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One nice hack: a car chipped-up for the race track can be set back to factory specs for the street simply by pushing the cruise control button.
That "nice hack" is more than just a cute little feature, it is required to pass your emissions inspection if you happen to live in places like the NE and the west coast. This is not to be confused with the saftey inspection that most states do, wlthough the emissions inspection almost always occurs at the same time.
This is perfect to run GIS software from ESRI on it. They make software to allow field people like archaeologists, LSP (licensed site professionals), etc to do surveying/field mapping with an attached GPS unit. The software runs on WinCE. Also, delorme makes a palm capable software that could also likely interface with their GIS package, although I can't say for sure since I use their personal use software.
...for Network Solutions' bottom line.;-) But in all seriously, this is the kind of short sighted, pump up stock crap I would expect from the MBA set. Take in a huge amount of money up front at a severe discount and then lose the regular income over the long haul. The only way this would work for netsol is if they invested most every dime of it in long term investments and were really conservative with it. The reality is, there will be a peny or two higher dividend this quarter.
...for years. My parents still live on Long Island and I take the Orient point ferry (docks 100 yards from the Long Island depo servicing Plum Island) and for years there has been one union or another on strike there. You see them every time you take the ferry. The scary thing is that plum island used to be isolated but there are more and more people moving to the North Fork and that ferry is seeing a huge amount of growth these days with the casinos opening up in CT. Any mishap could be disastrous and be totally uncontainable due to the sheer numbers of people every which way on the ferry services through that area. Also, the ferry comes within a half mile of the island on a regular basis. I would imagine that is enough to put the passengers at risk and if any leak is not found immediately then when the passengers dock at CT or Orient they could be off and running infecting everyone else before it can be stopped.
...but the last article regarding "the edge" has a lot to offer this topic. Why would the RIAA agree to a licensing scheme like this, despite prior precedent in this country and countries like Canada, when they can conspire to control the content with those that control the delivery of said content.
...since they are outlawing gay marriage left and right here in the states. Although for / geeks, it is not like there is much need for compatibility I guess.
...but I seriously doubt that the fishing industry will adopt this without legislative mandate. What happens now is that when fisherman haul in a catch, they sort out all prohibited/undersireable fish. They throw overboard that bycatch regardless is the fish are alive or dead. There is no record of what their bycatch was and they suffer no consequences for this bycatch. With this system, there is now a record of the bycatch and it will provide empirical proof of the bycatch problem and therefore ammo to those looking to clean up the fishing industry.
I did it because one of the slashbots modded me down and and I did not think it would get modded up, it almost never does when it goes below 0. I hate when moderators mod down comments that are the least bit controversial or that disagree with their own opinions. I almost never mod negative and I never try to censor with my mods.
Lets face it, the tax cuts served two purposes for the Bush administration, buy off support of the richest in America and to run the finances of the nation into the ground so far that we would have to cut spending. This Mars crap is just that, a canard to distract the populace and make Bush look like a visionary. Given it was unfunded I would imagine he does not have any serious desire to see the US travel to Mars, although I would imagine he would like Terry McCauliffe get sent there...
...differently? Lets face it, the tax cuts served two purposes for the Bush administration, buy off support of the richest in America and to run the finances of the nation into the ground so far that we would have to cut spending. This Mars crap is just that, a canard to distract the populace and make Bush look like a visionary. Given it was unfunded I would imagine he does not have any serious desire to see the US travel to Mars, although I would imagine he would like Terry McCauliffe get sent there...
I normally don't respond to idiots who have no sense of context, but my statement in no way said I thought people had a god given right to any job. Nor am I, a small business owner, a communist.
She was deflecting the topic off of her true motives to some rugged individualist notion of free capitalism. Her statement about god given rights to a job was in the context of offshoring jobs to corrupt, third world nations with minimal, if at all adequate standards of living and freedoms. This practice of offshoring was designed specifically for three reasons, the first is the short term profit of corporations and their top executives and the second is to collapse the standard of living in this nation and to put such competitive pressure on the environmental, health and safety regulations of the US that they need to be repealed in the medium term. Lastly, in the long term the widening of the income gap between rich and poor in such a way that it concentrates wealth and therefore power in the hands of just a few people. If you want to see what that life will look like then you need to look no further than the dark ages of Europe. The landed gentry and their sharecroppers are very analogous.
