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And to create dogs that can create and maintain their own web site. They just need a paw friendly key board and GUI that doesn't rely on colors to make sense.
Car drivers file a drive plan which works in conjunction with accurate real time traffic monitoring an on board computer that could generate an alternate route and guide the driver by way of on board navigation system: cool. but what happens when all those drives select the same route beucase each onboard system generated it from the same information? The lower volume roads will be jammed too.
Just put one of these bags over your head. You *may* wish to give yourself an air hole. Perhaps a crazy straw lined with tin. Also you could put a couple of CCD cameras on the outside of the bag and an OLED screen on the inside. Wear 3-d glass to get a sterio image. For the truly paranoid, put a CCD on the back of the bag as well.
I had never heard of this letter the flap was linked here. If the intent was to remove the article in hopes it would not be noticed by more people, they have failed in a big way.
It's sort of like when the Catholic church say we should boycott a movie. One that many have never heard of until the publicity of the boycott helps to a) make more people aware of the movie and b) pique the interest of those who may wonder, "What's the big fuss, maybe I should go see it to check out the hub-bub."
Had this letter never been written, then it would not have been linked and I would never have seen it. By Show of hands how many here are seeing this for the first time?
Wow, slow down. Nobody's advocating giving MS more power over our lives.
There should be some way to charge a nominal fee for e-mail. something like a nickle or a dime. This will not adversly affect legitimate users of e-mail. For casual back and forth one can use IM. For mailing lists a hundred names cost 5 to 10 bucks. For bulk e-mailers that send out millions and millions of e-mail they pay 10's and 100's of thousand of dollars. Use the money to combat spam!
This is wishful thinking to be sure. But the only way to stop Spam is to stop the proffit from spam.
Oh, and by the way anyone who responds to an add in spam should be shot! You are the reason spam persists. Stop it.
The difference my e-mail address is not a lending library. Marketers that use snail mail must work with in their postage budget. If it costs more to send mail then they have to either get a bigger budget or it to less people. last time I checked it costs about 25 cents per piece for bulk mail. ten thousand filers and you sell out twenty-five hundred bucks. While there are some costs for the SPAMers for 2500 smackers he can send out millions and millions of e-mail's. There has got to be some way to make e-mail more tracable. If so then there is some way to make SPAMers pay.
It is not just that the CD player is free. It's that MS Windows is
everywhere and anyone who made a CD player for Windows is now basically
out of a job. An the consumers who had a choice of CD players (which
they had to pay for) now only have one choice when they could have
picked players with innovative features. I doubt anyone will seriously
claim that MS is an innovative company. This is a case of good enough
being the enemy of better. Cheep (free is pretty cheep) and usable will
always triumph over costly (even small marginal increases over cheep)
and better.
Besides these features are not free: with a new PC purchase - (These
prices vary a lot depending where and who buys them: these are what I
have seen)
MS Windows 95 cost something like $35
in 1995
MS Windows 98 cost something like $35 in 1998
MS Windows 2K cost something like $65 in 2000
MS Windows XP (HE) cost something like $70 now
The inflation rate of the last 9 years has not been an aggregate %100
or anything close to that so the actual price of the OS has gone up.
Now the new version of MS Windows do have nicer stuff and are more
reliable. The problem is this, it costs MS money to write the media
applications. This costs is built in to the unit price for MS Windows.
You pay for them. It just looks like it's free. Even if you can get
them off the internet for free you still have to buy MS Windows in
order to run them which means you bought them anyway. So next time you
have a problem with a bundled MS Windows application just remember you
paid for it. If you purchase someone else's media application you now
have purchased two of them. You didn't have a choice. If you like the
MS Windows bundled applications and they work for you then you do
benefit from the bundling because over all it is probably cheaper than
if you had to only pay for the OS and then buy your applications
separately.
Let me put a different emphasis on the argument and place it in more
general terms.
For instance there are four companies making a new product. Each
product offering is similar to each other and are generally used for
the same task by those who purchase the product.
Also each product has certain capacities that may be enhanced by
offerings from both the companies that make the product and other
companies which basically the same extensions.
Over time one company obtains a market edge over the others by
offering a better price point relative to performance. In order to take
advantage of the expanded market share this company decides to offer
some expansion items in a bundle and thereby making the deal even
better for the end user. This give the leader an even bigger edge. The
other manufactures attempt to compete now, but it's too late. They are
on the way out.
Now there is one company that makes the base product: at this
point the surviving company can now drive up prices on its product
because there is no competition for it. But, there are still suppliers
of after market add ons: this part of the industry is still making
money and there are choices.
