Your example works well in "meeting a stranger" but I'm not sure it would work in a workplace...
I never hit first, ever. I'm almost pacifist in that way. But if I get hit, nukes come out.
While training Tae-Kwon-do my teacher said that's it's perfectly ok to hit first if the you understand that some "guy" is going to hit you anyway and there is no escape possibility.
Not sure how this would end up in the legal system, but it's better to make the best of the situation in my perspective etc.
My teacher also told me to not run away if kicking or beating someone. Stay and wait for the police, and explain your situation. Somehow escaping inflicts guilt...
You have a point, sometimes it is hard to decide. In your scenario the gov't would ask a relevant question based on the initial 4'sec impression:
Best? hmm, soda company sells soda-water, then they must mean that their soda-water is best?
The gov't kinda "play" a "stupid" customer in order to get the first impression.
Any company can be best at something, but it's their "essential" product that's the important thing.
80.000 or even maxfine 150.000 dollar aren't that much, but we're only 4,5 million people in norway, så if you mulitiply with a population of 288 million (USA) it's up to 9,6 million dollars.(one advertisment could be enough)
Here in Norway, if a company claims that their product(s) are the BEST, the official watchdogs ("marketing authorities") may ask the company for actual proof of this.
One important aspect of this prosess is that you can't just footnote* something and then "it's up to the consumer to investigate". It is the first impression whithin a few seconds that counts! If the advertisment has the "ability to mislead" than the authorities may choose to ask for evidence.
And the authorities don't accept no "bullshit-document" or study funded by the company where conclusions have been drawn in advance.
If the "marketing authorities" aren't convinsed by the "evidence" presented to them, they effectivly forbid the company to state that their product(s) are the best.
Punishment for breaking the prohibition is large fines (e.g. 80.000$) that cannot be appealed at any court.:-D
as long as that shit don't block my natural feeling of HAPPINESS and my euphoria when I'm either drunk og training, I say go. But why can't you just give the vaccination to people that already are addicts?
If new druges must be developed to replace the ones that are not working anymore, so be it, as long as the project saves money.
Also, I'm 100% sure the drug-designers (kokaine, lsd, xtacy etc) will come up with new drugs! It will spur drug-innovation!
none of the numbers are actually irrelevant. the small difference in user-time is irrelevant, however the information about the usage-time is not irrelevant. It could've been vastly different, and stating that it's almost the same has value.
The difference in internet uses goes to POTENTIAL. If you change those numbers to customers, you would surely see the difference. Market potential would surely be much smaller if portugisee were to be the language of choice!
You obviously know very little about publishing. First, people in the publishing industry are not computer people by and large. They prefer macs because they don't want to fuss with command-lines, email viruses and poor font management. They also prefer an enviroment that is PDF driven from the ground up. Had you known anything about the publishing industry you would have not brought this point up.
I work in that industry, and there are no big differences between using PC and Mac. Both work just fine! The major issues are about being used to something and switching costs. THAT'S why the industry (mostly) stick to mac's!
The Mac-head and the Linux mook may have equal levels of education and writing ability, but I suspect the kind of person who buys a Mac cares about it more.
He-he, you would NATURALLY care MORE about something that's TWICE as expensive as another thing.:-)
As a norwegian, it stuns me that Greenpeace is willing to provide false information about whales and whaling in order to raise money.
Greenpeace's strategy is to find the animals that we humans like the most and\or the animals that we find cute (like baby seals). Then they want to draw the public's attention by demonstrating or by some kind of action. (attention = money)
Back to whales: I'm no expert, but there are many different species of whales. It's like there are many different kinds of fish. Further, some kinds of whales are endangered, as some kinds of fish are.
But the whales that norwegians or japaneese hunt are not endangered! We do not hunt endangered whales because that would wipe out the whole population, and what good would that do? You think were're idiots or something?
As far as I can remember, we hunt the minke whale, which have a big population that can bear some hunting.
My conclusion is that whale hunting is not wrong. As is not general fishing. What's wrong is hunting animals that you may entirely wipe out. Generalising about whales is like generalising about fish. It's plain wrong!
(And if you'd like to tell me that whales are smart, don't even go there!)
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. Many posters don't think that Farenheit 911 should be posted here. For them, it's not "nerdy" og technical enough.
