Wow, my 3rd post about religion in this story. Ironically religious discrimination is much like sexual orientation discrimination.
Neither is appropriate in the workplace but that doesn't mean that one should have to hide their religous/sexual preferrence.
I'm not sure where you get your "Descrimination[sic] based on sexual orientation does not exist" comment from but it sounds like pretty clouded vision
I don't understand what this means:
1. Sex isn't a non-variable
Maybe you could clear that up for me.
Finally I guess I would fall under your " tolerance bandwagonner" category, though I can think of no reason to be ashamed of it. Oh, and get a clue. Gay people are not interested in dating ignorant religious nuts and certainly don't want to make you gay.
Discrimination laws are a result of real discrimination, not imagined possible discrimination like a biased against people who are left handed. Sexual "preference" may or may not be a choice, but assuming it is there are other things that you choose like religion for which it is illegal to discriminate against.
Javascript makes a browsing experience a lot more powerfull. DHTML is fun to program and to use. Do you inspect the code for all the software you run on your computer? If you are that paranoid about exploits you should use Links because your browser of choice is far more likely to have an exploit. Or you could simply excersise a little surfing common sense by not visiting sites that are likely to take advantage of an exploit. It's pretty simple to realize that by clicking on a free pron banner that you are putting your browser at risk.
Just to clear up a misconeption (that I helped perpetuate) about cookies, they generally aren't used for collecting or distributing information. As I stated in a post below they are more used for revenue sharing partnerships between sites and for tracking ad campaigns. Not to mention the most basic session cookie which allows you to login to many sites because passing a session ID around in the query string is a fat pain and quite a database hit.
I don't have a problem with a few paranoid experts clearing or selectivly disabling cookies, my problem is that the myth that cookies are evil has made it to the masses and they are making my life difficult. I mean these people somehow think they are making themselves safer by turning off cookies & javascript yet they are perfectly willing to enter their credit card number to get access to my site. Not that I'm complaining about the latter, but the dichotomy astounds me.
Don't go giving out your email address to just any site. Read their privacy policy and/or give them a throw away email address (ie: hotmail, gmail). Cookies aren't generally used for transfering private information from one site to another. They are more commonly used to track ad revenue.
1) Surfing on site A
2) Click a link to site B
3) Signup/purchase on site B
4) Site A gets a piece of the revenue
Is that so evil? No. Site A supplied the lead why shouldn't they get part of the profit.
Ahh thank you. As a web developer I can't tell you how annoying it is that people put their security settings on High. Thus disabling cookies and javascript. Grrrrrrr. So dumb. Cookies. Have. Nothing. to do. With. Adware! "Eh?" you say? "But i thought cookies were teh evil?" Oh gee. Some advertiser knows that I've spent 40% of my surftime on/...... scary. WHO CARES!?!?!?! Now if we taught the masses about browser exploits and downloading "free" software/porn it would be a different story. It would relieve all of our inboxes from a little zombie spam. Sheesh. Such a red herring.
On the other hand, the two formats are incompatible with each other, so it's certain that a similar solution to that adopted in the case of DVDs is not feasible, since a device able to operate both technologies would require separate reading lasers and mechanisms, and would be, in the end, too expensive and bulky for the average user.
I recently got back from a trip to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand and I had the exact same experience at in all three countries. It was just a simple little line on the county entrance form. I crossed the borders of Cambodia and Thailand by foot so I filled out the form in front of officials and asked them about the field. They said it wasn't a big deal and if I didn't know to just put 'hotel'. Being a backpacker I truly had no idea where i would be staying.
Not to mention the multiple server farms and extensive updates to the game. I think that if you buy a $60 MMO then you should get the first 60/15 = 4 months free. Or free download with a 4 month contract. Either way. Then I might consider it. But $60 and a 1 month trial is BS. I will not pay that much to try a game out for 30 days. I also feel that a 7-day trial (with rollover of course) would make a lot of sense.
I did hear an interesting piece on npr talking about the 'Numbers Stations' phenomena. Appearently they got the name for their albumn "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" from a CD compliation of these number stations.
If it only it were so simple. Wal-Mart is hands down the biggest client for every product they sell. What do you do when your biggest client makes wild demands? Just walk away and hope for the best? No bloodly likely. You will suck it up and try to make it work.
That's rediculous. I used to have a motherboard that wasn't supported by any Linux distro under the sun so in order to install linux I would have to buy a new motherboard... does that mean that linux is not free?
Actually the grandparent is correct. Walmart puts so much pressure on their suppliers to actually drop prices every year (inflation is for sissies) that they drive small manufactures out of business. Not to mention the small businesses that it suffocates. There are towns that literally shop themselves out of a job. Heck. Walmart singled handedly put Vlassic in bankruptcy by forcing them to sell a gallon of pickles for $2.97 dollars. This is a facinating article about why we should all boycot the place.
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They also encourage people to backup their data as often as possible... from what I've heard that works even better than freezing a broken drive. Don't be so quick to judge someone or some company dishonest.
