Hell, they can probably afford the bonuses and stock options just from the rebates they have swindled people out of over the years. It seems like about half the time, they find some reason not to pay me back. (the best one I thought, was they said they never received it from me and then would not accept the copies as they have to have originals...)
ICANN says that #1. They haven't been properly brought before the court, therefor the court should not be issuing any orders that effect them. #2. They can not suspend Spamhaus, if ordered to do so, as they do not have the ability to do so. The only party that can do so would be Tucows, who registered Spamhaus.
I think I may still have my Time magazine from 30 years or so ago that predicted the world would run out of oil a few years ago. I will have to put this new prediction with the old one...
Imagine. More freedom and information turned out to be a good thing for everyone. Who would have thought it. I know in my own case, several violations of copyright turned out pretty good for the media owners. I downloaded a copy of Neverwinter Nights to try out, ended up buying it and all of the subsequent addons. I downloaded a couple episodes of the Sopranos to see what the buzz was about. I liked it so I have bought the first 5 seasons on DVD to watch. There is an entire genre of music that I discovered by downloading music, and now own several CDs.
Sorta, kinda... The average guy out on the street has no clue what some political dweeb says on his blog unless the mainstream media starts reporting on it. If it looks like it could be big story the media may jump on it, to avoid being left in the dust by the rest of the herd. One really dangerous thing I see occurring is the mainstream media uses the fact it was published on the net as an excuse to do no fact checking at all as long as the net article or blog takes the position that the reporting media wants to report. They simply attribute it and make the average viewer assume that it must be true if it is being reported.
You are certainly correct about women organizing and making breast cancer more of a cause celebre than prostate cancer or for that matter lung cancer or heart disease. And I agree it shouldn't be an us against them situation. Unfortunately the competition for research dollars does seem to be a zero sum game.
It also reminds me of the outrage that arose a few decades ago when women's groups raised the awareness of the American public that little girl's weren't being treated fairly in the schools. Now girls are graduating high school and going to college at a much higher rate than boys. There seems to be very little concern about that either.
Sort of like here in the US in the last election. The polls said that most people wanted to increase taxes on the rich. Then they were informed that the definition of rich was people making $35k or more per year. Guess what. Suddenly most of those people were against increasing taxes on the rich. It always goes back to, whose ox is being gored. Sure as hell better not be mine.
I would never discount the value of the operating system. M$ has shown in the past their willingness to push through fixes and updates that mysteriously cause other apps not to function properly, to at least attempt to make apps part of the OS so they can not be removed and you end up with 2 apps that do the same thing. That's why only free apps can really continue to compete with M$ products.
The geeks back in the lab couldn't get a date, wanted to keep both hands on the keyboard, so they thought.... hmmm "how about a thought controlled body part to pleasure myself." Of course being geeks they decided on a hand....
If you do business with an evil company, you are enriching it. You are rewarding it for its prior bad deeds by choosing them for your business relationship. So in essence you are serving to increase the incentive to do evil in the world. I also don't know why any of this is surprising. As soon as Google decided, for business reasons, to climb into bed with China and begin restricting freedom of access to information for the Chinese people they showed that they were amoral at best.
You want to compare the number of rounds fired each year at targets (whether paper or clay targets) and the number of rounds fired to kill someone. I think that would easily show your premise is wrong.
Well no wonder. I am 45 and can barely stand to vote for most politicians. Most elections in the last 14 years have been votes for the lesser of evils as I saw it. If I struggle to relate with them on any level, how much success is an 18 year old going to have.They haven't gained a sufficent level of cynicism at that age. Although God knows our society is trying to beat them down until they do.
Using a gun to kill someone is illegal, but some still feel the overwhelming need to ban guns... I would finish my thought but that might bring the wrath of the moderators down on me...
