You've got it exactly backwards. Remember the Dan Rather memo? When that came out, everybody was talking about the forgery, and nobody was talking about the rich frat boy who used his family connections to weasel out of military service.
I hope the same thing doesn't happen here. The Heartlanders are doing real and lasting damage, the last thing we need is to give them more ammo.
In this case, I think "not yet" is actually a euphemism for "no". Remember: they just got done negotiating and signing this pile of shit. Now they're trying to back out of it while still saving face.
In 1965, aged 90 years and with no heirs, Calment signed a deal to sell her former apartment to lawyer Andre-Francois Raffray, on a contingency contract. Raffray, then aged 47 years, agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died. Raffray ended up paying Calment the equivalent of more than $180,000, which was more than double the apartment's value. After Raffray's death from cancer at the age of 77, in 1995, his widow continued the payments until Calment's death.
If it really bothers the poster that much, simply go without the toy.
Well, obviously it doesn't bother you, but it does bother me.
And I have no problem going without the latest pocket-sized Facebook/Google/AngryBirds appliance. The hard part is going without shoes.
I'm not rich, but I have no objection to paying a little extra for stuff that's not made by indentured servants. But most of the time I don't even get that choice.
If it's boring, then you're doing it wrong. Find something that's fun to do - like riding a bike, basketball, soccer, playing frisbee with your dog... You get the idea.
Curious. I'm in the US. I just tried google.ca, and I got results that are almost the same, but not quite, as google.com. So the ranking depends on the user's location, and on which portal you're using.
And it looks like our neighbo[u]rs to the North just don't hate Rick as much as we do.
"All you find"? I just googled "santorum". #2 was Rick Santorum's Wikipedia page. #4 was his official website. I could see both of these without scrolling the page. So what's the problem?
To use Stack Overflow effectively, you need enough knowledge to describe the problem, and identify the parts that you can't solve. When people just copy and paste their homework, or ask questions without putting any effort into solving it themselves, their posts usually get deleted.
Time is another factor. For easy questions, you can get an answer in minutes, especially if it's a popular topic. For something more esoteric or complicated, you might have to wait a while, and maybe come back to post additional information. On a one-hour exam, it just wouldn't work. So for advanced courses, SO might be entirely appropriate. It wouldn't be useful for getting the whole answer in a pre-packaged format, but if you already understood 80% of the material, it could get you the rest of the way there.
Slight clarification: Poland already signed the treaty. What normally happens after that is the treaty gets sent to the parliament for ratification - but the government is now trying to back away from it. So it probably won't get ratified, but it's still possible.
Germany, on the other hand, didn't sign the treaty in the first place. It's a subtle difference, but it means that Poland is a little further on the road to ACTA than Germany.
And we still don't know what the guy actually did at his old job, or what his qualifications are. This question is impossible to answer. It's like they posted it deliberately to invite pointless arguments. And here I am, contributing to it. I feel dirty.
And this raises another question: How much were they spending to keep this stupid shit running? I know that 5 million is pocket change for Google, but I assume they wouldn't shut it down unless it was actually losing money.
Likewise, if I prefer a different model (after market) steering wheel I wouldn't expect to be able to return the one that came with the car... that would be ridiculous.
Sure would.
By the way, I hope you're not thinking of selling the original steering wheel to someone else. Piracy is a criminal offense.
Would it be just to posthumously find Thomas Jefferson guilty of slavery when it was legal in his time?
Yes, it would be just. Completely pointless, but just. The reason slavery was legal was because Thomas Jefferson and all his slave-owning friends were the ones who wrote the laws.
what was actually much more stunning to my mind was the fact that it appears that the U.S. has a President who is willing to say "I Don't Know The Answer Right Now".
I don't think that's what's happening. Obama's a lawyer. One of the first things they teach lawyers is: when examining a witness in court, don't ask a question unless you already know the answer. And in this case, the answer is pretty obvious: when those companies say that they can't find workers, what they really mean is that they can't find schmucks who'll work 60 hours a week for third-world wages. Obama just wants them to admit it publicly.
Either that, or he had to say something to get rid of the guy, and threw out some "we'll look into it" bullshit.
And his main beef, the reason for trying to blow up the Parliament, was the fact that England wasn't ruled by Catholics. Yeah, he's come a long way in 400 years.
What good does it do to punish the #1 company? It makes the #2 company think "shit, we're next".
Look, I hear what you're saying. But this isn't a moral decision, it's a tactical decision. The fair solution would be to boycott all the big electronics companies. Or better yet, get Congress to pass laws that would eliminate this shit in the first place. But neither of those things is gonna happen. So you think we should do nothing?
It's called "making an example out of someone". Nothing hypocritical about it. Punishing all the guilty parties is not practical, as you just said, so we just punish the most prominent one. Often, that's enough to scare the others into changing their behavior.
They're singled out because they're the most visible. That's the price you pay for being at the head of the pack. If they don't like it - maybe they should do something about the factory conditions.
"Everybody else is doing it" wasn't a valid defense when you were 7, and it's not a valid defense when you're running a giant corporation.
You're right, parent is wrong. Janusz Palikot's crew are the ones in the masks. PIS also opposes ACTA, but I think that's mainly because the ruling party supports it.
They also have plenty of people who are capable of mowing the lawns, but they probably outsource that job, too. It makes perfect sense to me.
What I don't get, though: why are MS and Google the only companies that they considered? Is there really nobody else who can provide email for a large organization?
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You've got it exactly backwards. Remember the Dan Rather memo? When that came out, everybody was talking about the forgery, and nobody was talking about the rich frat boy who used his family connections to weasel out of military service.
