So because we have digital equipment, musicians of this time period have no talent and/or soul?
There has been shitty music produced in every time period. One thing that time does is that it filters out the crap. We only listen to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, etc., but they weren't the only ones making music. The ones that sucked didn't survive the test of time.
Your ANECDOTES are great.. but they don't sway me.
If you're going to live in a free market, you have to learn to accept its decisions. Music is subjective, so to say that someone 'deserves' mainstream exposure over someone else means nothing. There are obviously people that, for whatever reason, like n*sync and all those crappy groups, otherwise people wouldn't be buying the albums. That reason may not be because the music is good.
Again, if there is a market, someone will generally do it. That's the basis of the free market theory. If you feel that there is truly a market for this music, maybe you should try tapping into it and making some money for yourself.
In the good ol' US of A, the main point is that it's up to the person who owns the table/outlet/electricity to decide who gets to use it and how.
GP never said otherwise. They merely said that it would be courteous for these people who own the outlet to provide it free to their customers. I think that makes a lot of sense, no matter what country you're in.
While I don't know about Simpson's Orange Bowl appearance, she was clearly sick for the SNL appearance as evidenced by the 60 Minutes piece. I'm all for making fun of people that suck, but let's be fair here. There's no fix for laryngitis.
There are music geeks who hate Ashlee for taking away a spot at a record company that some talented band might have had
Oh please. If this hypothetical band is truly talented, someone will sign them. We all claim to love the free market.. just not when it makes decisions that we don't agree with.
I'll say what I will. You're not obliged to respond, you know. People that are afraid to speak their mind on a place like this have serious issues that are beyond my control. Sticks and stones, etc..
My main objection with your comment was the language "doesn't deserve a cent of anyone's business". The assertion was based on a trivial fact -- that they use phone cards to route calls. If you had said what you said above "the call quality is horrid, and the calls I placed internationally only connected maybe 10% of the time," it would have made a lot more sense.
Perhaps it was not intended, but there was an elitist feel to how you worded your objection. When you talk about what people "deserve", you are placing yourself above others and implying that you are in a position to judge (while also implying that others are not in that position).
Also, by hinging your objection on a technical detail (calling cards), rather than an observable problem (call quality), you imply that using phone cards is inherently bad. While that may be true, you offered no reason why that would be the case. I have used international phone cards many times, and it is not plainly obvious to me why they in and of themselves would be the problem.
As the sibling points out, the phone line must provide 911 service by law. Luckily I've never had the opportunity to test this law.
Vonage won't help me if there's no power, or if my internet connection is down. I realize that there will be very few emergencies where the power/internet is out, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
I'm not against VoIP. I use it at home. But we still have a hardwire phone and a connection to the local telephone network in the case of an emergency.
But on Windows, installers are.exe files. When you double-click on an installer, the installer basically never checks to see if it has permissions. It just tries to install and then fails with a cryptic error message if you weren't logged in as an admin. Why the heck doesn't it just pop up a password dialog?
You couldn't be further from the truth. An installer doesn't have to be a.exe. It could be a.msi, which is a Windows Install Package. Many installs do check permissions (it is the job of the application developer to do this, not the installer software, since not all software requires admin to be installed). Also, Windows does pop up a p/w dialog if you are not logged in as admin, even if the install doesn't require it. To be fair, I believe that last bit was only added in SP2.
Also, any company that routes international long distance through phone cards - yes , I said phone cards - doesn't deserve a cent of anyone's business.
Who gives a flying fuck how they're routing the calls? As long as it's reliable and cheap, I don't see what the problem is. And who appointed you the consumer czar to dictate who does and does not deserve business, anyway? Isn't that the job of each individual consumer?
I don't use Vonage, so I cannot speak to how reliable and/or cheap they are.
IIRC, what happened is that the operators would go back up on the display to change values that were inputted erroneously. However, the new values that were displayed on the screen were never passed along to the underlying code. So the operator thought "Whoops, lemme change that power setting", hit the up arrow and changed the value and then went along like normal. The machine didn't know the power was supposed to change, and blasted the patients with radiation.
I'm sure someone else will chime in with a link to the correct version of the story.
Note that this is from a.com address, not a.gov address.
That doesn't mean a thing, since there's nothing that says public money can't pay for a.com. It's very vogue for public projects to run out and get.com websites nowadays. I'm not sure of the exact rationale, myself.
it is a general rule that if you need goggles, you are not right for the job.
If that's the attitude you had towards safety, I'm glad you're no longer in that line of work. I suspect your insurance carrier wouldn't have been too pleased, either.
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You might have had a point if this story was released a year ago. However, a week is not at all comparable. Try again.
Except that this has nothing to do with bit torrent itself. Any p2p network, or other application, can do this if they want to.
Do you think you're special? What is so pleasing about posting "OLD NEWS! I saw this x days ago!"
Furthermore, mods, what is so damn insightful about it?
Mod this one to 11. Sad thing is that most anti-union people don't realize this until they've been screwed themselves. By that time, it's too late.
ROFL!
So because we have digital equipment, musicians of this time period have no talent and/or soul?
There has been shitty music produced in every time period. One thing that time does is that it filters out the crap. We only listen to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, etc., but they weren't the only ones making music. The ones that sucked didn't survive the test of time.
Your ANECDOTES are great.. but they don't sway me.
If you're going to live in a free market, you have to learn to accept its decisions. Music is subjective, so to say that someone 'deserves' mainstream exposure over someone else means nothing. There are obviously people that, for whatever reason, like n*sync and all those crappy groups, otherwise people wouldn't be buying the albums. That reason may not be because the music is good.
