Just because it's how things are does not imply that it's honest.
Nor does it automatically make it dishonest. OPEC deliberately restricts oil output to "maintain price stability in the world market", the side effect of this stability is that they make billions in profit. This is not dishonest, in fact they are quite up-front about it.
Supply and demand can't justify why houses in some non-city regions in California went up by over %40 last year alone, with no increase in average wages, or decrease in other commodity prices.
Supply and demand are exactly why these houses went up 40% last year alone. You need to take a College level economics course and check back with us when you're done - the reason these houses went up 40% is because there are a limited number of houses in that area, and an increasing number of buyers willing to pay 40% more than they were last year - that's the demand;take those buyers out of the picture gradually and price increases slow, stop, or even reverse.
You tell me why a house that was built for $50,000 20 years ago (adjusted for inflation), after 20 years of abuse and wear and tear, is selling for $385,000??
Because someone is willing to pay it. Value is subjective. Just because its not worth it to you doesn't mean its not worth it.
No, not always. But its been there since Windows for Workgroups v3.11 (and, though I never worked on the registry in prior versions, I'm going to assume it wasn't part of the point release and went back to v3.0) this is 1992-ish. For any statistically significant statement regarding "Windows Security" its "always been there".
Yes, that is what I mean. The point is absolutely correct. Using this same industry as an example, the local papers have run stories on this subject at length, often a small bio on some worker they interviewed. It turns out many would come across the Mexican border, take various buses all the way from Texas to the northeast, work for a few weeks, then return to their families, often supporting their extended family in addition to their wives and children with the wages they could bring home. So the existing system allows an entire families to raise their standard of living, doesn't drain the US economy in any appreciable way, results in a profitable industry that would otherwise die or become a specialty market which would be priced out of accessibility for middle class, and results in generally low prices for US consumers as a whole.
I'm not sure how that's "wrong" when in the alternative scenario, businesses fail, families go hungry, and consumers face 10-fold price increases.
Yes. Apply this logic to farming, raise prices, and within a year 150 million Americans won't be able to afford to eat every day instead of the 2 or 3 million you have now. What good would it do to have an American worker picking mushrooms for minimum wage if they'd have to work for a week to afford one?
Individual companies decide individual wages, but in the larger economy those wages are determined by the market, not "companies who don't want to pay a decent wage"
Nope. Lots of Jobs Americans just 'won't do', especially in agriculture. Specifically, Mushroom farming is based on paying about $1 to $2 per hour for illegal labor. It cannot be done any other way since hiring actual american workers would necessitate paying minimum wage which would cut the workforce the producers could sustain and still turn a meager profit by 80%. The industry would simply be reduced to specialty growers and prices would increase drastically if illegals were taken out of the picture. Most of the businesses would fail.
I will stick with MP3 for lossy audio -- because it plays on every device under the sun.
How many people are listening on gear that you can actually perceive the loss on anyway? I'd imagine a great deal of listening gets done on crappy 1/8" drivers in headphones or in cars, both environments being far from optimal for perceiving such subtle differences. I'm listening to Sgt. Pepper as I write this, on a $19 MP3 player which delivers higher quality than the gear on which the album was produced, is it really worth the effort to support multiple formats for the 90%?
That's an instant classic, though he still pales in comparison to the master:
"There's an old saying in Tennessee--I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee--that says, fool me once, shame on--shame on you. Fool me--you can't get fooled again." --W, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
That the press and most (maybe) of the electorate falls for this is the main reason why so many on the left are willing to believe the election was rigged.
Maybe that and things like electronic voting machines recording 4000 votes for W in a district with 600 registered voters in Ohio of all places. Amazing coincidence out of all 50 states that it should turn up there....
Yes, it was its original intent. The "blame it on the soldiers" idea was thrown about in the weeks that followed when the war started going bad, until an AP reporter tracked down the source of the banner to the whitehouse.
What are your dad's friend's thoughts on the aluminum tubes?
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But a basic box by itself is of no use,
It depends what you're doing, doesn't it?
its the applications which by default have the applications, thus the exploits.
Not sure what you mean by "the applications which by default have the applications", but if you meant "the applications which by default have the holes" (or "wholes" as you call them), no they don't. Stop spewing nonsense and spend 5 minutes at openbsd.org and read about the auditing work that goes into many of the specific versions of the applications included in the OS - Apache on OBSD is NOT the same as Apache on RedHat by default, etc.
