The odds of finishing an IT career... are getting better. There are more people retiring very soon, and with that comes lots of senior positions that will be vacant, and ripe for the picking.
Settle into a company, make yourself indispensible, and you are set... If we avoid nuclear war, and stop using SUVs...
Just last week the weather forcast said dangerous windchills would descend on the area. They neglected to mention that snow was coming with it too, which means a BIZZARD! You can drive through cold wind, but you can't drive through 0 visibility.
What is worse, local weather is forcast from more than 800km away. The forecaster can't even look out the window to see if their satellite is lagging or not.
Feedback is a hot topic. Look here for instance: Feedback Board.
eBay doesn't protect sellers from negative feedback retaliation, unless the other user is suspended for having false contact information during leaving feedback. Underage people can also have their feedback left for other removed [since they are using eBay illegally].
This is a serious setback... for Barbie's divorce from Ken. Not only is she not entitled to alamony because she is non-human, the marriage wasn't even legal in the first place.
That argument is hardly gone. If anything it was short sighted because CD burners weren't as plentiful in 1999 as they are now. If people could download and burn music legally by paying a distribution system that pays the artists, then there would of course be more music bought using the P2P model + CDs, than just CDs alone.
People don't want to pay $20 for a CD of a new artist. Consumers are for the most part fed up with the BS they feed us about piracy hurting their bottom line. Stop complaining, and do something about it already! Either throw Kazza users in jail, or conform to the economy like good little capitalists, and reduce the cost to meet the demand.
Reducing the cost of CDs will have a 2 fold effect: 1. More people will choose legal CDs over piracy [gives music companies more money]. 2. The black market will be hurt because there will be fewer pirates to downloading and selling [eliminate the pirate competition].
Frankly anyone who know anything realizes that an "Internet tax" would be hell for governments to implement and regulate.
People already have to pay taxes for things bought on the Internet, and do pay them if they are imported from another country. Customs looks at the sticker on the package, calculates the duty and tax, charges a fee for handling, and presto - Internet Tax.
This is not new stuff to anyone who sells on eBay for example.
Exploitation is by definition dirty and underhanded. Because it does some good on the surface, does not make it good hearted, nor good for an economy. There is likely a reason that their economy is in the toilet, and needs to be repaired before we can start "spreadin' the money 'round".
Nike may not be the reason 3rd world countries came into being, but they sure as heck perpetuate their destitution. There is no incentive to build their own industries that they get ludicriously rich off of, because there is a "better than par" wage to be had for very little work for the people lucky enough to get them. But if they were working in the USA, they would be making 4 times what they are.
The whole capitalist ideal is "you get paid what you work for". Well you don't get paid what you work for, because capitalism has major distortions based on geography.
"willingly exploited" is a crazy justification. It is sickening. My whole point is that no one wants to be willingly exploited. Do you? If you had no job and no money, would you work for $6 an hour, knowing that it isn't enough to properly feed and cloth yourself and family? Sure you would, but would you be thankful for that job and the rich people who employ you when you deserve a $10/hour job for a full day of hard work? I don't think so.
People want to be rich, free, and healthy. Short of that they want whatever else life brings them for as little work as possible. If having a foreign company come in and rape the labour force is easier and more profitable than managing the countries finanaces properly, then that is what will continue to happen. 3rd world countries will continue to stagnate and be havens for disease and ignorance as long as we don't pay people for a full day of work, so they can live right by being honest.
Excuse me?
How is supporting locally produced, more socially responsible companies hurting the 3rd world? Perpetuating a doomed economic model of profit on the backs of the poor, is what is despicable, not socialism.
If Nike truely cared about those people, they would pay them enough to live on, not peanuts. I think everyone is entitled to make a profit, but not on the backs of people who have so little that they make me look like a king by comparision.
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The odds of finishing an IT career... are getting better. There are more people retiring very soon, and with that comes lots of senior positions that will be vacant, and ripe for the picking.
Settle into a company, make yourself indispensible, and you are set... If we avoid nuclear war, and stop using SUVs...
Just last week the weather forcast said dangerous windchills would descend on the area. They neglected to mention that snow was coming with it too, which means a BIZZARD! You can drive through cold wind, but you can't drive through 0 visibility.
What is worse, local weather is forcast from more than 800km away. The forecaster can't even look out the window to see if their satellite is lagging or not.
Feedback is a hot topic. Look here for instance:
Feedback Board.
eBay doesn't protect sellers from negative feedback retaliation, unless the other user is suspended for having false contact information during leaving feedback. Underage people can also have their feedback left for other removed [since they are using eBay illegally].
Did you only use eBay once, or do you sell and buy there regularly?
Hi,
Could I please have your eBay userID so that I can promptly block you as a bidder?
