You know what's a better bargain? Get out of all Gulf Now. The coolidge-era of do-nothing was a cheaper alternative. The business of America is Business and nothing but Business. WTF are we doing sitting and men die in Iraq? Why do fathers and mothers have to wipe sand and grit out of their eyes every day in sand storms? Don't give the B*llsh1t about protecting america. That's laughable...
Stop sending our soldiers to protect democracy and if at all we have to send, let us first start by sending sons and daughters of senators and congressmen. That will cure all "rhetoric cries" in a hurry.
Spend the money on improving social security, universal healthcare like the case of France/Britain, Hydrogen pumping stations all over SUA along the likes of 1930s road-building times.
Whatever money is left, spend it on education and drive O'reilly out of town by making him US Ambassador to Afghanistan or Iraq.
Yeah, companies like GE, etc will shout and threaten job losses. Let them.
Well, its a catch-22 situation. If i use MS Server to face the internet, then i risk getting hacked almost on a daily basis from some script kiddie... if i don't use it, i need to pay Microsoft huge licensing fees and since i can't afford to pay the extortion, i risk being reported to BSA...
On a totally-different topic, anyone using Microsoft server for their internet-facing tasks without adequate (PhD equipped) hardening, DOES deserve the hacking they get....
Why the hell you want to FFW Axe commercials??? They are the last of the good commercials after the Bud ads... Hell i had a friend who believed in the AXE commercial (The elevator advt) that he "quietly" mentioned in the elevator he was wearing AXE. We forced the elevator to stop and all 3 of us males got down leaving him to ride the elevator with the gals....(all 4 of them laughing).
Since "now law is broken" by companies for publishing out private information, we can plead the same by publishing the company's members information online. Every single stockholder, boardmember, CEO, lawyer, employee contact information (including public and private numbers and addresses) should be published online 411.com by us. Once the mighty CEOs and CFOs see their private and unlisted numbers plus email IDs online, am sure the congress and senate would go overnight to enact a law preventing that from happening.
very true. Gmail basic is fast enough without the bloat. I use google apps for my family with my own domain. I wanted to build a customized PDF-linked page as homepage, but saw that apps do not allow the same. Since i used dotMac services, i ended up redirecting my homepage to dotmac. Problem is google apps is suprisingly immature yet.
Free Trade is a MYTH. It has always been, and will always be a myth. True free trade would mean importing Brazil ethanol, importing clothes made by Bangladesh, importing bananas from Chile. It would also mean importing wheat from India, sugar from Cuba, Oranges from Spain.
Smart Grid?? Does it mean another Enron can bill Grandma-on-welfare $13 per KwH in a smart non-criminal way? Whenever these tech companies look into the crystal ball they see stuff that never ceases to amaze me. And this is from the same company which said the world needs probably 5 computers.
Wrong! In fact robotic freighters are more safe. Imagine pirates board a normal vessel and kidnap the crew, which leads to negotiations, etc. Imagine the crew is sitting near the swimming pool in Ceasers' Palace and controlling the ship. They see the pirate ship approaching and shoot off a couple of 15mm rounds from the freighter's guns (assuming they had). And EVEN if the pirates board, today's ships are so complex that they can be electronically locked down and even flood the cabin with argon gas.
However for some reason we don't have robotic ships, while we build robotic voyagers who navigate gravity and pummel out of the solar system.
It is? So you mean i need to use the word with the super suffix: (TM) everytime i use it? To quote stalin: "how many divisions does the pope have? [to enforce it]"?
You probably were in a bad mood when you posted it. My apologies. I agree I dont use any specialized ebook readers. I just use my Dell Axim X5 bought 4 years ago to read Reader and Mobi novels. 20 hours on a single charge??? Amazon Reader or Sony?? Am serious. I guess you are an avid reader to read during take off, landings, and in-between times. Iam just a peasant who happens to read Sir Churchill, Harry Turtledove, Gen Guderian, Gen Manstein, Von Clausewitz and Gibbon. Guess any ebook reader would not hold enough juice for me... Have a Good Day Sir.
