If they didn't sue over this, Viacom was going to sue Google over the defamation inherent in their "don't be evil" motto. They still face possible pending charges under that from the RIAA; SCO; Microsoft; Halliburton; the Republican party; Al Qaeda; Dr. Evil, natch; and, oddly, Bono of U2 fame.
Amazon advertised "buy one get one free", which is what those customers got. The fact that they also got another one free doesn't violate the terms laid out. Amazon's just hoping that enough people eat the charge without complaining that they don't lose a ton of money.
I'm not sure about charging without authorization, but I know that my bank will allow anyone, anywhere, for any reason to put a hold on my card for any amount. I've had to call more than once to have overdraft charges reversed after some company placed a hold for much more than my charge amount on the account, just in case I decided to spend extra money on their services.
Studies show that 100% of my employees are mouthy SOBs who don't know what side their bread is buttered on. Lie at work? Abusive relationship? You shouldn't have talked, kids; now you'll really know what an abusive boss is like!
The difference between "email" and "instant messaging" is a technical one, not a difference of substance. A statute that applies to "soliciting minors via phone lines" would almost certainly also be applied to cell phones, even if there's no "line" involved. "Electronic mail", as opposed to "email", is not such a specific phrase as to disinclude electronic forms of communication that are not "email", and it would be unreasonable to expect the state to come up with a new statute every time someone writes a new program and calls it something else.
The YouTube revolution has more to it than just a shift in the location of old-style campaign mudslinging. What's going on now is that when a politician makes a blunder, like Allen did, or, as another commenter noted, Dean, it's immediately available for evaluation by everyone. The carefully-crafted facade that these men and women put up inevitably cracks, and we get to see the real person. Dean is an overeager nerd, Allen is a violent racist, John Kerry is an elitist, etc. Of the three things I just mentioned, only one would make me vote against someone, but what do I know? I'm a Democrat, mostly because we don't tend to put people like Allen up for election.
The rapid access to information is going to make campaigns more and more about the actual person campaigning, because they'll be watched every moment of every day and the slip-ups will instantly be available to everyone. I think that's good, but I'm happy to drop the pretense that politicians don't have unpleasant aspects to their personalities. I'm also happy to toss out the ability for someone to have repugnant beliefs and keep them quiet except when talking to his or her base. But, again, what do I know? I'm sure it's more fun to pretend that racists aren't really racist while in public and then vote for them.
It does, to some, imply a massive object at the center of the galaxy, but it doesn't require it. Random accretions of stars into one giant cluster could exert similar gravitational effects without any single object for the dance to happen around. In fact, this lends some support to that hypothesis, as normal galactic rotation could tend to pull massive stars toward the center, creating a self-perpetuating cycle as those stars add to the centralized mass of the galaxy.
I hate when you're traveling down a spiral arm at 465m/s and you have to SLAM on the brakes because a bunch of systems have slowed down to a crawl to gawk at some dumbass who went nova. Geez, people, I've got sectors to see, and a job interview seven light-hours away!
Er, read first, then complain if warranted.
The abstract doesn't make it clear, but the data does indeed suggest that they've found a trigger for autism. Very interesting.
Gah! All reporters, please repeat after me! "Correlation is not causation" "I will not speculate about things I am unqualified for" "I will summarize the data without injecting my own conclusions".
Good, now keep saying that, while I find another press corps to take over for you.
The infrastructure required to supervise everyone is much greater than any reasonable bureaucracy could hold. Eventually, you get so many people involved in the watching that you have to watch them, or they'll start to stray, and then you have to watch those meta-watchers, and then you have to kill the urge to make a Watchmen joke.
Public surveillance will, eventually, get to the point that almost any information about anyone is accessible to everyone else. We'll then enter a sort of mutually-assured destruction phase, where there's very little that you can criticize someone else for without their being able to pull up a similar incident about yourself. For my part, I think that once we all realize just how sordid everyone else's lives are, it'll be beautifully impossible to pretend to be a moral authority just by complaining about the state of the world. It's already difficult, because the press inevitably scrutinizes such wankers, and they inevitably do exactly what they complain about.
You should realize that, if this were implemented, that browser-makers would just hotfix their browsers to redirect "X.com" to "X.com.us" in their browsers. They'd have to, for the sake of people all over the US who wouldn't be aware of the change and would flood tech support with complaints that "teh interweb no work no mo'".
I.e., your "solution" changes nothing except to add a short line of code to every browser program. Folks will still accidentally end up in Cameroon from time to time.
I've tried both of these games. While they're fun and interesting, they're not better about alleviating the numbers grind than any of the standard MMOs out there.
In Puzzle Pirates, while combat, sailing, etc. are all simulated with puzzles, you still need to spend time grinding away at the puzzles to get a good rating at anything. When I was in, the economy was also totally "booched", as they say, and a new player couldn't reasonably expect to buy a new set of clothes during the trial period. Finally, the only expansion that came out during my month before canceling my subscription was the one that introduced blockades; essentially, high-end raid content available only to the most elite guilds. When they did nothing to expand the game for new players and nothing to address the massive economic inflation, I canceled.