Hence why I questioned her ethics. See the other poster who said:
It's unfortunate, however, that CEO's don't realize that they don't have a god given right to be CEO just like their underlings don't have the right to the job they've got. A person has a god given right to breath and work for a living. They don't have the god given right to be dependant on someone else, they have the god given right to be independant of anyone else. This works both ways; CEO's are dependant on their workers, and their workers are dependant on the CEO's.
At least others got what I was saying. So no, we don't have a fucking god given right to a job, but we have the god given right to work and live in a world where apples are not compared to oranges and where we compete on the level and quality of our effort and not on the corruptness of our respective society's keepers (government) and the griminess of the tricks used on the race to the bottom.
Heaven forbid that a company has a motive to do anything but market demand.
Like ethics and corporate responsiblity.
Coming from the coprporation whose CEO recently defended outsourcing jobs by stating "Workers do not have a God given right to a job", I am not sure their ethics are particularly aligned with the little guy...
Exactly, that is what I was getting at. We as Americans need to utilize the dominant position we have been given/earned/lucked into and utilize it to bring up the less fortunate to our standards through smart use of incentives instead of allowing corporations to dictate short-sighted, self aggrandizing motives that solidify their power through the use of any means necessary, which generally means through corruption and other means that would be deemed immoral by US and progressive standards.
If non-industrialized nations want to enjoy free trade with the US then they will have to comply with the same standards we apply to ourselves in order to come to the table. Otherwise, it becomes an apples v. oranges issue. I remember reading a news expose on a Central American gold mine owned by 50+ miners in a co-op. An American firm got the local government to transfer the mines to the control of the American firm. 50+ dead miners later the mine came under the control of the US firm. Diamonds and other gems are no better. Needless to say, I have very few jewelry items and all of them are from days before I learned about this.
I have read it and if you read what I wrote, you will see I was talking about the execution of a specific trade policy, not about generic and ideal trade theory. There is no such thing as a perfect market since there is no such thing as perfect information. Ideal markets do not, and will never exist. So the focus has to be on the trade policy and how that policy has been implemented. My suggestion is that the execution of this specific trade policy has been set up to benefit one group over another.
Depending on what sort of world you want, I guess.
This is exactly the problem w/ free trade. Conservatives want it for obvious reasons and progressives want it since they mistakenly believe it will bring up the standards of living in the target countries. Although it does (bring up the std of living), it does so through achieving equilibrium. The problem with that is to achieve equilibrium, two sides need to meet in the middle and that means decrease in the std of living for the higher income group. To prevent this it requires a smart plan, one which is sorely lacking in this case. In the absence of this plan, the only people who benefit from free trade are the really rich as they income gap increases.
The facts bear out the assertion that the rich are benefitting from this arrangement since both the US and Mexico have seen a shrinking of their middle class and a growth in the income gap between top and bottom. Also, in the absence of a smart plan for implementing free trade, it allows the corporations to continue to support corrupt regimes with total impunity, with no control by any authority.
Bring it on... Oh, OK, it's three words but our president can't count either. But seriously, I run Linux (and Mac OS) and I welcome letting them take me on. I am pissed about this FUD that SCO is spreading sans any proof and I want an outlet to vent. I see all of these slime balls getting rich on other peoples efforts and I want blood in anyway I can get it. It is about time those who have worked to make the computing areana adhere to a more level playing field that embraces open standards to stand up an fight back. I am not talking about DOS attacks, I am talking about fighting back using the media and the courts the way those who seek to control us use daily.
But it helps if the public starts to hear more about this insanity. They may just possibly wake the fsck up and demand something be done. Or, at the very least, not stand in the way if the "bidness" community decides their profits are better off in the pockets of themselves and the investors and not in the pockets of lawyers.
Exactly, plus, there will always be a company or two who sell film cameras to those who prefer it for whatever reason, artistic or otherwise. Look, medium and large format cameras are still available and they were popular in the late 1800s.