During The age of Count of Monte Cristo novel, it was shown to work. Only thing that affected it was Fog, Mist, Rain. Probably reinventing the wheel i guess.
The pathaological pursuit of Profit is the SOLE goal of any corporation. Ethics when it can improve profits is permissible, but not at cost of profit. Any less behavior by any corporation which takes an altruistic view and reduces profit (Exhibit A: BodyShop) will result in instant suing of the board by shareholders.
Expecting corporations to be ethical is like expecting Bush to acknowledge his wrongs and resign.
Landing and Takeoff take about 30 mins max. On a 7 hour flight, it is a tiny slice of time. Am sure any ebook would have run out of juice by that time and reading during landing is the least of your worries, unless you travel by Business/First class.
Not For profit corporations do not mean they don't or can't have profits. Income-Expenses=Surplus. THis surplus is treated as Profit when it is paid out as dividends. It is treated as just excess (not taxable) when it is re-invested.
The original purpose of ANY corporation is to act as a front to the actual investors; the fall guy who goes down financially should something bad happen.
However, in past 100 years, since the Rail Robber Barons, and others, the assault on judiciary to treat a corporation as natural person has grown to such an extent that they are except for the right to vote, a corporation today all rights as a person.
You are right to an extent. The basic difference is this: Speed of innovation == ability to take risk.
Humans have placed 3 things based on risk probability:
Human Life (Least Risk to be taken), One's Property (Medium Risk to be taken), Other's property (max Risk to be taken).
Which is why you have Hospital equipments and software written to the highest standards possible. And which is why Java is not certified for life-threatening applications like Nuclear power plants and like, while Java is approved for E*Trade applications.
Anything that could endanger life is subject to a high degree of verification which leaves little for innovation.
Which is why wall street is very comfortable with losing your money, but reluctant to lose their own.
Coming to airplanes, after Hindenberg's death march, governments have been very reluctant to play with people's lives so that aircraft builders could build a 3,500 MPH Dreamliner.
Its similar to trains. What innovation we had since 1930s for Box Cars, etc?
As you rightly said, unless laws are introduced which allow companies to avoid collateral liability and manslaughter charges, they will play safe. And don't expect congress to pass any law soon enough. Any party which does it would have a death sentence hanging over it.
Playing with people's lives is not "that" important for any party....
Errr.. a slight change. Enron persuaded the Feds to allow it to book 20 years of constant revenue in ONE year. Thus if Enron is supposed to get $100,000 per year for 20 years, then Enron was free to book $100,000 x 20 = $2000,000 as as Single year's income. This facility was allowed to banks for mortgages, etc., and Enron managed to persuade the Fed to do it for Enron too. Sarbanes Oxley neither prevents nor allows it. The Feds prohibited energy trading companies to do it.
Why is Europe always so far ahead of us in this regard?
Because they are actually funded directly by the people. And not by corporates.
Take for instance BBC: It is a public funded news organisation and is the exact opposite of FOX. So BBC has no incentive to like corporate-sponsored candidates and they can actually be true reporters.
Take France: They always hate monopolies, hate corporatocracy, hate anything US-mass made. So for them to rule against Apple is understandable.
Germany: Tricky case. The judiciary is fiercely anti-monopolistic but yet corporate friendly. The parliment is neutral and they are bound by EU laws. And secondly German-made products are faaar superior in quality than chinese-products.
Poland: Fiercely anti-monopolistic and strongly pro-consumer. Alarms corporates a lot.
Finland/Norway/Sweden: All these 3 have totally different but radically same policy: As long as its made in EU they support it. If not in EU, they have a NIH syndrome.
Italy: Let them first get their postal service to work.
Belgium: They can't decide if they want to remain an independent country.
To conclude: EU is mostly pro-consumer and is not awed by corporate money power primarily because EU member presidents and parliments are funded by taxes and public funds, and not by corporates directly.
So they can afford to be altruistic !
True. I buy my music as mp3 from legalsounds or rip audio from FRIENDS tracks to listening. Rarely do i need to use iTunes. However, i have a Mac and nothing syncs with a Mac like an iPod. I don't think Zune works with Mac, although i like to have Zune 2.
