seen the price of transplants or AIDS drugs... the government doesn't have a problem with companies profiting while people die. All the farm subsidies do is make the wrong food too cheap. That's why all the poor people in this country are fat, because crap is underpriced and good food they should be eating is "luxury".
why shouldn't farmers go for ethanol. "Conservatives" have derided the federal subsidy for "lazy" farmers for years (while cashing in their monasto stocks, of course) now farmers have a chance to sell their excess corn and allow the market to set a price rather than the government and conservatives get all upset their food bill goes up. Why should food be cheap, cell phones aren't cheap, cars aren't cheap, why shouldn't farmers be looking for new markets for their goods like everybody else!!
but the main reason we use corn is that the price of corn is below the cost for the farmer to grow it... and we have square miles of it piled up lying around, that's why it's subsidized. Farmers see ethanol as a way to sell their crop at a PROFIT... imagine that.
The original Model T was designed to run on Ethanol, the idea of Ford was that the farmers could still their own from their own crops. It wasn't until Rockefeller got involved that the political tables turned to oil.. and because of the higher temps of gas engines, they had to use Lead additive as a buffer (which they already knew was poisonous) versus ethanol, which ran cooler but wasn't "flashy".
because companies work with fewer people on tighter schedules that ever before. At my company we can work a customer's order into our schedule in a matter of a few days. That's less time than to mail a letter of request. Sales/planning staff can't be disconnected for multiple days in a world like that. If somebody has to wait 2-3 days for a call-back they're calling somebody else who can take their order now.
Also, many support people are especially thin. For the system I admin, I'm the only one left. Many traveling support staff have been cut to the bone. They need to answer email requests while traveling between on-site visits in order to make SLA times. Sure, the company could hire more workers, but they'd have to pay them less to make up for that!
"I looked a bit weird at one airport. My first flight had been overbooked, and then canceled due to mechanical problems. The next flight they could put me on was 6 hours later. I found a smoking lounge with available power outlets, with a restroom and bar close by, but there were no flights going through that end of the terminal at the time. I set up camp, answering calls, checking my email, and walking over to the bar picking up more drinks. The only other people in the smoking lounge were airport employees and TSA agents. After a little chitchat, they were perfectly happy to watch my gear while I went for bathroom breaks and more drinks.
Once good and intoxicated, airplane seats get quite a bit more comfortable, and I can usually sleep for the whole flight. I prefer to go to sleep before they push back, and wake up when it touches down."
Wow, that sounds like a pretty good setup for tech support! You usually can't get enough alcohol in your system at your work place to enjoy the job properly.
I'd think you were a model traveler as well, quite and knocked out the whole trip! I think you're on to something.
The REAL problem is that the US Government spent years training not-nice people in every cracked out way of hurting others imaginable. THEY have a bunch of these tactics THEY use against people THEY don't like and just assume regular folks are just as depraved about killing random folks as they are.
last I checked the higher up the food chain, you got paid more, and went to "business" lunches that lasted half the day. I'd say it's the opposite, the people at the top take care of themselves... so what does that say when they demand less for everybody else?
I think there's two reasons for that. First, you generally have an airline-imposed time limit to eat in. Sure, there are nicer places, but if you have a 60 minute layover that's only 30 to eat, unless you have much longer. Along the same lines you're limited to what is between the two gates for arriving and departing, or nearby. If it's the "wrong" way, you're probably not going there. The fast food giants are getting in the game because it's what they do...and people know what to expect (it's pretty low, but known)
I think 9/11 hurt the "real" airport restaurants as well. You used to meet people at the airport gate when they came to visit, then maybe sit at one of the nicer places for dinner. Now getting past the ticket counter or hanging around after deboarding is forbidden, and that cuts off any nicer restaurants from the local visitors they'd need to stay in business.
it would be one with apps that are USEFUL and not junk!
Tablet PCs never caught on because there's only 2-3 apps DESIGNED for tablets not made by Microsoft. The majority of apps on tablets in the real world I've seen are just VB programs for data entry with little benefits on a tablet versus a laptop.
Apple has the app store and it has multi-touch apps that all do cool stuff with the hardware... Tablet PC had a 7 year run all by itself and nobody stepped up with the must-have apps. A 10" iPod Touch, with access to all the iPhone/Touch apps existing right now, would take off. Not to mention the new apps that might work on an iPhone but really need more real estate.. like editing photos or web browsing.