Oh but you don't know the lengths our government will go for its corporate overlords. I recall several years ago (maybe a couple of decades(don't laugh, wait until you get old)) the US browbeating Japan about their marketplace not accepting US products once they got the trade barriers removed. There was a lack of cultural acceptance at the time. We will try to put quotas on use of this new miracle food just as we did back then. It is good for you, you know:-)
Well then we (the US Govt) can say that we have officially approved the GM rice and therefore it really is safe (trust us, we say so). Then we can threaten and bully other countries into allowing its export to their country, otherwise face trade sanctions or a trip to court. Meanwhile our country gets to face greater and greater amounts of herbicides and pesticides going into our ground water.
Have they been approaching it that way so far.... NO. They will simply send everyone a letter threatening to file suit if you don't send them a couple grand. Then it is up to you to prove you are innocent, and good luck doing it. Gee whiz, you seem to think that you should be innocent until proven guilty. What a wacky concept.
But that is sort of the point. You initiate the contact with AT&T and order something. Then you get a response back almost right away, confirming your order, your credit card number all of that info you just entered, and advising they need these additional pieces of information. I think there are going to be an awful lot of people hoodwinked by this. Because we have always been told the same advice you just gave, don't give info unless you initiate contact, they think this qualifies and they give them what they are asked for.
clever truncation of the sentence. The point is we are finally getting back into real exploration. If we have to make some runs to the moon to get to mars, then fine. I think it is great that we are getting back into the manned exploration of the solar system. I think that most of us that remember the 60's and 70's thought we would be well past the point we are at now.
I have 8 people that work in my Unit. When I send out an email to the group needing an immediate response, I know that only 2 will respond right away (assuming they are at their desk). The rest of them check their email at different frequencies. The little notice they get apparently does not stimulate their curiosity as it does mine. One of them will check each hour. I have one person that will check it each morning and that is it. So if you need an answer before that, you have to call him.
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A real email client.... Thunderbird.... surely you meant Mutt ;-)
Hell, they can probably afford the bonuses and stock options just from the rebates they have swindled people out of over the years. It seems like about half the time, they find some reason not to pay me back. (the best one I thought, was they said they never received it from me and then would not accept the copies as they have to have originals...)
ICANN says that #1. They haven't been properly brought before the court, therefor the court should not be issuing any orders that effect them. #2. They can not suspend Spamhaus, if ordered to do so, as they do not have the ability to do so. The only party that can do so would be Tucows, who registered Spamhaus.
I think I may still have my Time magazine from 30 years or so ago that predicted the world would run out of oil a few years ago. I will have to put this new prediction with the old one...
Imagine. More freedom and information turned out to be a good thing for everyone. Who would have thought it. I know in my own case, several violations of copyright turned out pretty good for the media owners. I downloaded a copy of Neverwinter Nights to try out, ended up buying it and all of the subsequent addons. I downloaded a couple episodes of the Sopranos to see what the buzz was about. I liked it so I have bought the first 5 seasons on DVD to watch. There is an entire genre of music that I discovered by downloading music, and now own several CDs.
Sorta, kinda... The average guy out on the street has no clue what some political dweeb says on his blog unless the mainstream media starts reporting on it. If it looks like it could be big story the media may jump on it, to avoid being left in the dust by the rest of the herd. One really dangerous thing I see occurring is the mainstream media uses the fact it was published on the net as an excuse to do no fact checking at all as long as the net article or blog takes the position that the reporting media wants to report. They simply attribute it and make the average viewer assume that it must be true if it is being reported.
Certainly not because they know it will draw more irate comments. That part of the fringe loves the DoD.
The real question is... if a man speaks in the forest and his wife is not there to hear him, is he still wrong....
You are certainly correct about women organizing and making breast cancer more of a cause celebre than prostate cancer or for that matter lung cancer or heart disease. And I agree it shouldn't be an us against them situation. Unfortunately the competition for research dollars does seem to be a zero sum game. It also reminds me of the outrage that arose a few decades ago when women's groups raised the awareness of the American public that little girl's weren't being treated fairly in the schools. Now girls are graduating high school and going to college at a much higher rate than boys. There seems to be very little concern about that either.
