Therefore, it's immoral to support an industry based upon exploitation of human beings.
Does this mean I have to forswear fast food? It's sooooo tasty! Even if the employees are completely unfulfilled and exploited shamefully.
TBH, I have a hard time thinking of even one field of endeavor that involves labor-for-pay that isn't exploitative to some objective degree, and I'm not even a Marxist. What's the old joke? "Capitalism is where Man exploits Man, while Socialism is the other way around."
Impossible, like colder than absolute zero or faster than light. It takes whole new branches of number theory to come up with a conceptual representation of a worse SNR than now.
It's Slashdot. It's always been this way. People submit worthless articles, counterproductive articles, pointless articles, slashvertising articles, articles which perceptibly reduce the collective IQ of the universe.... which editors (don't) improve...
It's a slightly more interesting take on what would otherwise be/b/. Just roll with the trolls. If you don't think the article is interesting, worthwhile, or valid, just don't read it. (I don't mean don't RTFA.... of course, don't do that either. You'll disrupt the Slash-time continuum. But just skip the editorial summary, the comments, the whole shooting match. Maybe go browse the firehose.)
This is the part where an editor with an agenda reverts your edit and attempts to have you banned for arguing with his stewardship of the article about the Ark.
It doesn't help that anonymous sockpuppets keep vandalizing the article with "Whoosh!"
time_t is fixed for 64-bit systems. And for the 32-bit systems, well, we still have until 2038 to migrate to 64-bit platforms. Or maybe 128-bit platforms.
Agreed. In my experience, the US Government has increasingly shifted away from Sun toward either IBM humongous iron (pSeries or zSeries) or Dell commodity x64 stuff. The middle ground is where most of Sun's catalog could have been, but it's too easy to set up server partitions or VMs on the big boxen to cover those needs, or else a few x64 blades.
Now, the US Government would be happy to keep shoveling money at Oracle, but that's for their RDBMS product and its associated bells, whistles, licenses, and maintenance.
Everyone here seems to be of the opinion that (s)he has some sort of right to privacy when it comes to breaking the law.
I've heard this expressed more eloquently as "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide." Which is why I have no problem lodging a uniformed police officer in every house, monitoring all communications for illegal subjects, sending all paper mail in transparent easy-to-open envelops, and submitting to routine (but only mildly invasive) medical tests to verify we're not breaking any pharmaceutical, narcotic, alcohol, or nutritional laws.
I believe the SI version is the "Library of Progress", since the metric system is relatively progressive and "pro" is clearly the opposite of "con" (the key prefix in the Congressional System).
The question stands, though. "Free games" is (on paper) giving away something of value. That value has to be accounted for someplace. (I'm sure auditors, shareholders, and the SEC would insist.) So, is the value of the subscriber compensation already in the $170 million, or not?
1: Two countries, one set of resources. Almost always, this is what wars end up being fought over.
I assume you mean the resources currently in Chinese territory. I doubt we'd go to explicit war against a major military power with nuclear capability over resources. Easier and safer to bargain, like we have up until now.
2: China's nationalism. Race is second, because Han is the only race in China that matters.
FTFY. Ask the Uyghur about that. However, the concept of the Middle Kingdom is key to its foreign policy. China invented exceptionalism millennia before George Washington was born.
3: Revenge, especially of what Japan did to them last century.
I hope not. There's enough ancient hatred in the world as it is.
I still think the flashpoint will be when China decides it's put up with "its rebellious province" long enough, and the US will have to decide whether it will go to war on behalf of its little ally or just let it go, along with a fair bit of US military hardware and technology.
However, in practice, it's also a distinction that's easy to lose. My Google-powered Amazon-shopping Overlord distracted me.
No, as far as I can tell, there's no Android music market. Yet. (How mad would Amazon be if their market got edged out by an Android-brand market run by Google?)
Well, by default, what gets stored into cloud is the music you buy from Amazon Music. So, yeah, it does have a library of music you buy (Amazon Music), and you do store stuff you buy from them into it.Other than that, I don't know much about that Cloud Storage doohickey. I don't use it. I prefer to keep my media "purchases" (mostly "Free tune of the day" non-purchases) in my own mass storage, thankyouverymuch.
Don't forget... Molly relates the story of Johnny to Case as she's climbing up to Straylight. You could do a flashback voiceover thing. But I think that'd be a terrible idea.
If nothing else, I think that blecherous losing monstrosity of a movie needs to be dismembered, burned, and buried in multiple places, not referred to.
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Therefore, it's immoral to support an industry based upon exploitation of human beings.
Does this mean I have to forswear fast food? It's sooooo tasty! Even if the employees are completely unfulfilled and exploited shamefully.
TBH, I have a hard time thinking of even one field of endeavor that involves labor-for-pay that isn't exploitative to some objective degree, and I'm not even a Marxist. What's the old joke? "Capitalism is where Man exploits Man, while Socialism is the other way around."
You're right. You're absolutely right. It's all a part of the never-ending glory of the Circle of Slashlife.
Thank you and bless you for reminding me of that. <sniff>. I'm tearing up a little. It's all just so beautiful.
