There is no such society anywhere and there won't ever be. Imagine a society with no advantages of class, inheritance, or accident of history. Without zeroing everyone out, your perfect society is really just a noble class that will seek to perpetuate itself and keep down those talented impoverished who threaten it.
The media companies are trying to find ways to curtail not just piracy but legitimate fair use. They fought VCR's when they first came out and the movie studios fought television when it first came out.
They are short sighted and almost always fight what ends up making them a lot of money when they lose. The danger is they may not lose this time.
Seriously. I know you short attention span types want to see all the latest and greatest shows and movies but the great thing about entertainment is that by definition it's not a necessity.
Go read a book, go surf the net, go create something or take up cooking or amature botany or anything rather than give your attention and money to these schmucks who want to eliminate rights you've had for the past however many years.
This isn't food or shelter or clothing. If the supplier abuses you - abandon him.
Let's see - American corporations are greedy, the workers expect far too much because they want a wage for a day's work that would allow them to own a modest home and support a family and the "obvious solution" is less taxes?
And what's the value on an option that's underwater by five times the stock price and likely to stay there for the forseeable future?
'Cause that's what I got.
I don't. We're not that kind of shop. We're much more networking and app deployment oriented than development oriented. I need dependable people with great attitudes, problem solving, and communications abilities and middling technical skills.
I'm sure I'd be a) Impressed if I saw that on a resume and b) Wary that we couldn't keep such a person happy long enough.
I see a ton of resumes in my job as IT VP and the militarily experienced always earn less than their otehrwise educated counterparts because they end up in dead-end regimented IT shops and they start their careers at a later age.
Of course, the IT industry as a whole is going to the drone model, so maybe that disparity will change. Right now, a tour in the military is worth -$10,000 to -$15,000.
If you had originally ripped all your stuff as MP3, you wouldn't be having this conversation with yourself every year.
And your music would sound like shit. Sorry, but mp3 just does not sound good on anything more acoustically demanding than small children bashing on pots and pans.
I like the idea of going lossless and coverting from there to whatever's needed.
I disagree.
You have feeder industries to the scrubber industries and feeder industries to those industries and the eventual cost of production of electricity is likely to drop as you take the opportunity to put new more efficient generating technology into your electic plants along with the green upgrades.
Sure there's a capital nut to swallow (offset I would argue by increased production of new products), but more efficient technologies are inherently green and ultimately less expensive.
It isn't a conicidence that corporate finance and environmental groups have the same motto - "Do more with less."
We arent' required to stop using those fuels, only to cut back on emission of carbon into the atmosphere. Scrubbers, filters, whatever you want can be used to meet those goals.
In fact, if the treaty's ratification were expected instead of resisted, there would be a capital spending boom as companies geared up for the treaty. Those that didn't want to convert would end up subsidizing the industries that did.
A recent clean burning coal generation plant in Clark County Kentucky produced the following benefits, according to the Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives:
Up to 700 construction jobs at an average of $60,000 a year.
$11 million in state property taxes in its first 20 years of operation.
$1 million in revenue for Clark County from payroll taxes during construction.
New market for up to 1.2 million tons of coal each year.
Sharply reduced emissions through the latest, proven clean-coal technology called "circulating fluidized bed."
98 percent less sulfur dioxide and 5 times less nitrogen oxide than a conventional pulverized coal power plant.
Enough electricity to supply 19 cities the size of Winchester - 278 megawatts - that's dedicated to serve the cooperative member-owners in Kentucky.
Kyoto isn't the business busting treaty you think it is. We'll see the effects over the next ten years as signatories lap American industries.
1. The parent is NOT redundant I posted at 6 minutes after the item went up. At that time no visible posts covered the same ground.
2. Overrated? At 2? At 1? I guess the right wingers don't want to see a post they disagree with. Sorry, you may not agree with it, but its worthy of discussion as the replies would indicate.
That's because you're not taking the true cost of producing those goods into account. If I make a widget one way for.04 less in labor but devalue my land with the pollution caused by that process, what's the actual cost of the good?
Pollution is another way that risks and costs are socialized while profits are privatized.
...which gives us as the #1 polluter in the world incentives to get green and develop technologies that don't pollute which are then marketable to other countries as the vouchers get more expensive and the developing economies come on line and come under the treaty's successors.
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Star Wars does not have Will Smith, therefore Star Wars must be inferior to Men in Black.
This is the "Principle of Jiggy-osity".
There is no such society anywhere and there won't ever be. Imagine a society with no advantages of class, inheritance, or accident of history. Without zeroing everyone out, your perfect society is really just a noble class that will seek to perpetuate itself and keep down those talented impoverished who threaten it.
I mean after all the Dean Kamen hype for like two years before he came out with that thing how could it not be?
Remember, these are journalists they don't admit mistakes.
I have no idea what you're trying to say.
The hot waters of the present will shatter the crystal of their old industry? How is that even a metaphor?
Melt the crystals, perhaps, but shatter?
Horseshit.
