A great deal of it comes from politicians and their "make teachers accountable" speeches, which is an offshoot of the "saving the children" ploy that all politicians use, to appear to be doing something.
The problem is.. everyone is for nuclear power plants.. no one is for building them in their town. If you had the money right now to build a plant, you would have to search really hard to find some remote place to build it.. Then you would go through decades of legal fighting and probably lose..
it would be a sign of power being able to say "See this Whatever? It's mine and hasn't been duplicated". Such a thing would cost bazillions.
But bazillions of what ?.. and what good are bazillions, if anything can be had ?.. If for example I have original "widget 367" that has never been copied by anyone,.. other than personal satisfaction of having something no one else has, it is meaningless in a society where anything else can be had.. The only real value is in trading for other "exclusive" things.. However in this new society I don't think people would consider such people "wealthy", just eccentric.
Well in throwing T-Mobile in there, you should at least note that the situation is this.. If you bought a G1 phone from them, yes your monthly rate is going to be the same as if you supplied the phone yourself, but you have no 2 year obligation for either phone or service.. It is also a strange situation with the G1.., in comparing it to identical services with their other smartphones from T-Mobile, it came out cheaper per month.. so if they are subsidizing the phone, then they are doing it at a gamble since there is no contract.
Most US cities have some form of public transportation, mostly bus.. but some intercity rail.. The real problem isn't on the design of cities, it's that there has been zero investment in connecting cities by rail. Even connecting to the outskirts, such as many airports would be something. My own limited Amtrak experience, is that it sucks.. what is a 2 hour drive by car, takes 5 hours.. They stop at small nothing towns that often don't make sense.. They should stick to the major cities, offering bus connections and speed things up so that people don't feel stupid traveling by train.
Well.. if you had this fantasy matter duplicator, that made identical copies.. Then everything goes out the window anyway. Gold would be worth what ?.. anything would be worth what ?.. I suppose the power to run your duplicating machine would be the most valuable thing.. that and access to things to copy.. Incentive to create new original things, would I suppose just become a matter of fame and reputation, as opposed to monetary. Imagine service and health care industries where it's not about the money.. pretty scary actually.
Well, unless you bought your phone at a store with cash, and buy refills the same way..
I guess I am the "not smart" T-Mobile user, as I bought my prepaid phone through their web site.. You seem to be imply that T-Mobile is somehow a flyby night company... They are in fact 8th largest in the world.. Verizon is 14th., AT&T is 15th., Sprint doesn't make the top 20 and they have slightly more than half as many subscribers as AT&T... Of all these companies, why should I not have trust in T-Mobile ?
Sort of. This is only true if you retain your American citizenship. If you denounce it and become a citizen of another country, you are not obligated to continue paying American taxes.
With a corporation, it is still true in both instances too. It is illegal to hide income offshore for the purpose of avoiding taxes. However, if the company moves a division off shore and incorporated it there as a subdivision, then all that matters if where the parent corporation is located at. If in the US, then all profits passed to the parent corporation will be taxed as normal income. IF the parent corporation isn't based in the US, and it gives up it's US rights, then it is the same as a citizen who gives up it's citizenship rights.
Which all goes back to the point of whether or not a corporation should have "patriotism". Either your an American or not.. Either your an American company or not. Where you live and make your income is regardless of that until you as you say, renounce that status.
I don't hold any animosity.. It's just a fact that as long as it's cheaper at Walmart, most Americans could care less where the stuff is made.. and there are job losses because of it.. That being said, there is quite a support industry behind Walmart. Although their store positions may not pay crap, the people who transport and deal with the logistics and warehousing do quite well..
The ability of you to afford a car based upon Walmart savings is debatable.. People bought cars before there was a Walmart. That there is a lack of jobs, definitely makes it difficult to sell cars, so I don't see Walmart as the savior of the auto industry.
Hope you didn't spend a month and a half of hacking with yours to make your first call, as in the article..
With a GSM carrier, might not be such a big deal, as you could swap the sim into another phone and back to the phone your working on.. here in the US with CDMA, you would have to keep calling sprint to change handsets and that is not a pleasant experience from what I remember.
As an individual, I have a choice to stay in the country I live in, and abide by the laws and regulations of that country. If I don't like those laws and regulations I can leave and become an expatriate.. However even as an expat, I am required to pay taxes on my income. It may be offset some by taxes paid to the country I am living in, but it is still there.. So with that said, the same should be true of corporations. If that is the case, which it isn't but should be, then it just becomes a matter of where the corporation is going to provide jobs.
