Granted it's a one-day Christmas promotion, but it just shows they can drop prices pretty low. (Especially since they're hoping to make it all back with ebook sales...)
"The unknown persons then demanded that [victim 1] and [her sister, victim 2, who was actually in the picture] take their tops off and show their breasts on the Skype camera or he would post the photos on their Facebook walls for all of their friends to see. The unknown person told [the sisters] they had 10 seconds to do this. The girls attempted to stall the unknown person. In retaliation for not complying within 10 seconds, the unknown person, without authorisation, logged into [a friend of both girls'] Facebook account and added the [topless] photo of [victim 2] to [the friend's] Facebook wall. The unknown person then instant messaged [the victim] on Skype and sent the link to Facebook with the compromising photo attached. The link was [sic] the photos he had just put on their Facebook walls since they did not comply to his demands."
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/30/internet-criminals
Amazon's also discounted thousands of ebooks by 80% today. (James Gleick's "Chaos" is just $2.02, and you can buy an ebook version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity for 99 cents!)
Think aboout what "cuts to pensions" means. You work until you're too old to work, and then Mr. Twinkie Man tells you "We actually CAN'T pay you what we'd promised to." The money you have literally spent your whole life expecting...
By the way, last time the same union agreed to a benefits cut, Hostess then welched on their word and went back into Chapter 11 hearings anyways...
But Silver explained Saturday that it's only 86% (instead of 100%) because of the possibility that all the polls have been systematically incorrect. Even in the tightest states, Obama's lead is already greater than the margin of error. The only other outcome would be a game-changing scandal within the next 24 hours - and with early voting already happening,even that wouldn't necessarily change anything now either.
But yes, to his credit, Silver did consider the possibility that all the polls are wrong, and then adjusted his forecast accordingly.
Or does the water get into your hair only after you drink actual water? (Because if so, you could really confuse the investigators by drinking nothing by bottled beverages.) Then they'd end up guessing that you came from wherever the bottling plant was located!
Er, but that movie ends when the "Shop Around The Corner" is driven out of business by the chain bookstore. Kathleen Kelley falls in love with the chain store's owner, Tom Hanks, and surrenders happily to loss of her locally-owned business.
A humorous footnote. Mega-corporation AOL paid $5 million to the producers of the film so they'd change its title to AOL's catch-phrase -- "You've Got Mail" - proving once that even movie-goers themselves have to surrender to the whims of corporations.
Actually, Amazon has already calculated the taxes for every region where they sell. They actually collect that tax when they're re-selling items from other retailers (for example, K-Mart).
So their opposition has nothing to do with the "OMG it'd be an unholy nightmare" scenario. Bezos has even said Amazon incorporated in Seattle specifically for the tax advantage, and Amazon's own shareholder's documents specifically identify sales taxes as a competitive advantage.
But in fact, Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, likes to say that Amazon already collecting state sales taxes. In this year's shareholders' call in June, Bezos told investors that "in more than half of the geographies where we do business - certain states, as well as Europe and Asia - all together, more than half of our business is in jurisdictions where we already collect sales tax or its equivalent, like the value-added tax."
The point of the stimulus was to pump more money into the economy. In fact, the biggest problem Obama had was finding "shovel-ready" projects that could actually accept federal money immediately, so the money could start flowing back into the rest of the economy. So while Gingrich's group is complaining about how much money was spent, that's actually a measure of its success. New money went to all the individual workers installing the broadband -- who presumably then spent it on groceries, rent, and things for their families that they bought in their local communities. (Which in turn benefited the local stores which sold them the goods...)
Besides, as geeks we should know the other metric of success. Networks become more effective when more people are using them. (See "The Network Effect" on Wikipedia.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect So it's the difference between saying "everybody" has access to the internet, and saying "almost everybody" has access. That's important in a lot of ways, not just to online business like Amazon and eBay, but also to democratic online communities, where a good internet connection lets you participate fully in the giant global conversation that's happening. It's basically a new form of "infrastructure" -- like highways and public schools -- and while you can't necessarily quantify the benefits, that doesn't mean you shouldn't build them.
That's the underlying premise of this study -- that the government shouldn't spend money on things. It deliberately overlooks the benefits -- more jobs and a better data infrastructure -- to focus instead on an arbitrarily-chosen alternate criteria, its cost per household.
The point of the stimulus was to pump more money into the economy. In fact, the biggest problem Obama had was finding "shovel-ready" projects that could actually accept federal money immediately, so the money could start flowing back into the rest of the economy. So while Gingrich's group is complaining about how much money was spent, that's actually a measure of its success. New money went to all the individual workers installing the broadband -- who presumably then spent it on groceries, rent, and things for their families that they bought in their local communities. (Which in turn benefited the local stores which sold them the goods...)
