Yeah, we should totally be taking money from poor people and giving it to the 1% who can afford to blow $60k dollars on a toy car.
I don't know about you, but my commute is only about 20 miles round-trip daily. If an electric gets only 50 miles on a charge I can still run some errands on the way home even if work doesn't install a charging station for me. If it weren't for the speed limits I could get away with a GEM neighborhood electric vehicle. I choose not to afford a $60K electric car, but if I really, really wanted one I could probably save up for two or three years for the bulk of the purchase price and could finance the rest.
I like the progressive tax system and I think that either a new upper tier needs to be defined for a higher tax rate or else the rates in general could stand to increase at the top level, but I'm okay with a few tax subsidies at those levels as well. An electric car is one that I agree with at this point in time, because if the wealthy start to accept electric cars, then that might help drag the market for middle income new-car buyers with it when car manufacturers see that there is indeed interest.
Yep. Sales, not rental, is probably the only way to make it work, and that'll only work while there are people like me that want physical media for their movies and TV shows.
In my case I do not want DRM on a non-physical version. While I don't like DRM on a physical version, a hardware player is likely to not have issues with DRM stopping it from playing, and a hardware player can't ERASE the physical version if something causes it to be found to be objectionable.
I do no want to subscribe to a streaming service or a service where their software on a physical device that I own allows for the removal of content from that device. There have been too many examples of that, like that high-profile of case of 1984 being deleted from e-book readers.
I do a lot of shopping at music/movie stores that sell new and used copies of movies and music. I buy a lot of media second-hand, as most of these stores are pretty good about not buying messed up media from trade-in customers. I also don't like paying a lot, though, so paying more than $5 for a movie on DVD or more than $10 on Blu-Ray gives me pause.
Your friend has had a good long run it sounds like. He should consider himself fortunate that he's managed to make a living as a middle-man in a fairly tight market for this long, and should look at making his exit on terms favorable to him without having to resort to bankruptcy or some other bad situation.
Sounds like a good life's lesson before they'll face real consequences for their actions, and maybe their parents won't be able to continue to delude themselves about their childrens' behavior anymore.
...because I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for cheaters, and the choice in a story citing the privacy issues as felt by a cheater don't really give me any feeling of a cause.
And, if you choose to use a tracking device then you should know that you're subjecting yourself to being tracked. Nearly all of us do with our cell phones, but some go much further, with things like those insurance trackers, or leaving the GPS enabled on the phone, or the like.
If there were a way to have a smartphone without having the ability to be tracked, I think that a lot of people would sign up for that. Unfortunately all that we can now do is hope that the companies that we have agreements with follow the law and only surrender information when it's requested through warrants, which doesn't seem to be the policy these days.
Normally I'd agree, but the thing to remember is that once the footsoldiers are whipped up into a frenzy, they often don't take very good instruction from the generals anymore. Further complicating it is Fox News, which has its ratings for advertising to look after. If it's profitable to continue whipping up the relatively uneducated base even if the moneybags want it to stop, they might not stop whipping them up, and the movement could actually splinter away from the control of those who initiated it.
So, basically we could see a new political party develop because of a need for television ratings.
Other courts have rule in their favor, but their jury trial ruling in the US is itself in jeopardy based on undisclosed prior legal action on the part of a member of that jury against the defendant in that case, so Apple might find that verdict tossed with either a new trial ordered or else with a new ruling from the judge. This UK finding with the website order could well complicate that American suit.
I have an idea. How about the court holds the lawyers and the titular head of Apple Computer in the United Kingdom in jail on contempt charges until the apology is properly worded and displayed? Call it, "Third Time's The Charm"...
Linux is not 100% secure. Linux is very secure, and is certainly more secure than Microsoft's OSes, but vulnerabilities are discovered all of the time. The biggest distinction is that since Linux is openly developed with the potential for anyone to contribute and for everyone to see, there aren't large, untested milestone releases without public eyes on them like commercial OSes. By the time that the experimental version becomes the release version it's already been vetted. Microsoft doesn't have the same quantity of testing because while there is a beta program, it's not designed to be thoroughly examined.