A uber secure box sitting there doing nothing, is still, doing nothing.
Okay, you've no idea what's included in the "default install" of OpenBSD, we believe you already, no more evidence required.
What's this one-integrated-application-fits-all fettish all about?
Simple. Disconnected users. 1000 user company, 500 user field force, who login via dialup for two hours a night. They get updated email and Calendars once (maybe twice if they login in the morning) a day, and Outlook/exchange deals with this fine. There is no OSS product that allows you to have an identical interface for connected and disconnected users, that allows for offline creation of meetings, tasks, and email messages with a seamless sync to server when a connection becomes available, that also has millions of users who publicly discuss their problems (one support resource) and hundreds of books (another resource) and thousands of experienced techs in the field.
Don't mistake me for a M$ Rah Rah, but these are the facts, there's nothing out there that does what this combo does, period, much less better, less expensive, or "with more freedom".
When will you Atheists realize that your beliefs are just as much a religion as anything you find in the Bible or the Quran?
Uh, no. By definition, Aethism is the absence of belief, so, the non-existence of something is NOT something (see your Greeks for an explanation of that one). You don't have to actively not-believe in something, and even if you do, it doesn't constitute a religious belief.
Plus the furry bastard will play with your jewelry for 20 minutes before he alerts the rescue crew to your whereabouts.
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And when you beat down the hard-working people who are doing the earning, the economy fails. Fuck the rich. They can afford to pay more in taxes, so let them.
The problem with this statement is that, to literally 10 million people in this country, anyone making $30,000 a year or more is 'rich' compared to them, so I'm sure you won't mind if your income tax is raised 10% since you can 'afford it'.
He never said they make people richer. He said they were an effective means for redistributing wealth. Where, exactly is the incorrect part of that statement? You had 30-odd percent of your income taken away before you could do anything about it, and its either been given to someone else or used to pay for something for someone else. This is pretty much how it works. It does work quite well, as evidenced by the fact that you probably know terribly few people who don't pay federal income tax.
While we're on the subject of things left out, where the hell is FireWire 800? From the company that brought you slot-loading DVD burners, widescreen LCDs and such, it seems odd not to use this not-so-new technology.
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I transmit data via shadow/no-shadow packets, therefore I am fastest.
Nor does it automatically make it dishonest. OPEC deliberately restricts oil output to "maintain price stability in the world market", the side effect of this stability is that they make billions in profit. This is not dishonest, in fact they are quite up-front about it.
Supply and demand can't justify why houses in some non-city regions in California went up by over %40 last year alone, with no increase in average wages, or decrease in other commodity prices.
Supply and demand are exactly why these houses went up 40% last year alone. You need to take a College level economics course and check back with us when you're done - the reason these houses went up 40% is because there are a limited number of houses in that area, and an increasing number of buyers willing to pay 40% more than they were last year - that's the demand;take those buyers out of the picture gradually and price increases slow, stop, or even reverse.
You tell me why a house that was built for $50,000 20 years ago (adjusted for inflation), after 20 years of abuse and wear and tear, is selling for $385,000??
Because someone is willing to pay it. Value is subjective. Just because its not worth it to you doesn't mean its not worth it.
No, not always. But its been there since Windows for Workgroups v3.11 (and, though I never worked on the registry in prior versions, I'm going to assume it wasn't part of the point release and went back to v3.0) this is 1992-ish. For any statistically significant statement regarding "Windows Security" its "always been there".
Does it please you to believe that what has fed.gov.us done to cut your access to deviant porn?
Nor is "Blue Screen" a verb. However.....
Yes, that is what I mean. The point is absolutely correct. Using this same industry as an example, the local papers have run stories on this subject at length, often a small bio on some worker they interviewed. It turns out many would come across the Mexican border, take various buses all the way from Texas to the northeast, work for a few weeks, then return to their families, often supporting their extended family in addition to their wives and children with the wages they could bring home. So the existing system allows an entire families to raise their standard of living, doesn't drain the US economy in any appreciable way, results in a profitable industry that would otherwise die or become a specialty market which would be priced out of accessibility for middle class, and results in generally low prices for US consumers as a whole.
I'm not sure how that's "wrong" when in the alternative scenario, businesses fail, families go hungry, and consumers face 10-fold price increases.
