It's kind of like when the cool coffee house with all the great local bands closes down because nobody bought any coffee. Everybody bitches how much it sucks, but never connects that they were taking up a chair for four hours without buying a drink.
No, it's like going to the coffee house, covering up all the posters on the walls for 3nlarg!ng ur pen|s and PUNCHING THE MONKEY!!!, and then sitting down and having a cup of coffee while listening to the music. If a website is offering a product, they should expect to derive their revenues from selling that product. Anything else they get is icing, but they should also expect to reap the annoyance of their patrons the more annoying they make their establishment.
Understanding the phenomenon could help to explain why someday, long in the future, the universe will expand so much that no other stars or galaxies will be visible in our night sky,
And here I thought the explanation would be the engulfing of our poor little planet by our sun-turned-red-giant.
Hopefully this committee will take up issues of spy/mal/adware and identity theft, and will reach the conclusion that outlawing software that doesn't make its purpose and installation known to even the stupidest user is the only way to go.
On the other hand, it's unfortunate that there's not a similar committee to focus on issues of copyright/fair use.
Say what you will about Unions, but my friends, America's Corporate Greed is ready and willing to exploit you, and teach your management the tricks of the trade. If you think we're overpaid over here, then check our statistics on labor at the department of labor and statistics url:BLS. Note that union workers on average get a few $ more per hour than non-union. And yet, people still believe they are evil.
Note that frequently that "few $ more per hour" is a substantial percent increase in labor costs (according to this document, averaged over all private industries the increase was 16.8% for mid-2002). Combined with the various benefits which unions require from employers, US industries are at a substantial competitive disadvantage, especially in industries like steel where the profit margin is already extremely small.
Besides that, unions for minimum-wage jobs are a racket, plain and simple. Case in point, a friend of mine back in high school was working at a unionized grocery store and getting paid $5.25 an hour. On top of that, he was forced to pay union dues even though he received no benefits and was making minimum wage. On the other hand, I worked in a non-union grocery store, was charged no union dues, and made fifty cents more on the hour than my friend did.
Yes, unions have served a purpose in the past, especially when the government was ill-equipped to take on abusive employers. But by and large, legislation has made illegal most or all of the forms of abuse, and enforcement is much, much better.
Those in Virginia's 9th district should also keep Rep. Rick Boucher in mind as a crusader (and frequently a lone voice) for fair use and limited copyright as well as free (as in speech) innovation.
Dense Employee: Excuse me, Clerical Worker, can you copy this document for me? I don't know how to use the copier.
Clerical Worker: Okay, come here and I'll show you how to use it.
(CW shows DE how to use the copier)
The next day...
Dense Employee: Excuse me, Clerical Worker, can you copy this document for me? The copier is too intimidating for me to bother listening to you try to teach me how to use it.
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In other words, there are stupid people in workplaces putting undue burdens on all sorts of people - not just IT staff - because they refuse to learn.
No game in history has ever made one play-through of the minimum take 150 hours, for good reason... no matter how good the game is, within 150 hours it WILL get boring. So that's not what they're measuring.
Morrowind's creators claimed that there were about 300 hours of content in the entire game *before* the expansions were released. (They attributed the game's 6-year development period to this, and said maybe they went a bit overboard.) If you fly through the game the first time, you can finish in a lot less than that (probably the 50-60 hours a compelling mere mortal RPG will take), but if you take the time to smell the roses, advance your character's reputation, etc., it will definitely take you at least 150 hours to play, and not necessarily on multiple playthroughs.
I'm not sure it actually took me 300 hours to do everything - though I bet I missed some stuff - but I'm pretty sure it was more than 150. And I enjoyed it all.
6. Assuming the bill doesn't die in Committee, and most of them do, it goes to the rules committee for the Senate and the House. A lot of them die this way, too.
Does the Senate Rules committee take an active role in bill process? I know they do in the House - they draft a resolution which defines the rules for debate and amendment for when the bill reaches the floor (and regardless of the majority party, usually endeavors to put the screws to the minority). But I wasn't aware that Senate bills had associated rules.
I've watched a lot of C-SPAN, and I've never seen a vote end on time, not even on trivial issues where the House or Senate is unanimous, not even on 5-minute votes where everyone is supposedly already there to cast their votes.
While this story is all kinds of fishy, I think it's much more likely to be a publicity stunt (maybe even one that they didn't originally plan - a "turn your frown upside down" sort of thing) for sales of the new album.
Small kudos to them for going with iTunes, anyway. With the name recognition U2 carries (and the huge amount of money they have), they really don't need all of the "resources" of a record company (like marketing, for example). If they played their cards right, they could be the model for the end of the old, crotchety, outdated record labels, and help iTunes succeed where mp3.com largely failed.
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1. Even if you live a perfect life, you deserve to go to hell. Why? Original sin. 2. What was original sin? Pursuit of knowledge.