Hey! CMU did not kill it. I continue to own large number of books as print copies (Churchill's 6 vol second world war, William Shirer's Rise and Fall of 3rd reich, Clausewitz On War, Arthashastra, etc ). I do own many books on mobipocket copies, but nothing beats a paper. Lets see how Kindle catches up.
Very true. The behavior of the Apple community is much the fiercely conservative republican leadership: Deny, personal attacks, and finally grudging agreement under protest.
Although Apple's forums are extremely helpful, they can be picky at times: In my case all the keys in my iBook 14" keyboard were meticulously pulled out by my 2 year old son when i had kept the lid open by mistake.
When i posted it to apple forums and requested they make keyboards which are child proof, they were non-believing and some of them outright said i ought to be booked for child abuse!!!
Fortunately the admin stepped in and recommended me BrilliantStore to buy an alternate keyboard.
Because Google apps work. Period. They are simple to configure, sign-up and just work. Have you EVER seen a single advertisement in their apps pages for configuration, etc.? Microsoft's apps try to always bombard you with adverts, try to sell you something that is free elsewhere, and generally charge you more to make it work. Oh BTW it gets infected quite soon.
Hmmm... and why do you think government is always right? I remember an incident i read in Presidential Anectodes: Thomas Jefferson was being once raked over coals in press over some remarks he had made. All kinds of insults were being thrusted at him which were lies. An European minister who came to meet jefferson was surprised at these attacks and asked Jefferson why did he not arrest the seditious editor and supress these papers. Jefferson replied: "This is why this is US of America and not europe. These people have a constititional right to say anything they want as long as blood is not spilt".
Presidents then were adamant in respecting the constitition, even at the cost of their own reputation & lives.
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You know what's a better bargain? Get out of all Gulf Now. The coolidge-era of do-nothing was a cheaper alternative.
The business of America is Business and nothing but Business.
WTF are we doing sitting and men die in Iraq?
Why do fathers and mothers have to wipe sand and grit out of their eyes every day in sand storms?
Don't give the B*llsh1t about protecting america. That's laughable...
Stop sending our soldiers to protect democracy and if at all we have to send, let us first start by sending sons and daughters of senators and congressmen. That will cure all "rhetoric cries" in a hurry.
Spend the money on improving social security, universal healthcare like the case of France/Britain, Hydrogen pumping stations all over SUA along the likes of 1930s road-building times.
Whatever money is left, spend it on education and drive O'reilly out of town by making him US Ambassador to Afghanistan or Iraq.
Yeah, companies like GE, etc will shout and threaten job losses. Let them.
Well, its a catch-22 situation.
If i use MS Server to face the internet, then i risk getting hacked almost on a daily basis from some script kiddie...
if i don't use it, i need to pay Microsoft huge licensing fees and since i can't afford to pay the extortion, i risk being reported to BSA...
On a totally-different topic, anyone using Microsoft server for their internet-facing tasks without adequate (PhD equipped) hardening, DOES deserve the hacking they get....
Why the hell you want to FFW Axe commercials???
They are the last of the good commercials after the Bud ads...
Hell i had a friend who believed in the AXE commercial (The elevator advt) that he "quietly" mentioned in the elevator he was wearing AXE.
We forced the elevator to stop and all 3 of us males got down leaving him to ride the elevator with the gals....(all 4 of them laughing).
You shd have seen his face the whole day...
I bet he stopped being buying Axe after that...
Since "now law is broken" by companies for publishing out private information, we can plead the same by publishing the company's members information online.
Every single stockholder, boardmember, CEO, lawyer, employee contact information (including public and private numbers and addresses) should be published online 411.com by us.
Once the mighty CEOs and CFOs see their private and unlisted numbers plus email IDs online, am sure the congress and senate would go overnight to enact a law preventing that from happening.
very true.
Gmail basic is fast enough without the bloat.
I use google apps for my family with my own domain.
I wanted to build a customized PDF-linked page as homepage, but saw that apps do not allow the same.
