That would NOT be a good idea. The reason is simple, businesses almost NEVER do pure research. Its hard to turn the results directly into money, and (rightfully) that is all a business is there for. Taxpayer funded programs do the pure research, then businesses take the result and do the research needed to turn that into a product. Take the Fed out of research and a lot of innovation will come to a grinding halt.
Oh my god, thanks for opening up an old wound! Last time I looked at the cable guide on my television 2/3rd of it was this horrid and annoying ad space, and then there was room for 2 or maybe 3 lines of guide data. The stupidity of it made me want to scream. I have been a Tivo subscriber for a long time now and never have to deal with it, thank goodness.
We are all duly impressed with your superhuman abilities. We recognize that you are a superior form of human being, and should really be placed in your rightful place as Emporer of Earth. We are but children compared to the greatness that is you.
I couldn't agree more. I use Firefox for two reasons - 1) It isn't IE, and 2) The extensions. In fact, I have about 30 I use on every machine I use Firefox. Sure, it would be faster if I didn't use them, or used less of them, but then I would lose a LOT of functionality. There has to be a tradeoff, and I am comfortable with a slightly slower browser that has a whole lot more features that appeal to me. The machines I use aren't exactly speed demons, but they aren't low end trash either, so they have power to spare, why not utilize it.
I would vote for him because he would almost be guaranteed to do a better job than Bush. Hell, its about time we had a comedian for president. Lets start a grass-roots write in campaign for him!
This does illustrate my issue with voting in this country, and why I have never played that game. It is a game, they hold up two people (well, there is the third token independent) and ask you to choose. If you ask me to choose between hanging or the guillotine it doesn't matter, in either way I'm going to die horribly, what kind of choice is that?
Don't be a maroon. Sure the info is free, but aggregating it and putting it into a format usable by a particular service is not necessarily so. They have to spend the time to develop the software to put it together for you, and the bandwidth to feed it to you. If they want to attach a very small fee to that service, why are you so angry about it? You could always write the software to do it and pay for the bandwidth to do it yourself.
Welll, now I guess that depends on how you quantify threat. To me, someone that pretends to me and raids my lively hood numerous times certainly poses a threat to my well being. Oh, you meant bodily harm? The woman is obviously human waste and frankly, the world would not have missed her and would be a better place without her. Bearing in mind what the lady did to her, I would convict her at most on misdemeanor assault.
By the way, the judge in this case is an asshole. The lady was already on probation she should be in jail for years now for what she did. Instead, they are gong to go find a pot smoker to stick in jail for several years to fill that spot.
Actually, it sounds like a case of too much government to me. Taxation is a necessary evil, but the jackasses in power have it set up so they can waste all the funds they want and instead of answering for it, they just tax us more to make up for it. There should be a cap and they should be made to work within that, if they can't then find someone who can.
Sometimes you just have to make an example of someone, and when you do you go for the harshest penalty you can for effect. Sucks to be them, but they shouldn't have done it. Maybe this will save some other little jackasses some problems. I hope they lose the case and the suspension stays in place. There is little enough order in school these days since educators have no way to enforce rules other than kicking the little shits out. Their parents certainly can't be bothered to teach them the small detail that school is a place to learn and not a social gathering hall.
I dispise this development. While I am not a fan of hate, I am less a fan of this kind of censorship. People need to just grow a frigging spine and be less offended by stuff, then we wouldn't need this kind of ridiculousness. Who defines what hate speech is? I guarantee you it will not be a reasonable definition.
No, libertarians are against ridiculous over taxation to subsidise stupidity, support people that are too lazy to work and give politicians enough money to by $4000 hammers. Libertarians recognize that taxation is a necessary evil but needs to be VERY closely monitored. Here in the US taxes have become a politician's playground. Granted, there are many many countries where they have a much higher tax rate, but that is their problem, not mine. The tax situation here in the US IS my problem.
I only buy AMD. Even if it is currently a "worse performer" (and that is by a much smaller margin than that the Athlon 64 had over Intel's NetBurst processors for a long time at that). I like AMD and think they are good for the market. If they went poof over night Intel would rape the CPU market like marauding viking horde. As I am sure AMD would if Intel went poof. They keep each other honest.