Hardware wise, the current Touch probably supports a 10" screen in hardware so it would be really cheap and easy for Apple to release this. Rumor has also been that iPhone OS 3 has support for bigger screens and requires UI resolution independence so apps made for an iPhone or Touch will look correct on bigger screens.
I'm sticking to an extra large iPod Touch. Right now the Touch is a stripped down iPhone and really there's not a lot of reason to buy it. Now that 9-10" 10x6 displays are dirt cheap, now would be the time to build an iPod Touch out of one. It would be bigger, but the Touch electronics and battery are really small.... it would be like the screen of current netbooks. Toss in the standard mini webcam and mic (again practically free now) for taking audio notes and using pictures. They'll be unlocking bluetooth in the gen 2 Touch soon, so for a 10" screen hopefully they'd open up the Apple keyboard for input.
Apple is committed to iPhone and the app store right now. I can't see any device smaller than a Macbook running the desktop OSX. They are also looking to roll their own chips now, so again hitting the low power tablet factor they don't have to share is definitely how they roll.
The key is that Google is charging money for these names.. that is enough value of "doing business" with the trademarked name but not with it's registered owner. This is similar to cybersquatting on domain names. Just because the trademarked name doesn't have somebody paying for ads doesn't mean Google can charge for ads against that name+field+keywords in it's "newspaper".
Like cybersquatting, once money starts changing hands to approve or deny service, then it becomes a trademark issue because the law says Hydra gets exclusive use of the name in their field of many headed pets. As soon as Google sells the Hydra name to Medusa, Google is accepting money to advertise against a name that's not Medusa's to have. Lack of use on Google's service is still not a right for somebody else to use the name.
I know it gets abuse by Gucci's and Rollerblades suing every body under the sun, but the case is valid. The key is that another advertiser is paying when somebody looks up another's name specifically, not just the "mythical many headed pet" keywords.
exactly, the ethics of lawyering is to argue the best possible legal case for your client no matter what side they're on. The law changes relatively slowly, and the other side has access to all the same rules they need to be following.
After all, is the DA going to petition the court for "fair" sentencing or are they going to demand "throwing the book" even for a minor offense? Lots of poor kids sit in jail for years (and get convicted of inflated, harsher crimes) for something a good lawyer makes "probation" for somebody with even a little bit of money.
exactly, ICANN has given control of local domains to local countries... it's just that the "big" names still reside in the US.
Each individual country has control over assigning it's own domain names. The only reason the EU wants ICANN out from under the US government is that it can then be sued within an inch of it's life in every single nation that wants more restrictions. People in the EU don't really understand that all ICANN gives out are names, I believe another group grants IP ranges, so ICANN has no real power. Even international enforcement has been put under WIPO rules rather than US court rules. Being under the US government shields it from many of the petty lawsuits, like when the Google execs were arrested over a YouTube video... making it private removes the shield and lets governments like the EU have their way.
sales or engineering info has very time-sensitive value. Even without leaking sales information, knowledge of what customers are getting bad product (that a truck driver would know) and what customers are ready to jump ship can make another employer some easy contracts. In engineering there's lots of principals that aren't "patentable" but maybe key to a process, as many things are a race to ship first knowledge of what DIDN'T work is more valuable than the secret sauce if only to save the new company money!
Look at it another way. The company choose to stop paying your wage... therefore the information or job you hold was not worth enough for THEM to keep paying for so it shouldn't stop you from getting another job with those skills. And again... they stopped PAYING you for your information so why can't you go elsewhere too.
Courts are usually very civil on these things in terms of keeping a person working. Even in the case with IBM and Apple, Apple was able to give the guy a token job "on the couch" for 9 months to fulfil the non-compete obligations...but again the guy still got a paycheck during the time and that's what keeps the judge happy.
That's the funny thing. This is a TRACKING database. Like when you get carded for OTC medication because there are "bad" uses for it. The people with their info in the database don't necessarily KNOW they're in the database. You just take your script to the pharmacy and they file the appropriate computer forms. YOU aren't supposed to know when that triggers so that they can prevent people "shopping" for multiple doctors to write scripts for the "bad" drugs.
The information is useless to the state. They'd just make the pharmacies retype all the information back into it... it's not their dime.