A Tale in the Desert, when I played during the first telling, was a phenomenal, beautiful world for exploration, with a fascinating storyline and very interesting quirks. It had no combat whatsoever. It was also the most grinding I have ever done in any MMORPG, bar none. It was a game that required you to spend time literally watching grass--well, flax--grow in order to perform even the most menial tasks. Every new expansion would bring new, top-end content which the elite guilds would grind out in a matter of hours and no one else could ever reasonably access. Sure, the lack of combat drove player interaction, but when the Test of the Acrobat requires you to go and meet more than a thousand people, those social interactions become nothing more than another sort of grind for new numbers and levels.
By contrast, WoW's economy is very well controlled, and a player can reasonably expect to gain new levels at a reasonable pace, keeping things interesting. The items which drop are very nice, the crafted items are well worth chatting the other players up for, and every level has interesting and new things for your character to do. I'm all for supporting the innovative little guy over the monolith, but in this case, the little guy is really just a gimmicky, less well-realized version of the mainstream.
That's possibly a regional difference. In Indiana, my Indiana home, on the banks of the Wabash, IT pays about the same as a factory job, if not less. There's some give and take, but the most highly paid person in my immediate social circle makes marshmallows for a living. Those folks I know in IT make reasonable cash, but nothing terribly impressive, if they haven't been laid off.
By contrast, Eli Lilly makes its headquarters in Indianapolis.
Well, to an extent, that's true, and it's probably entirely true with the loss of pharmaceutical research positions. What's not an example of the great Invisible Hand shaping world economy is when unfair competition shifts jobs from one location to another. This is the case when one country has lax or nonexistant labor laws, when compared to another.
In not all cases does this factor shift jobs away from the U.S., either. Uncle Sam has been known to use unfair trade practices in order to keep jobs at home from time to time.
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Non-ASCII? This is awesome! I can't wait for the ANSI addresses to start showing up.
If they didn't sue over this, Viacom was going to sue Google over the defamation inherent in their "don't be evil" motto. They still face possible pending charges under that from the RIAA; SCO; Microsoft; Halliburton; the Republican party; Al Qaeda; Dr. Evil, natch; and, oddly, Bono of U2 fame.
I'm curious how long it'll be before this Yet Another Visible Organization Drops Ubuntu.
Human embryos aren't "humans" any more than my fingernail clippings are humans, or an egg is a chicken.
Yes, yes, I know that your beliefs ask that we not destroy viable embryos. That's fine, I'm just responding to your misuse of language.
Amazon advertised "buy one get one free", which is what those customers got. The fact that they also got another one free doesn't violate the terms laid out. Amazon's just hoping that enough people eat the charge without complaining that they don't lose a ton of money.
I'm not sure about charging without authorization, but I know that my bank will allow anyone, anywhere, for any reason to put a hold on my card for any amount. I've had to call more than once to have overdraft charges reversed after some company placed a hold for much more than my charge amount on the account, just in case I decided to spend extra money on their services.
If anyone knows how to achieve a 1% market share, it's Apple.
. . . reading this makes me cry a little. I think I love you, AMD.
Studies show that 100% of my employees are mouthy SOBs who don't know what side their bread is buttered on. Lie at work? Abusive relationship? You shouldn't have talked, kids; now you'll really know what an abusive boss is like!
The difference between "email" and "instant messaging" is a technical one, not a difference of substance. A statute that applies to "soliciting minors via phone lines" would almost certainly also be applied to cell phones, even if there's no "line" involved. "Electronic mail", as opposed to "email", is not such a specific phrase as to disinclude electronic forms of communication that are not "email", and it would be unreasonable to expect the state to come up with a new statute every time someone writes a new program and calls it something else.
The YouTube revolution has more to it than just a shift in the location of old-style campaign mudslinging. What's going on now is that when a politician makes a blunder, like Allen did, or, as another commenter noted, Dean, it's immediately available for evaluation by everyone. The carefully-crafted facade that these men and women put up inevitably cracks, and we get to see the real person. Dean is an overeager nerd, Allen is a violent racist, John Kerry is an elitist, etc. Of the three things I just mentioned, only one would make me vote against someone, but what do I know? I'm a Democrat, mostly because we don't tend to put people like Allen up for election.
The rapid access to information is going to make campaigns more and more about the actual person campaigning, because they'll be watched every moment of every day and the slip-ups will instantly be available to everyone. I think that's good, but I'm happy to drop the pretense that politicians don't have unpleasant aspects to their personalities. I'm also happy to toss out the ability for someone to have repugnant beliefs and keep them quiet except when talking to his or her base. But, again, what do I know? I'm sure it's more fun to pretend that racists aren't really racist while in public and then vote for them.
