You're either an idiotic troll or else someone engaging in satire (I suspect the former). Most violent crime is drug-related. Why would dealers be any more scared of government-sanctioned killing than they are of being killed by fellow mobsters? DUH. Fucking wanker.
Cause if I write a piece of software I can sell it more then once.
Copyright grants you a temporary monopoly to sell a creative work. You shouldn't have the monopoly protected in perpetuity, or even for an unreasonably long period.
Before public housing, poor people used to live with extended family in tenements, or other low-cost housing.
Yeah, tenements that were just as shitty as if not shittier than any public housing. And the difference is that most tenement owners made their tenants pay extortionate rent.
Having children one cannot afford is outside one's control?
Right-wingers like you are the ones who are hell-bent on denying people affordable birth-control due to some moralistic agenda. (And I'm not even talking about surgical or pharmaceutically-induced abortions.)
Any veteran sleeping under a bridge... doesn't seek help as a matter of pride.
If people are suffering from mental illness, 'pride' is the very least of their problems. Especially something like PTSD, which is what you get when your government sends you overseas to serve as cannon-fodder for some president's clusterfuck imperialistic war du jour.
Dude, you need to stop beating off to Ayn Rand's drivel. Because I wouldn't fuck her with your dick and Glenn Beck pushing. Seriously.
You essentially have peasants, poorly educated, superstitious and generally ignorant, now making decisions about the direction of the state, decisions once made by kings.
Don't forget that history is littered with many ignorant, poorly educated, superstitious rulers whose only qualification was being lucky enough to be born into a certain family.
A second issue is that the listening environment is changing - music is being played on portable devices in noisy environments - this isn't a fine listening room. As a result, this may be a case where too much dynamic range is lost on the listening audience, as the listener just wants to be able to hear everything without having to fiddle with the volume every few seconds.
Agreed. But I'd rather have a choice. The solution would be to offer music with all its HDR goodness, and have a compression setting on the playback device. That way, if I want to listen to a piece on a $50K system, it sounds great; conversely, if I want to listen to the same music on my iPod, I get the option to have it compressed and drown out the ambient noise.
I can corroborate this with my mother's experience with FiOS, which has always advertised one-stop billing as a big selling feature. She got their triple-play deal and despite the fact that they quoted her 'one price' ($99/mo) at the time, it seems that each of the three services had its own different billing and other back-office systems, and a different customer service number to call. So it's only 'consolidated' in the sense that the parent company offers all three services. And she got crazy results some months where a portion of her payment went to one of the other two services (say, TV and internet), so the third service (landline in this example) didn't get some or all of its portion that month, so she was in arrears for some crazy amount. With one of the other two services (say, TV) she might be in credit and so not have to pay the entire amount the next month. And, of course, the various departments didn't have access to the others' billing systems, so she could never get billing straight. In frustration she dropped television (didn't watch it much anyway) and landline (I set her up with Vonage) and she kept the one service (internet) that she really cared about in the first place.
Although this cluster-fuck occurred back in 2007, recent (within the last year) anecdotes from friends prove that Verizon's billing is still as cocked-up as ever. But then again, so is Comcast's, Cavalier's, and any other oligopolistic telco's billing. The recent cramming scandal further proves that these telcos have no incentive to maintain accurate billing practices.
For the high-school student not going into a STEM major, probability and statistics plus a course in financial literacy would be far more useful in terms of real-world applicability than an algebra II course.
I agree completely, and it seems this is a smaller ISP without the policies and procedures of a national ISP. Still, they can act more professionally and not run the business like a bunch of high-school kids.
Why slave to make 80-100k a year with a Masters degree when you could be making 250-300k as a lawyer....
Bad example. The market is glutted with law school grads; most freshly-minted JD's I know are waiting tables, or at best doing doc review or serving as a research gofer. And the sad thing is, they have six-figure loans to pay back. Plus, routine legal work is increasingly being off-shored or automated as well.
You should look at the Diaspora project. It's a bit immature now, but shows promise. Also, you could make sure to use something like Carbonite and local backups cycled periodically through a safety-deposit box.
