He was appointed the Chancellor of Germany in January 1933 by President Hindenburg. Before 1933 the Nazi party never won more than about 35% of the vote (and I don't have the charts in front of me, but I'm pretty sure that in the few elections held after the Nazis were already in power that they didn't win more than about 40% of the vote, even though they ran the elections).
I know it's not really germane to the argument, but I think it is important that people realize that Hitler was never elected as chancellor.
I can go to dozens of olds discussions and find comments that $1 is too much to pay for a single song ($1 x 12 songs=the price of a CD which is too much, yadda, yadda, yadda). But now when MS may be dropping the price it's an unfair and illegal business pracitce.
So which is it? Is the price fair and all the bitching about the RIAA is wrong headed? Or is MS right (can most/.'s even admit this) and they are providing the songs at a more reasonable price?
While that's true, measured in deaths per flight or launch it doesn't measure up nearly as well. To me that seems a more meaningful statistic since the biggest risks occur on a per flight basis (launch and re-entry).
Measuring accidents per mile is best for automobiles, trains and boats, but not for spaceflight or probably even for airline flights.
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The wealthiest half of the US population pays 96% of all taxes.
Well holy shit. Check this out. (This data only up to 1994, but it was pretty stable over the last 50 years so I'm assuming it is still representative.)
Considering that the top 20% of income earners earn nearly 50% of the money and the top 40% earn over 2/3 of the income this is not all that surprising. The bottom 40% only earn 15% of the income. Obviously you're against progressive income taxes, but even most diehard conservatives and libertarians recognize that the very lowest income earners should have a tax break so that they can do things like buy food, so sure, the burden will be shifted to the top. If you're going to quote these end of the world statistics to us, at least paint the whole picture for us.
I'm not sure what you propose in place of our "flimsy social contract" but a defense of it is a bit too complicated to attempt here.
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Ah, so insightful.
Of course I don't know of too many bridges built by pirates, or fire departments they fund or many of the thousands of other useful things that governments do. Sure governments and beuracracies are wasteful, and should be held to task for that, but to equate taxation with theft is such simple-minded thinking that it's laughable.
If a citizen wants to choose to have a house linked by roads to the entire rest of the world, then that citizen should accept the responsibilities that come along with that.
This isn't the same thing at all, you do know that anyone can come up and knock on your door and try to sell you something and there is no law against this. Now you could put signs "Solicitors not Welcome" out to prevent this, but that's basically what the original poster said you can do by screening the calls.
I don't know how you came to correlate interuptions of telemarketers with stealing.
So how much you wanna bet those congressmen all have major telemarketing presences in their districts?
Isn't that want Congressmen are supposed to do, protect the interests of their constituents? And lets be honest, this bill isn't something of critical national importance-it's just to stop businesses from interupting our favorite tv shows. So why shouldn't they try to protect the economic interests of the people they represent.
Just to nitpick one point- comparing the pricing of dvds to cds is not the same thing. The box office totals of a movies release are a big part of offsetting the cost of making a movie, the DVD sales are just an extra that the studios get on top of that. Granted, it's becoming a larger share, but it's still an extra.
Music studios have only the CD sales to offset the cost of making and promoting the CD.
They're still supporting a good cause. What law says that a company can't have more than one motive for its actions? Sure in some cases the hypocrisy of the situation might be glaring (tobacco companies funding lung cancer research). But otherwise, who cares if they get a little good PR out the deal.
So sure, MS is getting some good PR and a potentially a step into other districts, but so what? I think it's great to be getting technology into schools.
It will be one of 11 new high schools to be funded by the district's five-year $1.5 billion capital plan.
Microsoft's contribution will not be monetary, but services worth millions of dollars, including a full-time on-site project manager, planning and design expertise, staff training and ongoing technology support.
The company's reward is the opportunity to design a school using technology in every way possible from the ground up - a prototype it could then market.
"Microsoft came here because we asked, simple as that," Vallas said.
For those who might criticize such a corporate presence in a public school, district officials emphasized that Microsoft will not manage the school.
