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That's just not true. A company is in no way obligated to do whatever makes the most money for its shareholders.
Considering the Board of Directors is elected by the shareholders, I beg to differ. The board of directors is responsible for fulfilling the mandate of shareholders, and quite frankly they all just want to make money. Few invest for just the hell of it. And since the President is responsible to the board of directors, I'll argue that all companies that have shareholders are obliged to make money for them.
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If I were them, I'd be upset about the sudden increase in traffic to.
If I were them I'd put the domain up for sale and probably make more money than I ever could from my day to day operations.
More than enough IMO to cover the cost to change company name.
That's a great mentality. Go ahead and don't care that Microsoft is going to such lengths to crowd out competition. Then once McAfee and Symantec are dead and AVG and Trend AV go away with them, the world will be a much better place with so much less bloatware.
OS Security is a function the OS should handle, not an external third party app. This is one place where Microsoft DOES belong, more so than windows media player or maybe even internet explorer. Although ultimately you shouldn't need adware and spyware software to use their OS.
AV isn't something the consumer should be forced to pay for. This is a problem inherent in an insecure OS. Anti virus and adware has been reactionary to an OS full of holes like swiss cheese.
This is a feature your OS should come with - protection from viruses (virii??) and malware / spyware. Now the OS itself should be made secure granted, but at least consumers won't get raped by AV companies for a feature that truly does belong in the OS.
If McAfee and Norton didn't make products that suck resources real bad. If ever there was a product that could be called bloatware, those two are it. Give me Trend AV any day thanks.
Then again I'm on my Linux laptop running no AV software.
lol, that's what I keep telling the security guy in my office:) The only way to make sure your network is 100% secure is to pull all the patch cables... I think we might be able to push him over that tipping point now ^_^
but it seems unimaginable for the business world to wean its way off of Microsoft Word and Powerpoint.
Not to mention that Excel beats the turd out of Calc in its ability to parse text files - at least at first glance.
Maybe I'm a dumbass, but I couldn't figure out how to load a pipe delimited file into calc like I could do so in Excel.
Excel is still more intuitive and provides more power to working with larger lists too. There's no AFAIK pivot tables in Calc either.
Both really strong reasons for the enterprise to continue to use Excel. Don't give me some cock and bull story about most end users not needing to do that. I work with about 50 who'd argue otherwise.
but together with the GP poster I do not use Nike products
I too, but it has more to do with the fact that it's overpriced than anything else. I prefer Adidas and Puma personally. AFAIK their apparel doesn't come from sweatshops.
I feel sorry for the kids of today who can't seem to do much of anything we did that was fun..
Except sit in front of the TV getting fatter playing video games. After all, if our kid is in front of the TV, we know they are at least safe. Why put them at risk by having them *gasp* go outside???
**Queue childhood obecity storey next.
Personally, if my daughter's school banned friggin' tag, I'd pull her ass out of that school so damned fast. That's the only statement I can make ultimately. I do not the way you are trying to wussify my kid and I'll take my kid to another school that isn't going to wussify her.
Just because they've replaced the production team doesn't mean it'll be any better. And if their best idea is to churn out a freaking prequel,
No kidding. I'd much rather see a movie that took place in the future with Riker as Captain of the Enterprise with that uber-awesome cannon on top where the federation was in chaos. Kickass space battles, the universe at war, lots of death and phasers and really cool stuff...
None of this prequel crap. it sucked with Star Wars. It sucked with Enterprise, and it'll probably suck with this movie too, because ultimately we know the ending.
With Gentoo it's the installation process. I know you just have to read through the installation docs, but it's 2006, and I don't feel like printing out the docs, and they're too hard to memorize.
Download LiveCD Burn LiveCD Boot LiveCD Run through Wizard.
How about the real advice -> Don't gamble -- PERIOD.
However if you must, wtf is the difference between gambling at a casino or online? Only difference I can see is that when it's online, you aren't giving taxes to the goverment.
btw, how do you feel about the money laundering that goes through a US casino? You talk about shady off shore corporations (wtf? Party Poker is publicly traded!), yet you forget how shady your home-brewed online casinos are.
Just because you don't buy a cd with your $20 doesn't mean you won't spend it elsewhere and just throw it in the bank.
What this goof is referring to is the multiplier effect, something elementary to economists. Thing is, you might spend your $20 and buy yourself some uber awesome coffee and dessert for you and a friend at Starbuck's instead. It's entertainment dollars spent differently.
And that money spent at Starbucks too has a multiplier effect - money goes to the pastry shops, the landlord, the employees, and some makes it back to the cheap, not fair trade coffee farms and stuff too.
More like I'm surrounded by both, but I don't let my disgust with one make me doubt the presence of the other.
A misbehaving kid with a complacent parent is what you see - you don't see the other parent who takes his kid outside to spank her and some ass hat calls social services on him.