However, LOOK AT THE NUMBERS! As we speak there have been about 2000 posts! Thus, I'm forced to draw the following conclusion (in a little tabloid way):
The Farenheit 911 post is PERFECT for Slashdot!:-)
Sir Clarke responded, "Perhaps we should ask the Martians first." Can it be done quickly-- or at all? Is terraforming ethical?
I feel somewhat guilty for stating this but: "We should survive at any cost".
Surviving is not unethical, it is the very nature of any living thing.
I'm sure Sir Clarke is a smart and experienced person, but his answer just seem stupid to me. We should colonize. We should survive. We should dominate the universe if it insures the survival of humans. In all: "No mercy" when it comes to our survival.
I'm not really smart, however, I had a real hard time dealing with the bastards at my school who could not deal with smart people.
Being smart doesnt mean servering other people. It's like the movie Good Will Hunting. Like any other thing, it's up to you.
What is genius? Genius is making things simple. Because simple is genius. Since you surely have read philosophy, you must know that "happiness is where you find it". Simple and stupid? Yes, but that's the way it is. Being a human and person imply theese simple conclusions.
You can't save the world, do what you can, save yourself:-D
A game and an operating system are not the same thing.
The hackers can use the stolen hl2-code to make aimbots and wallhacks, which will be bad for all the online gamers!
And lets face it, the multiplayer part is by far the most important for HL2. I'm sure the game itself will be good, but once you have played it, it's not interesting anymore.
Online gaming just goes on and on and on, like counterstrike has done with half-life 1.
Hackers make cheats for free, and someone will probably have to pay in order to patch those hacks.
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Mod this up to at least 3
Does MS need China? Does MS need money? Sure, it's not about the survival of MS (at this moment) but for any company more income is better.
CONCLUSION: YES, STUPID!
Your example works well in "meeting a stranger" but I'm not sure it would work in a workplace...
I never hit first, ever. I'm almost pacifist in that way. But if I get hit, nukes come out.
While training Tae-Kwon-do my teacher said that's it's perfectly ok to hit first if the you understand that some "guy" is going to hit you anyway and there is no escape possibility.
Not sure how this would end up in the legal system, but it's better to make the best of the situation in my perspective etc.
My teacher also told me to not run away if kicking or beating someone. Stay and wait for the police, and explain your situation. Somehow escaping inflicts guilt...
I don't know about you guys, but Roald Dahl's Witches really scared me as a child!
;-)
Meeting my aunts afterwards was never the same again! (but then I grew op
A former girlfriend of me had this problem.
Why can't you just take a "motion-sickness"-pill as many does when riding cars\boats etc.?
You have a point, sometimes it is hard to decide. In your scenario the gov't would ask a relevant question based on the initial 4'sec impression:
Best? hmm, soda company sells soda-water, then they must mean that their soda-water is best?
The gov't kinda "play" a "stupid" customer in order to get the first impression.
Any company can be best at something, but it's their "essential" product that's the important thing.
80.000 or even maxfine 150.000 dollar aren't that much, but we're only 4,5 million people in norway, så if you mulitiply with a population of 288 million (USA) it's up to 9,6 million dollars.(one advertisment could be enough)
Here in Norway, if a company claims that their product(s) are the BEST, the official watchdogs ("marketing authorities") may ask the company for actual proof of this.
:-D
:-)
One important aspect of this prosess is that you can't just footnote* something and then "it's up to the consumer to investigate". It is the first impression whithin a few seconds that counts! If the advertisment has the "ability to mislead" than the authorities may choose to ask for evidence.
And the authorities don't accept no "bullshit-document" or study funded by the company where conclusions have been drawn in advance.
If the "marketing authorities" aren't convinsed by the "evidence" presented to them, they effectivly forbid the company to state that their product(s) are the best.
Punishment for breaking the prohibition is large fines (e.g. 80.000$) that cannot be appealed at any court.
Norwegian consumer-laws are very good
Will it fit in my iPod?
as long as that shit don't block my natural feeling of HAPPINESS and my euphoria when I'm either drunk og training, I say go. But why can't you just give the vaccination to people that already are addicts?
If new druges must be developed to replace the ones that are not working anymore, so be it, as long as the project saves money.
Also, I'm 100% sure the drug-designers (kokaine, lsd, xtacy etc) will come up with new drugs! It will spur drug-innovation!
none of the numbers are actually irrelevant.
the small difference in user-time is irrelevant, however the information about the usage-time is not irrelevant. It could've been vastly different, and stating that it's almost the same has value.
