And, how big is that car? The Taurus is approaching the size of a Mercedes S-class, and has a 3.5 L V6.
You know, its suddenly becoming more obvious why the U.S. auto industry is failing. The last few years have been filled with outrageous gas prices, SUVs becoming the new overstocked vehicle on lots, and a focus on more fuel efficient transportation, yet Detroit continues to increase the size of it's vehicles so even a "family sedan" gets the same gas mileage as a pickup truck.
They're supposed to be reducing the size of their vehicles to be more competitive on fuel economy, not increasing it still. There will always be a large family that needs a minivan, large sedan, etc. But let's be honest, the vast majority of customers are buying their vehicle to regularly transport one or two people at a time and don't need a car that big.
Following your logic, I guess *Walmart* is guilty of the same sin.
People working at Wal-Mart are generally unskilled and have few other choices in places to work (at least among places of the type that offer health insurance for full time employees). People with college degrees have more options available to them, and for many working at Apple (or Microsoft) and having it on their resume is part of their compensation.
To compare two companies looking only such facts as "well Microsoft and Google pay 15-20% more" loses site of what a career is about.
Last year, Techcrunch published data pulled from Glassdoor.com, showing that Apple engineers are paid 15-20% less than their counterparts at Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
And yet, are the innovators at Apple or Microsoft? Perhaps Apple is guilty of hiring people who care more about what they do than how much they make doing it.
"There has to be some sort of way to compensate the artist for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making music," Milman said.
We should tell him we agree with him, and all he has to do is send us the addresses of these artists and we'll mail checks made out directly to these musicians for the added usage we get from their creation.
After all, this is about compensating the artists. Right?:-D
Presumably, "opt-in" counts as "in writing", and my library will continue to robocall to announce that my book on hold is available.
Since that is an entity you have a pre-existing relationship with, I don't think they'd be blocked anyway. Just like I'm sure you'll still receive automated collections calls from creditors you're past due with. They aren't telemarketers making cold calls.
Yes, there will be sound, no you can't set the volume, yes it plays with sound when you first open it, this is an advertisement after all -- they want you to attract the attention of those around you.
By planting evidence in an actual crime, you don't have to arrest them under a controversial Orwellian law about "having the wrong books" or "looking at the wrong websites" where they become the new Leonard Peltier, Nelson Mandela, -- i.e. a political figure for people to wrap their cause around. They're just another rapist/murderer/bomber at that point. Nobody will want to be seen as a supporter of them because of being associated with a criminal, and the dissident will be written off as crackpot.
Don't you find it amusing that web page is headed with this quote:
"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards" -- Sir William Francis Butler
Then goes on to divide the reading list based on the rank of the reader?
Ok, yes there is a chance the person wants to defend their rights and not give their key to the authorities, but it is also more likely the police has a really good reason for prosecuting that person, and the person has a pretty good reason for not giving the key (i.e. he has done crime). That's why they have this law.
That's just another way of saying "if he had nothing to hide, he would have cooperated". The previous administration called, they want their lame excuse back.
This has been going on for a long time. In 2001, Vulcan (Paul Allen's company) withdrew an offer because I had too many parking tickets (~$1000) on my credit report (parking tickets are a fact of life if you work in downtown Seattle).
Getting them might be. Not paying them to the point it shows up on your credit report is quite another.
How is this even a bullet point. Who stands (or sits there) thinking "Damn, I wish this machine would shut down faster"?
If it's my computer at work, I do. One thing I've noticed is that occasionally processes hang/crash when Windows is trying to end them to shut down. Sometimes this interrupts the entire shutdown sequence and allows one to exit out of the crash dialog and work with the machine after that. That's an issue when you have an employer that pays way too much attention to who was logged into a machine when something bad happened or you have information on your workstation that's sensitive.
So at the end of the workday I usually stand there after choosing Shutdown and wait until I get to the "Windows is shutting down" final message before I walk away from the computer, otherwise I could end up with something NOT shutting down and my machine being open for anyone to fiddle around with/cause problems, pinning them on me.