On the other hand the REAL goldmine is who's on what controlled drugs!!! Who's on pain killers, who's on anti-depressants, who's on experimental drugs for cancer... it's all in there!! This is STATE WIDE and most of the population of Virginia is right next to Washington DC, works in Washington DC... the possibilities for blackmail of private and public sector workers are endless. Somebody was really, really stupid to make a public threat.... they'll have all of DC after them to keep private medical information private.
what's the problem with that? It's his extension, are you really too much of a cheap bastard to reward him for his work. You said yourself you can see what sites he whitelisted so he's not hiding it.
I think the cross site ad thing has gone too far, but ads do pay for bandwidth, it's not really fair to surf sites like slashdot, that do a good job of keeping them to a minimum, and skip the ads. I think noscript serves a useful purpose in controlling your connections and scripts as well as diagnosing hacking attempt... ad block seems to be for cheapskates.
but that's the point, there's no need for DRM because companies are already compensated for it. And Canada still does takedowns so things like the Pirate Bay are clearly illegal there. They're not rolling over and it's pissing the *aa off.
Like other posters have said, there's no way to protect the people from these clowns. They write the laws and fund the campaigns.... they send people to spend 60 hours a week lobbying about just this per politician! There's nobody with time to spend arguing for us to keep what we've already got!!!!
except that Canada passed a law to levy digital mediums to compensate the Canadian copyright firms for their "lost" sales. There's already a "tax" on fair use defined into law... there's no need to make new laws to make things more complicated.
they did a better job explaining it in the clone wars. It was on the internet (and TV) that makes it better than a silly book! Parsecs are how long the flight plan is so if your calculations can be that much quicker and that much more accurate, then you can take the shorter path.... because hyperspace is just 1 speed you get there quicker.
Frankly, George pulled the space-words out of his ass and fans fixed it later. I'd say that the novels aren't George Lucas cannon (he violates them whenever he damn well pleases, no matter how much work the continuity/licensing department puts in). The Clone Wars is on TV which is official GL cannon... Which totally butchers just about every planet and alien species in 30 years of roleplaying books and official novels and comics... ooo shiny!
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most MMORG boxes have fine print that the company reserves the right to end the online features with 30 days notice... this is it!
Of course I still see boxes of Tabula Rasa on shelves... nobody's bothered to tell the stores the game's closed!
seen the price of transplants or AIDS drugs... the government doesn't have a problem with companies profiting while people die. All the farm subsidies do is make the wrong food too cheap. That's why all the poor people in this country are fat, because crap is underpriced and good food they should be eating is "luxury".
why shouldn't farmers go for ethanol. "Conservatives" have derided the federal subsidy for "lazy" farmers for years (while cashing in their monasto stocks, of course) now farmers have a chance to sell their excess corn and allow the market to set a price rather than the government and conservatives get all upset their food bill goes up. Why should food be cheap, cell phones aren't cheap, cars aren't cheap, why shouldn't farmers be looking for new markets for their goods like everybody else!!
but the main reason we use corn is that the price of corn is below the cost for the farmer to grow it... and we have square miles of it piled up lying around, that's why it's subsidized. Farmers see ethanol as a way to sell their crop at a PROFIT... imagine that.
The original Model T was designed to run on Ethanol, the idea of Ford was that the farmers could still their own from their own crops. It wasn't until Rockefeller got involved that the political tables turned to oil.. and because of the higher temps of gas engines, they had to use Lead additive as a buffer (which they already knew was poisonous) versus ethanol, which ran cooler but wasn't "flashy".
because companies work with fewer people on tighter schedules that ever before. At my company we can work a customer's order into our schedule in a matter of a few days. That's less time than to mail a letter of request. Sales/planning staff can't be disconnected for multiple days in a world like that. If somebody has to wait 2-3 days for a call-back they're calling somebody else who can take their order now.
Also, many support people are especially thin. For the system I admin, I'm the only one left. Many traveling support staff have been cut to the bone. They need to answer email requests while traveling between on-site visits in order to make SLA times. Sure, the company could hire more workers, but they'd have to pay them less to make up for that!
"I looked a bit weird at one airport. My first flight had been overbooked, and then canceled due to mechanical problems. The next flight they could put me on was 6 hours later. I found a smoking lounge with available power outlets, with a restroom and bar close by, but there were no flights going through that end of the terminal at the time. I set up camp, answering calls, checking my email, and walking over to the bar picking up more drinks. The only other people in the smoking lounge were airport employees and TSA agents. After a little chitchat, they were perfectly happy to watch my gear while I went for bathroom breaks and more drinks.
