I'd do it here in Colorado, too. When did the entire fucking world decide that the government had to take care of everything for them, leaving them no way to control their own destiny?
You have a right to free speech. You don't have a right to not be offended. You have the right to the pursuit of happiness... you don't have the right to happiness.
If they're assaulting you, if they prevent you from doing something you're legally allowed to do, then press charges. But bitching because "someone made fun of me!" is bullshit. I got made fun of a lot in school, too. Learn to deal with it. Make friends with them. Make fun of yourself with them. It'll fuck with 'em. If you let them know they're winning, they will continue doing whatever is upsetting you.
Life is not easy, nor is it fair. We're all dealt a certain amount of shit... how we deal with it is the difference. Can you be sure that those mean girls making fun of you aren't beaten by their fathers at night? In abusive relationships? That their meanness isn't trying to control some part of their lives by being mean to you when the rest of their life isn't in their control? You can't control other people. You can only control your reactions to them. Work on that. It makes a world of difference.
They're not adjusting. They're just throwing new content at the wall, trying to make something keep the newspaper around. That won't work. They need to make their paper relevant. Physical coupons that work in local stores. A website that encourages local people to contribute and read often. A "tourism" section with Guam is stupid because you can get that from Guam's official tourism site. They need to give you something that is relevant to you, and to the community you live in.
I think you and I agree for the most part... I just don't think that papers are trying to adjust. They just want to throw slightly different shit at the wall in the same formula, and wonder why it doesn't work. They need an entirely new formula.
True. But free markets only work when there's perfect information. If people aren't aware that they're being misled, you don't have a free market. You have corporatism/fascism. I'll deal with some socialist tendencies in order to short-circuit that.
a) You're hanging out with the wrong women
b) If you don't respect yourself, how do you expect other people to? Respect is not something that is automatic. It needs to be earned.
The problem is that newspapers have no fucking clue who their customers are. Their customers are NOT the readers. Not at all. The readers are their PRODUCT. They sell that product (reader eyeballs) to the advertisers. The way you get ahead in the business? Get more readers, make people want to read your paper, so you can sell more valuable advertising. Why do you think the New York Times gets many times the rate for a full-page ad as Your Hometown Bugle? It's because they have that much more valuable of an advertising space.
When the news is free (rather, a lot cheaper) to distribute (you no longer have printing costs, delivery costs, warehouses, trucks, etc.), you can lower the cost of entry for your readers. Get more readers by having quality content, and boom, you can sell a shit-ton of advertising. Hell, there are numerous papers around town here that put out physical papers FOR FREE, using this same principle!
And on that note, advertising doesn't have to suck. It can be part of your content.
Almost like the readers are the product, and the advertisers are the customers... the newspapers are making their readers go elsewhere, thereby devaluing their own product. It's amazingly silly.
Seconded. Newspapers need to realize that the readers are the product, and they're trying to sell that to the advertisers. You keep the readers happy and get more of them, and you can charge more for ads. It's not a hard formula. Charging for the news is trying to double-dip, and you're biting the hand that feeds you.
I gladly watch the ads on Hulu. They're short, and sometimes even interesting. Hell, I remember an ad for the council for the Arts that I was watching just last night. The point is that they're nowhere near as bad as they are on cable... a 30 second spot, then back to the show. Minute at the most. I'm ok with that. That's actually the entire reason that I dropped my cable subscription.
How has content be financed since it started? They didn't call them soap operas because hey, everyone just loves soap! Advertising can be done without being as invasive and annoying as many companies seem to think it has to be. They're just going to have to adjust to no longer having a captive audience, and having to do things to attract attention rather than ram shit down our throats. I can't see that as a bad thing.
As long as we can figure it out easily enough and you're adhering to the terms of the GPL, it's not a big deal that you don't mention Linux in the marketing. I just don't want it hidden away completely. There are too many companies that want to use Linux for their devices but don't want to adhere to the terms of the GPL. Can't have it both ways, and when you hide the fact that you use Linux as the OS for the device it sends up some pretty big red flags as far as GPL licensing is concerned.
