"As a counter example, Charlie Sheen, being rich and famous, could easily get fairly high quality sex for free, and yet he still pays upwards of $20,000 a night for y porn star prostitutes."
Yeah..but with the high end prostitutes...you get exactly what you want when you want it, how you want it...and best of all, when done, they go HOME!!
The 'free' women..well, they want to stick around, marry you and take half your shit when done. And if you think about it...getting laid or having a woman is NEVER free.
You pay for it one way or another. At least they way Charlie's doing it...he's paying a set fee upfront as opposed to God know's how much for the 'free' ones over a period of time.
"There's going to be a healthy market for replacements until we grow our offspring in vats and have them emerge at adulthood."
It will also improve the experience for people dining out or flying on airplanes...won't have to be annoyed or distracted by screaming kids that the parent refuse to calm and make obey.
Is this vat process you mentioned already in development?? Talk about a $1M idea!!!
I keep physical books, and a good number of magazines...so, I can keep them in the bathrooms in the house. I like to have reading material in there, like many men...when sitting on the throne.
I like to leave them in there for guests to read too.
I just don't see buying an iPad or other e-reader just to keep in each bathroom of the house for 'library time'.
Not only that...magazines like Men's Health...I like the pull-outs you can get that have new exercise routines to try...and with things like Bon Appetit or other cooking magazines,, I often clip out recipes I want to try, and if they work well, I paste these into my personal cookbook. Kinda hard to do that with e-readers. I do keep a laptop just for the kitchen...to look things up on the web from....but for the most part, things I'm gonna use a lot, (recipes, workouts)..I like to have hard print copies.
Hell, even at work...if it is a document I'll be using a lot...I print out hard copies to mark up, etc....
Just out of curiosity...does anyone here actually use Bing? Hell...I don't know anyone that uses it. I mentioned it to a couple of friends that aren't stupid and relatively more 'net savvy than most users out there...and they'd not even really heard of it.
"He did, but by my understanding you'd need to adjust the method for each card type so it wouldn't be money earned in your idle time. And that $600 is probably a sensible maximum - you'd probably make considerably less most days. Even if the $600 is an expected average rather than a maximum, it doesn't seem to take into account limits you'll find in the small print of many cards to the effect that you can only make a small number of prize claims in a given time (assuming such limits are enforceable under your state's lottery laws/regulations)."
Well, as long as there is a positive expectation to be found here...I'd be for it. Hell, you have less of one for counting cards at blackjack, and I often do that for fun and a little extra cash....why not this too?
"when her good friends post & tag a picture of her on Facebook"
Could you explain this tagging feature? I'd heard something of it, but thought it was ONLY something one member of FB could do to another person on FB. How do they tag it with personally identifiable info on a person without a FB account? It is then searchable...I didnt' think you could search on FB for someone that was NOT also a FB member?
"So, would anyone recommend a small but dedicated social network alternative that I could try and recommend to my friends. It must have a strong privacy emphasis, anti-spam features and simplicity."
Well, you could just go back to using all the major methods of communitcation (email, snailmail, IM, telephone) that worked in the past...and keep in touch and communicate that way, no?
The 'social network' thing is a new comer, and looking at it...ANY of them, present or future are susceptible to this kind of privacy intrusion, and likely to be sold to corporate interests. They seem inherently doomed to this type of scenario. So, maybe best to avoid them completely if you are concerned at all about privacy issues?
I've yet to join one...and yet, I've had not issues keeping in touch with friends all over the country. I guess people trying to find me, have a tough time, but frankly, there's people in the past that I'd just as soon NOT find me...I ditched them in the past for reasons...why would I want them to be able to find me now?
"What gives you the right to tell me how to run my business? Or my home?
You have every right to patronize my business or not.
