i'm going to guess you're in school and play 30+ hours a week. sorry guy, don't be upset when people with more money than time are willing to part with the former to save them the latter. like you said, it's a game, and just like someone who plays paintball or hockey or whatever is willing to spend real money for better gear so are people in games. if you can't keep up, then find a new game...
"Patents run out after 20 years. Oil profits are good for another 40 years at least,"
Oil Co execs could care less about 40 years down the road. Anyone who's ever spent time working in the private sector knows that the people in the control are concerned only about the next quarter.
Sounds like the contractor was being paid to do one thing but was instead "blogging" about this. Title should read "contractor fired for improper use of company time."
Unfortunately this is the world we seem to live in. People who were screaming about terrorists with underwear on their heads have no problem arguing that this man deserved torture and other fates worse than death.
I'm not sure the market is all everyone is making it out to be. Just how many people have internet access, and of those people how many have the means to be consumers worth advertising to?
I know most people here don't know or care that there's a difference, but not everyone in the military is a "soldier". In fact, most of our service men and women are not soldiers at all.
As a former Marine who served 8+ years in the Corps beginning during Desert Shield I always find it interesting how so many people who clearly have a general disdain for servicemen and women portend to have any clue how things are going in Iraq or elsewhere as it pertains to them.
I'm wondering when the MPAA is going to grab ahold of this and start making DVDs where you can only watch chapter one of the movie after you mastered watching all the trailers just right and so on. The bonus material will of course only be available after you've managed to watch all the trailers and the movie perfectly and if for whatever reason you want to watch the movie on another set top box you'll have to start the whole process over again...
OPEC did in fact do that. Problem is, OPEC is not a "company" or even a group of "companies" that can be regulated by the US. If there were emails proving that this was done by Exxon, Chevron, Mobile, etc... then they could be prosecuted.
Just making sure I'm clear that you support Exxon, Mobil, and Chevron station's rights to get together and collude to sell fuel for less than Billy Ray's Gas Shack in order to run Billy Ray out of business and maintain their market share. Do I have that right?
If this was an example of gas companies colluding to drive out a competitor who's coming to market with an alternative fuel the slashdot crowd would be up in arms.
What if gas companies simply colluded to lower the price with the expectation of driving companies that offered alternative fuels out of the market so that they could see bigger gains in the future? Would you feel the same way?
That's the officer's oath.
Source? Me. I enlisted in the Corps in 1991, 1 month before Clinton took office and it was part of the oath that I took. I was a recruiter for the Corps from 96 to 98 and I remember its removal.
And? Does it change the FACT that it only takes a single mission critical app to dictate if your organization can function with limited rights and MANY organizations have such apps?
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So are we to ignore windows vulnerabilities that wouldn't likely be exploitable for 99% of the userbase?
i'm going to guess you're in school and play 30+ hours a week. sorry guy, don't be upset when people with more money than time are willing to part with the former to save them the latter. like you said, it's a game, and just like someone who plays paintball or hockey or whatever is willing to spend real money for better gear so are people in games. if you can't keep up, then find a new game...
>> So you want millions of uninformed uncaring citizens to start determining national policy? >They already do. people who don't care don't vote.
"Patents run out after 20 years. Oil profits are good for another 40 years at least," Oil Co execs could care less about 40 years down the road. Anyone who's ever spent time working in the private sector knows that the people in the control are concerned only about the next quarter.
Sounds like the contractor was being paid to do one thing but was instead "blogging" about this. Title should read "contractor fired for improper use of company time."
Unfortunately this is the world we seem to live in. People who were screaming about terrorists with underwear on their heads have no problem arguing that this man deserved torture and other fates worse than death.
Like it or not the browser used 4 times as much as any other IS the defacto standard.
http://people.opera.com/howcome/
Actually the policy in question was an attempt to limit the number of choices.
"Aren't things like hurricanes, lightning, and tornados all called 'acts of god', at least by courts and insurance companies?" no. they aren't.
"Science is to religion as truth is to politics" Many of the greatest minds in the history of science have belonged to men/women of faith.
I'm not sure the market is all everyone is making it out to be. Just how many people have internet access, and of those people how many have the means to be consumers worth advertising to?
I know most people here don't know or care that there's a difference, but not everyone in the military is a "soldier". In fact, most of our service men and women are not soldiers at all.
As a former Marine who served 8+ years in the Corps beginning during Desert Shield I always find it interesting how so many people who clearly have a general disdain for servicemen and women portend to have any clue how things are going in Iraq or elsewhere as it pertains to them.
I'm wondering when the MPAA is going to grab ahold of this and start making DVDs where you can only watch chapter one of the movie after you mastered watching all the trailers just right and so on. The bonus material will of course only be available after you've managed to watch all the trailers and the movie perfectly and if for whatever reason you want to watch the movie on another set top box you'll have to start the whole process over again...
OPEC did in fact do that. Problem is, OPEC is not a "company" or even a group of "companies" that can be regulated by the US. If there were emails proving that this was done by Exxon, Chevron, Mobile, etc... then they could be prosecuted.
So that's a yes?
Just making sure I'm clear that you support Exxon, Mobil, and Chevron station's rights to get together and collude to sell fuel for less than Billy Ray's Gas Shack in order to run Billy Ray out of business and maintain their market share. Do I have that right?
If this was an example of gas companies colluding to drive out a competitor who's coming to market with an alternative fuel the slashdot crowd would be up in arms.
What if gas companies simply colluded to lower the price with the expectation of driving companies that offered alternative fuels out of the market so that they could see bigger gains in the future? Would you feel the same way?
"You mean, aside from the arrows?" Well, aside from it not doing anything at all when I click it I suppose you'd say it's working fine then?
That's the officer's oath. Source? Me. I enlisted in the Corps in 1991, 1 month before Clinton took office and it was part of the oath that I took. I was a recruiter for the Corps from 96 to 98 and I remember its removal.
And? Does it change the FACT that it only takes a single mission critical app to dictate if your organization can function with limited rights and MANY organizations have such apps?
You're talking about 2 different things; that is, unless you "work" for the government.