Besides, as geeks we should know the other metric of success. Networks become more effective when more people are using them. (See "The Network Effect" on Wikipedia.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect So it's the difference between saying "everybody" has access to the internet, and saying "almost everybody" has access. That's important in a lot of ways, not just to online business like Amazon and eBay, but also to democratic online communities, where a good internet connection lets you participate fully in the giant global conversation that's happening. It's basically a new form of "infrastructure" -- like highways and public schools -- and while you can't necessarily quantify the benefits, that doesn't mean you shouldn't build them.
That's the underlying premise of this study -- that the government shouldn't spend money on things. It deliberately overlooks the benefits -- more jobs and a better data infrastructure -- to focus instead on an arbitrarily-chosen alternate criteria, its cost per household.
The judge obviously hasn't seen Star Trek III...
Captain Kirk and his crew risk their lives to save Spock. And when he asks them why, Kirk replies "The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many."
And then Spock raises an eyebrow...
Maybe the female college students are already smart enough to fix their own computers, and don't need a big strong man-brain to show them how.
For that matter, aren't there any female nerds who'd like also to be appreciated for the technical skills? Can they auction themselves off to the highest bidder too?
This story is demeaning to women and to geeks.
...he wrote back cheerily, saying that an employee "took me out to eat, gave me some YouTube shirts and told me to come back!" But when he went back to camp in YouTube's lobby, a security guard stopped him at the elevator...
Slashdot Mirror
Amazon's selling Kindles today for just $49
http://www.beyond-black-friday.com/2013/12/17/amazon-discounts-kindles-to-49/
Granted it's a one-day Christmas promotion, but it just shows they can drop prices pretty low. (Especially since they're hoping to make it all back with ebook sales...)
How about a light that just stays green longer if it detects more traffic in one direction than another?
"The unknown persons then demanded that [victim 1] and [her sister, victim 2, who was actually in the picture] take their tops off and show their breasts on the Skype camera or he would post the photos on their Facebook walls for all of their friends to see. The unknown person told [the sisters] they had 10 seconds to do this. The girls attempted to stall the unknown person. In retaliation for not complying within 10 seconds, the unknown person, without authorisation, logged into [a friend of both girls'] Facebook account and added the [topless] photo of [victim 2] to [the friend's] Facebook wall. The unknown person then instant messaged [the victim] on Skype and sent the link to Facebook with the compromising photo attached. The link was [sic] the photos he had just put on their Facebook walls since they did not comply to his demands." http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/30/internet-criminals
Amazon's also discounted thousands of ebooks by 80% today. (James Gleick's "Chaos" is just $2.02, and you can buy an ebook version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity for 99 cents!)
http://www.beyond-black-friday.com/2012/11/26/80-discounts-on-kindle-ebooks-for-cyber-monday/
I bet it's just a pun. They found evidence of past earthquakes, so the news WILL be "earth shaking."
Think aboout what "cuts to pensions" means. You work until you're too old to work, and then Mr. Twinkie Man tells you "We actually CAN'T pay you what we'd promised to." The money you have literally spent your whole life expecting...
By the way, last time the same union agreed to a benefits cut, Hostess then welched on their word and went back into Chapter 11 hearings anyways...
http://m.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/why-didnt-hostess-workers-believe-the-threats/2012/11/16/0638138e-302f-11e2-a30e-5ca76eeec857_story.html
I was really surprised there were almost no comments on this story...
It's his commitment to openness that makes him special. It's WHY he writes. But it also gives him more credibility.
Kind of like Linux.
But Silver explained Saturday that it's only 86% (instead of 100%) because of the possibility that all the polls have been systematically incorrect. Even in the tightest states, Obama's lead is already greater than the margin of error. The only other outcome would be a game-changing scandal within the next 24 hours - and with early voting already happening,even that wouldn't necessarily change anything now either. But yes, to his credit, Silver did consider the possibility that all the polls are wrong, and then adjusted his forecast accordingly.
"Which do you think is easier to get through Congress?"
Bad question. The former cannot exist without the latter.
Then how'd we get a deficit of $1 trillion?
Or does the water get into your hair only after you drink actual water? (Because if so, you could really confuse the investigators by drinking nothing by bottled beverages.) Then they'd end up guessing that you came from wherever the bottling plant was located!
What if the martians ARE rocks?!