Once good and intoxicated, airplane seats get quite a bit more comfortable, and I can usually sleep for the whole flight. I prefer to go to sleep before they push back, and wake up when it touches down."
Wow, that sounds like a pretty good setup for tech support! You usually can't get enough alcohol in your system at your work place to enjoy the job properly.
I'd think you were a model traveler as well, quite and knocked out the whole trip! I think you're on to something.
The REAL problem is that the US Government spent years training not-nice people in every cracked out way of hurting others imaginable. THEY have a bunch of these tactics THEY use against people THEY don't like and just assume regular folks are just as depraved about killing random folks as they are.
last I checked the higher up the food chain, you got paid more, and went to "business" lunches that lasted half the day. I'd say it's the opposite, the people at the top take care of themselves... so what does that say when they demand less for everybody else?
I think there's two reasons for that. First, you generally have an airline-imposed time limit to eat in. Sure, there are nicer places, but if you have a 60 minute layover that's only 30 to eat, unless you have much longer. Along the same lines you're limited to what is between the two gates for arriving and departing, or nearby. If it's the "wrong" way, you're probably not going there. The fast food giants are getting in the game because it's what they do...and people know what to expect (it's pretty low, but known)
I think 9/11 hurt the "real" airport restaurants as well. You used to meet people at the airport gate when they came to visit, then maybe sit at one of the nicer places for dinner. Now getting past the ticket counter or hanging around after deboarding is forbidden, and that cuts off any nicer restaurants from the local visitors they'd need to stay in business.
either way the person should have just sued for slander/liable/defamation.... the cops should have known the matter was not theirs to deal with.
did you know with POTS they can find out where you're at by following the wire!!!!
it would be one with apps that are USEFUL and not junk!
Tablet PCs never caught on because there's only 2-3 apps DESIGNED for tablets not made by Microsoft. The majority of apps on tablets in the real world I've seen are just VB programs for data entry with little benefits on a tablet versus a laptop.
Apple has the app store and it has multi-touch apps that all do cool stuff with the hardware... Tablet PC had a 7 year run all by itself and nobody stepped up with the must-have apps. A 10" iPod Touch, with access to all the iPhone/Touch apps existing right now, would take off. Not to mention the new apps that might work on an iPhone but really need more real estate.. like editing photos or web browsing.
Hardware wise, the current Touch probably supports a 10" screen in hardware so it would be really cheap and easy for Apple to release this. Rumor has also been that iPhone OS 3 has support for bigger screens and requires UI resolution independence so apps made for an iPhone or Touch will look correct on bigger screens.
I'm sticking to an extra large iPod Touch. Right now the Touch is a stripped down iPhone and really there's not a lot of reason to buy it. Now that 9-10" 10x6 displays are dirt cheap, now would be the time to build an iPod Touch out of one. It would be bigger, but the Touch electronics and battery are really small.... it would be like the screen of current netbooks. Toss in the standard mini webcam and mic (again practically free now) for taking audio notes and using pictures. They'll be unlocking bluetooth in the gen 2 Touch soon, so for a 10" screen hopefully they'd open up the Apple keyboard for input.
Apple is committed to iPhone and the app store right now. I can't see any device smaller than a Macbook running the desktop OSX. They are also looking to roll their own chips now, so again hitting the low power tablet factor they don't have to share is definitely how they roll.
The key is that Google is charging money for these names.. that is enough value of "doing business" with the trademarked name but not with it's registered owner. This is similar to cybersquatting on domain names. Just because the trademarked name doesn't have somebody paying for ads doesn't mean Google can charge for ads against that name+field+keywords in it's "newspaper".
Like cybersquatting, once money starts changing hands to approve or deny service, then it becomes a trademark issue because the law says Hydra gets exclusive use of the name in their field of many headed pets. As soon as Google sells the Hydra name to Medusa, Google is accepting money to advertise against a name that's not Medusa's to have. Lack of use on Google's service is still not a right for somebody else to use the name.
I know it gets abuse by Gucci's and Rollerblades suing every body under the sun, but the case is valid. The key is that another advertiser is paying when somebody looks up another's name specifically, not just the "mythical many headed pet" keywords.
exactly, the ethics of lawyering is to argue the best possible legal case for your client no matter what side they're on. The law changes relatively slowly, and the other side has access to all the same rules they need to be following.
