As a matter of fact, yes, I do frequently have many tabs--and many browser windows for that matter--open all at the same time. I dunno, maybe you just need more memory or something...
I dunno, I can see the difference...your employer is reporting on how much money *they* give to you, so it's just reporting. With eBay, they're not giving you any money, they're reporting on how much other people gave to you. So yeah, it kind of is "snitching"...although, it might be wrongly pejorative, since it's just enforcing existing tax law.
It is likely that most eligible eBayers would be considered operating their own business (self-employment) and would need to report their income (and expenses) on a 1040SE.
If you're selling old stuff for less than what you paid for it, it's not income. While there are several people that run eBay-based businesses, I would imagine that the majority of the eBaying population just uses eBay to sell old stuff that they don't want anymore, which doesn't constitute income.
Also, lately I've noticed that when I right click a link in FF it takes about 2 seconds for the popup window thing to appear.
Perhaps you have spyware or too many plugins installed or something. When I right-click on a link in Firefox, it's pretty much instantaneous. I'm not a Firefox fanboy or anything, but I really have never had to wait any length of time for the right-click menu to open up. My guess is it has more to do with your specific installation than any sort of broad problem with Firefox.
But compared to Opera, Konqueror and Safari, it's still quite slow and extremely bloated.
I use Firefox and Opera on Windows, Safari on OSX, and I have occasionally used Konqueror, but I'll admit, not as frequently. However, I've never noticed a perceptible difference in speed or obvious bloat between Firefox, Opera, and Safari. "quite slow" and "extremely bloated" are obviously complete fabrications...
That's certainly true that high-functioning autistic people might be better left the way they are. But there are probably just as many with severe disabilities whose lives would be profoundly more productive and enjoyable if a cure for autism were to be found...or even a root cause.
Autism is a serious neurodevelopmental disorder, not "smart people acting weird". Just because Hollywood somehow made it glamorous to be autistic, doesn't mean it's remotely accurate.
Most autistic people aren't also savants. Hollywood has glamorized savantism to a degree, but hasn't really glamorized regular old autism.
i agreed with you until you ragged on dyslexia.. because that one ACTUALLY IS A DISORDER and is older than the "fad" of making everything a disorder
Anybody who's been around kids with autism for any length of time would quickly realize that it definitely is a real disorder, and not a fad. There's a kid who lives by my parents who spends most days rocking back and forth, and scouring the neighborhood for sticks to put in his wagon. I think he's in his teens right now. When he was younger, he had to wear a special brace to keep his constant rocking from wearing down the bones in his hip. He's not trying to be different because of any fad...he clearly has a disorder/disability.
Rated M, what does that mean? Does it mean that you have to 18 yrs or older to buy the game? Nope.
Who cares...Most places do enforce ratings, and anybody old enough to get themselves to a game store and buy a game for $50 or so is probably old enough to play an M rated game. If they're not, then their parents should be paying more attention to them. It's not my problem if their parents don't care enough to filter what gets into their hands.
It's voluntarily rated M as a warning to parents who may be buying the game for their preacher's kid, nothing more. There is no legal binding behind it.
Sounds fine to me. We don't need laws about *everything*...society can regulate certain matters all by itself.
The object of the game is to carjack as many people as possible. Bonus points for beating up whores and ripping them off!??! It's not just the Hot Coffee that is the problem, it's the whole damn game and games like it.
Myself, I don't particularly like GTA. But that's not because of the content. It's because, to me, it's not really that fun of a game. If you don't like the game (for whatever reason), don't play it. Nobody's forcing you to play GTA. Let those who like it play it, and stop bitching about it.
I am not claiming this is airtight, but it's still "better" than the current system.
I don't see how...the outcry over "hidden" adult content in a game is based mostly around that Hot Coffee thing, which required players to actually download a patch from the internet to see it. Since the internet is already full of plenty of adult content, I don't see how this is a problem. Not to mention that the game (GTA) was already rated M...
The current system works just fine. It's just a victim of politicians who want to look like they're saving the chilluns.
He's just doing it so when the presidential race gets more momentum, he can say that he introduced legislation to "protect the children"...The degree to which his legislation is stupid is completely irrelevant.
This small company with a pretty much unknown developer used said extensions to make his game run faster on NV hardware than ATI... That time coder's name happens to be John Carmack.