The now sole producer of the basic product starts to add in it's
own extensions and increases it's bundling driving after market
suppliers out of business. As the end user you get a good deal, even if
you only use half the stuff bundled in the basic product. Since this
company makes money from both the basic product and the extensions it
puts in with it it can afford to 'give' away the extras.
Over time there are no suppliers of after market products. As a
consumer you have one choice. Pay the maker or not but you can't use an
alternative because its not there.
Also tell them that free speech as outlined in the constitution has always ment political speech. Commercial speech has never been held up to the same level of protection as political speech.
The billing issue has to do with the fundimental way in which the phone system differs from SendMail. You can't operate a phone with out someone knowing who is paying for the service. With sendmail, by default, almost nobody knows who is really using the system.
Since I have put my number on the do not call list I can eat dinner in peace. If those companies want to communicate their commercial interests with me, they can write a letter or buy an add on TV. The constant ringing of the phone is too invasive.
But you are correct in that the judge wrapped up the argument in such a way that it gave telemarketing some sort of limited right which had to be weighed against the benefits of limiting calls.
The real bummer is still the judge in Denver(?) ruled that the list was unconstitutional in the first place. If the appellate judge earned a "C" then the district judge gets an "F-".
The problem is with each version of MS Windows comes a whole new set of applets that intrude on an existing market. Since MS gives them away for free the other players go out of business. This kills diversity: consumers who usually drive the market are shut out of the process and then MS moves on to dominate another market. With out any other forces at work M$FT would own the entire computer: the DOJ acting as a minor speed bump. M$FT would be in a position then to control all how you use your media and control who can sell it and who can buy it and dictate its onw profits. M$FT has managed to become both autocracy and parasite.
... Noah's Ark? Wasn't it supposed to be on some mountain in the Himalayas or some such? Maybe after it was 'decommisioned' it was sold off for scrap. oh, wait, the scrap yard guys drowned. bummer.
This is an attempt to corrupt your ability to write reliable code. It is the software equivalent of a Medusa. Once you've looked at it your mind will be agog to make blue screens. Do not look! For the love of Pete, DO NOT LOOK!!!!!
no kidding. not only did I have a toaster running in 2001, I now have a fridge with a PS2 compatibility mode: which as turns out was a big mistake as now the eggs are always trash talking the frozen waffles about who's best at GTA. It's a bad confluence to have over teched appliances filled with sapient GM foods. Where will it end?
Right, there are a *lot* of Chinese, therefore the potential Chinese market is huge. Make sure you get in early, start on top and stay on top. There are almost as many cell phone subscribers in China as there are Americans in total. And the market in China is nowhere near saturation. Combine that with the same frequencies in use in China as in Europe, wow, that makes a *HUGE* potenial market. When it comes to economies of scale the Chinese will win.
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if there was life to swim in those seas.
And to create dogs that can create and maintain their own web site.
They just need a paw friendly key board and GUI that doesn't rely on colors to make sense.
The planned parenthood police will want to know everything you use your willie for.
Where there's a will there's a law suit!
Car drivers file a drive plan which works in conjunction with accurate real time traffic monitoring an on board computer that could generate an alternate route and guide the driver by way of on board navigation system: cool. but what happens when all those drives select the same route beucase each onboard system generated it from the same information? The lower volume roads will be jammed too.
Just put one of these bags over your head. You *may* wish to give yourself an air hole. Perhaps a crazy straw lined with tin.
Also you could put a couple of CCD cameras on the outside of the bag and an OLED screen on the inside. Wear 3-d glass to get a sterio image. For the truly paranoid, put a CCD on the back of the bag as well.
I had never heard of this letter the flap was linked here. If the intent was to remove the article in hopes it would not be noticed by more people, they have failed in a big way.
It's sort of like when the Catholic church say we should boycott a movie. One that many have never heard of until the publicity of the boycott helps to a) make more people aware of the movie and b) pique the interest of those who may wonder, "What's the big fuss, maybe I should go see it to check out the hub-bub."
Had this letter never been written, then it would not have been linked and I would never have seen it. By Show of hands how many here are seeing this for the first time?
http://www.textfiles.com/rpg/song
Scroll down to THE ALPHA COMPLEX SONGBOOK
"What?!?, You do not have your copy of Paranoia, citizen? You must report for immediate disciplinary termination!"
Oh my god, This is a game that lived up to its name. How does that song go?
I'm an Alpha complex commie. no that's not it.
Does anybody remember the Alpha Complex tune ?
Wow, slow down. Nobody's advocating giving MS more power over our lives.
There should be some way to charge a nominal fee for e-mail. something like a nickle or a dime. This will not adversly affect legitimate users of e-mail. For casual back and forth one can use IM. For mailing lists a hundred names cost 5 to 10 bucks. For bulk e-mailers that send out millions and millions of e-mail they pay 10's and 100's of thousand of dollars. Use the money to combat spam!
