I agree that turning up the thermostat when you get home is not a problem, especially if you have a sufficiently sized furnace as opposed to a wimpy heat pump. The problem that I have is that more often than not I forget to turn the thermostat back down when I leave in the morning. This can be especially bad if my wife decided that I did not turn up enough in the first place.
Homer: Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute. Lisa honey, are you
saying you're *never* going to eat any animal again? What about
bacon? Lisa: No. Homer: Ham? Lisa: No. Homer: Pork chops? Lisa: Dad! Those all come from the same animal! Homer: Yeah, right Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
The scientists said the findings could lead to a model for designing aircraft that could hover in place and carry loads for many purposes such as diaster surveillance after earthquakes and tsunamis.
Imagine that, an aircraft that could hover in place? We could come up with some crazy name for them like autogyros or even helicopters. In addition to helping people, they may even have applications in killing them as well!
Yes, we have all heard that argument. However, the vast majority of these movies pay for themselves at the box office, so the per unit cost of producing DVDs should be about the same for pirates and MPAA affiliates. The only real difference is probably the fat cat managers taking their large salaries in the MPAA approved firms.
Except that movie attendance keeps dropping and dropping. That could be due to a number of causes including legal or illegal home viewing and declining movie quality. If the studios were to release their movies on the internet for free, invariably an even larger number would wait for it to "come out on DVD".
So, I suppose the question is: Do you enjoy feeding the families of Harvard grads?
I certainly do not.
If I view the price to be right, I don't mind. If I don't, then I do without. It's just entertainment (and poor quailty at that, according to most slashdotters) not some vital resource. I don't think the studios are obligated to charge anything less than people will pay.
The pirates are showing the consumers that prices need not be as high as they are paying. I admit that pirates don't have associated development costs and therefore will always be able to sell for less but when you see a pirated copy of a movie for free and the real thing costs £16 ($30) you have to ask where the money is going.
First off music/movie and clothing "pirates" are really different creatures. Clothing pirates actually produce a product and then try to leech off of someone elses good name to make a sale. Anyone can see for themselves that a handbag can cost less than $300 by going to Walmart. The bags there don't have the cachet of a Loius Vitton bag though.
Your comments are even more ridiculous applied to music/movies. To say that a pirate has lower production costs is a rather large understatement. Producing a movie requires all sorts of expenses from paying actors, directors, stagehands, etc, to marketing. Pirating a movie requires the movie, a computer, and an internet connection. No mystery on how the pirate can "make" the movie so cheaply. Independent low budget producers/labels are a better example of how movies/music can be made more cheaply.
As the posters above, IANAL, but did deal with this recently when my wife's grandparents helped us a bit with our home purchase. Forgiving a loan is considered the same as giving a gift by the IRS. Also, loaning money below some minimal interest rate can also trigger gift taxes due to the implicit interest forgiven. Finally, the gift tax is charged to the giver, not the receiver. Pays to be generous, doesn't it?
Anyway, I am not sure that a court judgment falls under the definition of a debt in IRS parlance. I am thinking that a debt in this case refers specifically to money that was lent, seeing as the borrower actually had access to the money owed, whereas this spammer likely never actually had $11 billion to pay taxes from.
The $500 million is the amount they mistated their earnings by, not how much they actually profited by committing the fraud.
I agree that jail terms or some kind of punishment specically for the officers makes more sense than fining the company and giving the money right back to the investors, who are the ones who really paid the fine in the first place.
The last interview that I went on I got to speak to a number of employees, in fact I got to give a presentation to the whole company (only like 35 of them) at the start of the "interview". The younger ones in the company were mostly a bunch of a-holes who made clear their disdain for my academic background and lack of experience having not done a postdoc yet like most of them had. Seemed funny to me that they would want to make someone whose trip to the interview they had paid for want to definitely not work there, but that's how it was.
My last interview of the day was with the woman who had set the whole interview up and I really wanted to ask her, "Why am I here?"
Unless someone really does come along and distribute some malware or kiddie porn through your open WAP. The criminal investigation would be so much fun. Not too mention your rep trashed, as the news of your being a suspect will be towards the front of the paper, while the dropping of the charges might not even get mentioned in the back.
Also, considering some wireless cards have no official Linux support, and the unofficial open-source projects to write drivers don't offer WPA yet, we could use this to push for better official Linux support.
Conversely, it could be used to push for not using Linux at all. While it would be nice for the wireless card makers to offer offical Linux support, they are hardly obliged to make them work properly under any OS other than the ones they claim to support on the outside of the box.
I think every high school student should have to designate a desired career, and then do some role-playing based on their likely financial outcomes. "You want to be an actor. Roll a die. Only 1% of actors can live on acting, you rolled a 23, so now you are a waiter barely making the poverty line, growing older and sadder every day..."
Indeed. It is sad to read about people who are struggling to make ends meet saddled with $40+K of student loans because they went to a $30K/yr school to become a $20K/yr social worker or such. Not that it's wrong to pursue a low-paying career if you find it personally fulfilling, but you need to plan accordingly for the financial realities.
I pay already for internet access. If I go for DSL I guess it will have to look at Earthlink.
Maybe this will push Google into the ISP market so it can do no evil and make a lot of money.
Unless Google lays their own wire (or fiber, whatever), BS or AT&T would still be getting your money when Google pays to lease their lines for you.
1. I was probably doing something that needed to be done as root.
2. It was quite a few years ago, so it might have been 'kill -9 1' which IIRC meant bye-bye server and all the jobs that relied on the files off of it.