Since i used dotMac services, i ended up redirecting my homepage to dotmac.
Problem is google apps is suprisingly immature yet.
Free Trade is a MYTH.
It has always been, and will always be a myth.
True free trade would mean importing Brazil ethanol, importing clothes made by Bangladesh, importing bananas from Chile.
It would also mean importing wheat from India, sugar from Cuba, Oranges from Spain.
Smart Grid?? Does it mean another Enron can bill Grandma-on-welfare $13 per KwH in a smart non-criminal way?
Whenever these tech companies look into the crystal ball they see stuff that never ceases to amaze me.
And this is from the same company which said the world needs probably 5 computers.
Wrong! In fact robotic freighters are more safe. Imagine pirates board a normal vessel and kidnap the crew, which leads to negotiations, etc.
Imagine the crew is sitting near the swimming pool in Ceasers' Palace and controlling the ship. They see the pirate ship approaching and shoot off a couple of 15mm rounds from the freighter's guns (assuming they had). And EVEN if the pirates board, today's ships are so complex that they can be electronically locked down and even flood the cabin with argon gas.
However for some reason we don't have robotic ships, while we build robotic voyagers who navigate gravity and pummel out of the solar system.
It is? So you mean i need to use the word with the super suffix: (TM) everytime i use it?
To quote stalin: "how many divisions does the pope have? [to enforce it]"?
You probably were in a bad mood when you posted it. My apologies.
I agree I dont use any specialized ebook readers. I just use my Dell Axim X5 bought 4 years ago to read Reader and Mobi novels.
20 hours on a single charge??? Amazon Reader or Sony?? Am serious.
I guess you are an avid reader to read during take off, landings, and in-between times.
Iam just a peasant who happens to read Sir Churchill, Harry Turtledove, Gen Guderian, Gen Manstein, Von Clausewitz and Gibbon.
Guess any ebook reader would not hold enough juice for me...
Have a Good Day Sir.
During The age of Count of Monte Cristo novel, it was shown to work.
Only thing that affected it was Fog, Mist, Rain.
Probably reinventing the wheel i guess.
The pathaological pursuit of Profit is the SOLE goal of any corporation.
Ethics when it can improve profits is permissible, but not at cost of profit.
Any less behavior by any corporation which takes an altruistic view and reduces profit (Exhibit A: BodyShop) will result in instant suing of the board by shareholders.
Expecting corporations to be ethical is like expecting Bush to acknowledge his wrongs and resign.
Landing and Takeoff take about 30 mins max.
On a 7 hour flight, it is a tiny slice of time. Am sure any ebook would have run out of juice by that time and reading during landing is the least of your worries, unless you travel by Business/First class.
If you are THAT concerned, get a paperback.
Not For profit corporations do not mean they don't or can't have profits.
Income-Expenses=Surplus.
THis surplus is treated as Profit when it is paid out as dividends.
It is treated as just excess (not taxable) when it is re-invested.
The original purpose of ANY corporation is to act as a front to the actual investors; the fall guy who goes down financially should something bad happen.
However, in past 100 years, since the Rail Robber Barons, and others, the assault on judiciary to treat a corporation as natural person has grown to such an extent that they are except for the right to vote, a corporation today all rights as a person.
You are right to an extent.
The basic difference is this:
Speed of innovation == ability to take risk.
Humans have placed 3 things based on risk probability:
Human Life (Least Risk to be taken), One's Property (Medium Risk to be taken), Other's property (max Risk to be taken).
Which is why you have Hospital equipments and software written to the highest standards possible. And which is why Java is not certified for life-threatening applications like Nuclear power plants and like, while Java is approved for E*Trade applications.
Anything that could endanger life is subject to a high degree of verification which leaves little for innovation.
Which is why wall street is very comfortable with losing your money, but reluctant to lose their own.
Coming to airplanes, after Hindenberg's death march, governments have been very reluctant to play with people's lives so that aircraft builders could build a 3,500 MPH Dreamliner.
Its similar to trains. What innovation we had since 1930s for Box Cars, etc?