IMO there isn't enough spanking going on right now:)
Seriously though, there are good parents out there, just the bad ones are the visible ones. Conisder for a sec that for every kid that's mugging people in a park, there's probably 10 sitting at home studying their asses off to get into a good university. There's a lot of good kids and a lot of good parents. Blame the media for altering your perception...
You hear about this shithead lawyers all the time, but never hear of the Bar associations doing stuff about them. Nice to see actually... Fantastic links...
But how many parents do you know actually will go to these extremes to help their children and not just sit back and say 'oh, let someone else deal with my child, because I give
Plenty. You just don't hear about them too often in the media because they are good parents. You only hear about the bad ones like in this case.
My parents allowed me to play games like this when I was 14 (and younger). I don't believe it led me to shoot anyone.
There we go again. The "I turned out okay from it so everyone else must too" argument.
Look, put a kid in front of a violent movie or game and they become more violent. There's enough evidence out there of that to consider that a correlation.
Some kids are more easily influenced than others. For some the violent video game might be a form of release, others its a form of influence.
That's because they have no money and aren't worth a suit.
It's too bad, because of such piss-poor parenting, the parents should be looking at criminal charges.
I've always wondered about that. It's the state who asks the courts to try criminal cases, not private citizens, but does the state have a monopoly on criminal cases or can a private citizen take a criminal proceeding to court?
Personally, I'd rather see that parents do time for their lack of parenting. Money is not justice for a lost life IMO.
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That's just not true. A company is in no way obligated to do whatever makes the most money for its shareholders.
Considering the Board of Directors is elected by the shareholders, I beg to differ. The board of directors is responsible for fulfilling the mandate of shareholders, and quite frankly they all just want to make money. Few invest for just the hell of it. And since the President is responsible to the board of directors, I'll argue that all companies that have shareholders are obliged to make money for them.
If I were them, I'd be upset about the sudden increase in traffic to.
If I were them I'd put the domain up for sale and probably make more money than I ever could from my day to day operations.
More than enough IMO to cover the cost to change company name.
Maybe even youtube.com would buy my domain name.
That's a great mentality. Go ahead and don't care that Microsoft is going to such lengths to crowd out competition. Then once McAfee and Symantec are dead and AVG and Trend AV go away with them, the world will be a much better place with so much less bloatware.
OS Security is a function the OS should handle, not an external third party app. This is one place where Microsoft DOES belong, more so than windows media player or maybe even internet explorer. Although ultimately you shouldn't need adware and spyware software to use their OS.
AV isn't something the consumer should be forced to pay for. This is a problem inherent in an insecure OS. Anti virus and adware has been reactionary to an OS full of holes like swiss cheese.
This is a feature your OS should come with - protection from viruses (virii??) and malware / spyware. Now the OS itself should be made secure granted, but at least consumers won't get raped by AV companies for a feature that truly does belong in the OS.
If McAfee and Norton didn't make products that suck resources real bad. If ever there was a product that could be called bloatware, those two are it. Give me Trend AV any day thanks.
Then again I'm on my Linux laptop running no AV software.
Don't put the broken box on the network at all
:) The only way to make sure your network is 100% secure is to pull all the patch cables... I think we might be able to push him over that tipping point now ^_^
lol, that's what I keep telling the security guy in my office
Doh! Don't flame me with the pivot tables! I just found out it was Pilot!
but it seems unimaginable for the business world to wean its way off of Microsoft Word and Powerpoint.
Not to mention that Excel beats the turd out of Calc in its ability to parse text files - at least at first glance.
Maybe I'm a dumbass, but I couldn't figure out how to load a pipe delimited file into calc like I could do so in Excel.
Excel is still more intuitive and provides more power to working with larger lists too. There's no AFAIK pivot tables in Calc either.
Both really strong reasons for the enterprise to continue to use Excel. Don't give me some cock and bull story about most end users not needing to do that. I work with about 50 who'd argue otherwise.
Purchasing a lifetime @hell.com address seems like a poor life choice to me..
;)
Considering that where all the slutty women go - might not be THAT bad of a life choice
but together with the GP poster I do not use Nike products
I too, but it has more to do with the fact that it's overpriced than anything else. I prefer Adidas and Puma personally. AFAIK their apparel doesn't come from sweatshops.
Thing is, this site claims that
* NIKE
* Adidas
* New Balance
* Puma
* Reebok
* Fila USA
Are all sweatshop employers.
It would take someone about 15 minutes tops to generate a CC# to use on one of these sites.
Why? Tonnes and tonnes of free pr0n on images.google.com
Why waste your time?
When there is credit card fraud the merchants get stuck with the bill and you end up paying higher prices.
Isn't it still up to the merchant to verify the signature?
As long as that safeguard exists, tough shit for the merchants if they don't check that signature.