The same government that has pretty much all over the nation (at least in the US) determined that a private business owner of say, a bar...can NOT allow a legal activity such as smoking. Same arguments you've made here have been made, I agree with them...but yet, you see it happening all over the US. Thankfully it hasn't gone 100% that way in New Orleans, but they did get a partial ban on some places through (if your food sales are > booze sales, casinos exempted).
Well, every since I grew old enough to look like I'm over 21yrs....I never get carded any longer. With me and my crowd, getting carded to check age to drink is pretty much a thing of the past.
"Why not find a bar that attracts a calmer, more balanced, crowd?"
I was thinking along the same lines with regard to your comments on such violent bars.
At the very least I'm thinking...how are you gonna get laid going to such bars? I mean, unless you're married (and sometimes even if you are) isn't one of the main reasons for going to a bar is to find a good looking chick to hook up with?
That ain't gonna happen in a place where people are randomly throwing punches (or worse).
Interesting..just made me think, and I can think of VERY few bars I ever have gone to, that actually have bouncers, or at least if they have them, it isn't like they're at the door deciding who gets in. Sometimes, someone is checking ids at the door, but not all the time...often it is up to the bartender to check ID.
But really...about the only places I go to that have bouncer presence that you really see and notice...are strip clubs, and some of the BIGGER crowded places in the Quarter (living in New Orleans)...but other than that, most bars I know of and go to, don't have bouncers at all.
Is the bouncer thing more common outside of the US, in the EU and Oz or something?
Not to mention, that I really don't want the govt, and the insurance industry knowing how often I go out to drink, or how MUCH I have (occasionally run bar tabs on CC's..tying that to the pup info would show more detail of what was had, timing, etc)...
That is my business...I don't need to have health insurance or other industries out there knowing yet another one of my lifestyle data points.
"I actually had a classmate tell me, "Internet is not an essential liberty"
While I understand the importance of the internet today...I would still have a hard time defining it as an essential liberty?!?!
It is an aid...a luxury, and make communication easier, but so did the telephone in its day, yet, I don't regard that as an essential liberty either.
I guess I don't see technology as an essential liberty. Sure, if they are available, they are an aid to defending and re-acquiring your essential liberties...but I don't consider them liberties in and of themselves.
"The Christian fundamentalists in the US seek to establish a global church, convert or execute all heathens, overthrow reason and science, rescind the last thousand years of social and ethical progress, and have all people submit to the absolute authority of a few wealthy preachers."
Wow..mind telling me which church you went to that actually spouted this kind of dogma?
I mean, sure, they do like to convert people, but I've never seen or heard of a christian church that wanted to do everything you said. On the other hand...I HAVE heard the muslims say they wanted to do much of that. I've yet to hear any christians say they wanted to kill any non-believers and have the church rule the world....
I think most of us pretty much hear this and go..."Who cares?"
I mean...it really doesn't affect me and my life much at this point. Hope they work it out over there in Egypt, but not really a concern for most people in their daily lives.
On positive aspect of all this...the Egyptian riots did knock the Charlie Sheen story off the headlines...I guess that is worth something.
"Pretty much copyrights infringement. Googles search engine can be considered to be a body of work, whilst any individual query can be considered to be fair use. However an attempt to replicate the body of work to create another search engine of equal efficacy would have to be copyright infringement. "
Well, I'm not sure. From what I've been led to understand...a list of facts, is not copyrightable, which is what a search engine presents to you.
The algorithms behind the scene that Google uses, sure those are likely copyrighted/patented etc....
And even with the algorithms, I'm guessing that they likely could be reversed engineered....maybe just by close study of the search results...and I'm guessing doing that *might* not be actionable, but I'm not sure about that last one.
"That's inaccurate. I am not a citizen of the state of California, I am a resident of the state of California. My citizenship is in the United States of America."
Actually, wrong. You are a citizen of the state you live in first...and a citizen of the United States second.
Remember more power (supposed to be) resides in the state, and then the federal govt. Feds have been expanding their powers illegally for years...we need to squash that.