Still, when it comes down to it, I'd take the word of most any engineer over that of a manager. An engineer usually has slightly more than just "he bought me drinks and took me to a strip club" behind his decisions.
That's just shitty design. I've had Linux-based cable boxes work quite well. Hell, just look at all the people who have Tivos. If you're talking Comcast, the HD DVR's are much more stable than the basic ones.
If it could be used some something medically interesting, I'd have no problem with my body being kept alive by machines after I die. Better than tossing me in a fire and spreading the ashes... at least someone will learn something from it.
The only thing preventing is their own population. I just don't think they would tolerate becoming prisoners in the their own nation.
They already are. All they have to do is get the mullah to OK any of that control they want, and the population will go along with it because it's God's will. Isn't theocracy fun?
Did you have a yard or anything? Any way you could give him more freedom to explore in larger boundaries than the house? It sounds like he was just bored with everything inside.
Most people aren't terrorists either, so what's the harm in making everyone show their papers, right? I mean, you can't ever be too careful, and if you don't have them, you obviously have something to hide.
The harm is that you're enabling parents and kids to be irresponsible, parents by not having to think so hard about their kids, and kids by not having to learn responsibility. Yes, a few kids may get hurt. Even my kid. But I wouldn't want to live in a society that isn't able to take care of itself, and that's what we're rapidly going toward.
I do. My parents let me have my bedroom, and my things, and only if they thought something was going on would I lose my privacy. A common punishment when my brother and I were fighting was the removal of our doors from their hinges. You fight, you lose your privacy. We learned to get along pretty well. Still good friends to this day.
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I'd do it here in Colorado, too. When did the entire fucking world decide that the government had to take care of everything for them, leaving them no way to control their own destiny?
You have a right to free speech. You don't have a right to not be offended. You have the right to the pursuit of happiness... you don't have the right to happiness.
If they're assaulting you, if they prevent you from doing something you're legally allowed to do, then press charges. But bitching because "someone made fun of me!" is bullshit. I got made fun of a lot in school, too. Learn to deal with it. Make friends with them. Make fun of yourself with them. It'll fuck with 'em. If you let them know they're winning, they will continue doing whatever is upsetting you.
Life is not easy, nor is it fair. We're all dealt a certain amount of shit... how we deal with it is the difference. Can you be sure that those mean girls making fun of you aren't beaten by their fathers at night? In abusive relationships? That their meanness isn't trying to control some part of their lives by being mean to you when the rest of their life isn't in their control? You can't control other people. You can only control your reactions to them. Work on that. It makes a world of difference.
They're not adjusting. They're just throwing new content at the wall, trying to make something keep the newspaper around. That won't work. They need to make their paper relevant. Physical coupons that work in local stores. A website that encourages local people to contribute and read often. A "tourism" section with Guam is stupid because you can get that from Guam's official tourism site. They need to give you something that is relevant to you, and to the community you live in.
I think you and I agree for the most part... I just don't think that papers are trying to adjust. They just want to throw slightly different shit at the wall in the same formula, and wonder why it doesn't work. They need an entirely new formula.
There's still money in those little bites. Newspapers just need to realize they're in the "news" business, and not the "selling paper" business.
True. But free markets only work when there's perfect information. If people aren't aware that they're being misled, you don't have a free market. You have corporatism/fascism. I'll deal with some socialist tendencies in order to short-circuit that.
a) You're hanging out with the wrong women
b) If you don't respect yourself, how do you expect other people to? Respect is not something that is automatic. It needs to be earned.
Most prepackaged food in the US has that too, usually some small text on the bottom that says "Serving Suggestion"
The problem is that newspapers have no fucking clue who their customers are. Their customers are NOT the readers. Not at all. The readers are their PRODUCT. They sell that product (reader eyeballs) to the advertisers. The way you get ahead in the business? Get more readers, make people want to read your paper, so you can sell more valuable advertising. Why do you think the New York Times gets many times the rate for a full-page ad as Your Hometown Bugle? It's because they have that much more valuable of an advertising space.