$70 is obviously pushing the cost of the item over into the shipping. So I was going to report them. I gave up soon and just bought nothing.
Is openly advertising a stupid shipping price against ebay policy?
(IMO it should be and is unethical, but just saying)
I think people are just using loopholes. Some sucker will fall for it sometimes, most are smarter than that.
something called an "Average Out of Court Settlement." Yeah, like I'm going to pay you $22,000 for that!
:) Just like the nigerian 419 scam...
Advance fee fraud at work
I feel sorry for the kids of today who can't seem to do much of anything we did that was fun..
Except sit in front of the TV getting fatter playing video games. After all, if our kid is in front of the TV, we know they are at least safe. Why put them at risk by having them *gasp* go outside???
**Queue childhood obecity storey next.
Personally, if my daughter's school banned friggin' tag, I'd pull her ass out of that school so damned fast. That's the only statement I can make ultimately. I do not the way you are trying to wussify my kid and I'll take my kid to another school that isn't going to wussify her.
Hence the 1984 commercial (The XT was released in 1993).
Nope, XT's were released in 1983 with a whopping 4.77Mhz 8088 processor.
In 1993 we should have had at least 486's by 1993.
I'm sure it was just a typo though...
Just because they've replaced the production team doesn't mean it'll be any better. And if their best idea is to churn out a freaking prequel,
No kidding. I'd much rather see a movie that took place in the future with Riker as Captain of the Enterprise with that uber-awesome cannon on top where the federation was in chaos. Kickass space battles, the universe at war, lots of death and phasers and really cool stuff...
None of this prequel crap. it sucked with Star Wars. It sucked with Enterprise, and it'll probably suck with this movie too, because ultimately we know the ending.
The Mac has supported the right mouse button for years now.
Isn't a right mouse click is just an alias to option-click no?
With Gentoo it's the installation process. I know you just have to read through the installation docs, but it's 2006, and I don't feel like printing out the docs, and they're too hard to memorize.
Download LiveCD
Burn LiveCD
Boot LiveCD
Run through Wizard.
What's the problem? Gentoo now has an installer
Or you can always use Vida Linux which is a binary distro built on Gentoo...
Don't gamble online. ---- PERIOD
How about the real advice -> Don't gamble -- PERIOD.
However if you must, wtf is the difference between gambling at a casino or online? Only difference I can see is that when it's online, you aren't giving taxes to the goverment.
btw, how do you feel about the money laundering that goes through a US casino? You talk about shady off shore corporations (wtf? Party Poker is publicly traded!), yet you forget how shady your home-brewed online casinos are.
Just because you don't buy a cd with your $20 doesn't mean you won't spend it elsewhere and just throw it in the bank.
What this goof is referring to is the multiplier effect, something elementary to economists. Thing is, you might spend your $20 and buy yourself some uber awesome coffee and dessert for you and a friend at Starbuck's instead. It's entertainment dollars spent differently.
And that money spent at Starbucks too has a multiplier effect - money goes to the pastry shops, the landlord, the employees, and some makes it back to the cheap, not fair trade coffee farms and stuff too.
This article is Bollocks.
More like I'm surrounded by both, but I don't let my disgust with one make me doubt the presence of the other.
:)
A misbehaving kid with a complacent parent is what you see - you don't see the other parent who takes his kid outside to spank her and some ass hat calls social services on him.
IMO there isn't enough spanking going on right now
Seriously though, there are good parents out there, just the bad ones are the visible ones. Conisder for a sec that for every kid that's mugging people in a park, there's probably 10 sitting at home studying their asses off to get into a good university. There's a lot of good kids and a lot of good parents. Blame the media for altering your perception...
Sweet links dude! Mod parent up!
You hear about this shithead lawyers all the time, but never hear of the Bar associations doing stuff about them. Nice to see actually... Fantastic links...
But how many parents do you know actually will go to these extremes to help their children and not just sit back and say 'oh, let someone else deal with my child, because I give
Plenty. You just don't hear about them too often in the media because they are good parents. You only hear about the bad ones like in this case.
My parents allowed me to play games like this when I was 14 (and younger). I don't believe it led me to shoot anyone.
There we go again. The "I turned out okay from it so everyone else must too" argument.
Look, put a kid in front of a violent movie or game and they become more violent. There's enough evidence out there of that to consider that a correlation.
Some kids are more easily influenced than others. For some the violent video game might be a form of release, others its a form of influence.
That's because they have no money and aren't worth a suit.
It's too bad, because of such piss-poor parenting, the parents should be looking at criminal charges.
I've always wondered about that. It's the state who asks the courts to try criminal cases, not private citizens, but does the state have a monopoly on criminal cases or can a private citizen take a criminal proceeding to court?
Personally, I'd rather see that parents do time for their lack of parenting. Money is not justice for a lost life IMO.