I think the primary problem with your thinking is you like to equate disagreement with you as stupidity. Here, let me show you.
"but the people who say stuff like "Oh, piracy isn't stealing" (I'm not referring to just music here) are just as stupid."
There is not a consensus that obtaining a digital copy is stealing. Whether you want to believe it or not, there still is the inescapable point that in many cases if I obtain a copy of your so and so and had NO intention what so ever to buy it in the first place, you have lost nothing. So, how can that be theft? You must lose something for theft to have occurred.
From www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: theft 1 a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b : an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property.
Of course, if you follow theft with steal and look at the many definitions of the word "steal" just the right way, you COULD twist it into having been stolen. But you really do have to do some gymnastics with the situation to make it fit that too. While I can understand your position, and prefer to buy my music, unfortunately its just too damn expensive. When the music industry gets their head out of their asses and prices music reasonably I will buy all of my music. Until then, I will buy what I can, and obtain the rest however I do.
Are you really trying to tell me that you think that using Linux (whatever the distribution) isn't a LOT more complex than Windows or MacOSX? Granted, SOME apps and things have been made easier. However, It is still a LONG way from the ease of use of the two aforementioned OSes. The guy was making a tongue in cheek (at least thats how I took it) assessment of the state of the Linux OS. And I stand by my point that he is essentially correct. It is still way more difficult for a non-computer person to use.
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You know, I was starting to get worried that everyone posting here was going to completely miss the point. What in the heck good is 10 million hits if 99.8% of them are stupid teenagers that have no interest what so ever in their product, also preventing their REAL customers from actually accessing the site unless they spend a lot of money to upgrade the server JUST so the same customers they had before can actually get in?
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That would NOT be a good idea. The reason is simple, businesses almost NEVER do pure research. Its hard to turn the results directly into money, and (rightfully) that is all a business is there for. Taxpayer funded programs do the pure research, then businesses take the result and do the research needed to turn that into a product. Take the Fed out of research and a lot of innovation will come to a grinding halt.
Oh my god, thanks for opening up an old wound! Last time I looked at the cable guide on my television 2/3rd of it was this horrid and annoying ad space, and then there was room for 2 or maybe 3 lines of guide data. The stupidity of it made me want to scream. I have been a Tivo subscriber for a long time now and never have to deal with it, thank goodness.
We are all duly impressed with your superhuman abilities. We recognize that you are a superior form of human being, and should really be placed in your rightful place as Emporer of Earth. We are but children compared to the greatness that is you.
I couldn't agree more. I use Firefox for two reasons - 1) It isn't IE, and 2) The extensions. In fact, I have about 30 I use on every machine I use Firefox. Sure, it would be faster if I didn't use them, or used less of them, but then I would lose a LOT of functionality. There has to be a tradeoff, and I am comfortable with a slightly slower browser that has a whole lot more features that appeal to me. The machines I use aren't exactly speed demons, but they aren't low end trash either, so they have power to spare, why not utilize it.
You know, that is a good thing. After all, I turned her into a lesbian.
I would vote for him because he would almost be guaranteed to do a better job than Bush. Hell, its about time we had a comedian for president. Lets start a grass-roots write in campaign for him!
This does illustrate my issue with voting in this country, and why I have never played that game. It is a game, they hold up two people (well, there is the third token independent) and ask you to choose. If you ask me to choose between hanging or the guillotine it doesn't matter, in either way I'm going to die horribly, what kind of choice is that?
Gah, it will index my porn! I don't want it to do that, it will make it easier for my wife to find it. Please god, don't let it index my porn.
Note: This post was only partially tongue in cheek. I don't really care if my wife finds my porn.
Don't be a maroon. Sure the info is free, but aggregating it and putting it into a format usable by a particular service is not necessarily so. They have to spend the time to develop the software to put it together for you, and the bandwidth to feed it to you. If they want to attach a very small fee to that service, why are you so angry about it? You could always write the software to do it and pay for the bandwidth to do it yourself.
Welll, now I guess that depends on how you quantify threat. To me, someone that pretends to me and raids my lively hood numerous times certainly poses a threat to my well being. Oh, you meant bodily harm? The woman is obviously human waste and frankly, the world would not have missed her and would be a better place without her. Bearing in mind what the lady did to her, I would convict her at most on misdemeanor assault.