Individual companies decide individual wages, but in the larger economy those wages are determined by the market, not "companies who don't want to pay a decent wage"
Last time I accumulated energy for sudden release into the cylindrical liner, it only required 2 candlepower.
Think those guys would let me borrow it? I'm going to be in Vegas next week and I don't want to find myself in Barney.....
Nope. Lots of Jobs Americans just 'won't do', especially in agriculture. Specifically, Mushroom farming is based on paying about $1 to $2 per hour for illegal labor. It cannot be done any other way since hiring actual american workers would necessitate paying minimum wage which would cut the workforce the producers could sustain and still turn a meager profit by 80%. The industry would simply be reduced to specialty growers and prices would increase drastically if illegals were taken out of the picture. Most of the businesses would fail.
Apple thought so....
How many people are listening on gear that you can actually perceive the loss on anyway? I'd imagine a great deal of listening gets done on crappy 1/8" drivers in headphones or in cars, both environments being far from optimal for perceiving such subtle differences. I'm listening to Sgt. Pepper as I write this, on a $19 MP3 player which delivers higher quality than the gear on which the album was produced, is it really worth the effort to support multiple formats for the 90%?
"There's an old saying in Tennessee--I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee--that says, fool me once, shame on--shame on you. Fool me--you can't get fooled again."
--W, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
Maybe that and things like electronic voting machines recording 4000 votes for W in a district with 600 registered voters in Ohio of all places. Amazing coincidence out of all 50 states that it should turn up there....
Yes, it was its original intent. The "blame it on the soldiers" idea was thrown about in the weeks that followed when the war started going bad, until an AP reporter tracked down the source of the banner to the whitehouse.
What are your dad's friend's thoughts on the aluminum tubes?
It depends what you're doing, doesn't it?
its the applications which by default have the applications, thus the exploits.
Not sure what you mean by "the applications which by default have the applications", but if you meant "the applications which by default have the holes" (or "wholes" as you call them), no they don't. Stop spewing nonsense and spend 5 minutes at openbsd.org and read about the auditing work that goes into many of the specific versions of the applications included in the OS - Apache on OBSD is NOT the same as Apache on RedHat by default, etc.
A uber secure box sitting there doing nothing, is still, doing nothing.
Okay, you've no idea what's included in the "default install" of OpenBSD, we believe you already, no more evidence required.
Simple. Disconnected users. 1000 user company, 500 user field force, who login via dialup for two hours a night. They get updated email and Calendars once (maybe twice if they login in the morning) a day, and Outlook/exchange deals with this fine. There is no OSS product that allows you to have an identical interface for connected and disconnected users, that allows for offline creation of meetings, tasks, and email messages with a seamless sync to server when a connection becomes available, that also has millions of users who publicly discuss their problems (one support resource) and hundreds of books (another resource) and thousands of experienced techs in the field.
Don't mistake me for a M$ Rah Rah, but these are the facts, there's nothing out there that does what this combo does, period, much less better, less expensive, or "with more freedom".
We're trying this out in Cuba right now and it seems to be working. Look for it in big cities soon.
Uh, no. By definition, Aethism is the absence of belief, so, the non-existence of something is NOT something (see your Greeks for an explanation of that one). You don't have to actively not-believe in something, and even if you do, it doesn't constitute a religious belief.
Come on, get it right, it's "Howard Stern's Nutsack"
Plus the furry bastard will play with your jewelry for 20 minutes before he alerts the rescue crew to your whereabouts.
The problem with this statement is that, to literally 10 million people in this country, anyone making $30,000 a year or more is 'rich' compared to them, so I'm sure you won't mind if your income tax is raised 10% since you can 'afford it'.
He never said they make people richer. He said they were an effective means for redistributing wealth. Where, exactly is the incorrect part of that statement? You had 30-odd percent of your income taken away before you could do anything about it, and its either been given to someone else or used to pay for something for someone else. This is pretty much how it works. It does work quite well, as evidenced by the fact that you probably know terribly few people who don't pay federal income tax.
I think Shaft is all-time greatest self-proclaimed mother.
While we're on the subject of things left out, where the hell is FireWire 800? From the company that brought you slot-loading DVD burners, widescreen LCDs and such, it seems odd not to use this not-so-new technology.