This was in grad school and my adviosor had "volunteered" me to be sys admin for our group with no benefit to myself (besides the experience), so they got what they paid for. Up until then my Unix experience involved compiling and running some code on univeristy machines, so I was hardly a sys admin wizard. I am done adminning all but my home Linux machine for now, so no further critique or flames are necessary.
They could also use them to track down non-poop scoopers. "Based on the core temperature, this dogbomb is less than 4 hours old. Only Rex from over on 3rd has been past here in that time. Let's get him boys!"
Or your dog could be used to listen in on you by the government. "Gee, why does Fido seem to get real interested when we discuss our money laundering scheme?"
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I agree that turning up the thermostat when you get home is not a problem, especially if you have a sufficiently sized furnace as opposed to a wimpy heat pump. The problem that I have is that more often than not I forget to turn the thermostat back down when I leave in the morning. This can be especially bad if my wife decided that I did not turn up enough in the first place.
Homer: Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute. Lisa honey, are you
saying you're *never* going to eat any animal again? What about
bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad! Those all come from the same animal!
Homer: Yeah, right Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
Yeah, it sounds like he just invented a new form of the Potato Clock.
If you downloaded illegal tunes to it, would that make you a butt pirate?
I think that this is more along the lines of a molecular level simulation, rather than a more macro-scale type simulation like CFD.
Imagine that, an aircraft that could hover in place? We could come up with some crazy name for them like autogyros or even helicopters. In addition to helping people, they may even have applications in killing them as well!
Except that movie attendance keeps dropping and dropping. That could be due to a number of causes including legal or illegal home viewing and declining movie quality. If the studios were to release their movies on the internet for free, invariably an even larger number would wait for it to "come out on DVD".
So, I suppose the question is: Do you enjoy feeding the families of Harvard grads?
I certainly do not.
If I view the price to be right, I don't mind. If I don't, then I do without. It's just entertainment (and poor quailty at that, according to most slashdotters) not some vital resource. I don't think the studios are obligated to charge anything less than people will pay.
First off music/movie and clothing "pirates" are really different creatures. Clothing pirates actually produce a product and then try to leech off of someone elses good name to make a sale. Anyone can see for themselves that a handbag can cost less than $300 by going to Walmart. The bags there don't have the cachet of a Loius Vitton bag though.
Your comments are even more ridiculous applied to music/movies. To say that a pirate has lower production costs is a rather large understatement. Producing a movie requires all sorts of expenses from paying actors, directors, stagehands, etc, to marketing. Pirating a movie requires the movie, a computer, and an internet connection. No mystery on how the pirate can "make" the movie so cheaply. Independent low budget producers/labels are a better example of how movies/music can be made more cheaply.
Until the little pop-up ads start showing up in the DVDs.
Anyway, I am not sure that a court judgment falls under the definition of a debt in IRS parlance. I am thinking that a debt in this case refers specifically to money that was lent, seeing as the borrower actually had access to the money owed, whereas this spammer likely never actually had $11 billion to pay taxes from.
I agree that jail terms or some kind of punishment specically for the officers makes more sense than fining the company and giving the money right back to the investors, who are the ones who really paid the fine in the first place.
My last interview of the day was with the woman who had set the whole interview up and I really wanted to ask her, "Why am I here?"
Unless someone really does come along and distribute some malware or kiddie porn through your open WAP. The criminal investigation would be so much fun. Not too mention your rep trashed, as the news of your being a suspect will be towards the front of the paper, while the dropping of the charges might not even get mentioned in the back.
Conversely, it could be used to push for not using Linux at all. While it would be nice for the wireless card makers to offer offical Linux support, they are hardly obliged to make them work properly under any OS other than the ones they claim to support on the outside of the box.
Indeed. It is sad to read about people who are struggling to make ends meet saddled with $40+K of student loans because they went to a $30K/yr school to become a $20K/yr social worker or such. Not that it's wrong to pursue a low-paying career if you find it personally fulfilling, but you need to plan accordingly for the financial realities.
OK, so it does look like there is some potential there with Google, but as far as Earthlink goes one would still be leasing BS's lines.
Unless Google lays their own wire (or fiber, whatever), BS or AT&T would still be getting your money when Google pays to lease their lines for you.
You must be new to the real world where enough lobbying and campaign contributions can buy just about anything.
2. It was quite a few years ago, so it might have been 'kill -9 1' which IIRC meant bye-bye server and all the jobs that relied on the files off of it.
This was in grad school and my adviosor had "volunteered" me to be sys admin for our group with no benefit to myself (besides the experience), so they got what they paid for. Up until then my Unix experience involved compiling and running some code on univeristy machines, so I was hardly a sys admin wizard. I am done adminning all but my home Linux machine for now, so no further critique or flames are necessary.
Now let me just kill that last background process with the old 'kill %1'
[$researchgroupserver]: kill 1 enter
Crap!
So if that company took your money but didn't fulfill their contract you just shrugged it off?
They could also use them to track down non-poop scoopers. "Based on the core temperature, this dogbomb is less than 4 hours old. Only Rex from over on 3rd has been past here in that time. Let's get him boys!"
Or your dog could be used to listen in on you by the government. "Gee, why does Fido seem to get real interested when we discuss our money laundering scheme?"
I think they mean that you should find a teenager with 133t skillz to do it for you.
If my university, company, etc receives federal funding, does that mean that I can tell my boss "fuck off" to his face and not get fired?