And that's why musicians (guitarists, anyways) INSIST on tube amps.
When you're MAKING music, you don't want an accurate sound, you want a good sound (actually, an accurate sound straight from the pickups of the guitar sounds like crap). When you're listening to it, you should in theory want a more accurate reproduction of what you're playing, since the musicians already worked around the warm tone that they're trying to convey.
It is a basic human right to direct your labors to the achievement of your own ends. A slave is someone whose labors are forced to serve the ends of others, not himself. To the extent that your boss is taking the fruits of your labors to achive it's ends, rather than yours, you are enslaved.
Difference? I think not. So long as people are allowed to profit off the labour of others, there will always be slavery. The best we can hope for is a system in which every employee is given a vote for business practice, and ONLY employees are given said vote.
That's because Harper wishes he (we) were American, Martin wishes we were just like America (I mean, he was finance minister when the transfer payments to the provinces were cut, which is why health care's in the pickle it is today), and noone knows who Layton is.
"I would rather not speculate on that, I'll just comment on the now; We don't dance in the street at the news of thousands of innocent people dying, They do." Bumper Stickers seen circa the beginning of the Iraq war:
"I support our troops"
"God Bless america"
You most definately DO show pride when innocents die.
"A weird one: Where I went to school, if you lived in the better part of town, you were MUCH more likely to have your stuff stolen, even if you took precautions. If you lived in the "bad" part of town, you could leave your doors unlocked---and this is New Jersey we're talking here."
Same deal where i live. The ghetto part of town where all the hookers and crackheads hang out is the safest part of town. in the 'burbs my moms' neighbors got robbed, even though they were broke. I lived in cracktown, never locked the doors, and i had ~10,000 worth of musical equipment lying around... never known anyone to get burglarized there..
I think it's because if you live in cracktown noone assumes you have anything worth anything
No.
That works fine in a commodity market, but when you've got a copyrighted piece of software you're selling, and you drive other competitors out of the market, everyone will be using your piece of software, making the entire market shift over to developing on your particular platform, locking the competition out of the market (ie, it's too expensive to migrate to something else).
"Without law of any kind there is still property. Without law of any kind there is still partnership."
The only "property" you have with no law is whatever you can defend with your bare hands against the ill wishes of others, who might just kill you to get to that property. Besides, what makes the property *yours* anyways? Claiming it's yours?
And without law of any kind, partnership is a damned-fool idea. With no force to enforce the contract you've made, there's nothing keeping the other guy from just running off with the money.
True, but isn't the No-harm, No-foul philosophy the cornerstone of american culture? I mean, where do you draw the line about which directly harmless actions should be legislated against. Should we outlaw any speech promoting alternate political ideologies because it can indirectly harm?
Not neccessarily. I know quite a many liberals who are ruled by intellect. I know for one that I don't subscribe to the ideology because "think of the poor people". I just think it makes more sense to redistribute wealth a little bit, and let people do what they want in their own bedrooms.
Compare this to "think of the children", "homosexuality is wrong because of the bible", etc.
Also, the arguments between redistributing wealth or cutting taxes are both usually backed up by emotion... the emotion is either empathy/compassion (liberals) or greed (conservatives). see "we ought to help the poor" vs. "i EARNED it... so i shouldn't have to give anything back to the society that made it possible for me to earn it"
Who cares? We live in a liberal capitalist state, if your actions don't harm anyone other than the willing participants, you ought to be free to do them, and still be afforded equal rights under the law.
Tests aren't to catch cheaters, they're there to standardize results in a given subject.
Government testing is so that schools will (theoretically) have equal standards to aspire to. intra-institutional testing is so that all the instructors for a given subject have equal standards . In most of my college classes, If there was only one instructor (the upper level classes), we had no tests, just essays to write (philosophy major, dunno what the science kids have to do)
Actually it's not fraud. If you read their warranty (which they don't technically have to offer at all.) it says they'll replace it with a refurbished unit, not a new one.
I worked tech support for one of the major ones mentioned in the article. We rarely had problems with the shipping process. Fedex did pickups at the companies expense, and rarely was the customer out of posession of the laptop for more than 5 days.
The shipping repair deal isn't even close to as bad as you're imagining so long as you deal with the actual company (people who dropped off the laptops at CompUSA to be repaired "onsite"... they were sent to our service centre anyways, and it took 31 days or so for compusa to get off their arses and get it repaired)
Leonard Asper is owner of Global media, which owns every major news source in Canada save for the CBC (government funded private partnership) and the Globe and Mail, owned by Bell Globemedia...
If you don't read the Globe, you've got a choice of Asper's opinion, or Asper's opinion.
Hydrogen fuel-cell powered? You mean the same hydrogen we get from running electricity through water? you mean the same electricity we get from burning fossil fuels? Wow... Sign me up
Seriously though... I don't know what the drive is to get H2 powered car, seeing as how it won't eliminate polution or free us from fossil fuels, it'll just displace it
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And that's why musicians (guitarists, anyways) INSIST on tube amps.
When you're MAKING music, you don't want an accurate sound, you want a good sound (actually, an accurate sound straight from the pickups of the guitar sounds like crap). When you're listening to it, you should in theory want a more accurate reproduction of what you're playing, since the musicians already worked around the warm tone that they're trying to convey.
It is a basic human right to direct your labors to the achievement of your own ends. A slave is someone whose labors are forced to serve the ends of others, not himself. To the extent that your boss is taking the fruits of your labors to achive it's ends, rather than yours, you are enslaved.