Sort of like here in the US in the last election. The polls said that most people wanted to increase taxes on the rich. Then they were informed that the definition of rich was people making $35k or more per year. Guess what. Suddenly most of those people were against increasing taxes on the rich. It always goes back to, whose ox is being gored. Sure as hell better not be mine.
at least it wasn't the ubiquitous "first post".
I would never discount the value of the operating system. M$ has shown in the past their willingness to push through fixes and updates that mysteriously cause other apps not to function properly, to at least attempt to make apps part of the OS so they can not be removed and you end up with 2 apps that do the same thing. That's why only free apps can really continue to compete with M$ products.
The geeks back in the lab couldn't get a date, wanted to keep both hands on the keyboard, so they thought.... hmmm "how about a thought controlled body part to pleasure myself." Of course being geeks they decided on a hand....
My understanding is this method won out over the Magic 8 ball or picking a fortune cooke out of a hat.
If you do business with an evil company, you are enriching it. You are rewarding it for its prior bad deeds by choosing them for your business relationship. So in essence you are serving to increase the incentive to do evil in the world. I also don't know why any of this is surprising. As soon as Google decided, for business reasons, to climb into bed with China and begin restricting freedom of access to information for the Chinese people they showed that they were amoral at best.
You want to compare the number of rounds fired each year at targets (whether paper or clay targets) and the number of rounds fired to kill someone. I think that would easily show your premise is wrong.
Well no wonder. I am 45 and can barely stand to vote for most politicians. Most elections in the last 14 years have been votes for the lesser of evils as I saw it. If I struggle to relate with them on any level, how much success is an 18 year old going to have.They haven't gained a sufficent level of cynicism at that age. Although God knows our society is trying to beat them down until they do.
Using a gun to kill someone is illegal, but some still feel the overwhelming need to ban guns... I would finish my thought but that might bring the wrath of the moderators down on me...
I never hear about them complaining about the large penis stereotype though...
Oh but you don't know the lengths our government will go for its corporate overlords. I recall several years ago (maybe a couple of decades(don't laugh, wait until you get old)) the US browbeating Japan about their marketplace not accepting US products once they got the trade barriers removed. There was a lack of cultural acceptance at the time. We will try to put quotas on use of this new miracle food just as we did back then. It is good for you, you know :-)
Well then we (the US Govt) can say that we have officially approved the GM rice and therefore it really is safe (trust us, we say so). Then we can threaten and bully other countries into allowing its export to their country, otherwise face trade sanctions or a trip to court. Meanwhile our country gets to face greater and greater amounts of herbicides and pesticides going into our ground water.
Have they been approaching it that way so far.... NO. They will simply send everyone a letter threatening to file suit if you don't send them a couple grand. Then it is up to you to prove you are innocent, and good luck doing it. Gee whiz, you seem to think that you should be innocent until proven guilty. What a wacky concept.
But that is sort of the point. You initiate the contact with AT&T and order something. Then you get a response back almost right away, confirming your order, your credit card number all of that info you just entered, and advising they need these additional pieces of information. I think there are going to be an awful lot of people hoodwinked by this. Because we have always been told the same advice you just gave, don't give info unless you initiate contact, they think this qualifies and they give them what they are asked for.
clever truncation of the sentence. The point is we are finally getting back into real exploration. If we have to make some runs to the moon to get to mars, then fine. I think it is great that we are getting back into the manned exploration of the solar system. I think that most of us that remember the 60's and 70's thought we would be well past the point we are at now.
I have 8 people that work in my Unit. When I send out an email to the group needing an immediate response, I know that only 2 will respond right away (assuming they are at their desk). The rest of them check their email at different frequencies. The little notice they get apparently does not stimulate their curiosity as it does mine. One of them will check each hour. I have one person that will check it each morning and that is it. So if you need an answer before that, you have to call him.