"Well, I can name a few tools that aren't used any more:
The enigma machine
the Grand Arcanum (various alchemical processes intended to produce the Philosopher's stone)
The Inca "knots tied in a rope" document format.
Ancient Egyptian stone drill bits.
Greek Fire (though arguably Napalm is a modern equivalent)
The ancient Babylonian legal code (Hamorabi I think)
Vacume tubes
Any of a number of calendars from civilizations that didn't make it to the 20th century.
Aristotle/Arcamedies model of the Universe
The 4 Humors
Well, for one Vacuum tube are quite alive and well for many things, first that comes to my mind are for higher end guitar amps, and stereo amplifiers.
As for " The Inca "knots tied in a rope" document format.", I'll cede that it is no longer used as a document format, however, I understand it is now re-purposed as an effective sex toy.
"The action probably violates Google's TOS, so it might be actionable"
Hmm...I dunno about you, but I've never seen or agreed to any Terms Of Service from Google when visiting their main search page. I'd think it would be touch to enforce any terms that aren't even presented to you before using their public service.
At worst...you might get on *Double Secret Probation*...but I can't imagine you'd be in any more trouble than that legally.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, until some enterprising hackers/crackers figure how to get even this for free on the devices.
Yeah..but with the high end prostitutes...you get exactly what you want when you want it, how you want it...and best of all, when done, they go HOME!!
The 'free' women..well, they want to stick around, marry you and take half your shit when done. And if you think about it...getting laid or having a woman is NEVER free.
You pay for it one way or another. At least they way Charlie's doing it...he's paying a set fee upfront as opposed to God know's how much for the 'free' ones over a period of time.
It will also improve the experience for people dining out or flying on airplanes...won't have to be annoyed or distracted by screaming kids that the parent refuse to calm and make obey.
Is this vat process you mentioned already in development?? Talk about a $1M idea!!!
I like to leave them in there for guests to read too.
I just don't see buying an iPad or other e-reader just to keep in each bathroom of the house for 'library time'.
Not only that...magazines like Men's Health...I like the pull-outs you can get that have new exercise routines to try...and with things like Bon Appetit or other cooking magazines,, I often clip out recipes I want to try, and if they work well, I paste these into my personal cookbook. Kinda hard to do that with e-readers. I do keep a laptop just for the kitchen...to look things up on the web from....but for the most part, things I'm gonna use a lot, (recipes, workouts)..I like to have hard print copies.
Hell, even at work...if it is a document I'll be using a lot...I print out hard copies to mark up, etc....
Just out of curiosity...does anyone here actually use Bing? Hell...I don't know anyone that uses it. I mentioned it to a couple of friends that aren't stupid and relatively more 'net savvy than most users out there...and they'd not even really heard of it.
Well, as long as there is a positive expectation to be found here...I'd be for it. Hell, you have less of one for counting cards at blackjack, and I often do that for fun and a little extra cash....why not this too?
THAT will be the major determining factor!!!
Crap...publish how to do it...and I will spend some time scratching numbers for an extra $600 a day or so....
Could you explain this tagging feature? I'd heard something of it, but thought it was ONLY something one member of FB could do to another person on FB. How do they tag it with personally identifiable info on a person without a FB account? It is then searchable...I didnt' think you could search on FB for someone that was NOT also a FB member?
Well, you could just go back to using all the major methods of communitcation (email, snailmail, IM, telephone) that worked in the past...and keep in touch and communicate that way, no?
The 'social network' thing is a new comer, and looking at it...ANY of them, present or future are susceptible to this kind of privacy intrusion, and likely to be sold to corporate interests. They seem inherently doomed to this type of scenario. So, maybe best to avoid them completely if you are concerned at all about privacy issues?
I've yet to join one...and yet, I've had not issues keeping in touch with friends all over the country. I guess people trying to find me, have a tough time, but frankly, there's people in the past that I'd just as soon NOT find me...I ditched them in the past for reasons...why would I want them to be able to find me now?