Difference? I think not. So long as people are allowed to profit off the labour of others, there will always be slavery. The best we can hope for is a system in which every employee is given a vote for business practice, and ONLY employees are given said vote.
That's because Harper wishes he (we) were American, Martin wishes we were just like America (I mean, he was finance minister when the transfer payments to the provinces were cut, which is why health care's in the pickle it is today), and noone knows who Layton is.
"I would rather not speculate on that, I'll just comment on the now; We don't dance in the street at the news of thousands of innocent people dying, They do."
Bumper Stickers seen circa the beginning of the Iraq war:
"I support our troops"
"God Bless america"
You most definately DO show pride when innocents die.
That's because the Lib. party is split between anarchists and AynRand-ites
"A weird one: Where I went to school, if you lived in the better part of town, you were MUCH more likely to have your stuff stolen, even if you took precautions. If you lived in the "bad" part of town, you could leave your doors unlocked---and this is New Jersey we're talking here."
Same deal where i live. The ghetto part of town where all the hookers and crackheads hang out is the safest part of town. in the 'burbs my moms' neighbors got robbed, even though they were broke. I lived in cracktown, never locked the doors, and i had ~10,000 worth of musical equipment lying around... never known anyone to get burglarized there..
I think it's because if you live in cracktown noone assumes you have anything worth anything
No.
That works fine in a commodity market, but when you've got a copyrighted piece of software you're selling, and you drive other competitors out of the market, everyone will be using your piece of software, making the entire market shift over to developing on your particular platform, locking the competition out of the market (ie, it's too expensive to migrate to something else).
"Without law of any kind there is still property. Without law of any kind there is still partnership."
The only "property" you have with no law is whatever you can defend with your bare hands against the ill wishes of others, who might just kill you to get to that property. Besides, what makes the property *yours* anyways? Claiming it's yours?
And without law of any kind, partnership is a damned-fool idea. With no force to enforce the contract you've made, there's nothing keeping the other guy from just running off with the money.
Okay, I'm out...
That was quick
anyways... don't send me more emails (for the love of god... i didn't even know you COULD slashdot an email address)
The first 6 people who email me get one of my gmail invites. Serious.
True, but isn't the No-harm, No-foul philosophy the cornerstone of american culture? I mean, where do you draw the line about which directly harmless actions should be legislated against.
Should we outlaw any speech promoting alternate political ideologies because it can indirectly harm?
Not neccessarily. I know quite a many liberals who are ruled by intellect. I know for one that I don't subscribe to the ideology because "think of the poor people". I just think it makes more sense to redistribute wealth a little bit, and let people do what they want in their own bedrooms.
Compare this to "think of the children", "homosexuality is wrong because of the bible", etc.
Also, the arguments between redistributing wealth or cutting taxes are both usually backed up by emotion... the emotion is either empathy/compassion (liberals) or greed (conservatives). see "we ought to help the poor" vs. "i EARNED it... so i shouldn't have to give anything back to the society that made it possible for me to earn it"
Who cares? We live in a liberal capitalist state, if your actions don't harm anyone other than the willing participants, you ought to be free to do them, and still be afforded equal rights under the law.
Tests aren't to catch cheaters, they're there to standardize results in a given subject.
Government testing is so that schools will (theoretically) have equal standards to aspire to. intra-institutional testing is so that all the instructors for a given subject have equal standards . In most of my college classes, If there was only one instructor (the upper level classes), we had no tests, just essays to write (philosophy major, dunno what the science kids have to do)
" *woah* did you just insult a 2-digit UID? :-P"
He bought it (the UID) on ebay, so it's okay
"That would just create panic and hysteria."
What threat level color are you at today?
Actually it's not fraud. If you read their warranty (which they don't technically have to offer at all.) it says they'll replace it with a refurbished unit, not a new one.
I worked tech support for one of the major ones mentioned in the article. We rarely had problems with the shipping process. Fedex did pickups at the companies expense, and rarely was the customer out of posession of the laptop for more than 5 days.
The shipping repair deal isn't even close to as bad as you're imagining so long as you deal with the actual company (people who dropped off the laptops at CompUSA to be repaired "onsite"... they were sent to our service centre anyways, and it took 31 days or so for compusa to get off their arses and get it repaired)
You think that's bad...
Leonard Asper is owner of Global media, which owns every major news source in Canada save for the CBC (government funded private partnership) and the Globe and Mail, owned by Bell Globemedia...
If you don't read the Globe, you've got a choice of Asper's opinion, or Asper's opinion.
"and the whole time everyone participating thinks they are living the good life."
Like capitalism?
"What happens when this thing fails?"
Same thing that happens when your air cooling fan fails... your processor catches fire (that was a sweet video...)
One could only wish to be a citizen. Business doesn't refer to people as citizens, we're not even worthy of citizenship...
You're a consumer
no it isn't, because the idea of LFS isn't a couple miliseconds faster response time, it's to learn how the OS works
check out FR's site, download demo 8 (the.produkt). it's 64megs, about 3 mins long, and is fscking amazing
Hydrogen fuel-cell powered? You mean the same hydrogen we get from running electricity through water? you mean the same electricity we get from burning fossil fuels? Wow... Sign me up
Seriously though... I don't know what the drive is to get H2 powered car, seeing as how it won't eliminate polution or free us from fossil fuels, it'll just displace it