...beyond that foopaw... Sniggle. At first I thought your criticism was really insightful, but I'll never know because I couldn't get beyond that fau pau
The problem is that the market is correcting itself. The consequence of the correction is that as a society we are valuing families less and causes women to switch to some other career. That other career might be less technical in nature and thus our nation is less competitive.
A minute or so with Google, or occasional reading in the field of information security would lead you quickly to understand that those claims are, sadly, not overstatements. Well, 10 seconds with google pulls up the United Nations estimate that the world drug trade was $320 BILLION dollars in 2005. (0.9% of the worlds GDP!). And the claim of the OP was that 'botnet' profits 'dwarf' this. Come on...really?
"Under the settlement, Microsoft will provide half of any unclaimed proceeds to the Iowa Department of Education to bridge the digital and technical divide in Iowa schools through the purchase of computer hardware and software."
Great...So the next generation can suffer too... This settlement is nothing more than an MS backdoor into the school system. Why use OSX or Linux when we have a pile of MS stuff here in this box... 100,000 copies of XP which will do longer be supported Dec 2008 anyone?
Seriously, grow up. Judges have better things to do than uphold laws they don't understand. The above quote pretty much sums up the failures of our current 'justice system', the public who fails to hold them accountable, and the criminals complete lack of fear about breaking these laws.
Corporate and political lobbying took all the teeth out of these SPAM and Telecom laws, but Congress put the 'Small Claims' remedy in there so there appears to be some sense of justice/enforcement. Even that remedy has failed.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that you have to pay 90% of what you owed the last year in order to prevent penalties. That is unless you are absolutely sure you will owe less. It is 100% for most filers, and 110% for certain high income filers. If your income is uncertain, as long as you pay four equal installments equal to 100% (or 110%) of what your taxes liability was the PREVIOUS year, you will not be penalized.
The 90% you are thinking is something else, but may apply. You avoid the penalty if your paid 90% of what you owe THIS year. The 100% (and 110%) applies to LAST years taxes.
Google is your friend... why bother to post without looking it up first?/quote?
That doesn't stop other people. Regardless, I did google first. And I found several hits which mentioned '768 x 576' for PAL as a standard. I though it might be related and by posting it, along with 'I wonder if this is why?', a discussion could develop.
WTF has happened here. Bunch of cranky folks on/. recently.
Actually, I did read the Wiki article. And I recently watched a 'Frontline/World' segment on the increasing number of Journalists killed/jailed in varies countries...Russia..Iraq..Turkey. I had a segment on Hrant Dink who was murdered. I believe he was given a six-month 'suspended' sentence before being murdered. I also recently stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
I didn't make a claim that the Turkish gov't was mass blocking every website. I asked the poster who claimed 'Turkey is not so bad', if based on his recent trip/experience, he was able to access website about the Armenian genocide. He only reported on AKP/political websites and porn. After re-reading it, I can see it might come across that way, because I prefaced my question with 'Oh Yeah'--but I asked the question twice in the that post. Certainly not worthy of 'flaimbait'. I did state the the 'wrath of the gov't' was being applied and I think that is true, right? Being hauled into the court system because of a free speech comment seems like the wrath of the government to me. Certainly not in line with 'not so bad'. The power of a gov't to arrest, detain, fine, and try can be a powerful deterrent to free speech for many.
Go read the Reporters with Borders 2006 Annual Report on Turkey (link below). You will see that people are still being heavily fined and jailed for various censorship reasons. Previous years reports are there too.
Thanks for the feedback. Apparently I have violated Article 301 of the Slashdot code 'insult to Slashdottedness', because my informative and valid rebuttal to the posters 'Turkey not so bad', complete with a Wikipedia link, was modded as flamebait.
Oh yeah, how many websites on the Armenian genocide can you bring up in Turkey? Journalists have gone to prison or been murdered for reporting on the Aemenian genocide of 1915 which Turkey denies. Its considered an 'insult to Turkishness' which will bring the wrath of the government upon you. Were you able to reach those?
I predict it will backfire. Under-18 players rather than grinding away in the online game for say a 5 hour stint, will instead only play for 3 hours. Lots of software utilities will be written to monitor/maximize this time. The remaining 2 hours will still be online, but since it is not rewarded fully, people will just hang out 'chatting'. The chatting will allow for MORE 'political dissident' speak than without the law. Hence, unintended consequences.
Guys, the red dragon is rising and we cannot stop it! Actually, we helped build it, fund it, perpetuate it, outsource to it, and legitimize it... Hoisted on our own petard.