Of course, the climate (chuckle chuckle) has changed in the industry so we'll see.
I'm disappointed that I've looked over the comments so far and no one has made a joke about Nissan "turning over a new leaf" in their alternative fuel stance.
There has been some recent discussion on Macrumors about Apple's discontinuation of their video composting software Shake. And several of the posters point out that Apple's "cloud of secrecy" around products and their roadmaps is one of the major contributing factors in people migrating away from Shake. In the consumer space, such secrecy is allowable and even generates hype. But in a business where production software needs to be STABLE, both in the technical and support sense, the idea that "we can't tell you what will happen next" simply doesn't fly.
What would save us consumers a lot more money is having cellphone operators bill usage by the second. The European Commission already forced the European operators to adopt 1-second billing increments.
O ye of little memory. There already were upstart U.S. cellphone companies that billed by the second - Aerial Communications being one notable one. Thanks to the free market system, they were bought out by the larger carriers and their per second billing plans ended. I wasn't with one of those companies, but the one I had (VoiceStream) did offer something you can't get today -- first incoming minute free and first 50 incoming text messages free. I have maintained the same cell phone plan since then and to this day I still get my first incoming minute and 50 SMS messages free with T-Mobile. If I even change my plan I will lose it, though.
The old Arial customers were not able to do this. Their plans really were ended, they lost the billing structure whether they did anything or not.
I can tell you one thing. If it ever is held up in court and program output becomes copyrighted in any way, I am basically going to quit the industry and open up an Italian restaurant.
That wont save you from having to deal with it. After all, you may have prepared a casserole dish that contained pasta, meat, sauce, and cheese, but it was through the process of climate control by means of electrical to thermal energy conversion that resulted in a lasagna. Therefore, the Kenmore corporation now claims copyright on your customer's dinner. : D
What's funny to me personally is that a number of years ago I stopped buying music at Wal-Mart because I mad at them for only selling "sanitized" music, and not always labeling it clearly saying so.
So I guess now EMI will never sell another CD to me again.
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You know, its suddenly becoming more obvious why the U.S. auto industry is failing. The last few years have been filled with outrageous gas prices, SUVs becoming the new overstocked vehicle on lots, and a focus on more fuel efficient transportation, yet Detroit continues to increase the size of it's vehicles so even a "family sedan" gets the same gas mileage as a pickup truck.
They're supposed to be reducing the size of their vehicles to be more competitive on fuel economy, not increasing it still. There will always be a large family that needs a minivan, large sedan, etc. But let's be honest, the vast majority of customers are buying their vehicle to regularly transport one or two people at a time and don't need a car that big.
It's easy to giggle at a "gaggle of Google goons" with goggles provided by your packs of Pabst and Pilsner you drank while posting.
People working at Wal-Mart are generally unskilled and have few other choices in places to work (at least among places of the type that offer health insurance for full time employees). People with college degrees have more options available to them, and for many working at Apple (or Microsoft) and having it on their resume is part of their compensation.
To compare two companies looking only such facts as "well Microsoft and Google pay 15-20% more" loses site of what a career is about.
And yet, are the innovators at Apple or Microsoft? Perhaps Apple is guilty of hiring people who care more about what they do than how much they make doing it.
We should tell him we agree with him, and all he has to do is send us the addresses of these artists and we'll mail checks made out directly to these musicians for the added usage we get from their creation.
After all, this is about compensating the artists. Right? :-D
Since that is an entity you have a pre-existing relationship with, I don't think they'd be blocked anyway. Just like I'm sure you'll still receive automated collections calls from creditors you're past due with. They aren't telemarketers making cold calls.
THANK YOU. I've been saying this for years to people.
Yes, there will be sound, no you can't set the volume, yes it plays with sound when you first open it, this is an advertisement after all -- they want you to attract the attention of those around you.
