost 40. She did Atkins and I designed my own diet based on Atkins and others ideas.
The reason they work is not beacause there's some sort of cool hack involved, but because you're almost certainly eating less calories. Examine your average hacker diet, all the high calorie, energy dense foods are either straight carbohydrates (like soda or candy) or carbs and fat (donuts, chips, etc.). Eliminate them, and you've just reduced your daily calorie intake by a large amount. Yes, you add back in some protein and fat calories, but it's actually hard to eat that much straight fat and protein. And fat and protein are slower to digest, so they make you feel more full and satisfied for a longer period of time.
For more information than you'd ever want to know about low carb dieting, pick up The Ketogenic Diet by Lyle McDonald.
Symantec is, or course, a private company, and so may block whatever sites they wish. However, since this type of software is specifed in CIPA, there certainly could be issues there.
ACLU on CIPA
Other "nannyware" software in the past has been shown to block access to liberal political sites, now here's one that blocks conservative ones. Maybe this will wake up our elected leaders to the fact that mandating this type of software for libraries and such is bad idea.
I can see parents going to the software store in the future, asking for web filter software and having the retail-droid ask, "Would you like a liberal version or a conservative one?"
The fact that you didn't know this and reported it as fact makes you misinformed. But make no mistake, the people who disseminate this supply-side nonsense are first class liars. They know it's false, but they tell it to the gullible (like you) because it suits their agenda.
First, look at what you wrote. Tax revenues doubled over 10 years (1980 -1990)? Reagan was only president for 8 years. This calculation include a nearly 17% increase in revenue from 1980 to 1981, when Jimmy Carter was president.
Reagan passed his first tax cut in 1982, so why are we talking about 1980? Income tax revenues fell .8% in 1983 and rose 8.5% in 1984. The second tax cut took effect in 1986 and that year income tax revenues rose 5.3 %, compared to 9.2% the year before and 13.3% the year after.
Historically, tax revenues have gone up an average of 11% in the years from 1969 to 1997, so we need to judge the Reagan years versus history The truth is, when Reagan cut taxes, revenues were less than they should have been. There is no refuting this basic and simple fact.
Judging the Reagan tax cut years (1982 - 1989) by history, we find that revenues increased about 7% a year, 4% less than the historical avaerage. So there was no tidal wave of money from these tax cuts. There was less money in the till than there should have been.
Here's the Tax Stats Page, all the stats are in Excel files, so I don't want to link to them directly, but if you want to take a little time, you can run all the numbers yourself.
This is a lie.
Revenue went down after both Reagan tax cuts. It's amazing that idealogues will tell this lie over and over again and people will believe it, when it's trivial to go to the IRS web site and check for yourself.
Installing spy programs on someone elses computer and misapproriating their resources to send information about that computer back to you, OTOH, may certainly be a crime.
Hmmm, sounds a lot like Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan
Interestingly enough, Brookhaven National Laboratory purchased bnl.org from the Bare Naked Ladies fan club.
I think you mean Stallmangrad
Isn't this a duplicate story?
The more you drive, the more gas you buy and no need for big brother to put his hairy eyeball on oyu.
So we should be seeing it some time before the heat death of the universe.
These shows are all the same, just the faces are different. The whole point of them is to have people scream at each other for 15 minutes and then bring on the next guest.
Even if Jenkins thought Donahue was "different", he should have had his "attack dog" strategy ready to go as a backup.
I went through three of them failing right of the box before I asked them to send me something else.That one was a 60MB drive, but I don't remember the make. Wow, 60 megs. I partitioned it into three drives. I mean, how could anyone use that much storage capacity?
Ahem
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