Your fallacy is highlighted above. Most "employees" are not paid by the hour. Contractors, who are paid by the hour, simply don't complain about unproductive work conditions provided at their environment by their customers. They'll happily take the extra time required to do their job with the tools at hand; it's the capitalist way, after all. You generalization is full of horse feathers. As a 'contractor' myself, I view my time as very valuable and loudly complain about unproductive work conditions. Typically much more is expected from me, both from my employer and myself. I've left several assignments in the past or asked to transfer off the project because of unproductive environments. In fact, to generalize the other way, I find most of the 'entrenched' 'employees' are content with the unproductive status-quo. Typically, as an employee, they have more to 'lose' if they complain. I've spent numerous 'extra time' automating things that others do the 'old fashioned way'.
As a contractor in this situation, if I found a second monitor increased my productivity, I would simply go by my own monitor and bring it in to the office if they will not provide one.
So not only is your generalization inaccurate, but I find it personally offensive.
Kind of reminds me of much ado about Exxonmobil. Say, whatever happened with those congressional hearings about an $8 billion dollar profit for a single quarter? Well, it turns out that over the past 25 years oil companies paid more than $2.2 trillion in taxes (adjusted for inflation). That is more than three times what they earned in profits during the same period. What your misleading example fails to factor in are the 'other costs'. How many trillions of tax dollars have we spent providing 'security'/'defense' for the oil industry, billions propping up corrupt governments so these oil companies can access the resource, thousands of lives lost, etc. Talk about a corporate subsidy. None of those trillions have been paid for by oil companies as a cost of their product, so the free market has not factored that in. Hell, we haven't even paid for it, our children and grandchildren will be paying for it. If the price of oil truly reflected these costs and subsidies, other alternative products would be more attractive in the market.
Isn't here some rule or law about 'fitting a curve' to past data? Yet, the sports predictions, and many of the 'stock market systems' are all about finding some seemingly obvious pattern in past data. While you might come up with a 'back tested' model that matches really well, it doesn't mean squat for the future.
I mean, I cannot find a proper cable and even then I need to dig out 3 gender changers and a break-out box. These guys can I/F with some computer port from a different civilization using the same RS-232 port and a TTL voltage. Amazing! If only we the same interoperability here on planet Earth.
How is this a troll? Its supposed to be funny. All these Astronomers describe their 'work product'
with Antrhopomorphic terms, add 'pretty colors' to their space images, etc. Apparently you guys have no sense of humor either!
Arthur: Who are you? RIAA Execs of NiN: We are the RIAA Execs who say..... "NiN"! Arthur: (horrified) No! Not the RIAA Execs who say "NiN"! RIAA Execs of NiN: The same. Other RIAA Execs of NiN: Who are we? RIAA Execs of NiN: We are the keepers of the sacred music: NiN, Ping, and Nee-womm! Other RIAA Execs of NiN: Nee-womm! Arthur: (to Bedevere) Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale! RIAA Execs of NiN: The knights who say "NiN" demand..... a royalty! Arthur: RIAA Execs of NiN, we are but simple travelers who seek the musician who lives beyond these woods. RIAA Execs of NiN: NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN! Bedevere: No! Noooo! Aaaugh! No! RIAA Execs of NiN: We shall say "NiN" to you... if you do not appease us. Arthur: Well what is it you want? Knight of Ni: We want.....Royalties! All your music belong to us.
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...beyond that foopaw... Sniggle. At first I thought your criticism was really insightful, but I'll never know because I couldn't get beyond that fau pauor tried to eat one of my mother-in-law's biscuits... They are hard enough to scratch any diamond.
The problem is that the market is correcting itself. The consequence of the correction is that as a society we are valuing families less and causes women to switch to some other career. That other career might be less technical in nature and thus our nation is less competitive.
He certainly isn't silenced beyond some limited Take-Two criticism.
Despite several folks, including dorm mates, saying the Cho never played computers game (he spent most of his time writing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weG7A4lTGtg
"Under the settlement, Microsoft will provide half of any unclaimed proceeds to the Iowa Department of Education to bridge the digital and technical divide in Iowa schools through the purchase of computer hardware and software."
Great...So the next generation can suffer too... This settlement is nothing more than an MS backdoor into the school system. Why use OSX or Linux when we have a pile of MS stuff here in this box...
100,000 copies of XP which will do longer be supported Dec 2008 anyone?
and the criminals complete lack of fear about breaking these laws.
Corporate and political lobbying took all the teeth out of these SPAM and Telecom laws, but Congress put the 'Small Claims' remedy in there so there
appears to be some sense of justice/enforcement. Even that remedy has failed.