It is obvious with the success of Walmart, that most Americans could care less about having jobs in the US, and that corporations could care less about providing Americans with jobs as long as there is maximized shareholder profit. I suppose that if you could give a rats ass about the people in your own country, then yes there is nothing patriotic about running a corporation.. The problem is, that as you reduce the number of people with income, you reduce the number of people who can buy your products..
Over 100 incidents in 9 years.. and how many auto incidents in the hour since you posted ?.. how many bus or train incidents in the same 9 years ?.. how many flights takeoff and land at your nearest airport each day ?.. What is interesting, is that I have asked people who won't fly because they fear crashing, if they are afraid of planes falling on them.. no one ever said they were, but there are probably more planes flying over most people per year than flights taken by them.
It has value.. I like it for the convenience of not waiting for torrents to download. but as others have pointed out, there are gaps such as shows not having previous seasons available. There are a few ok movies on it as well, nothing to get excited about though.. but back to the "worth paying for ?" question.. maybe, but not much. It would seriously have to be $10 or under a month, and move the ads outside of the content for me to pay for it (Some of their programs give you an option of a longer "pre-ad" with no interruptions).. but charging to much, and keeping the ads as they are would just force me back into downloading torrents, because Hulu is pretty good, but it's not THAT good.
I imagine it's physical access, but I suppose it could be done other ways.. If it was more widespread than "mostly eastern european countries" then it would probably be more likely done remotely. In many of these countries corruption and bribery are just acceptable and sometime admired ways of life. It's pretty simple to investigate who has access to particular machines and figure it out, but it will probably take something extreme like the card companies refusing to do business in that country to force investigations and tighter security.
If someone gives you money in the state of Washington, is there a gift tax ?.. since file sharing is essentially someone giving something to someone else, how could you tax it ?.. As to Federal, anyone can give anyone else, up to $12,000 with no tax to either party... and then when it goes beyond the 12 grand it is not the burden of the recipient to pay tax, but on the giver. (up to something like a whopping 45 percent)
Is the area designated as a button always the same size as the graphic of the button ?.. why couldn't you do the same thing showing square buttons but sensing triangular or smaller circular areas ?.. You could also use color in the button graphic to target the hotspot, fading to the buttton edges.
It isn't about being a 9-5 worker.. and yes I know there is the assumption that "everybody else does it".. and it is very common thinking that having the equipment is a "perk" of the job. All wrong thinking in my book.. Think of it this way.. Would you ok with your boss standing over you shoulder on these other uses of the equipment ? and what would you say to him if he were ?.. If you had a company credit card, would you use it to buy things for yourself and then pay them back ?
I have had the company cell, the credit cards, and company PC (no laptop though) and I was on call and worked numerous off hours (Isn't salary fun ?).. No one from my personal life had the cell number.. every single web site viewed on my PC and all email was company related. I have a personal cell as well, which was for the most part off during work hours.. At home I have my own computer and internet connection to do with as I please, which is what other people who work for the company, without company equipment, have to do.. I was paid better than those who didn't have these things, and it was expected of me to solve problems when I was called. The higher pay was not only for the interruptions in my time off (as we all know, your supposed to get comp time.. hah hah), it was also for being responsible. I took it seriously, and I was extremely effective without totally sacrificing my own interests.
I don't mind em.. just never liked AOL's.. I also didn't care much for Yahoo either, but Excite has gone to crap over the years so I gave em a try.. Then tried my providers (att) which is a Yahoo hybrid I guess.. and that's where I'm at today.. Yes I can do and find all the things separately, but I kind of like having a customized starting point, which I can use or not.
But they also expect me to be available 24/7 and to use that email & laptop anytime and anywhere. Of course I use the company property for personal and private activities
No matter how intertwined "you" have made them, your personal and professional life are two separate things. If you have company equipment such as laptop and cell phone you do not have to use them for your personal communications. Get your own equipment for your personal use. If that means carrying 2 cell phones, then do that. If you absolutely have to have a laptop for travel and can't do without your own communications then carry your own laptop or a PDA that will get you by. Using company equipment is for company business and comes with responsibility.. you get paid to be responsible. Use some of that pay to fund your own non company activities.
If fingerprinting were in fact tied to all ID.. drivers license passports etc.. it could reduce fraud I suppose.. I really don't have a problem with that.. If that's what we do, then fine.. but just make the decision and implement it beforehand.. no playing CSI at the airport.. and international flights of all things.. I mean you have to have a passport, it's either valid or not, and the picture either looks like you or not.. The only thing fingerprinting could add is to determine if someone somehow obtained an additional passport under another name. I doubt this airport fingerprinting will discover this, but who knows.. maybe like most police activities they're just hoping to get lucky.