I hope the same thing doesn't happen here. The Heartlanders are doing real and lasting damage, the last thing we need is to give them more ammo.
In this case, I think "not yet" is actually a euphemism for "no". Remember: they just got done negotiating and signing this pile of shit. Now they're trying to back out of it while still saving face.
And the best part:
In 1965, aged 90 years and with no heirs, Calment signed a deal to sell her former apartment to lawyer Andre-Francois Raffray, on a contingency contract. Raffray, then aged 47 years, agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died. Raffray ended up paying Calment the equivalent of more than $180,000, which was more than double the apartment's value. After Raffray's death from cancer at the age of 77, in 1995, his widow continued the payments until Calment's death.
If it really bothers the poster that much, simply go without the toy.
Well, obviously it doesn't bother you, but it does bother me.
And I have no problem going without the latest pocket-sized Facebook/Google/AngryBirds appliance. The hard part is going without shoes.
I'm not rich, but I have no objection to paying a little extra for stuff that's not made by indentured servants. But most of the time I don't even get that choice.
If it's boring, then you're doing it wrong. Find something that's fun to do - like riding a bike, basketball, soccer, playing frisbee with your dog... You get the idea.
I hear that Hurd is almost ready for the enterprise.
I was gonna post the exact same thing, you beat me to it. They also didn't say one word about SOPA until the protests were too big to ignore.
Curious. I'm in the US. I just tried google.ca, and I got results that are almost the same, but not quite, as google.com. So the ranking depends on the user's location, and on which portal you're using.
And it looks like our neighbo[u]rs to the North just don't hate Rick as much as we do.
"All you find"? I just googled "santorum". #2 was Rick Santorum's Wikipedia page. #4 was his official website. I could see both of these without scrolling the page. So what's the problem?
To use Stack Overflow effectively, you need enough knowledge to describe the problem, and identify the parts that you can't solve. When people just copy and paste their homework, or ask questions without putting any effort into solving it themselves, their posts usually get deleted.
Time is another factor. For easy questions, you can get an answer in minutes, especially if it's a popular topic. For something more esoteric or complicated, you might have to wait a while, and maybe come back to post additional information. On a one-hour exam, it just wouldn't work. So for advanced courses, SO might be entirely appropriate. It wouldn't be useful for getting the whole answer in a pre-packaged format, but if you already understood 80% of the material, it could get you the rest of the way there.
Slight clarification: Poland already signed the treaty. What normally happens after that is the treaty gets sent to the parliament for ratification - but the government is now trying to back away from it. So it probably won't get ratified, but it's still possible.
Germany, on the other hand, didn't sign the treaty in the first place. It's a subtle difference, but it means that Poland is a little further on the road to ACTA than Germany.
And we still don't know what the guy actually did at his old job, or what his qualifications are. This question is impossible to answer. It's like they posted it deliberately to invite pointless arguments. And here I am, contributing to it. I feel dirty.
Well, they've been saying for a while that the marijuana business funds terrorists. So it wouldn't be a big jump.
And this raises another question: How much were they spending to keep this stupid shit running? I know that 5 million is pocket change for Google, but I assume they wouldn't shut it down unless it was actually losing money.
Likewise, if I prefer a different model (after market) steering wheel I wouldn't expect to be able to return the one that came with the car... that would be ridiculous.
Sure would.
By the way, I hope you're not thinking of selling the original steering wheel to someone else. Piracy is a criminal offense.
Would it be just to posthumously find Thomas Jefferson guilty of slavery when it was legal in his time?
Yes, it would be just. Completely pointless, but just. The reason slavery was legal was because Thomas Jefferson and all his slave-owning friends were the ones who wrote the laws.
what was actually much more stunning to my mind was the fact that it appears that the U.S. has a President who is willing to say "I Don't Know The Answer Right Now".
I don't think that's what's happening. Obama's a lawyer. One of the first things they teach lawyers is: when examining a witness in court, don't ask a question unless you already know the answer. And in this case, the answer is pretty obvious: when those companies say that they can't find workers, what they really mean is that they can't find schmucks who'll work 60 hours a week for third-world wages. Obama just wants them to admit it publicly.
Either that, or he had to say something to get rid of the guy, and threw out some "we'll look into it" bullshit.
Before you know it, we'll be electing an actor for President.
And his main beef, the reason for trying to blow up the Parliament, was the fact that England wasn't ruled by Catholics. Yeah, he's come a long way in 400 years.
What good does it do to punish the #1 company? It makes the #2 company think "shit, we're next".
Look, I hear what you're saying. But this isn't a moral decision, it's a tactical decision. The fair solution would be to boycott all the big electronics companies. Or better yet, get Congress to pass laws that would eliminate this shit in the first place. But neither of those things is gonna happen. So you think we should do nothing?
It's called "making an example out of someone". Nothing hypocritical about it. Punishing all the guilty parties is not practical, as you just said, so we just punish the most prominent one. Often, that's enough to scare the others into changing their behavior.
They're singled out because they're the most visible. That's the price you pay for being at the head of the pack. If they don't like it - maybe they should do something about the factory conditions.
"Everybody else is doing it" wasn't a valid defense when you were 7, and it's not a valid defense when you're running a giant corporation.
You're right, parent is wrong. Janusz Palikot's crew are the ones in the masks. PIS also opposes ACTA, but I think that's mainly because the ruling party supports it.
They could set it in a retirement home. Trying to think of films that are;
Bubba Ho Tep. Elvis Presley's greatest role.
They also have plenty of people who are capable of mowing the lawns, but they probably outsource that job, too. It makes perfect sense to me.
What I don't get, though: why are MS and Google the only companies that they considered? Is there really nobody else who can provide email for a large organization?