The 90% you are thinking is something else, but may apply. You avoid the penalty if your paid 90% of what you owe THIS year. The 100% (and 110%) applies to LAST years taxes.
That doesn't stop other people. Regardless, I did google first. And I found several hits which mentioned '768 x 576' for PAL as a standard. I though it might be related and by posting it, along with 'I wonder if this is why?', a discussion could develop.
WTF has happened here. Bunch of cranky folks on
Actually, I did read the Wiki article. And I recently watched a 'Frontline/World' segment on the increasing number of Journalists killed/jailed in varies countries...Russia..Iraq..Turkey. I had a segment on Hrant Dink who was murdered. I believe he was given a six-month 'suspended' sentence before being murdered. I also recently stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
I didn't make a claim that the Turkish gov't was mass blocking every website. I asked the poster who claimed 'Turkey is not so bad', if based on his recent trip/experience, he was able to access
website about the Armenian genocide. He only reported on AKP/political websites and porn. After re-reading it, I can see it might come across that way, because I prefaced my question with 'Oh Yeah'--but I asked the question twice in the that post. Certainly not worthy of 'flaimbait'. I did state the the 'wrath of the gov't' was being applied and I think that is true, right? Being hauled into the court system because of a free speech comment seems like the wrath of the government to me. Certainly not in line with 'not so bad'. The power of a gov't to arrest, detain, fine, and try can be a powerful deterrent to free speech for many.
Go read the Reporters with Borders 2006 Annual Report on Turkey (link below). You will see that people are still being heavily fined and jailed for various censorship reasons. Previous years reports are there too.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17482
Thanks for the feedback. Apparently I have violated Article 301 of the Slashdot code 'insult to Slashdottedness', because my informative and valid rebuttal to the posters 'Turkey not so bad', complete with a Wikipedia link, was modded as flamebait.
Oh yeah, how many websites on the Armenian genocide can you bring up in Turkey? Journalists have gone to prison or been murdered for reporting on the Aemenian genocide of 1915 which Turkey denies. Its considered an 'insult to Turkishness' which will bring the wrath of the government upon you. Were you able to reach those?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_301_(Turkish
I predict it will backfire. Under-18 players rather than grinding away in the online game for say a 5 hour stint, will instead only play for 3 hours. Lots of software utilities will be written to monitor/maximize this time. The remaining 2 hours will still be online, but since it is not rewarded fully, people will just hang out 'chatting'. The chatting will allow for MORE 'political dissident' speak than without the law. Hence, unintended consequences.
As a contractor in this situation, if I found a second monitor increased my productivity, I would simply go by my own monitor and bring it in to the office if they will not provide one.
So not only is your generalization inaccurate, but I find it personally offensive.
Isn't here some rule or law about 'fitting a curve' to past data? Yet, the sports predictions, and many of the 'stock market systems' are all about
finding some seemingly obvious pattern in past data. While you might come up with a 'back tested' model that matches really well,
it doesn't mean squat for the future.
In all these movies, they are a joke.
I mean, I cannot find a proper cable and even then I need to dig out 3 gender changers and a break-out box. These guys can I/F with some computer port from a different civilization using the same RS-232 port and a TTL voltage. Amazing! If only we the same interoperability here on planet Earth.
How is this a troll? Its supposed to be funny. All these Astronomers describe their 'work product' with Antrhopomorphic terms, add 'pretty colors' to their space images, etc. Apparently you guys have no sense of humor either!
Did the White House force the scientists to change their qualified 'fart' into a 'burb'? Investigations are needed.
Also, is there a term for Astronomers such as the one we use called 'Anthropomorphism?'
Arthur: Who are you?
RIAA Execs of NiN: We are the RIAA Execs who say..... "NiN"!
Arthur: (horrified) No! Not the RIAA Execs who say "NiN"!
RIAA Execs of NiN: The same.
Other RIAA Execs of NiN: Who are we?
RIAA Execs of NiN: We are the keepers of the sacred music: NiN, Ping, and Nee-womm!
Other RIAA Execs of NiN: Nee-womm!
Arthur: (to Bedevere) Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale!
RIAA Execs of NiN: The knights who say "NiN" demand..... a royalty!
Arthur: RIAA Execs of NiN, we are but simple travelers who seek the musician who
lives beyond these woods.
RIAA Execs of NiN: NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN! NiN!
Bedevere: No! Noooo! Aaaugh! No!
RIAA Execs of NiN: We shall say "NiN" to you... if you do not appease us.
Arthur: Well what is it you want?
Knight of Ni: We want.....Royalties! All your music belong to us.
And just like Iraq, we will find that it was the 'West' who sold them the technology to do this.