100% agree. I could get a 27" monitor for $300-400, but it is worth the price to pay more than double that for a Dell U2711. And I am someone who in many circumstances won't pay extra for quality.
Oh yes, and let's not forget that Dell has a zero dead pixel policy on these high end monitors.
The kid was a suicide, not a terrorist attempt, but the others I would concede count as "Terrorist attempts" in that they attempted to terrorize us, but of course the attempt was pretty futile because they used small GA planes which are far less dangerous to a building than,say, a compact car.
An automobile produces an order of magnitude less pollution than an airliner, but it still pollutes.
Public transportation produces an order of magnitude less pollution than a car, but it still pollutes.
Riding a bicycle produces an order of magnitude less pollution than public transportation, but it still pollutes (they had to manufacture it)
Walking produces an order of magnitude less pollution than riding a bicycle, but it still pollutes(you gotta eat to walk)
It's all a line drawing game. For most people it is convenient to draw the line at something that is not a personal sacrifice for them. For example, most people can't afford to fly their own jet so it is pretty easy to draw the line right above driving a car for pleasure.
I wonder what they mean by "released"? It is, after all, public information already. Now, if somebody used my tax dollars to reformat the existing data into a format that was easy for WSJ to read, instead of making WSJ do the digging themselves, then I have a problem with it.
we all expend resources. that's what modern humans DO.
Let me expand on that. Consuming resources in order to further existence is the very definition of LIFE. All living things consume external resources in order to provide the energy needed to prolong life and reproduce.
Kidding aside, immediately after the hijackers used COMMERCIAL JETS in the attacks on September 11th, ALL planes were grounded and the very LAST planes allowed back in the air were the ones were not then and have never been used in a terrorist attempt...private airplanes. However, private airplanes are a freedom that some people enjoy, and so therefore, if you believe the government, that freedom ought to be taken away.
I'm guessing you're the same guy who constantly mentions that you don't own a TV as well.
You're thinking of Sideshow Bob.
I actually own about 7 in my household, but perhaps if I was single and childless I might not own one, since I very rarely get time to watch them. But then, if I was single and childless I would probably have a lot more time to watch TV.
Additional anecdotal evidence. Every person in my company has a second monitor. Caveat: the primary monitor is a laptop in almost every single case, so the screen size is pretty small.
Having all my crap on one screen would reduce my efficiency a lot. I tend to move stuff from one screen to another depending on what my current highest and second priority items are, but at the moment, I have Outlook, Eclipse, a remote desktop session, trillian and Firefox on one screen and an in-house system monitor, SQL Server management studio, and Windows Explorer on the other.
I think the filter bubble idea is complete hogwash and as proof to my countertheory, this article which disagrees with my opinion still showed up on my slashdot frontpage.
RTFA yourself. The article goes on to say that "money not paid for software licences does not disappear, but is just spent elsewhere in the local economy." Well, gee, within one paragraph, we go from "they can't afford it" to the money (that they don't have supposedly) to buy the software gets spent elsewhere in the economy.
This article is just more entitlement bullcrap. If you can't afford it, you don't punish the company by taking it anyway, you punish them by not buying it at all. If you take it illegally, you reinforce the idea that their software is worth something, probably even worth a lot because people who can't afford it will resort to illegal means just to get it.
I live in Oklahoma, where owning mineral rights is potentially slightly more lucrative than other places. Still, most of the time, even here, you don't own the property rights. I do own property rights on at least two of our rental properties (and I probably won't include them in the sale if we ever sell. People usually don't even look for that or care about it).
Drilling rights aren't specific to a typical suburban lot . When someone wants to drill they have to get the approval of everyone (that owns mineral rights) within a certain geographical distance of the proposed drilling site. If they don't get the approval of everyone, they can usually persuade a judge to grant them the approval anyway and pay a percentage to all of the rights owners in that area. I assume they do this by bribing the judge, because I don't know any other reason why a judge would rationally see fit to make you do something with your land that you didn't want to do.
I say all this out of at least some experience. There was a gas company wanting to drill somewhere in the area of one of my rent houses. We weren't really against it, but we just didn't ever bother to sign the papers and send them in. Eventually, we just got notification that they were going to drill anyway and pay us a percentage, decision handed down by some judge somewhere.