It wasn't venom, merely a healthy appreciation for reality and not some idealized view of the clergy... Personally I could care less how they make their money.
Yeah, I went to catholic HS and I wil tell you, there is no better fund raiser than a catholic organization. As you said, they have a long tradition of "charitable" works and they just update them for the times they are in.
Losing the iPod is a small fish compared to iTunes.
Other way around... They barely break even on the store. They make massive profit on the iPod. In the long term the store may become more profitable but that will depend on the other markets players and their downward push on the prices they pay to the record labels.
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That "nice hack" is more than just a cute little feature, it is required to pass your emissions inspection if you happen to live in places like the NE and the west coast. This is not to be confused with the saftey inspection that most states do, wlthough the emissions inspection almost always occurs at the same time.
This is perfect to run GIS software from ESRI on it. They make software to allow field people like archaeologists, LSP (licensed site professionals), etc to do surveying/field mapping with an attached GPS unit. The software runs on WinCE. Also, delorme makes a palm capable software that could also likely interface with their GIS package, although I can't say for sure since I use their personal use software.
...for Network Solutions' bottom line. ;-) But in all seriously, this is the kind of short sighted, pump up stock crap I would expect from the MBA set. Take in a huge amount of money up front at a severe discount and then lose the regular income over the long haul. The only way this would work for netsol is if they invested most every dime of it in long term investments and were really conservative with it. The reality is, there will be a peny or two higher dividend this quarter.
...for years. My parents still live on Long Island and I take the Orient point ferry (docks 100 yards from the Long Island depo servicing Plum Island) and for years there has been one union or another on strike there. You see them every time you take the ferry. The scary thing is that plum island used to be isolated but there are more and more people moving to the North Fork and that ferry is seeing a huge amount of growth these days with the casinos opening up in CT. Any mishap could be disastrous and be totally uncontainable due to the sheer numbers of people every which way on the ferry services through that area. Also, the ferry comes within a half mile of the island on a regular basis. I would imagine that is enough to put the passengers at risk and if any leak is not found immediately then when the passengers dock at CT or Orient they could be off and running infecting everyone else before it can be stopped.
He is still on the ballot though...
...but the last article regarding "the edge" has a lot to offer this topic. Why would the RIAA agree to a licensing scheme like this, despite prior precedent in this country and countries like Canada, when they can conspire to control the content with those that control the delivery of said content.
Hint: Male Chromosome...
...but I seriously doubt that the fishing industry will adopt this without legislative mandate. What happens now is that when fisherman haul in a catch, they sort out all prohibited/undersireable fish. They throw overboard that bycatch regardless is the fish are alive or dead. There is no record of what their bycatch was and they suffer no consequences for this bycatch. With this system, there is now a record of the bycatch and it will provide empirical proof of the bycatch problem and therefore ammo to those looking to clean up the fishing industry.
I did it because one of the slashbots modded me down and and I did not think it would get modded up, it almost never does when it goes below 0. I hate when moderators mod down comments that are the least bit controversial or that disagree with their own opinions. I almost never mod negative and I never try to censor with my mods.
It is not something I normally do.
Lets face it, the tax cuts served two purposes for the Bush administration, buy off support of the richest in America and to run the finances of the nation into the ground so far that we would have to cut spending. This Mars crap is just that, a canard to distract the populace and make Bush look like a visionary. Given it was unfunded I would imagine he does not have any serious desire to see the US travel to Mars, although I would imagine he would like Terry McCauliffe get sent there...
...differently? Lets face it, the tax cuts served two purposes for the Bush administration, buy off support of the richest in America and to run the finances of the nation into the ground so far that we would have to cut spending. This Mars crap is just that, a canard to distract the populace and make Bush look like a visionary. Given it was unfunded I would imagine he does not have any serious desire to see the US travel to Mars, although I would imagine he would like Terry McCauliffe get sent there...