It hurts the SNR
Impossible, like colder than absolute zero or faster than light. It takes whole new branches of number theory to come up with a conceptual representation of a worse SNR than now.
It's Slashdot. It's always been this way. People submit worthless articles, counterproductive articles, pointless articles, slashvertising articles, articles which perceptibly reduce the collective IQ of the universe.... which editors (don't) improve...
It's a slightly more interesting take on what would otherwise be /b/. Just roll with the trolls. If you don't think the article is interesting, worthwhile, or valid, just don't read it. (I don't mean don't RTFA.... of course, don't do that either. You'll disrupt the Slash-time continuum. But just skip the editorial summary, the comments, the whole shooting match. Maybe go browse the firehose.)
Don't Download This Song!
You should have modded funny. It doesn't matter whether the poster believes it or not.
Like joy, you should take your humor wherever you find it.
I nominate Amiga.
but surely he can find someone outside the project to pimp it for him.
They have a name for that phenomenon within Wikipedia.
Self-promotion by proxy is worse than self-promotion.
This is the part where an editor with an agenda reverts your edit and attempts to have you banned for arguing with his stewardship of the article about the Ark.
It doesn't help that anonymous sockpuppets keep vandalizing the article with "Whoosh!"
Well, the Pyramids of Gaza are a wonder.
As in "I wonder WTF those pyramids went?"
we're here to argue.
No we're not.
time_t is fixed for 64-bit systems. And for the 32-bit systems, well, we still have until 2038 to migrate to 64-bit platforms. Or maybe 128-bit platforms.
FTFY.
As much as Sony seems to attract this kind of attention, maybe "secretly enjoy" would be more accurate.
What I'm seeing is a bizarre attention-seeking behavior, playing into a victimization mindset.
IANAPs (I Am Not A Psychiatrist), though. Just reminds me of a lot of dramawhores I've know.
Agreed. In my experience, the US Government has increasingly shifted away from Sun toward either IBM humongous iron (pSeries or zSeries) or Dell commodity x64 stuff. The middle ground is where most of Sun's catalog could have been, but it's too easy to set up server partitions or VMs on the big boxen to cover those needs, or else a few x64 blades.
Now, the US Government would be happy to keep shoveling money at Oracle, but that's for their RDBMS product and its associated bells, whistles, licenses, and maintenance.
PGU-14/B 30mm Hypervelocity Armor Piercing Incendiary
Everyone here seems to be of the opinion that (s)he has some sort of right to privacy when it comes to breaking the law.
I've heard this expressed more eloquently as "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide." Which is why I have no problem lodging a uniformed police officer in every house, monitoring all communications for illegal subjects, sending all paper mail in transparent easy-to-open envelops, and submitting to routine (but only mildly invasive) medical tests to verify we're not breaking any pharmaceutical, narcotic, alcohol, or nutritional laws.
African or European payload? And does the payload consist primarily of coconuts?
Hudson Bay? Well, the Borealis is a ship, and had to dock somplace.
I believe the SI version is the "Library of Progress", since the metric system is relatively progressive and "pro" is clearly the opposite of "con" (the key prefix in the Congressional System).
The question stands, though. "Free games" is (on paper) giving away something of value. That value has to be accounted for someplace. (I'm sure auditors, shareholders, and the SEC would insist.) So, is the value of the subscriber compensation already in the $170 million, or not?
1: Two countries, one set of resources. Almost always, this is what wars end up being fought over.
I assume you mean the resources currently in Chinese territory. I doubt we'd go to explicit war against a major military power with nuclear capability over resources. Easier and safer to bargain, like we have up until now.
2: China's nationalism. Race is second, because Han is the only race in China that matters.
FTFY. Ask the Uyghur about that. However, the concept of the Middle Kingdom is key to its foreign policy. China invented exceptionalism millennia before George Washington was born.
3: Revenge, especially of what Japan did to them last century.
I hope not. There's enough ancient hatred in the world as it is.
I still think the flashpoint will be when China decides it's put up with "its rebellious province" long enough, and the US will have to decide whether it will go to war on behalf of its little ally or just let it go, along with a fair bit of US military hardware and technology.
I lost that context. That's a useful distinction.
However, in practice, it's also a distinction that's easy to lose. My Google-powered Amazon-shopping Overlord distracted me.
No, as far as I can tell, there's no Android music market. Yet. (How mad would Amazon be if their market got edged out by an Android-brand market run by Google?)
Well, by default, what gets stored into cloud is the music you buy from Amazon Music. So, yeah, it does have a library of music you buy (Amazon Music), and you do store stuff you buy from them into it.Other than that, I don't know much about that Cloud Storage doohickey. I don't use it. I prefer to keep my media "purchases" (mostly "Free tune of the day" non-purchases) in my own mass storage, thankyouverymuch.
Don't forget... Molly relates the story of Johnny to Case as she's climbing up to Straylight. You could do a flashback voiceover thing. But I think that'd be a terrible idea.
If nothing else, I think that blecherous losing monstrosity of a movie needs to be dismembered, burned, and buried in multiple places, not referred to.
Slacker.
Anorexic amputee midgets.