This is wishful thinking to be sure. But the only way to stop Spam is to stop the proffit from spam.
Oh, and by the way anyone who responds to an add in spam should be shot! You are the reason spam persists. Stop it.
The difference my e-mail address is not a lending library. Marketers that use snail mail must work with in their postage budget. If it costs more to send mail then they have to either get a bigger budget or it to less people. last time I checked it costs about 25 cents per piece for bulk mail. ten thousand filers and you sell out twenty-five hundred bucks. While there are some costs for the SPAMers for 2500 smackers he can send out millions and millions of e-mail's. There has got to be some way to make e-mail more tracable. If so then there is some way to make SPAMers pay.
However, if I want drugs I have to go find a drug dealer.
If I don't want spam I have to go find a lawyer?
That doesn't sound right.
The solution is to find a way to make e-mail cost money to use. It's only because e-mail is so cheep to abuse that spam is so prevalent.
Besides these features are not free: with a new PC purchase - (These prices vary a lot depending where and who buys them: these are what I have seen)
MS Windows 95 cost something like $35 in 1995
MS Windows 98 cost something like $35 in 1998
MS Windows 2K cost something like $65 in 2000
MS Windows XP (HE) cost something like $70 now
The inflation rate of the last 9 years has not been an aggregate %100 or anything close to that so the actual price of the OS has gone up.
Now the new version of MS Windows do have nicer stuff and are more reliable. The problem is this, it costs MS money to write the media applications. This costs is built in to the unit price for MS Windows. You pay for them. It just looks like it's free. Even if you can get them off the internet for free you still have to buy MS Windows in order to run them which means you bought them anyway. So next time you have a problem with a bundled MS Windows application just remember you paid for it. If you purchase someone else's media application you now have purchased two of them. You didn't have a choice. If you like the MS Windows bundled applications and they work for you then you do benefit from the bundling because over all it is probably cheaper than if you had to only pay for the OS and then buy your applications separately.
Let me put a different emphasis on the argument and place it in more general terms.
Also tell them that free speech as outlined in the constitution has always ment political speech. Commercial speech has never been held up to the same level of protection as political speech. The billing issue has to do with the fundimental way in which the phone system differs from SendMail. You can't operate a phone with out someone knowing who is paying for the service. With sendmail, by default, almost nobody knows who is really using the system.
Since I have put my number on the do not call list I can eat dinner in peace. If those companies want to communicate their commercial interests with me, they can write a letter or buy an add on TV. The constant ringing of the phone is too invasive.
But you are correct in that the judge wrapped up the argument in such a way that it gave telemarketing some sort of limited right which had to be weighed against the benefits of limiting calls.
The real bummer is still the judge in Denver(?) ruled that the list was unconstitutional in the first place. If the appellate judge earned a "C" then the district judge gets an "F-".
The problem is with each version of MS Windows comes a whole new set of applets that intrude on an existing market. Since MS gives them away for free the other players go out of business. This kills diversity: consumers who usually drive the market are shut out of the process and then MS moves on to dominate another market. With out any other forces at work M$FT would own the entire computer: the DOJ acting as a minor speed bump. M$FT would be in a position then to control all how you use your media and control who can sell it and who can buy it and dictate its onw profits. M$FT has managed to become both autocracy and parasite.
... Noah's Ark? Wasn't it supposed to be on some mountain in the Himalayas or some such? Maybe after it was 'decommisioned' it was sold off for scrap. oh, wait, the scrap yard guys drowned. bummer.
This is an attempt to corrupt your ability to write reliable code. It is the software equivalent of a Medusa. Once you've looked at it your mind will be agog to make blue screens. Do not look! For the love of Pete, DO NOT LOOK!!!!!
Uh, NO! You really deserve the +1 Terrifying moderation!
no kidding. not only did I have a toaster running in 2001, I now have a fridge with a PS2 compatibility mode: which as turns out was a big mistake as now the eggs are always trash talking the frozen waffles about who's best at GTA. It's a bad confluence to have over teched appliances filled with sapient GM foods. Where will it end?
Right, there are a *lot* of Chinese, therefore the potential Chinese market is huge. Make sure you get in early, start on top and stay on top. There are almost as many cell phone subscribers in China as there are Americans in total. And the market in China is nowhere near saturation. Combine that with the same frequencies in use in China as in Europe, wow, that makes a *HUGE* potenial market. When it comes to economies of scale the Chinese will win.
I scare because I care.
Hold on there pal. There's nothing wrong with knowledgable babes. Surely ther are some hot chicks out there who also know linux, right?
Not funny. War is one thing but this goes to far. I bet this violates the Geneva convention.
Your woman must be really stout. German?