You should check out the Wired article. It has a YouTube clip.
You're missing the point.
By planting evidence in an actual crime, you don't have to arrest them under a controversial Orwellian law about "having the wrong books" or "looking at the wrong websites" where they become the new Leonard Peltier, Nelson Mandela, -- i.e. a political figure for people to wrap their cause around. They're just another rapist/murderer/bomber at that point. Nobody will want to be seen as a supporter of them because of being associated with a criminal, and the dissident will be written off as crackpot.
1) Pass "homeland security" type law requiring people to register and submit DNA for national database.
2) Keep an eye out for political dissidents.
3) When they appear, have covert government agents commit crimes and plant "teh incontrovertible DNS evidence" of the dissident at the scene.
4) Dissident is taken out of the picture in a way that looks completely legitimate.
5) Bonus: Add extra brutality to their crimes to make the dissident (and by extension any of their ideas) less attractive to anyone else.
He said it was a 30" screen. You can buy 40"+ 1080p HDTVs for less than $1000 now.
Don't you find it amusing that web page is headed with this quote:
"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards" -- Sir William Francis Butler
Then goes on to divide the reading list based on the rank of the reader?
That's just another way of saying "if he had nothing to hide, he would have cooperated".
The previous administration called, they want their lame excuse back.
Getting them might be. Not paying them to the point it shows up on your credit report is quite another.
No. Tinfoil hats to reflect the giant sun's hot rays.
How do you have a round trip time when there are no returned packets?
If it's my computer at work, I do. One thing I've noticed is that occasionally processes hang/crash when Windows is trying to end them to shut down. Sometimes this interrupts the entire shutdown sequence and allows one to exit out of the crash dialog and work with the machine after that. That's an issue when you have an employer that pays way too much attention to who was logged into a machine when something bad happened or you have information on your workstation that's sensitive.
So at the end of the workday I usually stand there after choosing Shutdown and wait until I get to the "Windows is shutting down" final message before I walk away from the computer, otherwise I could end up with something NOT shutting down and my machine being open for anyone to fiddle around with/cause problems, pinning them on me.
What if the wedding was held on WoW to begin with?
I'm disappointed that I've looked over the comments so far and no one has made a joke about Nissan "turning over a new leaf" in their alternative fuel stance.
There has been some recent discussion on Macrumors about Apple's discontinuation of their video composting software Shake. And several of the posters point out that Apple's "cloud of secrecy" around products and their roadmaps is one of the major contributing factors in people migrating away from Shake. In the consumer space, such secrecy is allowable and even generates hype. But in a business where production software needs to be STABLE, both in the technical and support sense, the idea that "we can't tell you what will happen next" simply doesn't fly.
O ye of little memory. There already were upstart U.S. cellphone companies that billed by the second - Aerial Communications being one notable one. Thanks to the free market system, they were bought out by the larger carriers and their per second billing plans ended. I wasn't with one of those companies, but the one I had (VoiceStream) did offer something you can't get today -- first incoming minute free and first 50 incoming text messages free. I have maintained the same cell phone plan since then and to this day I still get my first incoming minute and 50 SMS messages free with T-Mobile. If I even change my plan I will lose it, though.
The old Arial customers were not able to do this. Their plans really were ended, they lost the billing structure whether they did anything or not.
That wont save you from having to deal with it. After all, you may have prepared a casserole dish that contained pasta, meat, sauce, and cheese, but it was through the process of climate control by means of electrical to thermal energy conversion that resulted in a lasagna. Therefore, the Kenmore corporation now claims copyright on your customer's dinner. : D
What's funny to me personally is that a number of years ago I stopped buying music at Wal-Mart because I mad at them for only selling "sanitized" music, and not always labeling it clearly saying so.
So I guess now EMI will never sell another CD to me again.
The trust of the people who put you in power is something not worth trading away.
They're letting another country snoop on their citizen's financial transactions. Sounds like they're being subordinated to me.