To you it might not matter, but to him it certainly did. More insidious, the blackmailer could have simply required him to omit or downplay information being reported to the President or for subordinates in investigations, with no actual lying or outright obstruction necessary. His choice to prevent that is noble, even if the actions that he took that facilitated the situation weren't.
My observation is that while there are third-party candidates that attract attention, rarely do their positions fall into the political spectrum somewhere that would allow them to gain a majority. In my experience, third-party candidates fall much farther to the left or to the right of their Democratic or Republican counterparts, and thus generally don't gain widespread acceptance.
The Tea Party is an aberration, but the Tea Party is an attempt to infiltrate and hijack the Republican Party- all Tea Party candidates are registered Republican. Should the Tea Party identify itself as its own unique party at this point then it would find itself in the same position as the Libertarians, with no national apparatus to help rearrange funding and poor name recognition. Granted, it would start with a position of relative strength given the number of Republican/Tea Party members that are in office, but without national support as part of the Republican party they'd probably lose elections fairly quickly. If they manage to more thoroughly take over the party, though, they might either be able to strip off the apparatus for a true separate Tea Party, or just make the Republican Party itself the defacto Tea Party in whole.
Uh, there is a fairly famous photograph of Saddam Hussein shaking hands with Donald Rumsfeld in 1983 as Reagan's special envoy. That rather strongly implies some kind of exchange, as Iraq was in the middle of its war with Iran, and our national policy was very much anti-Iran at that time...
That's what I came to say too. What it comes down to is an ignition source triggering a chemical reaction in the right pressure conditions. Sure, they might lose the fancy flying part or the seeking part, but they'll still have the explosive part, which has proven damned effective at killing our forces.
Who nominated them- If you don't like who nominated them, that should influence retention. That should be part of public record.
If they've had any particularly controversial rulings or decisions- letting someone out on bail over strong objections, and that someone doing something bad while bailed, or seemingly denying visitation or joint custody in family law for no good reason, that sort of thing. If you know any lawyers, sometimes they'll have something to chip in too.
Who would appoint judges to fill the vacancy they leave- the elected official, likely the governor, will appoint to fill vacancies. If you do not like the politics of that governor or the expected successor governor, you might want to leave the devil-you-know in office, rather than the devil you don't know, especially depending on the politics of the governor that originally appointed the judge.
Unfortunately, you pretty much need an absentee or mail-in ballot to be able to do this. I spent about three hours going through all of the ballot initiatives, school district bonds, city bonds, judges, and other contests to determine how to vote, doing research about who supported various measures, who opposed, and what they'd said about them. I had to use my computer to do the research. Voting in-person on election day would have been impossible with this number of choices.
I strongly encourage everyone to get on the absentee-ballot list. It makes life a lot easier.
...when companies do not wish to give up their proprietary information. After all, they went with a proprietary format specifically give them the advantage with vendor-lockin in the first place.
OT, but right after a horrible relationship my freshman year in college, I ran into another guy who had dated the same girl, and he and others had formed a support group. This gal was so poisonous that her ex-boyfriends sought out her fresh victims.
I can look back and laugh about it now, but at the time it really wasn't funny...
y'know, I'm good without there being rich text editors on forums, even if the forum can display rich text. Consider that it's rare that people who actually know how to manually markup for bold or italics or different fonts will abuse it, while when it's simple so everyone can do it then one finds someone picking the Script font, italicizing and bolding it, and changing the color the fuscia for all their posts.
Keep it simple. If I feel a need to italicize or bold or underline I can do it with these pretty little tags that are easy to use.
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Oh wait, you're serious?
I don't know about you, but my commute is only about 20 miles round-trip daily. If an electric gets only 50 miles on a charge I can still run some errands on the way home even if work doesn't install a charging station for me. If it weren't for the speed limits I could get away with a GEM neighborhood electric vehicle. I choose not to afford a $60K electric car, but if I really, really wanted one I could probably save up for two or three years for the bulk of the purchase price and could finance the rest.