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Wow, my 3rd post about religion in this story. Ironically religious discrimination is much like sexual orientation discrimination.
Neither is appropriate in the workplace but that doesn't mean that one should have to hide their religous/sexual preferrence.
I'm not sure where you get your "Descrimination[sic] based on sexual orientation does not exist" comment from but it sounds like pretty clouded vision
I don't understand what this means: 1. Sex isn't a non-variable Maybe you could clear that up for me.
Finally I guess I would fall under your " tolerance bandwagonner" category, though I can think of no reason to be ashamed of it. Oh, and get a clue. Gay people are not interested in dating ignorant religious nuts and certainly don't want to make you gay.
Discrimination laws are a result of real discrimination, not imagined possible discrimination like a biased against people who are left handed. Sexual "preference" may or may not be a choice, but assuming it is there are other things that you choose like religion for which it is illegal to discriminate against.
Neither is religion but it's illegal to discrimante based on that as well.
Javascript makes a browsing experience a lot more powerfull. DHTML is fun to program and to use. Do you inspect the code for all the software you run on your computer? If you are that paranoid about exploits you should use Links because your browser of choice is far more likely to have an exploit. Or you could simply excersise a little surfing common sense by not visiting sites that are likely to take advantage of an exploit. It's pretty simple to realize that by clicking on a free pron banner that you are putting your browser at risk.
Just to clear up a misconeption (that I helped perpetuate) about cookies, they generally aren't used for collecting or distributing information. As I stated in a post below they are more used for revenue sharing partnerships between sites and for tracking ad campaigns. Not to mention the most basic session cookie which allows you to login to many sites because passing a session ID around in the query string is a fat pain and quite a database hit.
I don't have a problem with a few paranoid experts clearing or selectivly disabling cookies, my problem is that the myth that cookies are evil has made it to the masses and they are making my life difficult. I mean these people somehow think they are making themselves safer by turning off cookies & javascript yet they are perfectly willing to enter their credit card number to get access to my site. Not that I'm complaining about the latter, but the dichotomy astounds me.
Ahh thank you. As a web developer I can't tell you how annoying it is that people put their security settings on High. Thus disabling cookies and javascript. Grrrrrrr. So dumb. Cookies. Have. Nothing. to do. With. Adware! "Eh?" you say? "But i thought cookies were teh evil?" Oh gee. Some advertiser knows that I've spent 40% of my surftime on /. ..... scary. WHO CARES!?!?!?! Now if we taught the masses about browser exploits and downloading "free" software/porn it would be a different story. It would relieve all of our inboxes from a little zombie spam. Sheesh. Such a red herring.
Speech is free as long as it doesn't infringe on someone else's rights. (IE: liable)
Damn GeoCities ... anyone have a mirror?
Though it is the first day back for many semester based schools across america.
Besides they keep extending the lenght of the free period, so you aren't paying yet.
... and it wasn't a big deal.
I recently got back from a trip to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand and I had the exact same experience at in all three countries. It was just a simple little line on the county entrance form. I crossed the borders of Cambodia and Thailand by foot so I filled out the form in front of officials and asked them about the field. They said it wasn't a big deal and if I didn't know to just put 'hotel'. Being a backpacker I truly had no idea where i would be staying.
Thus the ~$15/month charge.
*cough* Steam © *cough*
And tivo is hardware. I can understand that initial cost. The cost to allow a user to download a game is far less than the retail price.
Not to mention the multiple server farms and extensive updates to the game. I think that if you buy a $60 MMO then you should get the first 60/15 = 4 months free. Or free download with a 4 month contract. Either way. Then I might consider it. But $60 and a 1 month trial is BS. I will not pay that much to try a game out for 30 days. I also feel that a 7-day trial (with rollover of course) would make a lot of sense.
I did hear an interesting piece on npr talking about the 'Numbers Stations' phenomena. Appearently they got the name for their albumn "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" from a CD compliation of these number stations.
It's my understanding that while people own the franchises, McDonalds actually owns the land under it.
If it only it were so simple. Wal-Mart is hands down the biggest client for every product they sell. What do you do when your biggest client makes wild demands? Just walk away and hope for the best? No bloodly likely. You will suck it up and try to make it work.
The largest land owner in the world is actually McDonalds. The corporation owns the land that every single one is built on.
That's rediculous. I used to have a motherboard that wasn't supported by any Linux distro under the sun so in order to install linux I would have to buy a new motherboard ... does that mean that linux is not free?
Actually the grandparent is correct. Walmart puts so much pressure on their suppliers to actually drop prices every year (inflation is for sissies) that they drive small manufactures out of business. Not to mention the small businesses that it suffocates. There are towns that literally shop themselves out of a job. Heck. Walmart singled handedly put Vlassic in bankruptcy by forcing them to sell a gallon of pickles for $2.97 dollars. This is a facinating article about why we should all boycot the place.
They also encourage people to backup their data as often as possible ... from what I've heard that works even better than freezing a broken drive. Don't be so quick to judge someone or some company dishonest.
Duh ... UFO's brought them