Maybe we're talking about different shop cultures here... In Germany, I never had any of this problems with local shops (being a regular customer known to the 2-man-staff, that is), but on several occassions with retailers.
I do not see a problem with this. If I want a TV set, I am not going to Walmart, but to a specialized dealer. I won't buy a PC anywhere else than my local PC shop. And I'd had the money (or the combination to the shopkeepers safe) certainly would not buy my ship at "Honest Stans used Ships", but at a dedicated dealer, if not even at the manufacturer himself.
Yes, this often is more expensive than discount or online shopping. However, I like the luxury of a nice chat with the shopkeepers (as long as I do not have the combination to their safe, that is), and the way they tread a returning customer, e.g. replacing that defective AMD chip without quarrels or pointing at the manufacturers warranty. Let behind that a dedicated shop knows what it is speaking of.
The horrific conditions at a german KZ in Germany, 1938:
Inside the centre, a cinema originally built to entertain the prison commandant of the Small Fortress, Heinrich Joekel, and his lieutenants, screens a 1960s-era documentary about Theresienstadt, featuring
excerpts from the propaganda films the Nazis made about the model city of the Jews, replete with gardens and soccer matches.
Excerpted at here. Matter of fact, know this documentary, and the propaganda film as well.
Look up the definition of "concentration camp" on Wikipedia
Several, more morally developed nations, such as - for an instance - a great part of the islamic world, former Soviet Russia (where Saudi Arabian friends close you), China... there is really tough criticism from the European Union as well...
Well, as there were chunks of foam breaking loose on basically *every* *other* STS mission before STS-114, including the ones the less enviromental-friendly foam was used, how exactly do you link the freon-free foam to the loss of Columbia?
In fact, if the US would stop bullying, how much of their military do you think it would need? Think of all the cool stuff you could do with all the money. You could, for example, have a sane schooling system.
Nobody fears of losing his/her life in the military if there is no war going on. Last time I checked, the largest bunch of wars of aggression since 1945 were started by the US, often based on lies.
However, are the US ethical standards better now with
concentration camps in Cuba
a close friendship to Saudi Arabia, where even now women are forbidden to vote in municipal elections and only recently got the right to drive a car
to Pakistan, who is proliferating weapons of mass destruction...
Pretty high moral standards. How can you "destroy" them by stop being a bully to anyone who might or might not choose not to basically give the US resp. their corporations their oil for free?
Yes, I know those "space weapons" will (officially) not be nuclear. Have a look at article 8, however. I doubt the US wants to pay for foreign satellites, development and launch costs.
Overall, I think if the US would finally stop bullying the rest of this planet around, they would be a lot more liked.
RIAA & Co. create dummy files for content they have a valid right of protecting.
While this is annoying for some P2Pers, it will not affect people searching for legitimate content in the Public Domain or under one of the many copyleft licences.
People working on systems to enrich non-licenced content on P2P networks, e.g. copyrighted movies, software or music, are in the long term working to induce a prohibitive legislation not on filesharing of such content, but on filesharing per se.
If we acutally want to protect filesharing as an useful, not a criminals tool, we should promote not systems whose goal is to download more illegal material.
But the fact is, the problem is there, the problem is big, the problem is global, and no one is safe. Ignoring a problem don't make it go away.
By any chance... you are not an intern in the White House, are you?
Cutting away those black spots on your skin won't make the problem of your pet pestilence go away. You have to destroy not the symphtoms, but the cause. For starters, american foreign politics could start working without force first. [Guess what nation initiated the most wars of aggression in violation of the law of nations since 1945?
What about heat? [No, I am still not using a Mac, so I do not know what kind of temperature a Mac mini produces, but I doubt it keeps cool if no cold air is avalible.]
This is an urban legend common to several academic institutions all over the northern hemisphere. I've heard those in the University of Munich/Germany, in Kyoto, in several educational institutions in the States and Canada. And of course, always it was the router of that specific institution...
Sex!
Minors interested in sex.
Minors using someones credit card to pay for porn (ordo minors in the US actually get a credit card legally?)
Pedophiles...
Man, that sounds like just out of the "box of horrors" of contemporary politics. He forgot terrorists, tought...
... I am still wondering how an operating system with virtually no native software and no developer and/or user base will survive, let alone compete against Lin/Win/Mac...
Eww, it doesn't sound like you're making his pages prettier..
Well, as someone who actually holds a Master Degree in Japanese, I fail to see how some rather stupid and childish ad to a fortune telling service does create income of significant magnitude.
If this really is the only ad he/she is going to have, maybe the OP should really check other means of getting his work paid.
Well, of course Google takes a large cut. That's their business model, and that is what makes them survive.
If your site made $50 per month, you are doing something wrong, and quite possibly you just have too few visitors. It also seems you only show one ad per page, when you can show up to 4. Why is this? What if the second, third or forth would have made a click? Use a larger banner format (skyscraper?) and try again.
The world is neither black or white, and the sades of grey it is painted with are mostly the lighter ones.
Of course there are sites that only exist for a quick buck. There also are a lot of valuable "communities" (albeit it has come to my attention that communities tend to make a lot less ad-related income than websites with litte or no user-interaction).
However, running a popular web project is not for free - there are hosting costs, and there may be a point when you need technical assistance from a professional (geeks as we are, we know how much we are billing). And after all the work the site maintainer has put into a successful site, I really think it is legitimate if he wants to get something back.
