i wonder if ould by a list of people who purchased these, and file all the claims for them for a mere half the payment? That would teach sony a lesson and make me a tidy proffit. It would be great if i had some online easy click way to sigb up too.
many people engage in activities casually..like golfing or surfing or fishing.....these activites have fees and costs that com ewith them..green fees, fishing license surf boards etc. Some people may spend MORE money than others..example a person using a golf or tennis pro or buying a big bertha driver..
the major cost is distribution and retail sales space. Shipping a cd costs more than making one. Counting inventories, restocking displays, profits for truckers, retailers, etc all drive the price up for bricks and mortor sales. Look at allofmp3.com if you want to see the cost of distribution( not production) of digital music. They sell songs for a penny or two, make an insane profit I bet , and have no cost to produce or market the artists. That said production of an albumn is a few thousand dollars. Marketing an artist( esp the money paid to get the song on the radio) is extremely expensive.
i want a blue tooth phone with no color screen and ULTRA small. That way i can use my bluetooth pda and bt camera when i need them and not waste $$ and battery power( and size) on duplicate funtions. I can use my BT head set when i want to talk, my big screen on my bt pda( tungsten t2) when i want to use the web or take notes, check email, etc and a camera when i want to take pics. Then all will be good.
the reason we are not a police state in the old east german fashion is that we still have guns. The right bear arms helps keep our taxes lower and press almost free! As long as we have guns big bro has to convince us to let him do stupid things to us, instead of just doing them.
the problem is that many people do not live in a place they build. Take me for example, I live in an apartment. My landlord could give a shi* about my electric bill. If rental properties where made to follow more e-friendly building codes, i would be better off and so would the earth( maybe if earth first is right). I might have to pay slightly higher rent each month, but my energy bills would be lower.
I work in retail management. Our store sells PC's to a VERY low level user group. Many times customers come in with complaints that there computer is "too old" or "worn out" when actually they have spyware making it run slow. I think replacements may come from less educated users, thinking it is a hardware problem, less than people not wanting to remove known spyware.
On a side note, I had been ready to upgrade for some time recently. I had put off building a box( had half the parts in my house) for a few months. My 17 year old step daughter used my PC, infected it with a LOAD of spyware, some hard to remove. I could have fixed it, but instead figured beens I had to reload windows anyway, why not go ahead and build the box too.
yes, Arnold scares the old gaurd conservatives more than he scares the liberals. He also is the new face of the republican party. Rudy, Arnold, even McCain to a degree. They are all economic conservatives who believe strongly in civil liberties.
TRUE STORY: I have been having hot 3 way sex with my g/f and a friend of ours for a couple of days..and have not had time for the net. BUT ! Even with the hgot threeway sex, something has been missing. It felt great to post this!
You make hemp clothing sound like a foil hat, but I bet you do not know that Ralph Lauren has made clothes( discreetly) from hemp( hemp blends) for 15 or so years. It is not just used in specialty clothes for pot heads and eco freaks.
You are making a critical error when you say that recycling at a higher cost is good for us. If it costs more in dollars, it costs more in energy to produce(earn) those dollars. Example if I have to work harder (more) to earn money to buy an electric car what about all the resources I use in the course of my job( electricity, raw materials etc)? Also what about the production of the car? What about the old car, will it still be driven?
well there are other questions:
1. What kinds of violent crime? Is it directed at the general population? In other words am I likely to get offed by a stranger or somebody I amm "involved" with. If it is by a stranger, arming myself is the only defense. I can however not hang around with people likely to kill me.
While there may be more gun crimes of passion in an armed society. This is a trade off for a reduction in calculated crime on the populace.
2. Of those violent crimes mentioned, how many happened to people while they where armed? Armed people are not robbed, raped , etc as often as unarmed people.
3. What about studies comparing like areas controlling only for access to guns by the victimn or society?
4. What about places like here in TX. We had more restrictive gun laws, passed less restricive gun laws, saw a reduction in crime. We also have had no substancial increase in child gun deaths, etc.
well I tell you what. Take two people all things being equal. One gets a 4 year degree, in say education, the other at 18 years old becomes a plumber. Assuming both people are thrifty, hard working people who invest 50% of income( after basic living costs, not including student loans) wisely( in the same ways)who will be richer at 28? Who will be making more money at 30?
Keep in mind in Texas( where I live) a master plumber takes in around 7-80 k per year. You can have your masters license in around 8years. All the while getting paid( 8-10 an hour for helpers; 12-18 per hour for journeymen) and taking out no loans.
IF making money is the reason you are going to college, maybe you should try something else.
