Come on. Tax resisters are way out on the lunatic fringe. No appreciable percentage of the population is going to resist paying taxes as long as there's serious penalties for it, like jail time. And your argument about "hitting them where it hurts," only makes sense if a large number of people do this. how can you say that a method for changing the system is "the only real way," if it has never worked and has no prospects of doing so soon?
If you honestly believe in, support, and practice tax resistance, would you be willing to send a petition, signed by you and other supporters, stating that you do not pay federal taxes to congress, and CC it to the IRS?
3rd party candidates receive few votes because people know that a 3rd party vote is a wasted vote due to the FPTP system. Changing this system would allow people to seriously campaign under a 3rd party banner without it being a joke.
This is usually true in a competitive free market environment, but MLB is a state-supported monopoly. If you're a baseball fan in the US, you don't have much choice but to deal with them, which is one of the reasons they've become so arrogant and anti-consumer. And most sports fans are willing to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse before they stop spending money on their team. This intentional DRM expiration issue was one that people have been positing for a while, and I'm hardly surprised that this horrible organization is the first one to implement it.
That always get me as well. It's because the default is HTML Formatted, where <br>s aren't taken as implied. I never understood why they don't make plain text the default, where things work like you expect.
The explanation given was that this figure came from one of their estimation techniques. I don't understand why they can't get actual figures of the relative proportions of user agents. This isn't a Nielsen-family scenario like TV is; you can directly measure who's coming to your site down to the last visitor, and tools to do this given some server logs are ubiquitous. So this explanation smells of bullshit to me. As many people do, he quoted a made up figure as a real statistic, then backpedaled when people started asking questions.
damn. I meant to say "reversed," not "disabled." Which is kind of odd, but I agree, no sound would be a deal-breaker.
I don't want Apple to have to waste resources on supporting your sound device, or or video device or what have you
Neither do I; the community seems to be doing a good job at that already, similarly to how the linux community has done. It would be easier for developers, however, if Apple didn't try to actively thwart them. Not that I expect this position to ever change, as it would sacrifice profit for goodwill, which is not something you see many companies doing.
Anyway, my point was meant to address the stability of OSX on commodity hardware which, in IMO the majority of cases, is nearly as good as it is on The Real Thing.
Any Mac user with any knowledge at all knows that they one of the main reasons that OS X is as stable as it is happens to be because it runs on a very controlled set of hardware.
This simply isn't true. Nowadays you can run OSX on the majority of commodity PCs, and it's just as stable . 2 of my systems happen to have the intel integrated graphics that allow you to enable Quartz for all the eyecandy. Both of these run OSX indistinguishably from Apple hardware, except for the one odd quirk that sound inputs and outputs are disabled. Suspend works on my laptop (Dell e1405), even though I've never gotten it to work reliably in linux. Among the other systems, whose hardware is quite varied, OSX still runs flawlessly, minus genie minimize effects. Both Linux and windows have shown that adding hardware support in no way decreases the stability or quality of an OS, assuming the drivers are written well. Unused modules or kexts simply aren't loaded. The argument that the closed nature of Mac hardware can have any benefit to anyone except for Apple's shareholders is a lie that's just part-and-parcel of the fanboi kool-aid.
One could argue that the difference, in the USA anyways, is that slashdot is a DMCA safe-harbor protected Online Service Provider whose comments are suer generated and moderated. Tv-links was run by a small group who knowingly intended to link to copyrighted works.
Why should I care about a retailer who wants to charge me $5 more
I know you're comparing brick-and-mortar stores to online retailers, but it's interesting that, when looking at non-Valve games on Steam, most are cheaper at retail, once again due to shady distribution dealings (i.e. the stores claim they'll stop stocking games that undercut them)
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Right, but they can build a program to do it, then have the robot summarize the most salient points of your life, from a marketing perspective, to whoever. Manually reading everyone's email would be tedious. Google has developed advanced tools so they can profit off you without needing to.
That's what I get for posting without reading the FA or the thread I was posting in. But it would also be logistically difficult and time consuming to order the bags like this.
Getting every passenger in exactly the right order pre-boarding would be really tough. The cumulative time and customer goodwill lost from this would eat into your profit.
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I thought that Hulu was meant to be NBC's new video service. How is this different, other than being out of beta and windows-only?
Come on. Tax resisters are way out on the lunatic fringe. No appreciable percentage of the population is going to resist paying taxes as long as there's serious penalties for it, like jail time. And your argument about "hitting them where it hurts," only makes sense if a large number of people do this. how can you say that a method for changing the system is "the only real way," if it has never worked and has no prospects of doing so soon?
If you honestly believe in, support, and practice tax resistance, would you be willing to send a petition, signed by you and other supporters, stating that you do not pay federal taxes to congress, and CC it to the IRS?
3rd party candidates receive few votes because people know that a 3rd party vote is a wasted vote due to the FPTP system. Changing this system would allow people to seriously campaign under a 3rd party banner without it being a joke.
I never get formatting right. anyway, slashdot ate the expensive big ones link:
http://www.wholesalesolar.com/solar-panels.html
The only thing worse than obnoxious moderators are obnoxious moderatees.
This is usually true in a competitive free market environment, but MLB is a state-supported monopoly. If you're a baseball fan in the US, you don't have much choice but to deal with them, which is one of the reasons they've become so arrogant and anti-consumer. And most sports fans are willing to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse before they stop spending money on their team. This intentional DRM expiration issue was one that people have been positing for a while, and I'm hardly surprised that this horrible organization is the first one to implement it.
That always get me as well. It's because the default is HTML Formatted, where <br>s aren't taken as implied. I never understood why they don't make plain text the default, where things work like you expect.
++. Scientists know better than to confuse correlation and causation, so I can only conclude that this is designed to ignite controversy.
12 Pounds of clothes? Who are you, Mr. T?
Until everyone alive today dies, you don't really know. Maybe we'll cure death next Saturday.
The explanation given was that this figure came from one of their estimation techniques. I don't understand why they can't get actual figures of the relative proportions of user agents. This isn't a Nielsen-family scenario like TV is; you can directly measure who's coming to your site down to the last visitor, and tools to do this given some server logs are ubiquitous. So this explanation smells of bullshit to me. As many people do, he quoted a made up figure as a real statistic, then backpedaled when people started asking questions.
In all seriousness, shouldn't this book be LGPL or somehow free?
The official Ubuntu Book, by Mark Shutleworth. Chapter One: RTFM! The End.
then you wouldn't know whether they liked Britney spears or not, or be able to see 100 drunken photos of them before you even said hello.
Anyway, my point was meant to address the stability of OSX on commodity hardware which, in IMO the majority of cases, is nearly as good as it is on The Real Thing.
One could argue that the difference, in the USA anyways, is that slashdot is a DMCA safe-harbor protected Online Service Provider whose comments are suer generated and moderated. Tv-links was run by a small group who knowingly intended to link to copyrighted works.
Wait, your ISP "gave" you a free Hotmail account?
Right, but they can build a program to do it, then have the robot summarize the most salient points of your life, from a marketing perspective, to whoever. Manually reading everyone's email would be tedious. Google has developed advanced tools so they can profit off you without needing to.
That's what I get for posting without reading the FA or the thread I was posting in. But it would also be logistically difficult and time consuming to order the bags like this.
Getting every passenger in exactly the right order pre-boarding would be really tough. The cumulative time and customer goodwill lost from this would eat into your profit.