So far it seems to work when you say it out loud. Writing it or reading it is another challenge.
Unfortunately, the most common response we've gotten from my company's.co domain is "there's a typo in your email/business card/publication etc." i.e. "you forgot the 'm'"
We're using another name instead with a.com for our primary url. Still waiting for people to be accustomed to the.co domain. Too bad since our.co domain would be much simpler.
Seems like a perfect solution to declining readership - sue them until they pay.
Or just 1) do something outrageous,
2) get posted on Slashdot,
3) wait 40 seconds,
4) then point your advertisers to your logs
and say "Hey, readership is up!"
Oh well if someone who had alot to gain estimated there were 100K people who am I to be skeptical...
And the media has nothing to gain from playing down pro-peace stories? Of course they do, they've long decided to marginalize the anti-war movement, and that there best interest is aligning themselves with American foreign policy... it's is very rare to see the American media really questioning American foreign policy.
As to your AP quote, there have a been widespread reports that the AP number was extremely inaccurate. Personally, from all the articles I've read and discussions I've had with people who were at the protests, I believe the numbers were in the tens of thousands. But heck, neither of us were there, the media barely reported on it, who are we to believe?
Go ahead and believe the AP, just like we all believed them when they said there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
If you recall the last major protests in Washington in September, only about 10,000 turned out for the ANSWER rally, and they were met by 1,000 Freepers. That's a piss-poor performance for a supposedly angry public.
Except your missing a 0 there, the mainstream media reported that "thousands" of people showed up on September 15, but organizers and people who were there estimated it at 100,000 people. That's not a small number by any means, and photos (and friends of mine who were there) corroborate that number. It also demonstrates that the mainstream media, again, is distorting the truth... technically any number above 1000 and below 1,000,000 is "thousands"
Just like they don't discuss the polls that show 54% of Americans want Cheney impeached, and 75% of Democrats.
fucking vote! even if it's for Ralph Nader. fucking vote. campaign. volunteer. shoot your mouth off. act like you give a shit! be loud. be proud. be a real patriot. and realize you might have to sacrifice something. do it anyway
I don't have any mod points to give you, but you don't look like you need them.
I thought this would not even merit a place in the Firehose. Come on guys, if you keep posting such rubbish, I have to log out and do some work.
But it does give everyone a chance to complain about editorial quality here, soothe the masses before double posting a story about the RIAA, Microsoft, SCO, or illegal wiretapping.
And if it hadn't been posted I would have missed my chance to read this:
As my wife, Julie, just noted, Deputy Fire Chief DeIulio has no ax to grind, unless you want to count the one he uses to chop holes in buildings that careless telephone company employees set on fire.
All right, cute writing but perhaps not enough, so let's spruce up the story submission to meet Slashdot standards then:
"At issue is whether -- or not -- there was a minor fire in a house on Pine Grove Street in Needham, Mass., caused by a Verizon employee drilling through an electrical main. Everyone agrees that whatever happened -- or didn't happen -- was indeed the fault of the Verizon employee; but the fire isn't the issue. No, it's whether or not Verizon intentionally cut through the power main of a free and secure neighborhood Wi-Fi provider. New eye-witness reports allude to seeing lawyers from the RIAA, SCO, Microsoft, and the Justice Department all grinning in the shadows shortly before the incident. 'I could tell it was those lawyer folks,' said one witness, 'because of their grabby hands and squeaky shoes. Plus they took my daughter's lollipop.'"
I know that they're spending a fortune, and I know that they're using law firms all across the country. In most cases they're using two law firms. They're also using in house counsel to direct the law firms. I don't know the hourly rates. I'll probably have a better idea after the Court issues its attorneys fees decision in Capitol v. Foster.
Except I doubt such costs matter to them, and that the RIAA isn't so much looking to recoup "costs" on supposed lost music sales, but to create such a culture of fear in order to seriously slow down music sharing. So they spend $100 million on law suits to stop an alleged $1 billion of music copying... (note, those numbers are totally made up).
Of course, I haven't seen anywhere it's been proven that people who download a song really would have bought it instead. Anyone?
PRODEM Private Financial Fund has been using specially designed ATMs for poorer communities in Bolivia for several years now. The ATMs uses smart cards, finger prints, and a multilingual voice-driver interface with a color coded system. The cost is about half of the cost of traditional ATMs.
At first glance, the largely illiterate and impoverished villages of indigenous peoples nestled in the rural jungles of Bolivia do not appear to offer substantial financial opportunities. However, one innovative company saw this vast segment of the Bolivian population not as an obstacle to economic success, but as an untapped opportunity.
Instead of just using click-thrus companies can require their employees to demonstrate knowledge of their rules & regs.
At a couple of big companies I worked at we had mandatory ethics training each year, followed by a mandatory online ethics test that demonstrated we understood what was discussed as appropriate and non-appropriate. I hated those tests... so much so that my fellow engineers and I used to find ways around taking them - tricking the systems into thinking we passed without actually taking the test. Probably took longer figuring that out each year than actually taking the test!