Again, if there is a market, someone will generally do it. That's the basis of the free market theory. If you feel that there is truly a market for this music, maybe you should try tapping into it and making some money for yourself.
In the good ol' US of A, the main point is that it's up to the person who owns the table/outlet/electricity to decide who gets to use it and how.
GP never said otherwise. They merely said that it would be courteous for these people who own the outlet to provide it free to their customers. I think that makes a lot of sense, no matter what country you're in.
Welcome to the real world, moron. Businesspeople travel a lot (for face-to-face meetings!) but still need to communicate while they're on the road.
While I don't know about Simpson's Orange Bowl appearance, she was clearly sick for the SNL appearance as evidenced by the 60 Minutes piece. I'm all for making fun of people that suck, but let's be fair here. There's no fix for laryngitis.
There are music geeks who hate Ashlee for taking away a spot at a record company that some talented band might have had
Oh please. If this hypothetical band is truly talented, someone will sign them. We all claim to love the free market.. just not when it makes decisions that we don't agree with.
I'll say what I will. You're not obliged to respond, you know. People that are afraid to speak their mind on a place like this have serious issues that are beyond my control. Sticks and stones, etc..
My main objection with your comment was the language "doesn't deserve a cent of anyone's business". The assertion was based on a trivial fact -- that they use phone cards to route calls. If you had said what you said above "the call quality is horrid, and the calls I placed internationally only connected maybe 10% of the time," it would have made a lot more sense.
Perhaps it was not intended, but there was an elitist feel to how you worded your objection. When you talk about what people "deserve", you are placing yourself above others and implying that you are in a position to judge (while also implying that others are not in that position).
Also, by hinging your objection on a technical detail (calling cards), rather than an observable problem (call quality), you imply that using phone cards is inherently bad. While that may be true, you offered no reason why that would be the case. I have used international phone cards many times, and it is not plainly obvious to me why they in and of themselves would be the problem.
I'd appreciate it if you let me define myself.
Now, I will I fear you are associating the actions of non-Christians who call themselves Christians onto Christianity
Wouldn't those "non-Christians" also appreciate it if you let them define themselves? Do unto others... I'm sure you know the rest.
What the hell are you talking about? cmd.exe is an improvement on the shell that is part of command.com.
Picard obviously doesn't take milk or sugar. O'Brien always ordered his coffee 'jamaican blend, double strong, double sweet' iirc.
As the sibling points out, the phone line must provide 911 service by law. Luckily I've never had the opportunity to test this law.
Vonage won't help me if there's no power, or if my internet connection is down. I realize that there will be very few emergencies where the power/internet is out, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
I'm not against VoIP. I use it at home. But we still have a hardwire phone and a connection to the local telephone network in the case of an emergency.
But on Windows, installers are .exe files. When you double-click on an installer, the installer basically never checks to see if it has permissions. It just tries to install and then fails with a cryptic error message if you weren't logged in as an admin. Why the heck doesn't it just pop up a password dialog?
.exe. It could be a .msi, which is a Windows Install Package. Many installs do check permissions (it is the job of the application developer to do this, not the installer software, since not all software requires admin to be installed). Also, Windows does pop up a p/w dialog if you are not logged in as admin, even if the install doesn't require it. To be fair, I believe that last bit was only added in SP2.
You couldn't be further from the truth. An installer doesn't have to be a
Also, any company that routes international long distance through phone cards - yes , I said phone cards - doesn't deserve a cent of anyone's business.
Who gives a flying fuck how they're routing the calls? As long as it's reliable and cheap, I don't see what the problem is. And who appointed you the consumer czar to dictate who does and does not deserve business, anyway? Isn't that the job of each individual consumer?
I don't use Vonage, so I cannot speak to how reliable and/or cheap they are.
I don't like it. I don't want to hear more cell phone chatter in my coffeeshop hotspot.
Then tell the managers that you will no longer frequent their establishment due to the problem. People aren't psychic.
Yet again, the internet bandwidth gets sucked away by something it was not orginally designed for
Yet again, electricity gets sucked away by something it was not originally designed for. I demand electricity be used only for light bulbs! Right...
Note that this will disable your 911 service. I highly recommend that no one do this.
Jurassic Park just doesn't work on the small screen. You missed out.
IIRC, what happened is that the operators would go back up on the display to change values that were inputted erroneously. However, the new values that were displayed on the screen were never passed along to the underlying code. So the operator thought "Whoops, lemme change that power setting", hit the up arrow and changed the value and then went along like normal. The machine didn't know the power was supposed to change, and blasted the patients with radiation.
I'm sure someone else will chime in with a link to the correct version of the story.
It sounds like your car was the safety issue, not speed, since just about every other car on the road can handle the situation you describe.
What about the fiscal conservatives who think it is a waste of money?
Haven't heard a peep out of them in the last 4 years, except the ones on the left, so why should we expect to hear them now?
Note that this is from a .com address, not a .gov address.
.com. It's very vogue for public projects to run out and get .com websites nowadays. I'm not sure of the exact rationale, myself.
That doesn't mean a thing, since there's nothing that says public money can't pay for a
Take the $50 million across the quoted 320 man-years and you get $156,250 per man-year. That doesn't seem like much when you consider overhead.
it is a general rule that if you need goggles, you are not right for the job.
If that's the attitude you had towards safety, I'm glad you're no longer in that line of work. I suspect your insurance carrier wouldn't have been too pleased, either.