Much thanks,
saskboy
The fires do that for you...
Firey Or Rotten Death cars!
90% of the vehicle fires in my neck of the woods are FORDs.
I wonder when hard drives will be taxed to death by ignorant government goons?
Most serious pirates I know, don't even put their music on CDs, they just by another hard drive to back everything up.
This is a serious setback... for Barbie's divorce from Ken. Not only is she not entitled to alamony because she is non-human, the marriage wasn't even legal in the first place.
I was just kidding, because I didn't think Doom II had support for playing over the Internet, just LANs.
I haven't left playing Doom II. I guess I'm safe.
"first psot!"
/. 5000 clams. Best pay up before they exterminate you.
For your failure, and your troll, you now owe
That argument is hardly gone. If anything it was short sighted because CD burners weren't as plentiful in 1999 as they are now. If people could download and burn music legally by paying a distribution system that pays the artists, then there would of course be more music bought using the P2P model + CDs, than just CDs alone.
People don't want to pay $20 for a CD of a new artist. Consumers are for the most part fed up with the BS they feed us about piracy hurting their bottom line. Stop complaining, and do something about it already! Either throw Kazza users in jail, or conform to the economy like good little capitalists, and reduce the cost to meet the demand.
Reducing the cost of CDs will have a 2 fold effect:
1. More people will choose legal CDs over piracy [gives music companies more money].
2. The black market will be hurt because there will be fewer pirates to downloading and selling [eliminate the pirate competition].
These returned UPS's will be resold as UFS's
Unstoppable Fire Supplies.
This only goes to prove that selling on eBay comes with certain unavoidable risks. You never know who your buyer is going to be...
It could be some smart ass college kid who is going to get your old porn collection you thought was lost.
You moron, it is "Google googles You"!
Frankly anyone who know anything realizes that an "Internet tax" would be hell for governments to implement and regulate.
People already have to pay taxes for things bought on the Internet, and do pay them if they are imported from another country. Customs looks at the sticker on the package, calculates the duty and tax, charges a fee for handling, and presto - Internet Tax.
This is not new stuff to anyone who sells on eBay for example.
Do /.'ers count as another species? I know we are to women, but to other computer geeks we're just other guys.
Exploit:
As in "take advantage of". If ID wasn't so damn lazy, they'd make their own featureset.
Just kidding of course.
Nike may not be the reason 3rd world countries came into being, but they sure as heck perpetuate their destitution. There is no incentive to build their own industries that they get ludicriously rich off of, because there is a "better than par" wage to be had for very little work for the people lucky enough to get them. But if they were working in the USA, they would be making 4 times what they are.
The people of sweatshop countries are not producing any industrial capacity for their country, and will remain poor because they are not investing in infrastructure for their benefit, only labour for other countries to get richer from.
Someone else mentioned, is it right to enslave a homeless person for endentured service because he would have starved otherwise?
Exploitation is by definition dirty and underhanded. Because it does some good on the surface, does not make it good hearted, nor good for an economy. There is likely a reason that their economy is in the toilet, and needs to be repaired before we can start "spreadin' the money 'round".
Nike may not be the reason 3rd world countries came into being, but they sure as heck perpetuate their destitution. There is no incentive to build their own industries that they get ludicriously rich off of, because there is a "better than par" wage to be had for very little work for the people lucky enough to get them. But if they were working in the USA, they would be making 4 times what they are.
The whole capitalist ideal is "you get paid what you work for". Well you don't get paid what you work for, because capitalism has major distortions based on geography.
Yes, but hypocrites are still right. They just don't listen to their own good advice.
I've taken an economics class, and I met the same sort of narrow minded "capitalism is the holy grail" attitude.
Ditto to what NoMoreNicksLeft said.
"willingly exploited" is a crazy justification. It is sickening. My whole point is that no one wants to be willingly exploited. Do you? If you had no job and no money, would you work for $6 an hour, knowing that it isn't enough to properly feed and cloth yourself and family? Sure you would, but would you be thankful for that job and the rich people who employ you when you deserve a $10/hour job for a full day of hard work? I don't think so.
People want to be rich, free, and healthy. Short of that they want whatever else life brings them for as little work as possible. If having a foreign company come in and rape the labour force is easier and more profitable than managing the countries finanaces properly, then that is what will continue to happen. 3rd world countries will continue to stagnate and be havens for disease and ignorance as long as we don't pay people for a full day of work, so they can live right by being honest.
Excuse me?
How is supporting locally produced, more socially responsible companies hurting the 3rd world? Perpetuating a doomed economic model of profit on the backs of the poor, is what is despicable, not socialism.
If Nike truely cared about those people, they would pay them enough to live on, not peanuts. I think everyone is entitled to make a profit, but not on the backs of people who have so little that they make me look like a king by comparision.