It does, to some, imply a massive object at the center of the galaxy, but it doesn't require it. Random accretions of stars into one giant cluster could exert similar gravitational effects without any single object for the dance to happen around. In fact, this lends some support to that hypothesis, as normal galactic rotation could tend to pull massive stars toward the center, creating a self-perpetuating cycle as those stars add to the centralized mass of the galaxy.
I hate when you're traveling down a spiral arm at 465m/s and you have to SLAM on the brakes because a bunch of systems have slowed down to a crawl to gawk at some dumbass who went nova. Geez, people, I've got sectors to see, and a job interview seven light-hours away!
Good luck with the domain squatting suit against Lucifer himself.
I mean, who do you think has all the lawyers?
Er, read first, then complain if warranted. The abstract doesn't make it clear, but the data does indeed suggest that they've found a trigger for autism. Very interesting.
Gah! All reporters, please repeat after me! "Correlation is not causation" "I will not speculate about things I am unqualified for" "I will summarize the data without injecting my own conclusions". Good, now keep saying that, while I find another press corps to take over for you.
The infrastructure required to supervise everyone is much greater than any reasonable bureaucracy could hold. Eventually, you get so many people involved in the watching that you have to watch them, or they'll start to stray, and then you have to watch those meta-watchers, and then you have to kill the urge to make a Watchmen joke.
Public surveillance will, eventually, get to the point that almost any information about anyone is accessible to everyone else. We'll then enter a sort of mutually-assured destruction phase, where there's very little that you can criticize someone else for without their being able to pull up a similar incident about yourself. For my part, I think that once we all realize just how sordid everyone else's lives are, it'll be beautifully impossible to pretend to be a moral authority just by complaining about the state of the world. It's already difficult, because the press inevitably scrutinizes such wankers, and they inevitably do exactly what they complain about.
1984, it ain't. Try Jerry Springer, 24/7.
You should realize that, if this were implemented, that browser-makers would just hotfix their browsers to redirect "X.com" to "X.com.us" in their browsers. They'd have to, for the sake of people all over the US who wouldn't be aware of the change and would flood tech support with complaints that "teh interweb no work no mo'".
I.e., your "solution" changes nothing except to add a short line of code to every browser program. Folks will still accidentally end up in Cameroon from time to time.
I've tried both of these games. While they're fun and interesting, they're not better about alleviating the numbers grind than any of the standard MMOs out there.
In Puzzle Pirates, while combat, sailing, etc. are all simulated with puzzles, you still need to spend time grinding away at the puzzles to get a good rating at anything. When I was in, the economy was also totally "booched", as they say, and a new player couldn't reasonably expect to buy a new set of clothes during the trial period. Finally, the only expansion that came out during my month before canceling my subscription was the one that introduced blockades; essentially, high-end raid content available only to the most elite guilds. When they did nothing to expand the game for new players and nothing to address the massive economic inflation, I canceled.
A Tale in the Desert, when I played during the first telling, was a phenomenal, beautiful world for exploration, with a fascinating storyline and very interesting quirks. It had no combat whatsoever. It was also the most grinding I have ever done in any MMORPG, bar none. It was a game that required you to spend time literally watching grass--well, flax--grow in order to perform even the most menial tasks. Every new expansion would bring new, top-end content which the elite guilds would grind out in a matter of hours and no one else could ever reasonably access. Sure, the lack of combat drove player interaction, but when the Test of the Acrobat requires you to go and meet more than a thousand people, those social interactions become nothing more than another sort of grind for new numbers and levels.
By contrast, WoW's economy is very well controlled, and a player can reasonably expect to gain new levels at a reasonable pace, keeping things interesting. The items which drop are very nice, the crafted items are well worth chatting the other players up for, and every level has interesting and new things for your character to do. I'm all for supporting the innovative little guy over the monolith, but in this case, the little guy is really just a gimmicky, less well-realized version of the mainstream.
The camera work was shotty at best.
Isn't all camera work shotty?
I never thought I'd hear of a man making millions of dollars and then deciding to become an encyclopedia salesman.
Man, I hate when my bases get all nazy.
Well, if they don't have a reader designed yet for the material, I would say that means any data stored in it is pretty damn secure.
That's possibly a regional difference. In Indiana, my Indiana home, on the banks of the Wabash, IT pays about the same as a factory job, if not less. There's some give and take, but the most highly paid person in my immediate social circle makes marshmallows for a living. Those folks I know in IT make reasonable cash, but nothing terribly impressive, if they haven't been laid off.
By contrast, Eli Lilly makes its headquarters in Indianapolis.
Well, to an extent, that's true, and it's probably entirely true with the loss of pharmaceutical research positions. What's not an example of the great Invisible Hand shaping world economy is when unfair competition shifts jobs from one location to another. This is the case when one country has lax or nonexistant labor laws, when compared to another.
In not all cases does this factor shift jobs away from the U.S., either. Uncle Sam has been known to use unfair trade practices in order to keep jobs at home from time to time.