By the way, the judge in this case is an asshole. The lady was already on probation she should be in jail for years now for what she did. Instead, they are gong to go find a pot smoker to stick in jail for several years to fill that spot.
Actually, it sounds like a case of too much government to me. Taxation is a necessary evil, but the jackasses in power have it set up so they can waste all the funds they want and instead of answering for it, they just tax us more to make up for it. There should be a cap and they should be made to work within that, if they can't then find someone who can.
Sometimes you just have to make an example of someone, and when you do you go for the harshest penalty you can for effect. Sucks to be them, but they shouldn't have done it. Maybe this will save some other little jackasses some problems. I hope they lose the case and the suspension stays in place. There is little enough order in school these days since educators have no way to enforce rules other than kicking the little shits out. Their parents certainly can't be bothered to teach them the small detail that school is a place to learn and not a social gathering hall.
Yea, but which one is the secret identity?
Come on now, sadistic?
I think their hearts were in the right place, but the execution was just asinine. It was really just unnecessary.
I am pretty sure you were wrong on every single point you made. In fact, I have my doubts if you ever even watched the show.
Man that, for some reason, was so unexpected I busted out laughing when I saw it. Thanks!
I dispise this development. While I am not a fan of hate, I am less a fan of this kind of censorship. People need to just grow a frigging spine and be less offended by stuff, then we wouldn't need this kind of ridiculousness. Who defines what hate speech is? I guarantee you it will not be a reasonable definition.
No, libertarians are against ridiculous over taxation to subsidise stupidity, support people that are too lazy to work and give politicians enough money to by $4000 hammers. Libertarians recognize that taxation is a necessary evil but needs to be VERY closely monitored. Here in the US taxes have become a politician's playground. Granted, there are many many countries where they have a much higher tax rate, but that is their problem, not mine. The tax situation here in the US IS my problem.
Quiet you. The adults are talking.
I only buy AMD. Even if it is currently a "worse performer" (and that is by a much smaller margin than that the Athlon 64 had over Intel's NetBurst processors for a long time at that). I like AMD and think they are good for the market. If they went poof over night Intel would rape the CPU market like marauding viking horde. As I am sure AMD would if Intel went poof. They keep each other honest.
I think the primary problem with your thinking is you like to equate disagreement with you as stupidity. Here, let me show you.
"but the people who say stuff like "Oh, piracy isn't stealing" (I'm not referring to just music here) are just as stupid."
There is not a consensus that obtaining a digital copy is stealing. Whether you want to believe it or not, there still is the inescapable point that in many cases if I obtain a copy of your so and so and had NO intention what so ever to buy it in the first place, you have lost nothing. So, how can that be theft? You must lose something for theft to have occurred.
From www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: theft
1 a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b : an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property.
Of course, if you follow theft with steal and look at the many definitions of the word "steal" just the right way, you COULD twist it into having been stolen. But you really do have to do some gymnastics with the situation to make it fit that too. While I can understand your position, and prefer to buy my music, unfortunately its just too damn expensive. When the music industry gets their head out of their asses and prices music reasonably I will buy all of my music. Until then, I will buy what I can, and obtain the rest however I do.
Good god, don't do that. There was no way I could keep myself from busting out laughing at work while reading that. Good thing the boss was out.
What I have to ask is why is this not modded troll?
You say that like America has a monopoly on stupid, ignorant, racists. Please, there are plenty of that to go around in every country.
Are you really trying to tell me that you think that using Linux (whatever the distribution) isn't a LOT more complex than Windows or MacOSX? Granted, SOME apps and things have been made easier. However, It is still a LONG way from the ease of use of the two aforementioned OSes. The guy was making a tongue in cheek (at least thats how I took it) assessment of the state of the Linux OS. And I stand by my point that he is essentially correct. It is still way more difficult for a non-computer person to use.
You know, I was starting to get worried that everyone posting here was going to completely miss the point. What in the heck good is 10 million hits if 99.8% of them are stupid teenagers that have no interest what so ever in their product, also preventing their REAL customers from actually accessing the site unless they spend a lot of money to upgrade the server JUST so the same customers they had before can actually get in?