The difference in internet uses goes to POTENTIAL. If you change those numbers to customers, you would surely see the difference. Market potential would surely be much smaller if portugisee were to be the language of choice!
hehe, rated insightfull
The site should use it's memeber mass to make articles in both languages! How hard could it be? It's surely profitable!
You obviously know very little about publishing. First, people in the publishing industry are not computer people by and large. They prefer macs because they don't want to fuss with command-lines, email viruses and poor font management. They also prefer an enviroment that is PDF driven from the ground up. Had you known anything about the publishing industry you would have not brought this point up.
I work in that industry, and there are no big differences between using PC and Mac. Both work just fine! The major issues are about being used to something and switching costs. THAT'S why the industry (mostly) stick to mac's!
The only issue you're right about is viruses.
The Mac-head and the Linux mook may have equal levels of education and writing ability, but I suspect the kind of person who buys a Mac cares about it more.
:-)
He-he, you would NATURALLY care MORE about something that's TWICE as expensive as another thing.
'Cause I'm worth it?
Since the macs are much more expensive than PCs, I wonder if PC-users are better in math than mac-fans? :D
Value for money? What's that?
hehe, ur post is rated "insightful" :-)
;-)
Some of the mod's don't understand that your supposed to be funny
Looks like your boycott was a huge success!
...and considering the 5,930 billions people who didn't, it was a HUUUUUGGE sucsess! :D
Only 70 million PS2 boxes was sold! Way to go!
Thank God for Doom3 not being released through Steam (as HL2). :-)
How about GIVING him a formal education? :-)
If he's real smart, 5-6 years will do it!
:-)
He's only 62 years old, remember. Let's try keeping him alive for at least 20 more years and give him good funding.
As a norwegian, it stuns me that Greenpeace is willing to provide false information about whales and whaling in order to raise money.
Greenpeace's strategy is to find the animals that we humans like the most and\or the animals that we find cute (like baby seals). Then they want to draw the public's attention by demonstrating or by some kind of action. (attention = money)
Back to whales: I'm no expert, but there are many different species of whales. It's like there are many different kinds of fish. Further, some kinds of whales are endangered, as some kinds of fish are.
But the whales that norwegians or japaneese hunt are not endangered! We do not hunt endangered whales because that would wipe out the whole population, and what good would that do? You think were're idiots or something?
As far as I can remember, we hunt the minke whale, which have a big population that can bear some hunting.
My conclusion is that whale hunting is not wrong. As is not general fishing. What's wrong is hunting animals that you may entirely wipe out. Generalising about whales is like generalising about fish. It's plain wrong!
(And if you'd like to tell me that whales are smart, don't even go there!)
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. Many posters don't think that Farenheit 911 should be posted here. For them, it's not "nerdy" og technical enough.
:-)
However, LOOK AT THE NUMBERS! As we speak there have been about 2000 posts! Thus, I'm forced to draw the following conclusion (in a little tabloid way):
The Farenheit 911 post is PERFECT for Slashdot!
Sir Clarke responded, "Perhaps we should ask the Martians first." Can it be done quickly-- or at all? Is terraforming ethical?
I feel somewhat guilty for stating this but: "We should survive at any cost".
Surviving is not unethical, it is the very nature of any living thing.
I'm sure Sir Clarke is a smart and experienced person, but his answer just seem stupid to me. We should colonize. We should survive. We should dominate the universe if it insures the survival of humans. In all: "No mercy" when it comes to our survival.
I'm not really smart, however, I had a real hard time dealing with the bastards at my school who could not deal with smart people.
:-D
Being smart doesnt mean servering other people. It's like the movie Good Will Hunting. Like any other thing, it's up to you.
What is genius? Genius is making things simple. Because simple is genius. Since you surely have read philosophy, you must know that "happiness is where you find it". Simple and stupid? Yes, but that's the way it is. Being a human and person imply theese simple conclusions.
You can't save the world, do what you can, save yourself
hahaha, thats really funny!! hehe
A game and an operating system are not the same thing.
The hackers can use the stolen hl2-code to make aimbots and wallhacks, which will be bad for all the online gamers!
And lets face it, the multiplayer part is by far the most important for HL2. I'm sure the game itself will be good, but once you have played it, it's not interesting anymore.
Online gaming just goes on and on and on, like counterstrike has done with half-life 1.
Hackers make cheats for free, and someone will probably have to pay in order to patch those hacks.