Millionaire A stays, and pays more money. Millionaire B leaves, and pays less amount of money in a different state.
Or even better: Millionaires A and B both get fed up with our stupid tax system and move to some 3rd world country where they can live even more like a king and not be taxed to death. Plus when they leave, the companies they created begin to have troubles and collapse (before you bitch, remember the dark times at Apple? Yeah, a CEO can have a huge effect on a company.) causing hundreds, maybe even thousands to lose their jobs causing even more problems...
Maybe we should let the people that create value and jobs in our economy, earn what they demand, or they'll go somewhere else--just like employees are free (in most states) to demand what they want for a job, or they'll go somewhere else.
I live in the US, what is this "competition" you speak of?
Maybe you're joking, but I'll go for the 'woosh'.
There are 4 competing IT shops in my town. If they all sell PCs for $500+tax which comes out to about $535, do you really think they will raise their price from $500/pc to $535/pc since the taxes are gone? Do you think one of the shops will raise it to $535 and risk losing business because everyone else is selling at $500?
While I realize the difficulty of actually taking this picture, am I the only one who thinks this picture is actually really terrible quality? Or am I just used to much better quality from NASA photos?
They're up there to *fix* the hubble. They haven't actually fixed it yet...
I'm not sure I believe your story. Police can't just randomly detain citizens, and if they did there's recourse like suing the department for violating Supreme Court rulings.
Maybe you should start following a feed like InjusticeNews for a few weeks. You'll be amazed at what police get away with, and you'll start wondering what doesn't get caught...
The DoJ just announced they'll be paying more attention to anti-trust issues in general (apparently a reversal of a Bush mandate). So now may be a bad time for MS to scoop up the competition, even if Yahoo is currently at a bargain price. There's now a higher chance the purchase would be blocked, or later anti-trust action could be taken if they're not careful.
The DoJ just announced they'll be paying more attention to anti-trust issues in general. So now may be a good time for MS to bribe a few government officials...
Yeah, and if my aunt had a dick, she'd be my uncle. Maybe in an alternate universe, paying for movies via "the honor system" would work.
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't suggesting they follow this model--only that their logic was flawed. You can't judge how good a movie was based on ticket sales. You have to buy a ticket to watch the movie regardless of it being good or bad.
This movie did for the Star Trek franchise what Episodes 1, 2, and 3 did for Star Wars. They even had a piece of crap jar-jar like character that Scotty talked to. Thank God it really didn't talk though.
Sure it didn't hit $90 million, but Paramount wanted $50 million in the first weekend, so $72 million beat its expectations.
The problem with rating movies by the millions they rake in is that the figure has nothing to do with how people liked it.
If you were allowed to watch a movie for free, and then asked to pay afterwards--but only if you really liked it--it wouldn't have been anywhere near $72 million.
If the studios let people vote with their wallets after watching the show, we wouldn't end up with stuff like this new Star Trek, or Charlie Bartlett.
So the grandparent stated that some voicemail systems out there speak slowly and are annoying.
Your reply is to say that your cell phone doesn't work that way, so the argument is totally bogus.
Simple: that's the country that created the Internet.
Yep. The US created the internet. If you want to be the ultimate authority, or let a group of countries have a consensus over a network--go create your own damn internet.
Isn't it amazing how some people act like water falls free from the sky.
Yeah--it's 'free' throughout most of the United States--but for some strange reason Washington State says it's illegal for you to collect rainwater falling from the sky.
The best pirate repellent is two squads of armed marines.
...and it solves the problem. If you use silly string to drive off the pirates, they will probably come back and bring reinforcements--just like cockroaches.
On the other hand, it you actually kill a few pirates, you'll actually have fewer pirates, and the remaining ones might think twice about attacking your ship.
It is actually different from other utilities - the electric company doesn't cap how much electricity you use, neither does the water company, you can use as much as you want, or rather, as much as can flow through given the physical limitations of your electric wires/breakers and plumbing pipes.
Obviously your water company has never caught you using a torrential amount of water.
Oh, gawds! I was hoping that article would be a stub with no references or citations, but alas, it's true!. Sadly, my government was really that stupid!
Well...that depends. Is homosexuality a choice or genetic? If it's genetic, we could possibly build a bomb that would mutate the genetic code or somehow trigger the process in non-gay people. Of course if it's genetic, then it would also be possible to screen for the genetic 'birth defect' and abort gay babies. (That kind of logic makes liberal heads explode).
If it's a choice, well--nothing interesting to see here. People make stupid choices all the time. Move along.
Yes, they do make peripherals. No, they aren't re-branded.
I doubt it. I just purchased 7 Microsoft wireless keyboards and mice for a client. They were somewhere on the order of $26 each. Every single one had trouble with mice disassociating and needing to be reconnected. I called my sales rep and he said "well--you did purchase the cheapest model" to which I replied "I'll be more clear next time. I want the cheapest model that actually works." He replaced them with the $2-more-expensive-per-unit Logitech keyboards and mice. No issues. Screw Microsoft. They can't even make decent hardware. And God help you if you connected some of their 1st gen wireless keyboards and mice to a linux box. Strange characters would pop up on the screen from time to time. Finally figured out it was reporting back battery levels as keycodes.