Businesses are a good start because if they can get Windwos-equivalent software -- not "Windows-only-just-good-enough-for-most-users" software -- on their employees workstations then the home will follow naturally.
For the things that most people do at home, there are similar apps for Linux available.. Just as for most apps in Windows there are similar apps available in Windows itself.. Both platforms have good and bad apps, and both for the most part have alternative apps for most things.. these all offer different user experiences, and everyone develops their own opinions on what they think works best for them.. For me, I don't have a problem with the quality or quantity of Linux applications.. I can do everything I need to do.. and I am happy with the pace of upgrades, fixes, and development of the things I use.. I keep hearing how this is some major problem, but that is not my experience.
As to the "workplace".. Yes it would be nice for Linux to get some exposure there.. but it's like this.. businesses like their turnkey "buy what you need in a package" approach.. and this is not a fault of Linux applications, but more a lack of people willing to put together such bundles and sell and support them.. and the lack of businesses willing to do things differently than their competitors (which is probably the same problem with business software providers)...
I think that it is more likely that the reverse will happen.. there will be exposure in the home market leading to a business looking into converting.. the opposite scenario just isn't going to happen very often right now
The difference is, that you can shop for phones outside of the ones provided by the carrier.. Yes you have to be smart about it and look for proper 3G compatibility.. but these compatibility decisions are made by the various phone manufactures not the carrier, and some cover more bases than others.
I'm sure that this happens to a point.. This is also reportedly the same problem with former soviet states,, however I am skeptical as to the size of the problem, for several reasons.. First, you have to examine the supply of "willing" prostitutes.. In many of these countries it would be so much easier to obtain a willing participant, than to "dupe" someone.. the problems, and risk involved don't make sense.. I suspect that many of the reports of being "tricked into it", are false.. because these women who get caught have to go home to face the authorities in their home country, and their family and friends.. Is it more likely they are going to admit they did it willingly or to say they are a victim ?
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A great deal of it comes from politicians and their "make teachers accountable" speeches, which is an offshoot of the "saving the children" ploy that all politicians use, to appear to be doing something.
The problem is.. everyone is for nuclear power plants.. no one is for building them in their town. If you had the money right now to build a plant, you would have to search really hard to find some remote place to build it.. Then you would go through decades of legal fighting and probably lose..
it would be a sign of power being able to say "See this Whatever? It's mine and hasn't been duplicated". Such a thing would cost bazillions.
But bazillions of what ?.. and what good are bazillions, if anything can be had ? .. If for example I have original "widget 367" that has never been copied by anyone,.. other than personal satisfaction of having something no one else has, it is meaningless in a society where anything else can be had.. The only real value is in trading for other "exclusive" things.. However in this new society I don't think people would consider such people "wealthy", just eccentric.
Well in throwing T-Mobile in there, you should at least note that the situation is this.. If you bought a G1 phone from them, yes your monthly rate is going to be the same as if you supplied the phone yourself, but you have no 2 year obligation for either phone or service.. It is also a strange situation with the G1.., in comparing it to identical services with their other smartphones from T-Mobile, it came out cheaper per month.. so if they are subsidizing the phone, then they are doing it at a gamble since there is no contract.
Most US cities have some form of public transportation, mostly bus.. but some intercity rail.. The real problem isn't on the design of cities, it's that there has been zero investment in connecting cities by rail. Even connecting to the outskirts, such as many airports would be something. My own limited Amtrak experience, is that it sucks.. what is a 2 hour drive by car, takes 5 hours.. They stop at small nothing towns that often don't make sense.. They should stick to the major cities, offering bus connections and speed things up so that people don't feel stupid traveling by train.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operators
Well.. if you had this fantasy matter duplicator, that made identical copies.. Then everything goes out the window anyway. Gold would be worth what ? .. anything would be worth what ? .. I suppose the power to run your duplicating machine would be the most valuable thing.. that and access to things to copy.. Incentive to create new original things, would I suppose just become a matter of fame and reputation, as opposed to monetary. Imagine service and health care industries where it's not about the money.. pretty scary actually.
Well, unless you bought your phone at a store with cash, and buy refills the same way..