That's a bit of a stretch. The Original Sin was succumbing to Lucifer's temptation and eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, but the story doesn't indicate that Eve ate the fruit of the Tree because of a desire to gain knowledge. Gaining knowledge of good and evil was a consequence of eating the fruit (one requiring some drastic measures on God's part), but was not necessarily the motivation behind the sin. Now, Lucifer, on the other hand, knew full well all of the consequences, and the entire reason for his temptation of Eve was to spoil God's creation.
A different (and probably better) interpretation, one that reappears throughout the Old Testament (see Judges), is that the Original Sin was doing whatever the hell you want (generally, whatever "feels good"), despite God's direct instructions to the contrary.
How does tin-foil crap like this get modded upwards?
A simple application of Occam's Razor will tell you that a much simpler explanation - and likely the correct explanation - is that the Mexican AG realizes that in a country with significant government corruption and organized crime, he needs all the protection he can get. That includes discouraging people from kidnapping or killing him by making his whereabouts known at all times to the lawful and uncorrupted segments of the government.
The banned stem cell research is a matter of hypocrisy and partisan pandering at the expense of science. The banned research in question uses blastocyts (sp?) which is simply an egg fertilized in a petri dish and never embedded in a womb. Banning research using this method is inconsistent since the same practice is used at fertility clinics all over the country. If there is an ethical problem using this method for stem cell research, then it should be equally unethical to use it in fertility clinics. It isn't even a faith vs. science issue like evolution, cause this is even more bogus.
Some of us *do* believe that in-vitro methods that result in dozens of unused embryos are immoral as a method of fertility therapy.
How is the UCS partisan? They'd lambast a Dem president who did what Bush is currently doing.
The Democratic Party would lambast a Dem president doing that, too, and they, by definition, are partisan. Your statement doesn't refute the assertion that the UCS is partisan.
A similar argument (that embryo == life, life == inviolable, therefore embryo == inviolable) could potentially be held by atheists as a moral argument rather than a religious one.
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It's kind of like when the cool coffee house with all the great local bands closes down because nobody bought any coffee. Everybody bitches how much it sucks, but never connects that they were taking up a chair for four hours without buying a drink.
No, it's like going to the coffee house, covering up all the posters on the walls for 3nlarg!ng ur pen|s and PUNCHING THE MONKEY!!!, and then sitting down and having a cup of coffee while listening to the music. If a website is offering a product, they should expect to derive their revenues from selling that product. Anything else they get is icing, but they should also expect to reap the annoyance of their patrons the more annoying they make their establishment.
In Ohio, shopkeepers can even detain you for having a video camera turned on if they are showing copyrighted movies somewhere in the store.
I predict that 'breakerons' will be discovered soon, lest the accelerons would cause an unlimited expansion of the universe.
Personally, I prefer the term "acceleroffs".
Understanding the phenomenon could help to explain why someday, long in the future, the universe will expand so much that no other stars or galaxies will be visible in our night sky,
And here I thought the explanation would be the engulfing of our poor little planet by our sun-turned-red-giant.
The implication, of course, is that if you fired proton torpedoes into the center of Mimas, it would burst apart with a brilliant ring explosion.
Do you really believe that it is just the republicans that are pushing heavy copyright enforcement?
Of course he doesn't, but he also doesn't want to miss an opportunity to karma-whore by bashing the GOP.
Hopefully this committee will take up issues of spy/mal/adware and identity theft, and will reach the conclusion that outlawing software that doesn't make its purpose and installation known to even the stupidest user is the only way to go.
On the other hand, it's unfortunate that there's not a similar committee to focus on issues of copyright/fair use.
Don't forget Hillary Clinton as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/
Say what you will about Unions, but my friends, America's Corporate Greed is ready and willing to exploit you, and teach your management the tricks of the trade. If you think we're overpaid over here, then check our statistics on labor at the department of labor and statistics url:BLS. Note that union workers on average get a few $ more per hour than non-union. And yet, people still believe they are evil.
Note that frequently that "few $ more per hour" is a substantial percent increase in labor costs (according to this document, averaged over all private industries the increase was 16.8% for mid-2002). Combined with the various benefits which unions require from employers, US industries are at a substantial competitive disadvantage, especially in industries like steel where the profit margin is already extremely small.
Besides that, unions for minimum-wage jobs are a racket, plain and simple. Case in point, a friend of mine back in high school was working at a unionized grocery store and getting paid $5.25 an hour. On top of that, he was forced to pay union dues even though he received no benefits and was making minimum wage. On the other hand, I worked in a non-union grocery store, was charged no union dues, and made fifty cents more on the hour than my friend did.
Yes, unions have served a purpose in the past, especially when the government was ill-equipped to take on abusive employers. But by and large, legislation has made illegal most or all of the forms of abuse, and enforcement is much, much better.