That's the funniest part of your post. I believe Phil Donahue lost his job on TV because he wasn't pro-bush/war enough.
There's one *huge* difference between Phil getting fired because he wasn't pro-bush/war enough and getting fired simply because the large conservative base in the country simply didn't want to watch him. Same thing happened with the Dixie Chicks.
Not only that--but right now it's fairly easy to find a company.
If I'm looking for Microsoft, I have to figure out if it's a.COM.NET or.ORG. Most people would probably guess it's a.COM site. Easy enough. Or maybe if you're trying to 'get local', you might try microsoft.cn or microsoft.nl, etc...
But once this opens up, how the hell am I supposed to know if it's microsoft.computers, microsoft.software, microsoft.isawesome, etc...
I support a 7-site network with ~80 PCs. I use the Spark client because it comes packaged as an MSI--easy to push out via Group Policy. I also have a batch file which creates an initial settings file for the users the first time they sign in.
Initially we had an internal (old junker box) linux server which was only accessible from the internal network and everyone had Jabber IDs of user@customer.local. We recently switched to user@customer.tld so people could access it from their iPhones and Windows Mobile phones using the Palringo client.
ejabberd on linux has nice LDAP integration with Active Directory on Windows. You could also use the OpenFire server which is made by the same people that make Spark. It has a free version and a commercial version IIRC.
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You completely missed the point.
Millionaire A stays, and pays more money. Millionaire B leaves, and pays less amount of money in a different state.
Or even better: Millionaires A and B both get fed up with our stupid tax system and move to some 3rd world country where they can live even more like a king and not be taxed to death. Plus when they leave, the companies they created begin to have troubles and collapse (before you bitch, remember the dark times at Apple? Yeah, a CEO can have a huge effect on a company.) causing hundreds, maybe even thousands to lose their jobs causing even more problems...
Maybe we should let the people that create value and jobs in our economy, earn what they demand, or they'll go somewhere else--just like employees are free (in most states) to demand what they want for a job, or they'll go somewhere else.
I live in the US, what is this "competition" you speak of?
Maybe you're joking, but I'll go for the 'woosh'.
There are 4 competing IT shops in my town. If they all sell PCs for $500+tax which comes out to about $535, do you really think they will raise their price from $500/pc to $535/pc since the taxes are gone? Do you think one of the shops will raise it to $535 and risk losing business because everyone else is selling at $500?
But MS's support for backwards compatibility is THE REASON they own the desktop.
You can slam all you want, but they will continue to own the desktop because they run all the apps you want.
STFU! I haven't had any backwards compatibility issues with vi and xterm...ever!
And I'm betting the next 20 years of Linux won't see vi breaking backwards compatibility.
If it's .bmp files of everybody's fingerprints, it will also compress well.
Nope--it's one file. It's the .bmp of Monica Lewinski for her photo ID badge. It's a lot of pixels.
Doesn't matter how much fixin' they do, the Hubble would suck at getting this shot. ;)
I should have known better than to make a slightly funny and slightly technically inaccurate joke on slashdot... ;)
(Kind of like stepping into the Total Perspective Vortex except it doesn't fry your brain.)
No, it just burns your retinas.
While I realize the difficulty of actually taking this picture, am I the only one who thinks this picture is actually really terrible quality? Or am I just used to much better quality from NASA photos?
They're up there to *fix* the hubble. They haven't actually fixed it yet...
I'm not sure I believe your story. Police can't just randomly detain citizens, and if they did there's recourse like suing the department for violating Supreme Court rulings.
Maybe you should start following a feed like InjusticeNews for a few weeks. You'll be amazed at what police get away with, and you'll start wondering what doesn't get caught...
Thirteen years is a lot of data.
Bah--it's not that bad. They actually have crude backups of all their terrain data. They just have to figure out how to restore from 'IRL' format.
The DoJ just announced they'll be paying more attention to anti-trust issues in general (apparently a reversal of a Bush mandate). So now may be a bad time for MS to scoop up the competition, even if Yahoo is currently at a bargain price. There's now a higher chance the purchase would be blocked, or later anti-trust action could be taken if they're not careful.
The DoJ just announced they'll be paying more attention to anti-trust issues in general. So now may be a good time for MS to bribe a few government officials...
Yeah, and if my aunt had a dick, she'd be my uncle. Maybe in an alternate universe, paying for movies via "the honor system" would work.
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't suggesting they follow this model--only that their logic was flawed. You can't judge how good a movie was based on ticket sales. You have to buy a ticket to watch the movie regardless of it being good or bad.