When the news is free (rather, a lot cheaper) to distribute (you no longer have printing costs, delivery costs, warehouses, trucks, etc.), you can lower the cost of entry for your readers. Get more readers by having quality content, and boom, you can sell a shit-ton of advertising. Hell, there are numerous papers around town here that put out physical papers FOR FREE, using this same principle!
And on that note, advertising doesn't have to suck. It can be part of your content.
And that's why I read blogs directly from the horse's mouth. I get my news from the people who actually care and know about it.
Almost like the readers are the product, and the advertisers are the customers... the newspapers are making their readers go elsewhere, thereby devaluing their own product. It's amazingly silly.
Seconded. Newspapers need to realize that the readers are the product, and they're trying to sell that to the advertisers. You keep the readers happy and get more of them, and you can charge more for ads. It's not a hard formula. Charging for the news is trying to double-dip, and you're biting the hand that feeds you.
I gladly watch the ads on Hulu. They're short, and sometimes even interesting. Hell, I remember an ad for the council for the Arts that I was watching just last night. The point is that they're nowhere near as bad as they are on cable... a 30 second spot, then back to the show. Minute at the most. I'm ok with that. That's actually the entire reason that I dropped my cable subscription.
How has content be financed since it started? They didn't call them soap operas because hey, everyone just loves soap! Advertising can be done without being as invasive and annoying as many companies seem to think it has to be. They're just going to have to adjust to no longer having a captive audience, and having to do things to attract attention rather than ram shit down our throats. I can't see that as a bad thing.
No, they're below bacteria. Bacteria are at least atheists.
As long as we can figure it out easily enough and you're adhering to the terms of the GPL, it's not a big deal that you don't mention Linux in the marketing. I just don't want it hidden away completely. There are too many companies that want to use Linux for their devices but don't want to adhere to the terms of the GPL. Can't have it both ways, and when you hide the fact that you use Linux as the OS for the device it sends up some pretty big red flags as far as GPL licensing is concerned.
I'm confused... where do the DC-9's running BSD factor in?
The question then becomes whether or not ideas are property. If you think they are, why do you keep giving them away for free by posting here?
Still, when it comes down to it, I'd take the word of most any engineer over that of a manager. An engineer usually has slightly more than just "he bought me drinks and took me to a strip club" behind his decisions.
That's just shitty design. I've had Linux-based cable boxes work quite well. Hell, just look at all the people who have Tivos. If you're talking Comcast, the HD DVR's are much more stable than the basic ones.
If it could be used some something medically interesting, I'd have no problem with my body being kept alive by machines after I die. Better than tossing me in a fire and spreading the ashes... at least someone will learn something from it.
The only thing preventing is their own population. I just don't think they would tolerate becoming prisoners in the their own nation.
They already are. All they have to do is get the mullah to OK any of that control they want, and the population will go along with it because it's God's will. Isn't theocracy fun?
Did you have a yard or anything? Any way you could give him more freedom to explore in larger boundaries than the house? It sounds like he was just bored with everything inside.
Most people aren't terrorists either, so what's the harm in making everyone show their papers, right? I mean, you can't ever be too careful, and if you don't have them, you obviously have something to hide.
The harm is that you're enabling parents and kids to be irresponsible, parents by not having to think so hard about their kids, and kids by not having to learn responsibility. Yes, a few kids may get hurt. Even my kid. But I wouldn't want to live in a society that isn't able to take care of itself, and that's what we're rapidly going toward.
Or just learn to fucking behave and tell the truth. Is that so hard nowdays?
I do. My parents let me have my bedroom, and my things, and only if they thought something was going on would I lose my privacy. A common punishment when my brother and I were fighting was the removal of our doors from their hinges. You fight, you lose your privacy. We learned to get along pretty well. Still good friends to this day.