Of course schools do not teach the ONE TRUE PRINCIPLE of getting rich:
It can ONLY be done by increasing your assets. How much you earn can make it easier( or even possible) but that is by far not the only determining factor.
If you make 1000.00 a day and spend 999.00, a bum on the street need only find 4 people to give him.25 and he will be in the same place as you are.
I think you miss the key point here. The author is saying that public education is a lie. It should be called public indoctrination(sp?). He is saying that having the goverment teach kids for teh good of society is wrong in and of itself, because they will always teach children in ways that benifit the society as a whole, not the student. There is a conflict of interest in many ways.
You can not simply "make the current system work" it is flawed on a deep, basic level. People and gorups will always act in their own best interest.
simple solution:
when starting a new cable channel, or trying to increase subscriptions to an ol done, give the channel away free for a day, week, month, etc. This is what current premuim channels do all the time now.
it is likely to change,mandated by law. The FCC is likely going to make cable companies offer service per channel. I would inlclude a link to a past article on this, but am too lazy to whore that strong for kharma.
I wish b-buster would expand there freedom pass to include a mail order service also. I would pay an extra 5 bucks a month to be able to order movies through the mail( like netflix) IF thelist of titles was expanded( like netflix. Who would still use netflix if you could get the same from block buster + have the option of going to the store and using freedom pass there with the normal block buster selection, for impulse renting.
also NETFLIX and hollywood video, if you are reading this, partner together to offer this kind of service for under 35.00 a month and you will eat block busters lunch.
The only reason i go to blockbuster is that hollywood does not have a freedom pass.
a 15" flat screen can sell for 300+ dollars, a 15" tablet can sell for 400 easy. What about a blue tooth tablet pc that doubles as a wireless monitor?
Also if it is a slim and light lap top with a touch screen that flips around( or detaches for a wi-fi or blue tooth connection to the cpu) , it will sell when it adds less than 300.00 to the cost of the unit.
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i wonder if ould by a list of people who purchased these, and file all the claims for them for a mere half the payment? That would teach sony a lesson and make me a tidy proffit. It would be great if i had some online easy click way to sigb up too.
many people engage in activities casually ..like golfing or surfing or fishing.....these activites have fees and costs that com ewith them..green fees, fishing license surf boards etc. Some people may spend MORE money than others ..example a person using a golf or tennis pro or buying a big bertha driver..
the major cost is distribution and retail sales space. Shipping a cd costs more than making one. Counting inventories, restocking displays, profits for truckers, retailers, etc all drive the price up for bricks and mortor sales. Look at allofmp3.com if you want to see the cost of distribution( not production) of digital music. They sell songs for a penny or two, make an insane profit I bet , and have no cost to produce or market the artists. That said production of an albumn is a few thousand dollars. Marketing an artist( esp the money paid to get the song on the radio) is extremely expensive.
"Fu*K You!" they all vote democrat anyway..
What the article did not say is that MS was planning on having such lame security , that a back door was not worth putting in the new OS.
i want a blue tooth phone with no color screen and ULTRA small. That way i can use my bluetooth pda and bt camera when i need them and not waste $$ and battery power( and size) on duplicate funtions. I can use my BT head set when i want to talk, my big screen on my bt pda( tungsten t2) when i want to use the web or take notes, check email, etc and a camera when i want to take pics. Then all will be good.
the reason we are not a police state in the old east german fashion is that we still have guns. The right bear arms helps keep our taxes lower and press almost free! As long as we have guns big bro has to convince us to let him do stupid things to us, instead of just doing them.
the problem is that many people do not live in a place they build. Take me for example, I live in an apartment. My landlord could give a shi* about my electric bill. If rental properties where made to follow more e-friendly building codes, i would be better off and so would the earth( maybe if earth first is right). I might have to pay slightly higher rent each month, but my energy bills would be lower.
I work in retail management. Our store sells PC's to a VERY low level user group. Many times customers come in with complaints that there computer is "too old" or "worn out" when actually they have spyware making it run slow. I think replacements may come from less educated users, thinking it is a hardware problem, less than people not wanting to remove known spyware.
On a side note, I had been ready to upgrade for some time recently. I had put off building a box( had half the parts in my house) for a few months. My 17 year old step daughter used my PC, infected it with a LOAD of spyware, some hard to remove. I could have fixed it, but instead figured beens I had to reload windows anyway, why not go ahead and build the box too.