Fed Ex and UPS will not deliver for $0.45 to every household in the U.S. as USPS is mandated to do. They will deliver only to the ones that it is profitable for them to do that.
Get a real time tracking system in par with UPS and FedEx (not bullshit overnight updates)
Last package I got, the UPS tracking system explicitly told me that I should not expect any updates until 10 PM PST. FedEx seems to be on top of things, but UPS seems to be about the same as the post office as far as updates.
Well, I am not willing to even pay $0.45, but that is the lowest cost alternative, so that is what I do. FedEx or UPS is not willing to deliver a letter for me for $0.45.
So a 6 Axle truck carrying 50,000 pounds should cost more than a 4 axle truck? It seems to me that you would want to divide by number of axles, not multiply. Otherwise, these states that mandate dropping another set of wheels as soon as you cross their border are doing it backwards.
Smog/safety inspections are not a federal jurisdiction. Not all states even do them. Mine doesn't. Sounds like some states allow you to just mail in your registration. Mine makes you come down to the DMV. Speaking of which, I need to get my driver's license renewed. It expired end of last month. Didn't beep at me or anything, and to "save money" (read:, increase late fees), my state doesn't send out renewal notices.
One problem with that is that the federal government does not control vehicle registration. That is at the state level. Another problem is that penalizes someone who buys a F-350 to drive around on his farm over someone who buys a Smart car that drives 100,000 miles a year on maintained roadways.
If we could get past the feds not being in charge, I could see something like charging on mileage when the car changes hands, but then people will probably start cracking odometers or just not registering the car when they buy it off of someone.
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100% agree. I could get a 27" monitor for $300-400, but it is worth the price to pay more than double that for a Dell U2711. And I am someone who in many circumstances won't pay extra for quality.
Oh yes, and let's not forget that Dell has a zero dead pixel policy on these high end monitors.
The kid was a suicide, not a terrorist attempt, but the others I would concede count as "Terrorist attempts" in that they attempted to terrorize us, but of course the attempt was pretty futile because they used small GA planes which are far less dangerous to a building than ,say, a compact car.
An automobile produces an order of magnitude less pollution than an airliner, but it still pollutes.
Public transportation produces an order of magnitude less pollution than a car, but it still pollutes.
Riding a bicycle produces an order of magnitude less pollution than public transportation, but it still pollutes (they had to manufacture it)
Walking produces an order of magnitude less pollution than riding a bicycle, but it still pollutes(you gotta eat to walk)
It's all a line drawing game. For most people it is convenient to draw the line at something that is not a personal sacrifice for them. For example, most people can't afford to fly their own jet so it is pretty easy to draw the line right above driving a car for pleasure.
but I won't tolerate hypocrisy
You're going to have a rough time of it. You share the planet with about 7 billion hypocrites.
I wonder what they mean by "released"? It is, after all, public information already. Now, if somebody used my tax dollars to reformat the existing data into a format that was easy for WSJ to read, instead of making WSJ do the digging themselves, then I have a problem with it.
we all expend resources. that's what modern humans DO.
Let me expand on that. Consuming resources in order to further existence is the very definition of LIFE. All living things consume external resources in order to provide the energy needed to prolong life and reproduce.
We do regulate that, and the same regulations apply to both commercial and private aircraft, but not to military.
Kidding aside, immediately after the hijackers used COMMERCIAL JETS in the attacks on September 11th, ALL planes were grounded and the very LAST planes allowed back in the air were the ones were not then and have never been used in a terrorist attempt...private airplanes. However, private airplanes are a freedom that some people enjoy, and so therefore, if you believe the government, that freedom ought to be taken away.
I'm guessing you're the same guy who constantly mentions that you don't own a TV as well.
You're thinking of Sideshow Bob.
I actually own about 7 in my household, but perhaps if I was single and childless I might not own one, since I very rarely get time to watch them. But then, if I was single and childless I would probably have a lot more time to watch TV.
Just as I now shun having a facebook account, AIM was what I shunned back in the day.