Rule#0.5A - Actively put out dis-information online/social networking pages...might help your case.
The same government that has pretty much all over the nation (at least in the US) determined that a private business owner of say, a bar...can NOT allow a legal activity such as smoking. Same arguments you've made here have been made, I agree with them...but yet, you see it happening all over the US. Thankfully it hasn't gone 100% that way in New Orleans, but they did get a partial ban on some places through (if your food sales are > booze sales, casinos exempted).
Well, every since I grew old enough to look like I'm over 21yrs....I never get carded any longer. With me and my crowd, getting carded to check age to drink is pretty much a thing of the past.
I was thinking along the same lines with regard to your comments on such violent bars.
At the very least I'm thinking...how are you gonna get laid going to such bars? I mean, unless you're married (and sometimes even if you are) isn't one of the main reasons for going to a bar is to find a good looking chick to hook up with?
That ain't gonna happen in a place where people are randomly throwing punches (or worse).
Interesting..just made me think, and I can think of VERY few bars I ever have gone to, that actually have bouncers, or at least if they have them, it isn't like they're at the door deciding who gets in. Sometimes, someone is checking ids at the door, but not all the time...often it is up to the bartender to check ID.
But really...about the only places I go to that have bouncer presence that you really see and notice...are strip clubs, and some of the BIGGER crowded places in the Quarter (living in New Orleans)...but other than that, most bars I know of and go to, don't have bouncers at all.
Is the bouncer thing more common outside of the US, in the EU and Oz or something?
That is my business...I don't need to have health insurance or other industries out there knowing yet another one of my lifestyle data points.
While I understand the importance of the internet today...I would still have a hard time defining it as an essential liberty?!?!
It is an aid...a luxury, and make communication easier, but so did the telephone in its day, yet, I don't regard that as an essential liberty either.
I guess I don't see technology as an essential liberty. Sure, if they are available, they are an aid to defending and re-acquiring your essential liberties...but I don't consider them liberties in and of themselves.
Wow..mind telling me which church you went to that actually spouted this kind of dogma?
I mean, sure, they do like to convert people, but I've never seen or heard of a christian church that wanted to do everything you said. On the other hand...I HAVE heard the muslims say they wanted to do much of that. I've yet to hear any christians say they wanted to kill any non-believers and have the church rule the world....
I mean...it really doesn't affect me and my life much at this point. Hope they work it out over there in Egypt, but not really a concern for most people in their daily lives.
On positive aspect of all this...the Egyptian riots did knock the Charlie Sheen story off the headlines...I guess that is worth something.
Well, I'm not sure. From what I've been led to understand...a list of facts, is not copyrightable, which is what a search engine presents to you.
The algorithms behind the scene that Google uses, sure those are likely copyrighted/patented etc....
And even with the algorithms, I'm guessing that they likely could be reversed engineered....maybe just by close study of the search results...and I'm guessing doing that *might* not be actionable, but I'm not sure about that last one.
Not yet...but working on it.
Actually, wrong. You are a citizen of the state you live in first...and a citizen of the United States second.
Remember more power (supposed to be) resides in the state, and then the federal govt. Feds have been expanding their powers illegally for years...we need to squash that.
There's a few around (I have one in storage)...but you sure don't see many of those anymore...
Well, for one Vacuum tube are quite alive and well for many things, first that comes to my mind are for higher end guitar amps, and stereo amplifiers.
As for " The Inca "knots tied in a rope" document format.", I'll cede that it is no longer used as a document format, however, I understand it is now re-purposed as an effective sex toy.
Hmm...I dunno about you, but I've never seen or agreed to any Terms Of Service from Google when visiting their main search page. I'd think it would be touch to enforce any terms that aren't even presented to you before using their public service.
At worst...you might get on *Double Secret Probation*...but I can't imagine you'd be in any more trouble than that legally.