As you rightly said, unless laws are introduced which allow companies to avoid collateral liability and manslaughter charges, they will play safe.
And don't expect congress to pass any law soon enough. Any party which does it would have a death sentence hanging over it.
Playing with people's lives is not "that" important for any party....
Errr.. a slight change. Enron persuaded the Feds to allow it to book 20 years of constant revenue in ONE year. Thus if Enron is supposed to get $100,000 per year for 20 years, then Enron was free to book $100,000 x 20 = $2000,000 as as Single year's income.
This facility was allowed to banks for mortgages, etc., and Enron managed to persuade the Fed to do it for Enron too.
Sarbanes Oxley neither prevents nor allows it.
The Feds prohibited energy trading companies to do it.
Because they are actually funded directly by the people. And not by corporates.
Take for instance BBC: It is a public funded news organisation and is the exact opposite of FOX. So BBC has no incentive to like corporate-sponsored candidates and they can actually be true reporters.
Take France: They always hate monopolies, hate corporatocracy, hate anything US-mass made. So for them to rule against Apple is understandable.
Germany: Tricky case. The judiciary is fiercely anti-monopolistic but yet corporate friendly. The parliment is neutral and they are bound by EU laws. And secondly German-made products are faaar superior in quality than chinese-products.
Poland: Fiercely anti-monopolistic and strongly pro-consumer. Alarms corporates a lot.
Finland/Norway/Sweden: All these 3 have totally different but radically same policy: As long as its made in EU they support it. If not in EU, they have a NIH syndrome.
Italy: Let them first get their postal service to work.
Belgium: They can't decide if they want to remain an independent country.
To conclude: EU is mostly pro-consumer and is not awed by corporate money power primarily because EU member presidents and parliments are funded by taxes and public funds, and not by corporates directly.
So they can afford to be altruistic !
She need not fear her XP would be turned into a Zombie.
True.
I buy my music as mp3 from legalsounds or rip audio from FRIENDS tracks to listening. Rarely do i need to use iTunes.
However, i have a Mac and nothing syncs with a Mac like an iPod.
I don't think Zune works with Mac, although i like to have Zune 2.
Hey! CMU did not kill it.
I continue to own large number of books as print copies (Churchill's 6 vol second world war, William Shirer's Rise and Fall of 3rd reich, Clausewitz On War, Arthashastra, etc ).
I do own many books on mobipocket copies, but nothing beats a paper.
Lets see how Kindle catches up.
Very true. The behavior of the Apple community is much the fiercely conservative republican leadership: Deny, personal attacks, and finally grudging agreement under protest.
Although Apple's forums are extremely helpful, they can be picky at times: In my case all the keys in my iBook 14" keyboard were meticulously pulled out by my 2 year old son when i had kept the lid open by mistake.
When i posted it to apple forums and requested they make keyboards which are child proof, they were non-believing and some of them outright said i ought to be booked for child abuse!!!
Fortunately the admin stepped in and recommended me BrilliantStore to buy an alternate keyboard.
Because Google apps work. Period. They are simple to configure, sign-up and just work. Have you EVER seen a single advertisement in their apps pages for configuration, etc.?
Microsoft's apps try to always bombard you with adverts, try to sell you something that is free elsewhere, and generally charge you more to make it work.
Oh BTW it gets infected quite soon.
Hmmm... and why do you think government is always right?
I remember an incident i read in Presidential Anectodes: Thomas Jefferson was being once raked over coals in press over some remarks he had made. All kinds of insults were being thrusted at him which were lies.
An European minister who came to meet jefferson was surprised at these attacks and asked Jefferson why did he not arrest the seditious editor and supress these papers.
Jefferson replied: "This is why this is US of America and not europe. These people have a constititional right to say anything they want as long as blood is not spilt".
Presidents then were adamant in respecting the constitition, even at the cost of their own reputation & lives.
song ........ $0.99 .. $749.01
legal fees
Being B1tchslapped by Judge...Priceless
So much info in so little a post.
Seriously yours is the most concise yet most informative post in this thread.
Pity i used my mod points yesterday...