She was deflecting the topic off of her true motives to some rugged individualist notion of free capitalism. Her statement about god given rights to a job was in the context of offshoring jobs to corrupt, third world nations with minimal, if at all adequate standards of living and freedoms. This practice of offshoring was designed specifically for three reasons, the first is the short term profit of corporations and their top executives and the second is to collapse the standard of living in this nation and to put such competitive pressure on the environmental, health and safety regulations of the US that they need to be repealed in the medium term. Lastly, in the long term the widening of the income gap between rich and poor in such a way that it concentrates wealth and therefore power in the hands of just a few people. If you want to see what that life will look like then you need to look no further than the dark ages of Europe. The landed gentry and their sharecroppers are very analogous.
Hence why I questioned her ethics. See the other poster who said:
At least others got what I was saying. So no, we don't have a fucking god given right to a job, but we have the god given right to work and live in a world where apples are not compared to oranges and where we compete on the level and quality of our effort and not on the corruptness of our respective society's keepers (government) and the griminess of the tricks used on the race to the bottom.Like ethics and corporate responsiblity.
Coming from the coprporation whose CEO recently defended outsourcing jobs by stating "Workers do not have a God given right to a job", I am not sure their ethics are particularly aligned with the little guy...
If non-industrialized nations want to enjoy free trade with the US then they will have to comply with the same standards we apply to ourselves in order to come to the table. Otherwise, it becomes an apples v. oranges issue. I remember reading a news expose on a Central American gold mine owned by 50+ miners in a co-op. An American firm got the local government to transfer the mines to the control of the American firm. 50+ dead miners later the mine came under the control of the US firm. Diamonds and other gems are no better. Needless to say, I have very few jewelry items and all of them are from days before I learned about this.
I have read it and if you read what I wrote, you will see I was talking about the execution of a specific trade policy, not about generic and ideal trade theory. There is no such thing as a perfect market since there is no such thing as perfect information. Ideal markets do not, and will never exist. So the focus has to be on the trade policy and how that policy has been implemented. My suggestion is that the execution of this specific trade policy has been set up to benefit one group over another.
This is exactly the problem w/ free trade. Conservatives want it for obvious reasons and progressives want it since they mistakenly believe it will bring up the standards of living in the target countries. Although it does (bring up the std of living), it does so through achieving equilibrium. The problem with that is to achieve equilibrium, two sides need to meet in the middle and that means decrease in the std of living for the higher income group. To prevent this it requires a smart plan, one which is sorely lacking in this case. In the absence of this plan, the only people who benefit from free trade are the really rich as they income gap increases.
The facts bear out the assertion that the rich are benefitting from this arrangement since both the US and Mexico have seen a shrinking of their middle class and a growth in the income gap between top and bottom. Also, in the absence of a smart plan for implementing free trade, it allows the corporations to continue to support corrupt regimes with total impunity, with no control by any authority.
Welcome to the new world...
Bring it on... Oh, OK, it's three words but our president can't count either. But seriously, I run Linux (and Mac OS) and I welcome letting them take me on. I am pissed about this FUD that SCO is spreading sans any proof and I want an outlet to vent. I see all of these slime balls getting rich on other peoples efforts and I want blood in anyway I can get it. It is about time those who have worked to make the computing areana adhere to a more level playing field that embraces open standards to stand up an fight back. I am not talking about DOS attacks, I am talking about fighting back using the media and the courts the way those who seek to control us use daily.
But it helps if the public starts to hear more about this insanity. They may just possibly wake the fsck up and demand something be done. Or, at the very least, not stand in the way if the "bidness" community decides their profits are better off in the pockets of themselves and the investors and not in the pockets of lawyers.
Does Guillem Jover translate to Bill Gates in some other language???
Exactly, plus, there will always be a company or two who sell film cameras to those who prefer it for whatever reason, artistic or otherwise. Look, medium and large format cameras are still available and they were popular in the late 1800s.
It wasn't venom, merely a healthy appreciation for reality and not some idealized view of the clergy... Personally I could care less how they make their money.
Yeah, I went to catholic HS and I wil tell you, there is no better fund raiser than a catholic organization. As you said, they have a long tradition of "charitable" works and they just update them for the times they are in.
Other way around... They barely break even on the store. They make massive profit on the iPod. In the long term the store may become more profitable but that will depend on the other markets players and their downward push on the prices they pay to the record labels.
No ads is good ads.
Nope, it should be "No gnads is good gnads..."
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