I think sports betting is a fun activity which causes no harm to anyone. Look at Las Vegas. They make good money from gambeling and many people consider it a great vacation spot.
Drugs are different. Drugs can kill a person. You will never see someone drop dead because they bet a few hundred on a game. But someone who does cocain or crack can die on the spot. Huge differance to me.
Not to mention, those on drugs typically do not have jobs. They are the thieves who have to steal. Drugs destroys the mind, and takes away ability. Everyone I have known through college and life who gambles on sports has had jobs. Plus, those who have bet on football games did some research (learning more about statistics and correlations than in a math class). Drugs and Betting are nothing alike.
Everyone knows that political speech is different than the other spam we get. Some may call it propoganda, but these people do get elected and them we will really have to pay. I think political speech is important and should not be grouped with spam.
The other reason why I think political speech should not be considered spam is because it would allow other candidates without the big bucks to run for office.
Spam to me is all those emails about porn sites, viagra, college degrees, and all the other unwanted crap that ends up in my inbox.
If we did not have any spam, the kinds listed above, would anyone complain about emails from persons running for public office?
I think one of the most important jobs a citizen has is to review the candidates running for office and pick the best one. To that end, I do not think an email here or there about something important is a bad thing.
Then again, I guess those of us who are interested in politics could sign up with the individual campaigns to recieve emails.
The one thing I think everyone can agree on, is do not use known spammers. Do not validate what they do, so they can later say they deliver important speech.
I am not as interested in benchmarks as I am interested if my harware will work well with my software. If I buy a video card, will it run my apps? Perhaps some of these review sites should take the 10 most popular applications, like games, a compiler, database, etc... and tell you if your hardware will run it without hangups or hiccups.
The other bad thing about benchmarks is you will probably not have the same motherboard/ram/cpu as the test system.
If M$ gets code in cell phones, I am sure hacking and spamming them will get easier.
Plus, the J2ME already has the market cornered on wireless devices. M$ is wasting money and time in a new product when they should be spending that money and time fixing what they already sell.
I challenge anyone to find a conspicous mention anywhere on the EBay site where you can phone and talk to someone about someone defrauding you money.
According to the article, ebay had over 15 billion dollars in auctions and make over 1.2 billion dollars for the company. Couldn't they hire someone to anwser calls and investigate fraud? I guess everyone is out to make a quick buck.
Everyone thinks they deserve a good lifestyle simply for being born. The problem with these kinds of people is they are not willing to work for anything. Take the following example from the article:
When he applied for a job as a Lotus Notes administrator at Caterpillar, for example, Nelson said that he had a degree in criminal justice and that he was familiar with Notes. "I got a copy of Lotus Notes for Dummies and learned enough of the buzzwords," he says. After three rounds of interviews, "they hired me on the spot," Nelson says. "I'd never even turned on the program." But he was a quick study, and he says that he was soon competent at creating and maintaining Notes databases.
We have a society where people want to do the least amount of work, if any, to get the reward. And when they fail, they blame society and find ways to steal. Perhaps if people felt a sense of responsibility for what they do, we would not have these problems.
You are wrong when it comes to science. They share a common interest in understanding what is around us, how it was formed, how it works. Look at the greatest achievements in history, like the letters Leibnitz and Netwon exchanged. Scientists from different countries exchanged letters, exchanging ideas to the benifit of both.
As for your "not profitable" statement, then why do individual nations do it? If it is for science, then there is a greater reason to cooperate with other nations.
Wouldn't it be better to have a multi-national space station or deep space exploration? If every nation spends the money just to get a ship into space, and see what we already know, then what did we get out of it? I think it would be more productive to pool the resources of many nations and build something that one nation alone could not.
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I think sports betting is a fun activity which causes no harm to anyone. Look at Las Vegas. They make good money from gambeling and many people consider it a great vacation spot. Drugs are different. Drugs can kill a person. You will never see someone drop dead because they bet a few hundred on a game. But someone who does cocain or crack can die on the spot. Huge differance to me. Not to mention, those on drugs typically do not have jobs. They are the thieves who have to steal. Drugs destroys the mind, and takes away ability. Everyone I have known through college and life who gambles on sports has had jobs. Plus, those who have bet on football games did some research (learning more about statistics and correlations than in a math class). Drugs and Betting are nothing alike.
The other reason why I think political speech should not be considered spam is because it would allow other candidates without the big bucks to run for office.
Spam to me is all those emails about porn sites, viagra, college degrees, and all the other unwanted crap that ends up in my inbox.
If we did not have any spam, the kinds listed above, would anyone complain about emails from persons running for public office?
I think one of the most important jobs a citizen has is to review the candidates running for office and pick the best one. To that end, I do not think an email here or there about something important is a bad thing.
Then again, I guess those of us who are interested in politics could sign up with the individual campaigns to recieve emails.
The one thing I think everyone can agree on, is do not use known spammers. Do not validate what they do, so they can later say they deliver important speech.
I am not as interested in benchmarks as I am interested if my harware will work well with my software. If I buy a video card, will it run my apps? Perhaps some of these review sites should take the 10 most popular applications, like games, a compiler, database, etc... and tell you if your hardware will run it without hangups or hiccups.
The other bad thing about benchmarks is you will probably not have the same motherboard/ram/cpu as the test system.
If M$ gets code in cell phones, I am sure hacking and spamming them will get easier.
Plus, the J2ME already has the market cornered on wireless devices. M$ is wasting money and time in a new product when they should be spending that money and time fixing what they already sell.
According to the article, ebay had over 15 billion dollars in auctions and make over 1.2 billion dollars for the company. Couldn't they hire someone to anwser calls and investigate fraud? I guess everyone is out to make a quick buck.
When he applied for a job as a Lotus Notes administrator at Caterpillar, for example, Nelson said that he had a degree in criminal justice and that he was familiar with Notes. "I got a copy of Lotus Notes for Dummies and learned enough of the buzzwords," he says. After three rounds of interviews, "they hired me on the spot," Nelson says. "I'd never even turned on the program." But he was a quick study, and he says that he was soon competent at creating and maintaining Notes databases.
We have a society where people want to do the least amount of work, if any, to get the reward. And when they fail, they blame society and find ways to steal. Perhaps if people felt a sense of responsibility for what they do, we would not have these problems.
You are wrong when it comes to science. They share a common interest in understanding what is around us, how it was formed, how it works. Look at the greatest achievements in history, like the letters Leibnitz and Netwon exchanged. Scientists from different countries exchanged letters, exchanging ideas to the benifit of both.
As for your "not profitable" statement, then why do individual nations do it? If it is for science, then there is a greater reason to cooperate with other nations.
The people who live in India care.
Wouldn't it be better to have a multi-national space station or deep space exploration? If every nation spends the money just to get a ship into space, and see what we already know, then what did we get out of it? I think it would be more productive to pool the resources of many nations and build something that one nation alone could not.