It seems to me, based on the article, that MS is not funding the building of the school other than providing the technology and then continuning to provide support and advice for the school. Sure, Microsoft is getting something out of the deal but I don't remember reading where a good or charitable deed had to be completely selfless. Yes they may get tax breaks, a foot in the door to other districts and have a customer for future products at this school. But so what, they are providing a substatial benefit to the students at this school.
But as others have mentioned the issue of false positives is also critical, just like in anti-spam software. If there are so many false psoitives that airport security is running around checking every other businessman then the system is nearly useless.
A number of posts have already disagreed with you but I think you're pretty much right. Now, I'd say singers you constantly rely on it as a crutch are doing a disservice to their fans. But their are a lot of bands out there touring for 10 months or doing 10 shows in 12 nights, that kind of strain has got to be tough on the vocal chords. If I'm seeing a show at the end of the tour I'd like to know that I'm getting a decent performance for my money.
And it's not about getting a perfect performance, I'm not looking to just hear the cd played over the sound system, but I don't want to hear the singer struggle all night just to stay in tune.
I don't think that the requirement for a mushroom cloud is a nuclear device but just a large enough (or maybe a hot enough?) explosion or fire. I may be completely wrong and if anyone can correct me I'd appreciate it.
As far as investing goes, I've got no idea, but I find Yahoo useful for its "one stop shopping" feel. I use MyYahoo as a homepage which gives me sports scores, movie time, comics etc that I like in a quick format. Free email, internet games, fantasy sports, maps, etc all in one spot. Now probably all of these things are done better my more specialized sites, but the convenience of having all of these things in one place is, well, convenient.
Now it's only been ten minutes since the article has been posted so maybe it will still happen but...
Why haven't the complete listings and data table been posted in a comment here yet. We constantly have NYT articles posted in comments (in case of/.ing, right) despite it being offered free of monetary charge (I understand that there is the "cost" of supplying personal info).
At the very least I hope enough people will complain about posting articles from a site that actually has real monetary charges to access their content.
Damn you U Penn (shakes fist at sky). I remember when you were the laughing stock of the Ivy League.
Ok, now back to real life and things that are actually important (oh I'm at work, nevermind). The people who use these lists the wrong way really make me laugh sometimes. I mean the people who say, "Oh, Brown University isn't even in the top 15, I would never go there."
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Funny, I thought that there were just as many on the right (especially the religious right) who are interested in censoring things.
He was appointed the Chancellor of Germany in January 1933 by President Hindenburg. Before 1933 the Nazi party never won more than about 35% of the vote (and I don't have the charts in front of me, but I'm pretty sure that in the few elections held after the Nazis were already in power that they didn't win more than about 40% of the vote, even though they ran the elections).
I know it's not really germane to the argument, but I think it is important that people realize that Hitler was never elected as chancellor.
How I can get into the Beta test for their new BOINC program?
I can go to dozens of olds discussions and find comments that $1 is too much to pay for a single song ($1 x 12 songs=the price of a CD which is too much, yadda, yadda, yadda). But now when MS may be dropping the price it's an unfair and illegal business pracitce.
So which is it? Is the price fair and all the bitching about the RIAA is wrong headed? Or is MS right (can most /.'s even admit this) and they are providing the songs at a more reasonable price?
Tau Ceti is 11.9 ly away, or 6.995e+13 miles.
Voyager has traveled 8.4e+9 miles in 26 years or 3.231e+8 miles per year. At that rate it would take over 216 thousand years to reach Tau Ceti.
To get there in 10 years the probe would have to travel at 10% the speed of light, is that possible with cirrent technology?
Measuring accidents per mile is best for automobiles, trains and boats, but not for spaceflight or probably even for airline flights.
Well holy shit. Check this out. (This data only up to 1994, but it was pretty stable over the last 50 years so I'm assuming it is still representative.)