I guess I am the "not smart" T-Mobile user, as I bought my prepaid phone through their web site.. You seem to be imply that T-Mobile is somehow a flyby night company ... They are in fact 8th largest in the world.. Verizon is 14th., AT&T is 15th., Sprint doesn't make the top 20 and they have slightly more than half as many subscribers as AT&T... Of all these companies, why should I not have trust in T-Mobile ?
Your suppose to use BLING to search for sex.. not bing.. sheesh !
Well .. What then ? ... you've traveled to a foreign land where you don't know the language and shown the barmaid on a napkin that you can add.
Sort of. This is only true if you retain your American citizenship. If you denounce it and become a citizen of another country, you are not obligated to continue paying American taxes.
With a corporation, it is still true in both instances too. It is illegal to hide income offshore for the purpose of avoiding taxes. However, if the company moves a division off shore and incorporated it there as a subdivision, then all that matters if where the parent corporation is located at. If in the US, then all profits passed to the parent corporation will be taxed as normal income. IF the parent corporation isn't based in the US, and it gives up it's US rights, then it is the same as a citizen who gives up it's citizenship rights.
Which all goes back to the point of whether or not a corporation should have "patriotism". Either your an American or not.. Either your an American company or not. Where you live and make your income is regardless of that until you as you say, renounce that status.
I don't hold any animosity.. It's just a fact that as long as it's cheaper at Walmart, most Americans could care less where the stuff is made.. and there are job losses because of it.. That being said, there is quite a support industry behind Walmart. Although their store positions may not pay crap, the people who transport and deal with the logistics and warehousing do quite well..
The ability of you to afford a car based upon Walmart savings is debatable.. People bought cars before there was a Walmart. That there is a lack of jobs, definitely makes it difficult to sell cars, so I don't see Walmart as the savior of the auto industry.
Hope you didn't spend a month and a half of hacking with yours to make your first call, as in the article..
With a GSM carrier, might not be such a big deal, as you could swap the sim into another phone and back to the phone your working on.. here in the US with CDMA, you would have to keep calling sprint to change handsets and that is not a pleasant experience from what I remember.
As an individual, I have a choice to stay in the country I live in, and abide by the laws and regulations of that country. If I don't like those laws and regulations I can leave and become an expatriate.. However even as an expat, I am required to pay taxes on my income. It may be offset some by taxes paid to the country I am living in, but it is still there.. So with that said, the same should be true of corporations. If that is the case, which it isn't but should be, then it just becomes a matter of where the corporation is going to provide jobs.
It is obvious with the success of Walmart, that most Americans could care less about having jobs in the US, and that corporations could care less about providing Americans with jobs as long as there is maximized shareholder profit. I suppose that if you could give a rats ass about the people in your own country, then yes there is nothing patriotic about running a corporation.. The problem is, that as you reduce the number of people with income, you reduce the number of people who can buy your products..
Over 100 incidents in 9 years.. and how many auto incidents in the hour since you posted ? .. how many bus or train incidents in the same 9 years ? .. how many flights takeoff and land at your nearest airport each day ? .. What is interesting, is that I have asked people who won't fly because they fear crashing, if they are afraid of planes falling on them.. no one ever said they were, but there are probably more planes flying over most people per year than flights taken by them.
It has value.. I like it for the convenience of not waiting for torrents to download. but as others have pointed out, there are gaps such as shows not having previous seasons available. There are a few ok movies on it as well, nothing to get excited about though.. but back to the "worth paying for ?" question.. maybe, but not much. It would seriously have to be $10 or under a month, and move the ads outside of the content for me to pay for it (Some of their programs give you an option of a longer "pre-ad" with no interruptions).. but charging to much, and keeping the ads as they are would just force me back into downloading torrents, because Hulu is pretty good, but it's not THAT good.
I imagine it's physical access, but I suppose it could be done other ways.. If it was more widespread than "mostly eastern european countries" then it would probably be more likely done remotely. In many of these countries corruption and bribery are just acceptable and sometime admired ways of life. It's pretty simple to investigate who has access to particular machines and figure it out, but it will probably take something extreme like the card companies refusing to do business in that country to force investigations and tighter security.
If someone gives you money in the state of Washington, is there a gift tax ? .. since file sharing is essentially someone giving something to someone else, how could you tax it ? .. As to Federal, anyone can give anyone else, up to $12,000 with no tax to either party... and then when it goes beyond the 12 grand it is not the burden of the recipient to pay tax, but on the giver. (up to something like a whopping 45 percent)
Is the area designated as a button always the same size as the graphic of the button ? .. why couldn't you do the same thing showing square buttons but sensing triangular or smaller circular areas ? .. You could also use color in the button graphic to target the hotspot, fading to the buttton edges.