I like the progressive tax system and I think that either a new upper tier needs to be defined for a higher tax rate or else the rates in general could stand to increase at the top level, but I'm okay with a few tax subsidies at those levels as well. An electric car is one that I agree with at this point in time, because if the wealthy start to accept electric cars, then that might help drag the market for middle income new-car buyers with it when car manufacturers see that there is indeed interest.
Yep. Sales, not rental, is probably the only way to make it work, and that'll only work while there are people like me that want physical media for their movies and TV shows.
In my case I do not want DRM on a non-physical version. While I don't like DRM on a physical version, a hardware player is likely to not have issues with DRM stopping it from playing, and a hardware player can't ERASE the physical version if something causes it to be found to be objectionable.
I do no want to subscribe to a streaming service or a service where their software on a physical device that I own allows for the removal of content from that device. There have been too many examples of that, like that high-profile of case of 1984 being deleted from e-book readers.
I do a lot of shopping at music/movie stores that sell new and used copies of movies and music. I buy a lot of media second-hand, as most of these stores are pretty good about not buying messed up media from trade-in customers. I also don't like paying a lot, though, so paying more than $5 for a movie on DVD or more than $10 on Blu-Ray gives me pause.
Your friend has had a good long run it sounds like. He should consider himself fortunate that he's managed to make a living as a middle-man in a fairly tight market for this long, and should look at making his exit on terms favorable to him without having to resort to bankruptcy or some other bad situation.
Sounds like a good life's lesson before they'll face real consequences for their actions, and maybe their parents won't be able to continue to delude themselves about their childrens' behavior anymore.
...because I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for cheaters, and the choice in a story citing the privacy issues as felt by a cheater don't really give me any feeling of a cause.
And, if you choose to use a tracking device then you should know that you're subjecting yourself to being tracked. Nearly all of us do with our cell phones, but some go much further, with things like those insurance trackers, or leaving the GPS enabled on the phone, or the like.
If there were a way to have a smartphone without having the ability to be tracked, I think that a lot of people would sign up for that. Unfortunately all that we can now do is hope that the companies that we have agreements with follow the law and only surrender information when it's requested through warrants, which doesn't seem to be the policy these days.
Normally I'd agree, but the thing to remember is that once the footsoldiers are whipped up into a frenzy, they often don't take very good instruction from the generals anymore. Further complicating it is Fox News, which has its ratings for advertising to look after. If it's profitable to continue whipping up the relatively uneducated base even if the moneybags want it to stop, they might not stop whipping them up, and the movement could actually splinter away from the control of those who initiated it.
So, basically we could see a new political party develop because of a need for television ratings.
An OS like Windows XP?
Seriously, many corporations are technically eleven years and three operating system versions behind. And they're running relatively smoothly.
Other courts have rule in their favor, but their jury trial ruling in the US is itself in jeopardy based on undisclosed prior legal action on the part of a member of that jury against the defendant in that case, so Apple might find that verdict tossed with either a new trial ordered or else with a new ruling from the judge. This UK finding with the website order could well complicate that American suit.
I have an idea. How about the court holds the lawyers and the titular head of Apple Computer in the United Kingdom in jail on contempt charges until the apology is properly worded and displayed? Call it, "Third Time's The Charm"...
Linux is not 100% secure. Linux is very secure, and is certainly more secure than Microsoft's OSes, but vulnerabilities are discovered all of the time. The biggest distinction is that since Linux is openly developed with the potential for anyone to contribute and for everyone to see, there aren't large, untested milestone releases without public eyes on them like commercial OSes. By the time that the experimental version becomes the release version it's already been vetted. Microsoft doesn't have the same quantity of testing because while there is a beta program, it's not designed to be thoroughly examined.
To you it might not matter, but to him it certainly did. More insidious, the blackmailer could have simply required him to omit or downplay information being reported to the President or for subordinates in investigations, with no actual lying or outright obstruction necessary. His choice to prevent that is noble, even if the actions that he took that facilitated the situation weren't.