For example, you will get a C when you deserve an F
Semester grades should also be given consideration in this discussion. In most accredited, legitimate graduate programmes, a C for the semester is failing, and more than two courses completed with a C are grounds for dismissal from the programme.
There's nothing wrong with the Adam Smith theory of free markets..
The problem is that Randian/Rothbardian libertarians have made Adam Smith into a caricature. They are interpreting his work through a modern lens, and not placing it in an historic context. Those of us who have read The Wealth of Nations (and I have) realise he was largely railing against mercantilism, not governmental regulation of the economy per se.
For a more authoritative treatment of the state of education in the first half of the 19th century, you should read Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Spoiler: autodidacts who amounted to anything were relatively rare, and the vast majority of Americans were ignorant rubes just like they are now. Plus ça change, and all that....
It's like running up a huge credit card bill and talking about all the money you're saving because none of it's coming out of your checking account.
QFT. To extend your (spot-on) analogy further, it's like keeping steady or increasing what you charge to your card, whilst lowering your monthly remittance to the issuer. In other words, you keep racking up compounding interest and deferring the day of reckoning. If more people viewed taxes as periodically paying down revolving debt, the argument would be saner.
you really never played with fire ? we did it... well, not constantly, but often enough. either it was burning small "fireplaces", creating plastic toy car "accidents" or just putting compressed cans in fire - many, many of those things were mighty dangerous, now that i look back on it.
No, I didn't burn stuff when I was a child. Guess I'm just a freak from another planet. *sarcasm*
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You're either an idiotic troll or else someone engaging in satire (I suspect the former). Most violent crime is drug-related. Why would dealers be any more scared of government-sanctioned killing than they are of being killed by fellow mobsters? DUH. Fucking wanker.
Cause if I write a piece of software I can sell it more then once.
Copyright grants you a temporary monopoly to sell a creative work. You shouldn't have the monopoly protected in perpetuity, or even for an unreasonably long period.
Hey /. editors, how can you let this shit through? With all the interesting stuff going on in the world, drivel like this counts for news?
you have sacrificed some freedoms.
Living in society with other fellow humans always requires giving up some freedoms, although the hardcore libertardians might disagree.
Before public housing, poor people used to live with extended family in tenements, or other low-cost housing.
Yeah, tenements that were just as shitty as if not shittier than any public housing. And the difference is that most tenement owners made their tenants pay extortionate rent.
Having children one cannot afford is outside one's control?
Right-wingers like you are the ones who are hell-bent on denying people affordable birth-control due to some moralistic agenda. (And I'm not even talking about surgical or pharmaceutically-induced abortions.)
Any veteran sleeping under a bridge ... doesn't seek help as a matter of pride.
If people are suffering from mental illness, 'pride' is the very least of their problems. Especially something like PTSD, which is what you get when your government sends you overseas to serve as cannon-fodder for some president's clusterfuck imperialistic war du jour.
Dude, you need to stop beating off to Ayn Rand's drivel. Because I wouldn't fuck her with your dick and Glenn Beck pushing. Seriously.
You essentially have peasants, poorly educated, superstitious and generally ignorant, now making decisions about the direction of the state, decisions once made by kings.
Don't forget that history is littered with many ignorant, poorly educated, superstitious rulers whose only qualification was being lucky enough to be born into a certain family.
Before there was cancer, it was KNOWN as Consumption:
Consumption is the archaic term for pulmonary tuberculosis, not cancer. Wanker.
A second issue is that the listening environment is changing - music is being played on portable devices in noisy environments - this isn't a fine listening room. As a result, this may be a case where too much dynamic range is lost on the listening audience, as the listener just wants to be able to hear everything without having to fiddle with the volume every few seconds.
Agreed. But I'd rather have a choice. The solution would be to offer music with all its HDR goodness, and have a compression setting on the playback device. That way, if I want to listen to a piece on a $50K system, it sounds great; conversely, if I want to listen to the same music on my iPod, I get the option to have it compressed and drown out the ambient noise.