It isn't about being a 9-5 worker.. and yes I know there is the assumption that "everybody else does it".. and it is very common thinking that having the equipment is a "perk" of the job. All wrong thinking in my book.. Think of it this way.. Would you ok with your boss standing over you shoulder on these other uses of the equipment ? and what would you say to him if he were ? .. If you had a company credit card, would you use it to buy things for yourself and then pay them back ?
I have had the company cell, the credit cards, and company PC (no laptop though) and I was on call and worked numerous off hours (Isn't salary fun ?).. No one from my personal life had the cell number.. every single web site viewed on my PC and all email was company related. I have a personal cell as well, which was for the most part off during work hours.. At home I have my own computer and internet connection to do with as I please, which is what other people who work for the company, without company equipment, have to do.. I was paid better than those who didn't have these things, and it was expected of me to solve problems when I was called. The higher pay was not only for the interruptions in my time off (as we all know, your supposed to get comp time.. hah hah), it was also for being responsible. I took it seriously, and I was extremely effective without totally sacrificing my own interests.
I don't mind em.. just never liked AOL's .. I also didn't care much for Yahoo either, but Excite has gone to crap over the years so I gave em a try.. Then tried my providers (att) which is a Yahoo hybrid I guess.. and that's where I'm at today.. Yes I can do and find all the things separately, but I kind of like having a customized starting point, which I can use or not.
But they also expect me to be available 24/7 and to use that email & laptop anytime and anywhere. Of course I use the company property for personal and private activities
No matter how intertwined "you" have made them, your personal and professional life are two separate things. If you have company equipment such as laptop and cell phone you do not have to use them for your personal communications. Get your own equipment for your personal use. If that means carrying 2 cell phones, then do that. If you absolutely have to have a laptop for travel and can't do without your own communications then carry your own laptop or a PDA that will get you by. Using company equipment is for company business and comes with responsibility.. you get paid to be responsible. Use some of that pay to fund your own non company activities.
If fingerprinting were in fact tied to all ID.. drivers license passports etc.. it could reduce fraud I suppose.. I really don't have a problem with that.. If that's what we do, then fine.. but just make the decision and implement it beforehand.. no playing CSI at the airport.. and international flights of all things.. I mean you have to have a passport, it's either valid or not, and the picture either looks like you or not.. The only thing fingerprinting could add is to determine if someone somehow obtained an additional passport under another name. I doubt this airport fingerprinting will discover this, but who knows.. maybe like most police activities they're just hoping to get lucky.
Businesses are a good start because if they can get Windwos-equivalent software -- not "Windows-only-just-good-enough-for-most-users" software -- on their employees workstations then the home will follow naturally.
For the things that most people do at home, there are similar apps for Linux available.. Just as for most apps in Windows there are similar apps available in Windows itself.. Both platforms have good and bad apps, and both for the most part have alternative apps for most things.. these all offer different user experiences, and everyone develops their own opinions on what they think works best for them.. For me, I don't have a problem with the quality or quantity of Linux applications.. I can do everything I need to do.. and I am happy with the pace of upgrades, fixes, and development of the things I use.. I keep hearing how this is some major problem, but that is not my experience.
As to the "workplace".. Yes it would be nice for Linux to get some exposure there.. but it's like this.. businesses like their turnkey "buy what you need in a package" approach.. and this is not a fault of Linux applications, but more a lack of people willing to put together such bundles and sell and support them.. and the lack of businesses willing to do things differently than their competitors (which is probably the same problem with business software providers)...
I think that it is more likely that the reverse will happen.. there will be exposure in the home market leading to a business looking into converting.. the opposite scenario just isn't going to happen very often right now
The difference is, that you can shop for phones outside of the ones provided by the carrier.. Yes you have to be smart about it and look for proper 3G compatibility.. but these compatibility decisions are made by the various phone manufactures not the carrier, and some cover more bases than others.
I'm sure that this happens to a point.. This is also reportedly the same problem with former soviet states,, however I am skeptical as to the size of the problem, for several reasons.. First, you have to examine the supply of "willing" prostitutes.. In many of these countries it would be so much easier to obtain a willing participant, than to "dupe" someone.. the problems, and risk involved don't make sense.. I suspect that many of the reports of being "tricked into it", are false.. because these women who get caught have to go home to face the authorities in their home country, and their family and friends.. Is it more likely they are going to admit they did it willingly or to say they are a victim ?