The media companies are trying to find ways to curtail not just piracy but legitimate fair use. They fought VCR's when they first came out and the movie studios fought television when it first came out.
They are short sighted and almost always fight what ends up making them a lot of money when they lose. The danger is they may not lose this time.
Seriously. I know you short attention span types want to see all the latest and greatest shows and movies but the great thing about entertainment is that by definition it's not a necessity.
Go read a book, go surf the net, go create something or take up cooking or amature botany or anything rather than give your attention and money to these schmucks who want to eliminate rights you've had for the past however many years.
This isn't food or shelter or clothing. If the supplier abuses you - abandon him.
Pizza/geek joke.
A: Dude, my server went down
B: How'd that happen?
Thank you. Thanks you.A: I tipped REALLY well.
Executive yacht payments are much lower in India than here.
Let's see - American corporations are greedy, the workers expect far too much because they want a wage for a day's work that would allow them to own a modest home and support a family and the "obvious solution" is less taxes?
Go away, robo-conservative.
Or Excel spredsheets hooked into other applications like Hyperion or this wicked ugly budgeting app we used this year called Outlooksoft.
And what's the value on an option that's underwater by five times the stock price and likely to stay there for the forseeable future?
'Cause that's what I got.
What, USB 2.0's 480Mbps isn't good enough for you?
Passwords are always going to be flawed. Biometrics are the wave of the near future/present.
That's not available? How about iIshmael? Take, too? Ishmael2? no? How about...
Call me Ishmael-7143.
So what's Gator's remedy if you violate the EULA? They consider the contract broken and you can't use their software anymore?
Great! That's what I want - your crap spyware gone. Now please enforce the EULA.
I don't. We're not that kind of shop. We're much more networking and app deployment oriented than development oriented. I need dependable people with great attitudes, problem solving, and communications abilities and middling technical skills.
I'm sure I'd be a) Impressed if I saw that on a resume and b) Wary that we couldn't keep such a person happy long enough.
Just pray you don't get stuck doing ADA all day long and have to explain that to an HR person.
"You worked with the Americans with Disabilities Act?"
I call bullshit.
I see a ton of resumes in my job as IT VP and the militarily experienced always earn less than their otehrwise educated counterparts because they end up in dead-end regimented IT shops and they start their careers at a later age.
Of course, the IT industry as a whole is going to the drone model, so maybe that disparity will change. Right now, a tour in the military is worth -$10,000 to -$15,000.
If you had originally ripped all your stuff as MP3, you wouldn't be having this conversation with yourself every year.
And your music would sound like shit. Sorry, but mp3 just does not sound good on anything more acoustically demanding than small children bashing on pots and pans.
I like the idea of going lossless and coverting from there to whatever's needed.
I disagree. You have feeder industries to the scrubber industries and feeder industries to those industries and the eventual cost of production of electricity is likely to drop as you take the opportunity to put new more efficient generating technology into your electic plants along with the green upgrades.
Sure there's a capital nut to swallow (offset I would argue by increased production of new products), but more efficient technologies are inherently green and ultimately less expensive.
It isn't a conicidence that corporate finance and environmental groups have the same motto - "Do more with less."
There are a few economists who take pollution into account since it has to be dealt with eventually and affects health care costs.
Unfortunately, there aren't many accountants that take pollution into account.
We arent' required to stop using those fuels, only to cut back on emission of carbon into the atmosphere. Scrubbers, filters, whatever you want can be used to meet those goals.
In fact, if the treaty's ratification were expected instead of resisted, there would be a capital spending boom as companies geared up for the treaty. Those that didn't want to convert would end up subsidizing the industries that did.
A recent clean burning coal generation plant in Clark County Kentucky produced the following benefits, according to the Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives:
Up to 700 construction jobs at an average of $60,000 a year.
$11 million in state property taxes in its first 20 years of operation.
$1 million in revenue for Clark County from payroll taxes during construction.
New market for up to 1.2 million tons of coal each year.
Sharply reduced emissions through the latest, proven clean-coal technology called "circulating fluidized bed."
98 percent less sulfur dioxide and 5 times less nitrogen oxide than a conventional pulverized coal power plant.
Enough electricity to supply 19 cities the size of Winchester - 278 megawatts - that's dedicated to serve the cooperative member-owners in Kentucky.
Kyoto isn't the business busting treaty you think it is. We'll see the effects over the next ten years as signatories lap American industries.
1. The parent is NOT redundant I posted at 6 minutes after the item went up. At that time no visible posts covered the same ground.
2. Overrated? At 2? At 1? I guess the right wingers don't want to see a post they disagree with. Sorry, you may not agree with it, but its worthy of discussion as the replies would indicate.
That's because you're not taking the true cost of producing those goods into account. If I make a widget one way for .04 less in labor but devalue my land with the pollution caused by that process, what's the actual cost of the good?
Pollution is another way that risks and costs are socialized while profits are privatized.
...which gives us as the #1 polluter in the world incentives to get green and develop technologies that don't pollute which are then marketable to other countries as the vouchers get more expensive and the developing economies come on line and come under the treaty's successors.