After all, is the DA going to petition the court for "fair" sentencing or are they going to demand "throwing the book" even for a minor offense? Lots of poor kids sit in jail for years (and get convicted of inflated, harsher crimes) for something a good lawyer makes "probation" for somebody with even a little bit of money.
exactly, ICANN has given control of local domains to local countries... it's just that the "big" names still reside in the US.
Each individual country has control over assigning it's own domain names. The only reason the EU wants ICANN out from under the US government is that it can then be sued within an inch of it's life in every single nation that wants more restrictions. People in the EU don't really understand that all ICANN gives out are names, I believe another group grants IP ranges, so ICANN has no real power. Even international enforcement has been put under WIPO rules rather than US court rules. Being under the US government shields it from many of the petty lawsuits, like when the Google execs were arrested over a YouTube video... making it private removes the shield and lets governments like the EU have their way.
Hey there, there are at least 6 places left to program RPGII ... at least until another auto maker goes bankrupt....
RPGII is cool!!!
sales or engineering info has very time-sensitive value. Even without leaking sales information, knowledge of what customers are getting bad product (that a truck driver would know) and what customers are ready to jump ship can make another employer some easy contracts. In engineering there's lots of principals that aren't "patentable" but maybe key to a process, as many things are a race to ship first knowledge of what DIDN'T work is more valuable than the secret sauce if only to save the new company money!
Look at it another way. The company choose to stop paying your wage... therefore the information or job you hold was not worth enough for THEM to keep paying for so it shouldn't stop you from getting another job with those skills. And again... they stopped PAYING you for your information so why can't you go elsewhere too.
Courts are usually very civil on these things in terms of keeping a person working. Even in the case with IBM and Apple, Apple was able to give the guy a token job "on the couch" for 9 months to fulfil the non-compete obligations...but again the guy still got a paycheck during the time and that's what keeps the judge happy.
but the terms of your new job are also under NDA terms with the new company, so that won't work.
That's the funny thing. This is a TRACKING database. Like when you get carded for OTC medication because there are "bad" uses for it. The people with their info in the database don't necessarily KNOW they're in the database. You just take your script to the pharmacy and they file the appropriate computer forms. YOU aren't supposed to know when that triggers so that they can prevent people "shopping" for multiple doctors to write scripts for the "bad" drugs.
The information is useless to the state. They'd just make the pharmacies retype all the information back into it... it's not their dime.
On the other hand the REAL goldmine is who's on what controlled drugs!!! Who's on pain killers, who's on anti-depressants, who's on experimental drugs for cancer... it's all in there!! This is STATE WIDE and most of the population of Virginia is right next to Washington DC, works in Washington DC... the possibilities for blackmail of private and public sector workers are endless. Somebody was really, really stupid to make a public threat.... they'll have all of DC after them to keep private medical information private.
what's the problem with that? It's his extension, are you really too much of a cheap bastard to reward him for his work. You said yourself you can see what sites he whitelisted so he's not hiding it.
I think the cross site ad thing has gone too far, but ads do pay for bandwidth, it's not really fair to surf sites like slashdot, that do a good job of keeping them to a minimum, and skip the ads. I think noscript serves a useful purpose in controlling your connections and scripts as well as diagnosing hacking attempt... ad block seems to be for cheapskates.
but that's the point, there's no need for DRM because companies are already compensated for it. And Canada still does takedowns so things like the Pirate Bay are clearly illegal there. They're not rolling over and it's pissing the *aa off.
Like other posters have said, there's no way to protect the people from these clowns. They write the laws and fund the campaigns.... they send people to spend 60 hours a week lobbying about just this per politician! There's nobody with time to spend arguing for us to keep what we've already got!!!!
except that Canada passed a law to levy digital mediums to compensate the Canadian copyright firms for their "lost" sales. There's already a "tax" on fair use defined into law... there's no need to make new laws to make things more complicated.
they did a better job explaining it in the clone wars. It was on the internet (and TV) that makes it better than a silly book! Parsecs are how long the flight plan is so if your calculations can be that much quicker and that much more accurate, then you can take the shorter path.... because hyperspace is just 1 speed you get there quicker.
Frankly, George pulled the space-words out of his ass and fans fixed it later. I'd say that the novels aren't George Lucas cannon (he violates them whenever he damn well pleases, no matter how much work the continuity/licensing department puts in). The Clone Wars is on TV which is official GL cannon... Which totally butchers just about every planet and alien species in 30 years of roleplaying books and official novels and comics... ooo shiny!