Out of curiosity, what game could you possibly be talking about? A game where Carmack made use of nVidia extensions prior to becoming a well-known developer? I mean, Wolfenstein 3D came out before nVidia was even founded, and Doom 1 came out the same year as nVidia. You might be able to argue that Carmack was a fairly unknown developer until the release of Doom 1, but after that, I certainly don't think you could say that...
True, but the city did ask them to pay...it's not like they just offered it up. They should either have just said "no", or paid it, but left it at that. It's ridiculous that somebody lost their job over something so incredibly stupid. And yes, I know he probably has plenty of money, and will get another high-paying job, but still, it's stupid.
Comedy Central should have taken it to court. Aside from small fines from littering laws, is it really even illegal to leave random stuff around a city? Just because it has a little LED guy on it shouldn't make it illegal. And seriously, why in the world would a terrorist mark their bombs with light-up cartoon characters? What sense does that even make? Not everything is a potential terrorist action. Just because the police over-reacted instead of having a bomb squad guy take a look at it and say, "no, this is more like a Lite Bright than a bomb", doesn't make it Comedy Central's responsibility to pay for everything.
I applaud his efforts. And I chose not to work in academia so it's my responsibility that he has privileges that I do not.
Realistically, if he doesn't have tenure, he might still lose his job over this. It will just take a little longer than it would in the corporate world.
Also, TFA is reg-required (Do I really want to spend x minutes signing up & agreeing to God know what on a paper I'll never read again?). So, for your reading pleasure the story from metnews.
This is exactly what happened with Napster. No, really: In the same period of time when Napster was 'stealing all their sales', the record companies were price fixing! They were even convicted!
Just like everything else, CDs are subject to supply and demand market forces. If they really want to try to get record companies to sell their CDs for $34, let them. They'll quickly realize that the loss in revenue caused by the huge drop in sales is not worth it in the least, and the price will come right back down. The RIAA is just making noise because they know they'll be totally irrelevant within the next 10 years...
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To have that sort of buffer...it would be nice...Here at home the big companies just write the actual legislation...
The form factor should also play a big role. If anything killed the Newton (aside from price), it was its gigantic size...
you know you can elect to have them withhold less each month, right?
I'd prefer to know that systems capable of carrying weapons which can kill hundreds of thousands of people were designed with the same safety in mind.
nope!
As a matter of fact, yes, I do frequently have many tabs--and many browser windows for that matter--open all at the same time. I dunno, maybe you just need more memory or something...
I dunno, I can see the difference...your employer is reporting on how much money *they* give to you, so it's just reporting. With eBay, they're not giving you any money, they're reporting on how much other people gave to you. So yeah, it kind of is "snitching"...although, it might be wrongly pejorative, since it's just enforcing existing tax law.
It is likely that most eligible eBayers would be considered operating their own business (self-employment) and would need to report their income (and expenses) on a 1040SE.
If you're selling old stuff for less than what you paid for it, it's not income. While there are several people that run eBay-based businesses, I would imagine that the majority of the eBaying population just uses eBay to sell old stuff that they don't want anymore, which doesn't constitute income.
Also, lately I've noticed that when I right click a link in FF it takes about 2 seconds for the popup window thing to appear.
Perhaps you have spyware or too many plugins installed or something. When I right-click on a link in Firefox, it's pretty much instantaneous. I'm not a Firefox fanboy or anything, but I really have never had to wait any length of time for the right-click menu to open up. My guess is it has more to do with your specific installation than any sort of broad problem with Firefox.
But compared to Opera, Konqueror and Safari, it's still quite slow and extremely bloated.
I use Firefox and Opera on Windows, Safari on OSX, and I have occasionally used Konqueror, but I'll admit, not as frequently. However, I've never noticed a perceptible difference in speed or obvious bloat between Firefox, Opera, and Safari. "quite slow" and "extremely bloated" are obviously complete fabrications...
That's certainly true that high-functioning autistic people might be better left the way they are. But there are probably just as many with severe disabilities whose lives would be profoundly more productive and enjoyable if a cure for autism were to be found...or even a root cause.
Autism is a serious neurodevelopmental disorder, not "smart people acting weird". Just because Hollywood somehow made it glamorous to be autistic, doesn't mean it's remotely accurate.
