The ad companies would probably route around this function, and adjust their rates accordingly.
Besides, if I were coding adblock, I would want to be honest. Clicking the ad without viewing it is, IMHO, terribly dishonest. Setting my adblock filter so only text ads get through registers my disgust with blinky flash and gif ads and allows me to help pay for sites I use.
The extensibility and open source make firefox a kick-ass browser. They do not guarantee a large installed user base. For you, those extensions are major goodies, but how many people whose geeks installed firefox for them are going to spend time installing extensions? Not too many. The sheer inertia of regular users tilts the odds in favor of IE7, especially when those same regular users buy a new Longhorn box.
Seriously. If you are feeling suicidal then there is a problem with you as a person. You are week. The fact a person claims they considered suicide and lived to tell about it demonstrate this weakness. It has been my experience that when somone suggest they are going to commit suicide, that trying to help them do it, snaps them right out of it.
If you have a genetic disorder, does that mean there is a problem with you as a person? Because that's about how much control most suicidal people have over their feelings. The fact that a person claims they considered suicide and told someone about it shows that they actually had the gumption to get up and tell someone. That is actually an extremely hard thing for someone in that state to do. I've been there, I know.
If you cannot cope with what everyone else is dealing with, profesional help is probaly the only answer.
For someone who is depressed and/or suicidal, professional help is one of the most infuriating aspects of the whole ordeal. If you're trying out antidepressants, each takes at least two weeks to _start_ working, and it's usually hit-or-miss as to whether they will even partially help. And if you are suicidal, the focus of the treatment switches from a "what's best for the patient" mentality to a "how do I keep this guy from killing himself so I don't lose my job" kind of mentality.
Google already has a social network of sorts mapped out among gmail users. Through their "beta" system of invites, they can monitor who asked whom to join gmail. With an IM client, they could learn even more about who knows whom: who chats with whom, how frequently they chat, content of discussions, etc. I'm not sure that they're going to be evil, but keep in mind that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
(3) have demonstrated a level of support of at least 15 percent of the national electorate, as determined by five selected national public opinion polling organizations, using the average of those organizations' most recent publicly-reported results.
Why is this a criteria for inclusion in a presidential debate? It isn't a criteria for the actual election. IIRC, Gore won the greater number of the national electorate, but only the vote of the Electoral College counts toward actually becoming President. So shouldn't the criteria for the debate be the same as the criteria for election?
This might be a little offtopic, but haven't you noticed that the last time that Congress passed an official resolution declaring war on a sovereign nation was for World War II??? Constitutionally speaking, we haven't been at war since 1945. The fact that Bush even had the authority to go to war on his whim is appalling. Sure, Congress voted to give him the authority to do whatever he deemed necessary, but that was with the spectre of SEPTEMBER 11 over the Congresspersons heads. Republicans were going to support Bush, and if the Democrats didn't and there was a terrorist attack, the Republicans would point the finger and say, "See! We could have prevented this if they had given us power not provided for in the Constitution! Vote Republican because it's safer!"
"It stands in marked contrast to existing law and prior decisions that have determined that Congress was well within its constitutional authority to adopt legislation that prevented trafficking in copies of unauthorised performances of live music," spokesman Jonathan Lamy said.
The big problem with science fiction isn't specific to the genre; instead, it is a problem in the whole publishing world. Books aren't being edited like they once were. Major chains are giving shelf space to the next Harry Potter or Da Vinci Code, and don't have the time or energy to edit books that will have far smaller circulations. That being said, authors aren't coming up with work that is both intelligent and massively popular; the last example of that was probably Neuromancer, and maybe Snow Crash.
In A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin spelled Owl's name as Wol. The Pembroke College Winnie the Pooh Society has a picture of this occurence. So I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say that this is an intelligent literary reference.
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The ad companies would probably route around this function, and adjust their rates accordingly.
Besides, if I were coding adblock, I would want to be honest. Clicking the ad without viewing it is, IMHO, terribly dishonest. Setting my adblock filter so only text ads get through registers my disgust with blinky flash and gif ads and allows me to help pay for sites I use.
from the TINSTAAFL dept.
It's TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. At least according to Heinlein.
The extensibility and open source make firefox a kick-ass browser. They do not guarantee a large installed user base. For you, those extensions are major goodies, but how many people whose geeks installed firefox for them are going to spend time installing extensions? Not too many. The sheer inertia of regular users tilts the odds in favor of IE7, especially when those same regular users buy a new Longhorn box.
Yeah, in dog years.
If you have a genetic disorder, does that mean there is a problem with you as a person? Because that's about how much control most suicidal people have over their feelings. The fact that a person claims they considered suicide and told someone about it shows that they actually had the gumption to get up and tell someone. That is actually an extremely hard thing for someone in that state to do. I've been there, I know.
If you cannot cope with what everyone else is dealing with, profesional help is probaly the only answer.
For someone who is depressed and/or suicidal, professional help is one of the most infuriating aspects of the whole ordeal. If you're trying out antidepressants, each takes at least two weeks to _start_ working, and it's usually hit-or-miss as to whether they will even partially help. And if you are suicidal, the focus of the treatment switches from a "what's best for the patient" mentality to a "how do I keep this guy from killing himself so I don't lose my job" kind of mentality.
The real question is, how many slashdotters are in a successful relationship?
This comment isn't flamebait, TFA is flamebait.
The only way that the editors could have caught this would have been to actually follow every link. Shocking, I know.
This is a full-blown logical fallacy, known as "poisoning the well".
When you're selling tins of a gelatinous substance that passes as meat, you'll take any advertising you can get.
Did anyone else read that as "Verizon seeks a Unix Free-BSD Municipal Wireless Grid"?
Boy I'm tired.
Funny, I thought that Google Images was out of beta.
Google already has a social network of sorts mapped out among gmail users. Through their "beta" system of invites, they can monitor who asked whom to join gmail. With an IM client, they could learn even more about who knows whom: who chats with whom, how frequently they chat, content of discussions, etc. I'm not sure that they're going to be evil, but keep in mind that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Why is this a criteria for inclusion in a presidential debate? It isn't a criteria for the actual election. IIRC, Gore won the greater number of the national electorate, but only the vote of the Electoral College counts toward actually becoming President. So shouldn't the criteria for the debate be the same as the criteria for election?
Possibly offtopic, but I think all these dupes give the moderators a welcome break from having to hear rants about how Winbloze is teh sux0r.
Excuse me while I throw up now.
The point of copyright is to let the creator profit off of his/her work for a time, but not to keep the work out of the public domain perpetually.
"It stands in marked contrast to existing law and prior decisions that have determined that Congress was well within its constitutional authority to adopt legislation that prevented trafficking in copies of unauthorised performances of live music," spokesman Jonathan Lamy said.
So the performances were illegal?
The big problem with science fiction isn't specific to the genre; instead, it is a problem in the whole publishing world. Books aren't being edited like they once were. Major chains are giving shelf space to the next Harry Potter or Da Vinci Code, and don't have the time or energy to edit books that will have far smaller circulations. That being said, authors aren't coming up with work that is both intelligent and massively popular; the last example of that was probably Neuromancer, and maybe Snow Crash.
In A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin spelled Owl's name as Wol. The Pembroke College Winnie the Pooh Society has a picture of this occurence. So I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say that this is an intelligent literary reference.
Dude, his number is lower than yours! I can't believe that you created an account just to reply to his post!