My observation is that while there are third-party candidates that attract attention, rarely do their positions fall into the political spectrum somewhere that would allow them to gain a majority. In my experience, third-party candidates fall much farther to the left or to the right of their Democratic or Republican counterparts, and thus generally don't gain widespread acceptance.
The Tea Party is an aberration, but the Tea Party is an attempt to infiltrate and hijack the Republican Party- all Tea Party candidates are registered Republican. Should the Tea Party identify itself as its own unique party at this point then it would find itself in the same position as the Libertarians, with no national apparatus to help rearrange funding and poor name recognition. Granted, it would start with a position of relative strength given the number of Republican/Tea Party members that are in office, but without national support as part of the Republican party they'd probably lose elections fairly quickly. If they manage to more thoroughly take over the party, though, they might either be able to strip off the apparatus for a true separate Tea Party, or just make the Republican Party itself the defacto Tea Party in whole.
Don't worry, you're probably already labelled as some kind of pervert. But admitting that you have a problem is the first stage in dealing with it...
Why the hell is INTERPOL running child pornography sites in the first place?!
Uh, there is a fairly famous photograph of Saddam Hussein shaking hands with Donald Rumsfeld in 1983 as Reagan's special envoy. That rather strongly implies some kind of exchange, as Iraq was in the middle of its war with Iran, and our national policy was very much anti-Iran at that time...
That's what I came to say too. What it comes down to is an ignition source triggering a chemical reaction in the right pressure conditions. Sure, they might lose the fancy flying part or the seeking part, but they'll still have the explosive part, which has proven damned effective at killing our forces.
Consider the following:
Who nominated them- If you don't like who nominated them, that should influence retention. That should be part of public record.
If they've had any particularly controversial rulings or decisions- letting someone out on bail over strong objections, and that someone doing something bad while bailed, or seemingly denying visitation or joint custody in family law for no good reason, that sort of thing. If you know any lawyers, sometimes they'll have something to chip in too.
Who would appoint judges to fill the vacancy they leave- the elected official, likely the governor, will appoint to fill vacancies. If you do not like the politics of that governor or the expected successor governor, you might want to leave the devil-you-know in office, rather than the devil you don't know, especially depending on the politics of the governor that originally appointed the judge.
Unfortunately, you pretty much need an absentee or mail-in ballot to be able to do this. I spent about three hours going through all of the ballot initiatives, school district bonds, city bonds, judges, and other contests to determine how to vote, doing research about who supported various measures, who opposed, and what they'd said about them. I had to use my computer to do the research. Voting in-person on election day would have been impossible with this number of choices.
I strongly encourage everyone to get on the absentee-ballot list. It makes life a lot easier.
...that corporations would do the right thing, and that the market would protect us!
At least, that's what I keep hearing on Fox News!
Sorry, I don't know Stallman well enough to know what that sort of thing with him sounds like...
...when companies do not wish to give up their proprietary information. After all, they went with a proprietary format specifically give them the advantage with vendor-lockin in the first place.
So, is this the next MIPS, or other non-Intel architecture flavor of the day, to fade into obscurity in a few years?
OT, but right after a horrible relationship my freshman year in college, I ran into another guy who had dated the same girl, and he and others had formed a support group. This gal was so poisonous that her ex-boyfriends sought out her fresh victims.
I can look back and laugh about it now, but at the time it really wasn't funny...
I wouldn't be surprised if automakers actually test for it. Mainly because of things like we're seeing in this story.
y'know, I'm good without there being rich text editors on forums, even if the forum can display rich text. Consider that it's rare that people who actually know how to manually markup for bold or italics or different fonts will abuse it, while when it's simple so everyone can do it then one finds someone picking the Script font, italicizing and bolding it, and changing the color the fuscia for all their posts.
Keep it simple. If I feel a need to italicize or bold or underline I can do it with these pretty little tags that are easy to use.