Additional anecdotal evidence. Every person in my company has a second monitor. Caveat: the primary monitor is a laptop in almost every single case, so the screen size is pretty small.
Having all my crap on one screen would reduce my efficiency a lot. I tend to move stuff from one screen to another depending on what my current highest and second priority items are, but at the moment, I have Outlook, Eclipse, a remote desktop session, trillian and Firefox on one screen and an in-house system monitor, SQL Server management studio, and Windows Explorer on the other.
Rats, I'm reading it on my primary monitor. My work is on the second monitor.
I think the filter bubble idea is complete hogwash and as proof to my countertheory, this article which disagrees with my opinion still showed up on my slashdot frontpage.
Same on Firefox 3 on Windows 7. Sounds like pretty much everybody is seeing the same thing.
The PS3 retails for about the same as the XBOX 360. Other than that, a pretty good argument. Could have used a vampire though.
This means that Twitpic users can be called twits.
Wait a minute, Twitter uses are twits as well. How will we keep the two groups straight?
RTFA yourself. The article goes on to say that "money not paid for software licences does not disappear, but is just spent elsewhere in the local economy." Well, gee, within one paragraph, we go from "they can't afford it" to the money (that they don't have supposedly) to buy the software gets spent elsewhere in the economy.
This article is just more entitlement bullcrap. If you can't afford it, you don't punish the company by taking it anyway, you punish them by not buying it at all. If you take it illegally, you reinforce the idea that their software is worth something, probably even worth a lot because people who can't afford it will resort to illegal means just to get it.
I live in Oklahoma, where owning mineral rights is potentially slightly more lucrative than other places. Still, most of the time, even here, you don't own the property rights. I do own property rights on at least two of our rental properties (and I probably won't include them in the sale if we ever sell. People usually don't even look for that or care about it).
Drilling rights aren't specific to a typical suburban lot . When someone wants to drill they have to get the approval of everyone (that owns mineral rights) within a certain geographical distance of the proposed drilling site. If they don't get the approval of everyone, they can usually persuade a judge to grant them the approval anyway and pay a percentage to all of the rights owners in that area. I assume they do this by bribing the judge, because I don't know any other reason why a judge would rationally see fit to make you do something with your land that you didn't want to do.
I say all this out of at least some experience. There was a gas company wanting to drill somewhere in the area of one of my rent houses. We weren't really against it, but we just didn't ever bother to sign the papers and send them in. Eventually, we just got notification that they were going to drill anyway and pay us a percentage, decision handed down by some judge somewhere.
Fed Ex and UPS will not deliver for $0.45 to every household in the U.S. as USPS is mandated to do. They will deliver only to the ones that it is profitable for them to do that.
Get a real time tracking system in par with UPS and FedEx (not bullshit overnight updates)
Last package I got, the UPS tracking system explicitly told me that I should not expect any updates until 10 PM PST. FedEx seems to be on top of things, but UPS seems to be about the same as the post office as far as updates.
Well, I am not willing to even pay $0.45, but that is the lowest cost alternative, so that is what I do. FedEx or UPS is not willing to deliver a letter for me for $0.45.
So a 6 Axle truck carrying 50,000 pounds should cost more than a 4 axle truck? It seems to me that you would want to divide by number of axles, not multiply. Otherwise, these states that mandate dropping another set of wheels as soon as you cross their border are doing it backwards.
Smog/safety inspections are not a federal jurisdiction. Not all states even do them. Mine doesn't. Sounds like some states allow you to just mail in your registration. Mine makes you come down to the DMV. Speaking of which, I need to get my driver's license renewed. It expired end of last month. Didn't beep at me or anything, and to "save money" (read:, increase late fees), my state doesn't send out renewal notices.
One problem with that is that the federal government does not control vehicle registration. That is at the state level. Another problem is that penalizes someone who buys a F-350 to drive around on his farm over someone who buys a Smart car that drives 100,000 miles a year on maintained roadways.
If we could get past the feds not being in charge, I could see something like charging on mileage when the car changes hands, but then people will probably start cracking odometers or just not registering the car when they buy it off of someone.