But, if some ethical issue had come up I couldn't really plead ignorance, since I had supposedly demonstrated knowledge through the test!
Of course if I HAD actually taken the test, it might have stopped me from dating that intern... but probably not.
I found the most interesting part of this article to be the idea of companies using toolkits to sow & gather innovation, deploying innovation-enabling toolkits and then drawing the resulting innovation back to you.
Interesting because that's a method we're trying to develop here at BRINQ for use in the Base of the Pyramid, the designation for 4+ billion of the so-called "poor" living in the base of the global economic pyramid.
The heart of our work is the belief that different cultures, different perspectives, lead to novel and unique innovations. So our focus is less on innovation in technology and more on what we were calling "innovation in utility", or the novel and unexpected ways in which people use technology. It takes very different capabilities than discovering innovation in a lab, aka it's the opposite of the Segway approach.
Any ways, more or less the same idea as von Hippel's user centered innovation (or "market pull"), but focusing on the poor as a source of innovation. Definitely lots of challenges, but we believe the opportunities could be huge. Our primary focus is on toys too!
Silly me for having applied there in the fall of 2001 for a graduate program. How long do they really need to hold onto my data when I told them I was going somewhere else? I suppose just in case I apply for something else again.
Their Identity FAQ is useful, but the number they list to call to see if your name was on the laptop just plays a message. They also claim they'll try to contact everyone who's name may have been compromised.
I bought so much nice hardware to set up a home office for my contracting business (18" LCD, ergonomic keyboard tray, chair, dock, etc.), had a beautiful view of peaceful trees, and then couldn't spend more than two hours a day working there.
But the folks at the Happy Donuts in Palo Alto loved me, the shop may always be packed after midnight but it was dead during the day, just a few coders. The few coders made me feel connected. The coffee was passable too, but beware the donuts...
I agree that the challenge of meeting the Kyoto protocols emissions levels would in the long-run be good for the U.S. economy, the pressure could help reduce inefficiencies and spark innovation. Does excusing your chubby kid from gym class make him more likely to the win the race?
Unfortunately, a stronger economy does not necessarily mean that the same players will remain strong within that economy, and perhaps that's the problem. Who's got the strongest lobbies?
What you have written above essentially translates to: "The most powerful and successful country in the world is further to the right than the rest of the world."
While it is possible that political stance is not a statistical predictor of a country's success, you should take it into consideration that it could be.
But the political stance of a country today, at this moment, most certainly does not by itself account for a country's past success. That would be akin to me buying the Red Sox today and being able to claim that they're "world" champions because of me.
Countries evolve, and unfortunately greatness does not automatically beget the same characteristics that allowed that greatness in the first place. We forget our history, which is why we write things down.
Gamespot has reviewed KoTOR and gave the game a 9.1 and their Editor's Choice award.
"It's apparent from playing Knights of the Old Republic that a remarkable amount of effort, work, and talent went into this game. It's one of the only Star Wars games to truly make you feel at times as though you're a key player in and a part of this unique and beloved sci-fi setting. You'll get to do all the sorts of stuff that you've seen and enjoyed in the Star Wars movies, and you'll get to emulate any of your favorite characters' personalities and actions over the course of the game. You'll also experience a much more morally complex version of Star Wars than what you get from the movies. Along the way, you'll find a few aspects of the game that you'll wish were better, but that's mostly because the vast majority of Knights of the Old Republic is so exceptionally good. You don't need to be a fan of Star Wars or of RPGs to appreciate all the impressive qualities of this game--but if you are, all the better."
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So far it seems to work when you say it out loud. Writing it or reading it is another challenge.
Unfortunately, the most common response we've gotten from my company's .co domain is "there's a typo in your email/business card/publication etc." i.e. "you forgot the 'm'"
We're using another name instead with a .com for our primary url. Still waiting for people to be accustomed to the .co domain. Too bad since our .co domain would be much simpler.
Seems like a perfect solution to declining readership - sue them until they pay.
Or just 1) do something outrageous, 2) get posted on Slashdot, 3) wait 40 seconds, 4) then point your advertisers to your logs and say "Hey, readership is up!"
And the media has nothing to gain from playing down pro-peace stories? Of course they do, they've long decided to marginalize the anti-war movement, and that there best interest is aligning themselves with American foreign policy... it's is very rare to see the American media really questioning American foreign policy.
As to your AP quote, there have a been widespread reports that the AP number was extremely inaccurate. Personally, from all the articles I've read and discussions I've had with people who were at the protests, I believe the numbers were in the tens of thousands. But heck, neither of us were there, the media barely reported on it, who are we to believe?
Go ahead and believe the AP, just like we all believed them when they said there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
I don't have any mod points to give you, but you don't look like you need them.
Beautiful. Well said. Brilliant. Fuck yeah.
But it does give everyone a chance to complain about editorial quality here, soothe the masses before double posting a story about the RIAA, Microsoft, SCO, or illegal wiretapping.