Most autistic people aren't also savants. Hollywood has glamorized savantism to a degree, but hasn't really glamorized regular old autism.
i agreed with you until you ragged on dyslexia.. because that one ACTUALLY IS A DISORDER and is older than the "fad" of making everything a disorder
Anybody who's been around kids with autism for any length of time would quickly realize that it definitely is a real disorder, and not a fad. There's a kid who lives by my parents who spends most days rocking back and forth, and scouring the neighborhood for sticks to put in his wagon. I think he's in his teens right now. When he was younger, he had to wear a special brace to keep his constant rocking from wearing down the bones in his hip. He's not trying to be different because of any fad...he clearly has a disorder/disability.
Rated M, what does that mean? Does it mean that you have to 18 yrs or older to buy the game? Nope.
Who cares...Most places do enforce ratings, and anybody old enough to get themselves to a game store and buy a game for $50 or so is probably old enough to play an M rated game. If they're not, then their parents should be paying more attention to them. It's not my problem if their parents don't care enough to filter what gets into their hands.
It's voluntarily rated M as a warning to parents who may be buying the game for their preacher's kid, nothing more. There is no legal binding behind it.
Sounds fine to me. We don't need laws about *everything*...society can regulate certain matters all by itself.
The object of the game is to carjack as many people as possible. Bonus points for beating up whores and ripping them off!??! It's not just the Hot Coffee that is the problem, it's the whole damn game and games like it.
Myself, I don't particularly like GTA. But that's not because of the content. It's because, to me, it's not really that fun of a game. If you don't like the game (for whatever reason), don't play it. Nobody's forcing you to play GTA. Let those who like it play it, and stop bitching about it.
I am not claiming this is airtight, but it's still "better" than the current system.
I don't see how...the outcry over "hidden" adult content in a game is based mostly around that Hot Coffee thing, which required players to actually download a patch from the internet to see it. Since the internet is already full of plenty of adult content, I don't see how this is a problem. Not to mention that the game (GTA) was already rated M...
The current system works just fine. It's just a victim of politicians who want to look like they're saving the chilluns.
Well, the Republicans can't really address any *real* problems. They're responsible for them...
He's just doing it so when the presidential race gets more momentum, he can say that he introduced legislation to "protect the children"...The degree to which his legislation is stupid is completely irrelevant.
This small company with a pretty much unknown developer used said extensions to make his game run faster on NV hardware than ATI... That time coder's name happens to be John Carmack.
Out of curiosity, what game could you possibly be talking about? A game where Carmack made use of nVidia extensions prior to becoming a well-known developer? I mean, Wolfenstein 3D came out before nVidia was even founded, and Doom 1 came out the same year as nVidia. You might be able to argue that Carmack was a fairly unknown developer until the release of Doom 1, but after that, I certainly don't think you could say that...
True, but the city did ask them to pay...it's not like they just offered it up. They should either have just said "no", or paid it, but left it at that. It's ridiculous that somebody lost their job over something so incredibly stupid. And yes, I know he probably has plenty of money, and will get another high-paying job, but still, it's stupid.
Comedy Central should have taken it to court. Aside from small fines from littering laws, is it really even illegal to leave random stuff around a city? Just because it has a little LED guy on it shouldn't make it illegal. And seriously, why in the world would a terrorist mark their bombs with light-up cartoon characters? What sense does that even make? Not everything is a potential terrorist action. Just because the police over-reacted instead of having a bomb squad guy take a look at it and say, "no, this is more like a Lite Bright than a bomb", doesn't make it Comedy Central's responsibility to pay for everything.
I applaud his efforts. And I chose not to work in academia so it's my responsibility that he has privileges that I do not.
Realistically, if he doesn't have tenure, he might still lose his job over this. It will just take a little longer than it would in the corporate world.
Also, TFA is reg-required (Do I really want to spend x minutes signing up & agreeing to God know what on a paper I'll never read again?). So, for your reading pleasure the story from metnews.
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This is exactly what happened with Napster. No, really: In the same period of time when Napster was 'stealing all their sales', the record companies were price fixing! They were even convicted!
Yep, I got my $12 check (or whatever it was)...
Just like everything else, CDs are subject to supply and demand market forces. If they really want to try to get record companies to sell their CDs for $34, let them. They'll quickly realize that the loss in revenue caused by the huge drop in sales is not worth it in the least, and the price will come right back down. The RIAA is just making noise because they know they'll be totally irrelevant within the next 10 years...
yeah, to show that the copyright is valid. I was talking about proving purjury.
Unless you're talking about the IT department...
"Hey, isn't today IT's day to take out the garbage?"