I can corroborate this with my mother's experience with FiOS, which has always advertised one-stop billing as a big selling feature. She got their triple-play deal and despite the fact that they quoted her 'one price' ($99/mo) at the time, it seems that each of the three services had its own different billing and other back-office systems, and a different customer service number to call. So it's only 'consolidated' in the sense that the parent company offers all three services. And she got crazy results some months where a portion of her payment went to one of the other two services (say, TV and internet), so the third service (landline in this example) didn't get some or all of its portion that month, so she was in arrears for some crazy amount. With one of the other two services (say, TV) she might be in credit and so not have to pay the entire amount the next month. And, of course, the various departments didn't have access to the others' billing systems, so she could never get billing straight. In frustration she dropped television (didn't watch it much anyway) and landline (I set her up with Vonage) and she kept the one service (internet) that she really cared about in the first place.
Although this cluster-fuck occurred back in 2007, recent (within the last year) anecdotes from friends prove that Verizon's billing is still as cocked-up as ever. But then again, so is Comcast's, Cavalier's, and any other oligopolistic telco's billing. The recent cramming scandal further proves that these telcos have no incentive to maintain accurate billing practices.
Congratulations on just earning the Biggest Douche in the Universe award....thanks for playing.
The question then is, what do you do with the wood that you removed from the forest.
Terra preta.
...to the phrase shit sandwich.
That's "Must See" as in "you are legally required to watch and learn, comrades."
FTFY.
if you do what you love for your 9 to 5, what do you do when you need a break?
Who says you can only be passionate about one thing?
What about Facetalk?
For the high-school student not going into a STEM major, probability and statistics plus a course in financial literacy would be far more useful in terms of real-world applicability than an algebra II course.
I agree completely, and it seems this is a smaller ISP without the policies and procedures of a national ISP. Still, they can act more professionally and not run the business like a bunch of high-school kids.
... employee's accounts immediately upon termination? Kind of a moronic oversight.
Why slave to make 80-100k a year with a Masters degree when you could be making 250-300k as a lawyer....
Bad example. The market is glutted with law school grads; most freshly-minted JD's I know are waiting tables, or at best doing doc review or serving as a research gofer. And the sad thing is, they have six-figure loans to pay back. Plus, routine legal work is increasingly being off-shored or automated as well.
You should look at the Diaspora project. It's a bit immature now, but shows promise. Also, you could make sure to use something like Carbonite and local backups cycled periodically through a safety-deposit box.
For example, you will get a C when you deserve an F
Semester grades should also be given consideration in this discussion. In most accredited, legitimate graduate programmes, a C for the semester is failing, and more than two courses completed with a C are grounds for dismissal from the programme.
There's nothing wrong with the Adam Smith theory of free markets..
The problem is that Randian/Rothbardian libertarians have made Adam Smith into a caricature. They are interpreting his work through a modern lens, and not placing it in an historic context. Those of us who have read The Wealth of Nations (and I have) realise he was largely railing against mercantilism, not governmental regulation of the economy per se.
For a more authoritative treatment of the state of education in the first half of the 19th century, you should read Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Spoiler: autodidacts who amounted to anything were relatively rare, and the vast majority of Americans were ignorant rubes just like they are now. Plus ça change, and all that....
It's like running up a huge credit card bill and talking about all the money you're saving because none of it's coming out of your checking account.
QFT. To extend your (spot-on) analogy further, it's like keeping steady or increasing what you charge to your card, whilst lowering your monthly remittance to the issuer. In other words, you keep racking up compounding interest and deferring the day of reckoning. If more people viewed taxes as periodically paying down revolving debt, the argument would be saner.
you really never played with fire ? we did it... well, not constantly, but often enough. either it was burning small "fireplaces", creating plastic toy car "accidents" or just putting compressed cans in fire - many, many of those things were mighty dangerous, now that i look back on it.
No, I didn't burn stuff when I was a child. Guess I'm just a freak from another planet. *sarcasm*