And if it hadn't been posted I would have missed my chance to read this:
All right, cute writing but perhaps not enough, so let's spruce up the story submission to meet Slashdot standards then:
--
parody parody parody...
Except I doubt such costs matter to them, and that the RIAA isn't so much looking to recoup "costs" on supposed lost music sales, but to create such a culture of fear in order to seriously slow down music sharing. So they spend $100 million on law suits to stop an alleged $1 billion of music copying... (note, those numbers are totally made up).
Of course, I haven't seen anywhere it's been proven that people who download a song really would have bought it instead. Anyone?
Building a Better ATM
PRODEM Private Financial Fund has been using specially designed ATMs for poorer communities in Bolivia for several years now. The ATMs uses smart cards, finger prints, and a multilingual voice-driver interface with a color coded system. The cost is about half of the cost of traditional ATMs.
From the World Resources Institute:
Serving the Poor Profitably in Bolivia
The World Resources Institute has written a case study on them too:
http://www.digitaldividend.org/pdf/prodem.pdf
Instead of just using click-thrus companies can require their employees to demonstrate knowledge of their rules & regs.
At a couple of big companies I worked at we had mandatory ethics training each year, followed by a mandatory online ethics test that demonstrated we understood what was discussed as appropriate and non-appropriate. I hated those tests... so much so that my fellow engineers and I used to find ways around taking them - tricking the systems into thinking we passed without actually taking the test. Probably took longer figuring that out each year than actually taking the test!
But, if some ethical issue had come up I couldn't really plead ignorance, since I had supposedly demonstrated knowledge through the test!
Of course if I HAD actually taken the test, it might have stopped me from dating that intern... but probably not.
I found the most interesting part of this article to be the idea of companies using toolkits to sow & gather innovation, deploying innovation-enabling toolkits and then drawing the resulting innovation back to you.
Interesting because that's a method we're trying to develop here at BRINQ for use in the Base of the Pyramid, the designation for 4+ billion of the so-called "poor" living in the base of the global economic pyramid.
The heart of our work is the belief that different cultures, different perspectives, lead to novel and unique innovations. So our focus is less on innovation in technology and more on what we were calling "innovation in utility", or the novel and unexpected ways in which people use technology. It takes very different capabilities than discovering innovation in a lab, aka it's the opposite of the Segway approach.
Any ways, more or less the same idea as von Hippel's user centered innovation (or "market pull"), but focusing on the poor as a source of innovation. Definitely lots of challenges, but we believe the opportunities could be huge. Our primary focus is on toys too!
Silly me for having applied there in the fall of 2001 for a graduate program. How long do they really need to hold onto my data when I told them I was going somewhere else? I suppose just in case I apply for something else again.
Their Identity FAQ is useful, but the number they list to call to see if your name was on the laptop just plays a message. They also claim they'll try to contact everyone who's name may have been compromised.
Identity fun.
I second the insane reasoning.
I bought so much nice hardware to set up a home office for my contracting business (18" LCD, ergonomic keyboard tray, chair, dock, etc.), had a beautiful view of peaceful trees, and then couldn't spend more than two hours a day working there.
But the folks at the Happy Donuts in Palo Alto loved me, the shop may always be packed after midnight but it was dead during the day, just a few coders. The few coders made me feel connected. The coffee was passable too, but beware the donuts...
I agree that the challenge of meeting the Kyoto protocols emissions levels would in the long-run be good for the U.S. economy, the pressure could help reduce inefficiencies and spark innovation. Does excusing your chubby kid from gym class make him more likely to the win the race?
Unfortunately, a stronger economy does not necessarily mean that the same players will remain strong within that economy, and perhaps that's the problem. Who's got the strongest lobbies?
What you have written above essentially translates to: "The most powerful and successful country in the world is further to the right than the rest of the world."
While it is possible that political stance is not a statistical predictor of a country's success, you should take it into consideration that it could be.
But the political stance of a country today, at this moment, most certainly does not by itself account for a country's past success. That would be akin to me buying the Red Sox today and being able to claim that they're "world" champions because of me.
Countries evolve, and unfortunately greatness does not automatically beget the same characteristics that allowed that greatness in the first place. We forget our history, which is why we write things down.
Like in the Constitution.
"It's apparent from playing Knights of the Old Republic that a remarkable amount of effort, work, and talent went into this game. It's one of the only Star Wars games to truly make you feel at times as though you're a key player in and a part of this unique and beloved sci-fi setting. You'll get to do all the sorts of stuff that you've seen and enjoyed in the Star Wars movies, and you'll get to emulate any of your favorite characters' personalities and actions over the course of the game. You'll also experience a much more morally complex version of Star Wars than what you get from the movies. Along the way, you'll find a few aspects of the game that you'll wish were better, but that's mostly because the vast majority of Knights of the Old Republic is so exceptionally good. You don't need to be a fan of Star Wars or of RPGs to appreciate all the impressive qualities of this game--but if you are, all the better."
The Stone Age didn't end due to a lack of stones