It's even worse. Today Amazon just announced a surprise 32% discount on their Kindle DX tablets!
http://www.beyond-black-friday.com/2011/11/24/amazon-announces-a-black-friday-sale-on-the-kindle-dx/
Another interesting random statistic: The number of zombie ebooks in Amazon's Kindle store has increased by 13.9% since September. (Which is now four times as many zombie books as are in the library of Congress.) http://www.beyond-black-friday.com/2011/10/29/how-zombies-conquered-the-kindle/
A humorous footnote. Mega-corporation AOL paid $5 million to the producers of the film so they'd change its title to AOL's catch-phrase -- "You've Got Mail" - proving once that even movie-goers themselves have to surrender to the whims of corporations.
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2990
So their opposition has nothing to do with the "OMG it'd be an unholy nightmare" scenario. Bezos has even said Amazon incorporated in Seattle specifically for the tax advantage, and Amazon's own shareholder's documents specifically identify sales taxes as a competitive advantage.
But in fact, Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, likes to say that Amazon already collecting state sales taxes. In this year's shareholders' call in June, Bezos told investors that "in more than half of the geographies where we do business - certain states, as well as Europe and Asia - all together, more than half of our business is in jurisdictions where we already collect sales tax or its equivalent, like the value-added tax."
Hey! Destinyland didn't say that. Timothy did.
Sincerely,
Destinyland
[Now with Paragraph breaks!]
The point of the stimulus was to pump more money into the economy. In fact, the biggest problem Obama had was finding "shovel-ready" projects that could actually accept federal money immediately, so the money could start flowing back into the rest of the economy. So while Gingrich's group is complaining about how much money was spent, that's actually a measure of its success. New money went to all the individual workers installing the broadband -- who presumably then spent it on groceries, rent, and things for their families that they bought in their local communities. (Which in turn benefited the local stores which sold them the goods...)
Besides, as geeks we should know the other metric of success. Networks become more effective when more people are using them. (See "The Network Effect" on Wikipedia.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect So it's the difference between saying "everybody" has access to the internet, and saying "almost everybody" has access. That's important in a lot of ways, not just to online business like Amazon and eBay, but also to democratic online communities, where a good internet connection lets you participate fully in the giant global conversation that's happening. It's basically a new form of "infrastructure" -- like highways and public schools -- and while you can't necessarily quantify the benefits, that doesn't mean you shouldn't build them.
That's the underlying premise of this study -- that the government shouldn't spend money on things. It deliberately overlooks the benefits -- more jobs and a better data infrastructure -- to focus instead on an arbitrarily-chosen alternate criteria, its cost per household.
The point of the stimulus was to pump more money into the economy. In fact, the biggest problem Obama had was finding "shovel-ready" projects that could actually accept federal money immediately, so the money could start flowing back into the rest of the economy. So while Gingrich's group is complaining about how much money was spent, that's actually a measure of its success. New money went to all the individual workers installing the broadband -- who presumably then spent it on groceries, rent, and things for their families that they bought in their local communities. (Which in turn benefited the local stores which sold them the goods...) Besides, as geeks we should know the other metric of success. Networks become more effective when more people are using them. (See "The Network Effect" on Wikipedia.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect So it's the difference between saying "everybody" has access to the internet, and saying "almost everybody" has access. That's important in a lot of ways, not just to online business like Amazon and eBay, but also to democratic online communities, where a good internet connection lets you participate fully in the giant global conversation that's happening. It's basically a new form of "infrastructure" -- like highways and public schools -- and while you can't necessarily quantify the benefits, that doesn't mean you shouldn't build them. That's the underlying premise of this study -- that the government shouldn't spend money on things. It deliberately overlooks the benefits -- more jobs and a better data infrastructure -- to focus instead on an arbitrarily-chosen alternate criteria, its cost per household.
The judge obviously hasn't seen Star Trek III... Captain Kirk and his crew risk their lives to save Spock. And when he asks them why, Kirk replies "The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many." And then Spock raises an eyebrow...
Hey! My original submission just linked to this entirely different web site instead.
After reading that article, I went the extra mile to dig up the original research paper, because I thought it would make it more authoritative.
If you're in California, you might want to contact your Senator and let her know how you feel about this.
Senator Dianne Feinstein
United States Senate
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
TTY/TDD: (202) 224-2501
Or you can email her at this link
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe
Maybe the female college students are already smart enough to fix their own computers, and don't need a big strong man-brain to show them how. For that matter, aren't there any female nerds who'd like also to be appreciated for the technical skills? Can they auction themselves off to the highest bidder too? This story is demeaning to women and to geeks.
You forgot to say: "I am aware of the irony of using the internet to decry the internet's over-commercialization..."