I am running a fairly popular german-language download site. Adsense does pay for the bills of hosting and for my work. It even allows me my rather costly taste for good coffee. I am not feeling like a criminal - after all, I've had and have most of the work with this project.
Yes, I happen to be german. So what? Last time I checked, there were no german war crimes committed after the day I've been born, and so I cannot possibly be a part of those non-existant crimes.
I therefore do not see how my nationality should change the way I think about war crimes. Especially if they are targeted at civilians.
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Where I come from, there is a proverb that roughly translates to "beware of the beginnings".
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Maybe we're talking about different shop cultures here ... In Germany, I never had any of this problems with local shops (being a regular customer known to the 2-man-staff, that is), but on several occassions with retailers.
Rule 1: Never buy anything by someone who calls himself "honest" that prominently.
I do not see a problem with this. If I want a TV set, I am not going to Walmart, but to a specialized dealer. I won't buy a PC anywhere else than my local PC shop. And I'd had the money (or the combination to the shopkeepers safe) certainly would not buy my ship at "Honest Stans used Ships", but at a dedicated dealer, if not even at the manufacturer himself.
Yes, this often is more expensive than discount or online shopping. However, I like the luxury of a nice chat with the shopkeepers (as long as I do not have the combination to their safe, that is), and the way they tread a returning customer, e.g. replacing that defective AMD chip without quarrels or pointing at the manufacturers warranty. Let behind that a dedicated shop knows what it is speaking of.
Well, as there were chunks of foam breaking loose on basically *every* *other* STS mission before STS-114, including the ones the less enviromental-friendly foam was used, how exactly do you link the freon-free foam to the loss of Columbia?
Why oh why does this remind me of Wandaba style?
Well, probably a lot longer than you ;)
In fact, if the US would stop bullying, how much of their military do you think it would need? Think of all the cool stuff you could do with all the money. You could, for example, have a sane schooling system.
Nobody fears of losing his/her life in the military if there is no war going on. Last time I checked, the largest bunch of wars of aggression since 1945 were started by the US, often based on lies.
As a German born in 1980, I tend to disagree.
However, are the US ethical standards better now with
Pretty high moral standards. How can you "destroy" them by stop being a bully to anyone who might or might not choose not to basically give the US resp. their corporations their oil for free?
... that international law and treaties is of no concern for the United States...
Outer Space Treaty of 1963
Yes, I know those "space weapons" will (officially) not be nuclear. Have a look at article 8, however. I doubt the US wants to pay for foreign satellites, development and launch costs.
Overall, I think if the US would finally stop bullying the rest of this planet around, they would be a lot more liked.
By any chance... you are not an intern in the White House, are you?
Cutting away those black spots on your skin won't make the problem of your pet pestilence go away. You have to destroy not the symphtoms, but the cause. For starters, american foreign politics could start working without force first. [Guess what nation initiated the most wars of aggression in violation of the law of nations since 1945?
It may not be legal, but at least it puts you in a difficult situation when you try to claim money from your insurance.
... but nontheless the summary of what geeks like us always assumed.
It is, however, interesting, that the US mainstream media actually writes about this problem.
What about heat? [No, I am still not using a Mac, so I do not know what kind of temperature a Mac mini produces, but I doubt it keeps cool if no cold air is avalible.]
This is an urban legend common to several academic institutions all over the northern hemisphere. I've heard those in the University of Munich/Germany, in Kyoto, in several educational institutions in the States and Canada. And of course, always it was the router of that specific institution...
Sex! Minors interested in sex. Minors using someones credit card to pay for porn (ordo minors in the US actually get a credit card legally?) Pedophiles ...
Man, that sounds like just out of the "box of horrors" of contemporary politics. He forgot terrorists, tought...
... I am still wondering how an operating system with virtually no native software and no developer and/or user base will survive, let alone compete against Lin/Win/Mac ...
Well, as someone who actually holds a Master Degree in Japanese, I fail to see how some rather stupid and childish ad to a fortune telling service does create income of significant magnitude.
If this really is the only ad he/she is going to have, maybe the OP should really check other means of getting his work paid.
Well, of course Google takes a large cut. That's their business model, and that is what makes them survive.
If your site made $50 per month, you are doing something wrong, and quite possibly you just have too few visitors. It also seems you only show one ad per page, when you can show up to 4. Why is this? What if the second, third or forth would have made a click? Use a larger banner format (skyscraper?) and try again.
The world is neither black or white, and the sades of grey it is painted with are mostly the lighter ones.
Of course there are sites that only exist for a quick buck. There also are a lot of valuable "communities" (albeit it has come to my attention that communities tend to make a lot less ad-related income than websites with litte or no user-interaction).
However, running a popular web project is not for free - there are hosting costs, and there may be a point when you need technical assistance from a professional (geeks as we are, we know how much we are billing). And after all the work the site maintainer has put into a successful site, I really think it is legitimate if he wants to get something back.
I am running a fairly popular german-language download site. Adsense does pay for the bills of hosting and for my work. It even allows me my rather costly taste for good coffee. I am not feeling like a criminal - after all, I've had and have most of the work with this project.
Yes, I happen to be german. So what? Last time I checked, there were no german war crimes committed after the day I've been born, and so I cannot possibly be a part of those non-existant crimes. I therefore do not see how my nationality should change the way I think about war crimes. Especially if they are targeted at civilians.