Considering that the top 20% of income earners earn nearly 50% of the money and the top 40% earn over 2/3 of the income this is not all that surprising. The bottom 40% only earn 15% of the income. Obviously you're against progressive income taxes, but even most diehard conservatives and libertarians recognize that the very lowest income earners should have a tax break so that they can do things like buy food, so sure, the burden will be shifted to the top. If you're going to quote these end of the world statistics to us, at least paint the whole picture for us.
I'm not sure what you propose in place of our "flimsy social contract" but a defense of it is a bit too complicated to attempt here.
Of course I don't know of too many bridges built by pirates, or fire departments they fund or many of the thousands of other useful things that governments do. Sure governments and beuracracies are wasteful, and should be held to task for that, but to equate taxation with theft is such simple-minded thinking that it's laughable.
No. It wouldn't.
This isn't the same thing at all, you do know that anyone can come up and knock on your door and try to sell you something and there is no law against this. Now you could put signs "Solicitors not Welcome" out to prevent this, but that's basically what the original poster said you can do by screening the calls.
I don't know how you came to correlate interuptions of telemarketers with stealing.
Isn't that want Congressmen are supposed to do, protect the interests of their constituents? And lets be honest, this bill isn't something of critical national importance-it's just to stop businesses from interupting our favorite tv shows. So why shouldn't they try to protect the economic interests of the people they represent.
Oh, I though it was John Ashcroft imploring people to spy on their friends and neighbors, not the RIAA. My mistake.
that Germans love David Hasselhoff.
Yeah, It's not like they ever print stories of interest to /. readers so why should we try to support them in even a meager way.
Music studios have only the CD sales to offset the cost of making and promoting the CD.
They're still supporting a good cause. What law says that a company can't have more than one motive for its actions? Sure in some cases the hypocrisy of the situation might be glaring (tobacco companies funding lung cancer research). But otherwise, who cares if they get a little good PR out the deal.
So sure, MS is getting some good PR and a potentially a step into other districts, but so what? I think it's great to be getting technology into schools.
It will be one of 11 new high schools to be funded by the district's five-year $1.5 billion capital plan.
Microsoft's contribution will not be monetary, but services worth millions of dollars, including a full-time on-site project manager, planning and design expertise, staff training and ongoing technology support.
The company's reward is the opportunity to design a school using technology in every way possible from the ground up - a prototype it could then market.
"Microsoft came here because we asked, simple as that," Vallas said.
For those who might criticize such a corporate presence in a public school, district officials emphasized that Microsoft will not manage the school.
It seems to me, based on the article, that MS is not funding the building of the school other than providing the technology and then continuning to provide support and advice for the school. Sure, Microsoft is getting something out of the deal but I don't remember reading where a good or charitable deed had to be completely selfless. Yes they may get tax breaks, a foot in the door to other districts and have a customer for future products at this school. But so what, they are providing a substatial benefit to the students at this school.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big hockey fan, but its all made up conflict to draw viewers or fans to watch. What's the difference really?
But as others have mentioned the issue of false positives is also critical, just like in anti-spam software. If there are so many false psoitives that airport security is running around checking every other businessman then the system is nearly useless.
And it's not about getting a perfect performance, I'm not looking to just hear the cd played over the sound system, but I don't want to hear the singer struggle all night just to stay in tune.
maybe, from the innerspace-dept, or the and-I-thought-hobbits-were-small dept
OK, so both of those suck too, but I'm not getting paid to come up with this stuff.
I don't think that the requirement for a mushroom cloud is a nuclear device but just a large enough (or maybe a hot enough?) explosion or fire. I may be completely wrong and if anyone can correct me I'd appreciate it.
Why haven't the complete listings and data table been posted in a comment here yet. We constantly have NYT articles posted in comments (in case of /.ing, right) despite it being offered free of monetary charge (I understand that there is the "cost" of supplying personal info).
At the very least I hope enough people will complain about posting articles from a site that actually has real monetary charges to access their content.
Ok, now back to real life and things that are actually important (oh I'm at work, nevermind). The people who use these lists the wrong way really make me laugh sometimes. I mean the people who say, "Oh, Brown University isn't even in the top 15, I would never go there."