Those in Virginia's 9th district should also keep Rep. Rick Boucher in mind as a crusader (and frequently a lone voice) for fair use and limited copyright as well as free (as in speech) innovation.
Wernstrom!
Here I thought we were discussing theology, not religion.
Dense Employee: Excuse me, Clerical Worker, can you copy this document for me? I don't know how to use the copier.
Clerical Worker: Okay, come here and I'll show you how to use it.
(CW shows DE how to use the copier)
The next day...
Dense Employee: Excuse me, Clerical Worker, can you copy this document for me? The copier is too intimidating for me to bother listening to you try to teach me how to use it.
---
In other words, there are stupid people in workplaces putting undue burdens on all sorts of people - not just IT staff - because they refuse to learn.
A wave in Athens, Ohio is usually called a flash flood.
No game in history has ever made one play-through of the minimum take 150 hours, for good reason... no matter how good the game is, within 150 hours it WILL get boring. So that's not what they're measuring.
Morrowind's creators claimed that there were about 300 hours of content in the entire game *before* the expansions were released. (They attributed the game's 6-year development period to this, and said maybe they went a bit overboard.) If you fly through the game the first time, you can finish in a lot less than that (probably the 50-60 hours a compelling mere mortal RPG will take), but if you take the time to smell the roses, advance your character's reputation, etc., it will definitely take you at least 150 hours to play, and not necessarily on multiple playthroughs.
I'm not sure it actually took me 300 hours to do everything - though I bet I missed some stuff - but I'm pretty sure it was more than 150. And I enjoyed it all.
6. Assuming the bill doesn't die in Committee, and most of them do, it goes to the rules committee for the Senate and the House. A lot of them die this way, too.
Does the Senate Rules committee take an active role in bill process? I know they do in the House - they draft a resolution which defines the rules for debate and amendment for when the bill reaches the floor (and regardless of the majority party, usually endeavors to put the screws to the minority). But I wasn't aware that Senate bills had associated rules.
I've watched a lot of C-SPAN, and I've never seen a vote end on time, not even on trivial issues where the House or Senate is unanimous, not even on 5-minute votes where everyone is supposedly already there to cast their votes.
While this story is all kinds of fishy, I think it's much more likely to be a publicity stunt (maybe even one that they didn't originally plan - a "turn your frown upside down" sort of thing) for sales of the new album.
Small kudos to them for going with iTunes, anyway. With the name recognition U2 carries (and the huge amount of money they have), they really don't need all of the "resources" of a record company (like marketing, for example). If they played their cards right, they could be the model for the end of the old, crotchety, outdated record labels, and help iTunes succeed where mp3.com largely failed.
1. Even if you live a perfect life, you deserve to go to hell. Why? Original sin.
2. What was original sin? Pursuit of knowledge.
That's a bit of a stretch. The Original Sin was succumbing to Lucifer's temptation and eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, but the story doesn't indicate that Eve ate the fruit of the Tree because of a desire to gain knowledge. Gaining knowledge of good and evil was a consequence of eating the fruit (one requiring some drastic measures on God's part), but was not necessarily the motivation behind the sin. Now, Lucifer, on the other hand, knew full well all of the consequences, and the entire reason for his temptation of Eve was to spoil God's creation.
A different (and probably better) interpretation, one that reappears throughout the Old Testament (see Judges), is that the Original Sin was doing whatever the hell you want (generally, whatever "feels good"), despite God's direct instructions to the contrary.
You mean, like this?
Beady beady beady.
How does tin-foil crap like this get modded upwards?
A simple application of Occam's Razor will tell you that a much simpler explanation - and likely the correct explanation - is that the Mexican AG realizes that in a country with significant government corruption and organized crime, he needs all the protection he can get. That includes discouraging people from kidnapping or killing him by making his whereabouts known at all times to the lawful and uncorrupted segments of the government.
The banned stem cell research is a matter of hypocrisy and partisan pandering at the expense of science. The banned research in question uses blastocyts (sp?) which is simply an egg fertilized in a petri dish and never embedded in a womb. Banning research using this method is inconsistent since the same practice is used at fertility clinics all over the country. If there is an ethical problem using this method for stem cell research, then it should be equally unethical to use it in fertility clinics. It isn't even a faith vs. science issue like evolution, cause this is even more bogus.
Some of us *do* believe that in-vitro methods that result in dozens of unused embryos are immoral as a method of fertility therapy.
How is the UCS partisan? They'd lambast a Dem president who did what Bush is currently doing.
The Democratic Party would lambast a Dem president doing that, too, and they, by definition, are partisan. Your statement doesn't refute the assertion that the UCS is partisan.
A similar argument (that embryo == life, life == inviolable, therefore embryo == inviolable) could potentially be held by atheists as a moral argument rather than a religious one.