Umn they are using lithuimn crystals and no star terk references have been made? Is this slashdot or some other site?
why not just mandate that ALL software that generates and ad must be EASY to UNINSTALL and must be VISIBLE when running.
solution 3 is simple an easy to use WIRELESS 19 or 22 inch lcd display on a usable 12 or 15 inch laptop enabled with , say blue tooth?
yes, Arnold scares the old gaurd conservatives more than he scares the liberals. He also is the new face of the republican party. Rudy, Arnold, even McCain to a degree. They are all economic conservatives who believe strongly in civil liberties.
TRUE STORY:
I have been having hot 3 way sex with my g/f and a friend of ours for a couple of days..and have not had time for the net. BUT ! Even with the hgot threeway sex, something has been missing. It felt great to post this!
You make hemp clothing sound like a foil hat, but I bet you do not know that Ralph Lauren has made clothes( discreetly) from hemp( hemp blends) for 15 or so years. It is not just used in specialty clothes for pot heads and eco freaks.
You are making a critical error when you say that recycling at a higher cost is good for us. If it costs more in dollars, it costs more in energy to produce(earn) those dollars. Example if I have to work harder (more) to earn money to buy an electric car what about all the resources I use in the course of my job( electricity, raw materials etc)? Also what about the production of the car? What about the old car, will it still be driven?
well there are other questions: 1. What kinds of violent crime? Is it directed at the general population? In other words am I likely to get offed by a stranger or somebody I amm "involved" with. If it is by a stranger, arming myself is the only defense. I can however not hang around with people likely to kill me. While there may be more gun crimes of passion in an armed society. This is a trade off for a reduction in calculated crime on the populace. 2. Of those violent crimes mentioned, how many happened to people while they where armed? Armed people are not robbed, raped , etc as often as unarmed people. 3. What about studies comparing like areas controlling only for access to guns by the victimn or society? 4. What about places like here in TX. We had more restrictive gun laws, passed less restricive gun laws, saw a reduction in crime. We also have had no substancial increase in child gun deaths, etc.
well I tell you what. Take two people all things being equal. One gets a 4 year degree, in say education, the other at 18 years old becomes a plumber. Assuming both people are thrifty, hard working people who invest 50% of income( after basic living costs, not including student loans) wisely( in the same ways)who will be richer at 28? Who will be making more money at 30? Keep in mind in Texas( where I live) a master plumber takes in around 7-80 k per year. You can have your masters license in around 8years. All the while getting paid( 8-10 an hour for helpers; 12-18 per hour for journeymen) and taking out no loans. IF making money is the reason you are going to college, maybe you should try something else. Of course schools do not teach the ONE TRUE PRINCIPLE of getting rich: It can ONLY be done by increasing your assets. How much you earn can make it easier( or even possible) but that is by far not the only determining factor. If you make 1000.00 a day and spend 999.00, a bum on the street need only find 4 people to give him .25 and he will be in the same place as you are.
I think you miss the key point here. The author is saying that public education is a lie. It should be called public indoctrination(sp?). He is saying that having the goverment teach kids for teh good of society is wrong in and of itself, because they will always teach children in ways that benifit the society as a whole, not the student. There is a conflict of interest in many ways. You can not simply "make the current system work" it is flawed on a deep, basic level. People and gorups will always act in their own best interest.
simple solution: when starting a new cable channel, or trying to increase subscriptions to an ol done, give the channel away free for a day, week, month, etc. This is what current premuim channels do all the time now.
it is likely to change,mandated by law. The FCC is likely going to make cable companies offer service per channel. I would inlclude a link to a past article on this, but am too lazy to whore that strong for kharma.
I wish b-buster would expand there freedom pass to include a mail order service also. I would pay an extra 5 bucks a month to be able to order movies through the mail( like netflix) IF thelist of titles was expanded( like netflix. Who would still use netflix if you could get the same from block buster + have the option of going to the store and using freedom pass there with the normal block buster selection, for impulse renting.
also NETFLIX and hollywood video, if you are reading this, partner together to offer this kind of service for under 35.00 a month and you will eat block busters lunch.
The only reason i go to blockbuster is that hollywood does not have a freedom pass.
the first ignal we see from any "Advanced" culture will likely be an advertisement for some new alien pop up blocker or penis enlargement product!
diesel is great ! the engines last Long time, get good mulage too.
a 15" flat screen can sell for 300+ dollars, a 15" tablet can sell for 400 easy. What about a blue tooth tablet pc that doubles as a wireless monitor? Also if it is a slim and light lap top with a touch screen that flips around( or detaches for a wi-fi or blue tooth connection to the cpu) , it will sell when it adds less than 300.00 to the cost of the unit.