This movie did for the Star Trek franchise what Episodes 1, 2, and 3 did for Star Wars. They even had a piece of crap jar-jar like character that Scotty talked to. Thank God it really didn't talk though.
Sure it didn't hit $90 million, but Paramount wanted $50 million in the first weekend, so $72 million beat its expectations.
The problem with rating movies by the millions they rake in is that the figure has nothing to do with how people liked it.
If you were allowed to watch a movie for free, and then asked to pay afterwards--but only if you really liked it--it wouldn't have been anywhere near $72 million.
If the studios let people vote with their wallets after watching the show, we wouldn't end up with stuff like this new Star Trek, or Charlie Bartlett.
ok, better argument then.
I totally agree that some people just have no concept of how to use voicemail or how to work vaguely technical things like a cell phone.
I was just joshin' you about your original argument not making any sense.
I know in the voicemail on my cell
So that argument doesn't hold much water...
So the grandparent stated that some voicemail systems out there speak slowly and are annoying.
Your reply is to say that your cell phone doesn't work that way, so the argument is totally bogus.
You're kinda special, aren't you...?
Imagine the nightmares when both sides allocate IP addresses previously used by the other side, and the networks have to be merged again...
We'll just install a huge AmericaRest of World NAT.
Hey--wait! I just solved IPv6! We don't have to switch! (just joking)
Simple: that's the country that created the Internet.
Yep. The US created the internet. If you want to be the ultimate authority, or let a group of countries have a consensus over a network--go create your own damn internet.
Isn't it amazing how some people act like water falls free from the sky.
Yeah--it's 'free' throughout most of the United States--but for some strange reason Washington State says it's illegal for you to collect rainwater falling from the sky.
The best pirate repellent is two squads of armed marines.
On the other hand, it you actually kill a few pirates, you'll actually have fewer pirates, and the remaining ones might think twice about attacking your ship.
It is actually different from other utilities - the electric company doesn't cap how much electricity you use, neither does the water company, you can use as much as you want, or rather, as much as can flow through given the physical limitations of your electric wires/breakers and plumbing pipes.
Obviously your water company has never caught you using a torrential amount of water.
Oh, gawds! I was hoping that article would be a stub with no references or citations, but alas, it's true!. Sadly, my government was really that stupid!
Well...that depends. Is homosexuality a choice or genetic? If it's genetic, we could possibly build a bomb that would mutate the genetic code or somehow trigger the process in non-gay people. Of course if it's genetic, then it would also be possible to screen for the genetic 'birth defect' and abort gay babies. (That kind of logic makes liberal heads explode).
If it's a choice, well--nothing interesting to see here. People make stupid choices all the time. Move along.
Yes, they do make peripherals. No, they aren't re-branded.
I doubt it. I just purchased 7 Microsoft wireless keyboards and mice for a client. They were somewhere on the order of $26 each. Every single one had trouble with mice disassociating and needing to be reconnected. I called my sales rep and he said "well--you did purchase the cheapest model" to which I replied "I'll be more clear next time. I want the cheapest model that actually works." He replaced them with the $2-more-expensive-per-unit Logitech keyboards and mice. No issues. Screw Microsoft. They can't even make decent hardware. And God help you if you connected some of their 1st gen wireless keyboards and mice to a linux box. Strange characters would pop up on the screen from time to time. Finally figured out it was reporting back battery levels as keycodes.
That's the funniest part of your post. I believe Phil Donahue lost his job on TV because he wasn't pro-bush/war enough.
There's one *huge* difference between Phil getting fired because he wasn't pro-bush/war enough and getting fired simply because the large conservative base in the country simply didn't want to watch him. Same thing happened with the Dixie Chicks.
Can you say .local
That is going to cause issues.
Not only that--but right now it's fairly easy to find a company.
.COM .NET or .ORG. Most people would probably guess it's a .COM site. Easy enough. Or maybe if you're trying to 'get local', you might try microsoft.cn or microsoft.nl, etc...
If I'm looking for Microsoft, I have to figure out if it's a
But once this opens up, how the hell am I supposed to know if it's microsoft.computers, microsoft.software, microsoft.isawesome, etc...
I support a 7-site network with ~80 PCs. I use the Spark client because it comes packaged as an MSI--easy to push out via Group Policy. I also have a batch file which creates an initial settings file for the users the first time they sign in.
Initially we had an internal (old junker box) linux server which was only accessible from the internal network and everyone had Jabber IDs of user@customer.local. We recently switched to user@customer.tld so people could access it from their iPhones and Windows Mobile phones using the Palringo client.
ejabberd on linux has nice LDAP integration with Active Directory on Windows. You could also use the OpenFire server which is made by the same people that make Spark. It has a free version and a commercial version IIRC.
Seriously, when are we going to stop believing our governments' attempts to keep us scared of one bogey man after another?
When there are actually no boogeymen left?
Can you honestly say that Kim Jong is not a threat?
If he had a magic button right now that would nuke the US, do you think he'd even hesitate before pressing it?