$69 is the educational institution price. That's how much it costs when you buy it at your university book store. It's $116 when you buy it directly from Apple.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're not trolling here and just assume that you're cynical and have little experience with the system. Voters can absolutely make a difference. The faults you point out lie with voters, as politicians can get away with quite a lot due to voter apathy. If the people were more engaged, and less forgetful, you would see fewer incumbents winning elections who don't keep campaign promises. Perhaps you could get a better picture of how things work on the local level. I happen to live in an area where many constituents are very engaged in the process. They pressure their politicians on issues, and elect those who support and follow through with their issues. there are some office holders around here who are quite popular because they followed through on campaign promises to support issues important to constituents around here.
Saying you can't make a difference is a nice excuse in an attempt to justify apathy or laziness. I can appreciate being frustrated for having views contrary to the majority and thus not having policies in place you agree with, but this means you just have your work cut out for you in convincing others of the value in your ideas. It doesn't mean politicians have power we couldn't take away if we all really wanted to. Apathy is the culprit, no the system.
The difference is that the people in a democracy have a say on how much they are taxed and on what their taxes are spent. Back then, the majority of Americans supported the initiative to go to the moon. If you don't want NASA, elect representatives who won't spend money on it. Want fewer taxes? Elect representatives who will lower taxes. What recourse do you have under communism? Like you said, you'll be visited by the reeducaiton team.
I thought it might just be based on MAC addresses, but I wasn't sure. They don't filter MAC addresses here, but I didn't know if there was another way they could tell where an IP was coming from. For example, my connection comes from my Cisco phone, to which I'm logged in. I wondered if that might be a clue. I installed Tor yesterday, but I wonder if that's overkill, or might just attract more attention to myself if their interest is piqued from the encrypted traffic going through.
Thanks for the very helpful information.
I am using OS X on a personal laptop in stealth mode (i.e. it doesn't give any response to incoming traffic/pings). How would they be able to identify who the individual web surfer is? I guess they could track IPs, but how would they know the IP is mine? Would it just be because mine may be the only non-company computer on the network?
Meanwhile, I am reading up on ssh-tunneling to to my server.
Thanks for helping a newbie.
Can you elaborate on this? What technologies are used for monitoring web surfing? We don't use proxies here, but It's not explicit what they may be monitoring over our network. If I'm using a personal laptop on the company network, is it possible for them to monitor what sites I visit?
Sheesh. That's a lot of statistics. I'd be interested in the sources if you have them available. Not, of course, because you may be making them up or blindly copying them from someone else who did.
Where did you learn economics? Public goods are by definition non-rival and non-excludable. The Internet is neither excludable nor rival, is a public good, and is therefore subject to the freerider problem.
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I'm commenting here only to remove my mod. I accidentally rated redundant when intending to mod insightful.
$69 is the educational institution price. That's how much it costs when you buy it at your university book store. It's $116 when you buy it directly from Apple.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're not trolling here and just assume that you're cynical and have little experience with the system. Voters can absolutely make a difference. The faults you point out lie with voters, as politicians can get away with quite a lot due to voter apathy. If the people were more engaged, and less forgetful, you would see fewer incumbents winning elections who don't keep campaign promises. Perhaps you could get a better picture of how things work on the local level. I happen to live in an area where many constituents are very engaged in the process. They pressure their politicians on issues, and elect those who support and follow through with their issues. there are some office holders around here who are quite popular because they followed through on campaign promises to support issues important to constituents around here. Saying you can't make a difference is a nice excuse in an attempt to justify apathy or laziness. I can appreciate being frustrated for having views contrary to the majority and thus not having policies in place you agree with, but this means you just have your work cut out for you in convincing others of the value in your ideas. It doesn't mean politicians have power we couldn't take away if we all really wanted to. Apathy is the culprit, no the system.
The difference is that the people in a democracy have a say on how much they are taxed and on what their taxes are spent. Back then, the majority of Americans supported the initiative to go to the moon. If you don't want NASA, elect representatives who won't spend money on it. Want fewer taxes? Elect representatives who will lower taxes. What recourse do you have under communism? Like you said, you'll be visited by the reeducaiton team.
I thought it might just be based on MAC addresses, but I wasn't sure. They don't filter MAC addresses here, but I didn't know if there was another way they could tell where an IP was coming from. For example, my connection comes from my Cisco phone, to which I'm logged in. I wondered if that might be a clue. I installed Tor yesterday, but I wonder if that's overkill, or might just attract more attention to myself if their interest is piqued from the encrypted traffic going through.
Thanks for the very helpful information. I am using OS X on a personal laptop in stealth mode (i.e. it doesn't give any response to incoming traffic/pings). How would they be able to identify who the individual web surfer is? I guess they could track IPs, but how would they know the IP is mine? Would it just be because mine may be the only non-company computer on the network? Meanwhile, I am reading up on ssh-tunneling to to my server. Thanks for helping a newbie.
Is there any way I can determine what technologies may be in use here?
Can you elaborate on this? What technologies are used for monitoring web surfing? We don't use proxies here, but It's not explicit what they may be monitoring over our network. If I'm using a personal laptop on the company network, is it possible for them to monitor what sites I visit?
Sheesh. That's a lot of statistics. I'd be interested in the sources if you have them available. Not, of course, because you may be making them up or blindly copying them from someone else who did.
How about on laptops or tablet PCs?
Is it not so obvious here that Gartner is just trolling? Why are there so many biters?
Where did you learn economics? Public goods are by definition non-rival and non-excludable. The Internet is neither excludable nor rival, is a public good, and is therefore subject to the freerider problem.
I don't think it has anything to do with hating Apple.
Is this by chance the most score:5's ever? how about score:5 funny's?