They are very well aware that you are able to get your news elsewhere. They just want money if they are the source.
And even if it isn't a law now, it could be in the future. For better or for worse.
Some things that were allowed in the past are not now (e.g. Soft drugs/Slavery) Some things that were forbidden in the past are allowed now (Find your own examples)
Just because something is allowed/forbidden now does not mean it should always be that way.
When I was in school, we had an open day for parents to visit. This mainly directed at getting new kids to join the school, so for new parents.
We were asked first to do something with paper that changed color. I told the teacher that that would look very boring and we should do something that includes a lot of twirled tubes and some flames and something that just LOOKS what people think chemistry should look like.
He asked what I was thinking about and I responded 'making alcohol'. We did just that. Looked great. I was 13 or 14 at the time.
Everybody was interested. No parent was offended, but then I live in Europe.
How about the situation where the crime would have been ignored and forgotten if they hadn't done what they did?
Having a justice system that fails sometimes is better then no justice system at all. Yes, mistakes will be made. Yes, guilty people will be set free or never be charged. A small price to pay (even if that means some people die) then to have no system at all.
Letting Anonymous be the judge and jury means having no system at all. Telling a person is guilty without due process is not a good thing, no matter how you look at it.
Anyway this car is great for college students and poor folks or those who are sensible and do not want to see half their paycheck just go to get to work in order to look cool to their neighbors.
That seems to be the general idea here,. However that will lead people to believe that those who drive it are poor. That will lead to less people buying it.
What you should look at is that it also can be a great second car. Cheap to use, so you can buy an even bigger TV or pay off your first car.
It can be a great car just to go to work and back again. Standing still in traffic is not something you need a huge car for. I know that many people will find excuses as to why it won't be for them, but that is just an excuse for themselves to get a larger car.
I never played video games. I bought books and typed games in days on end on my C64, but I never played them. Later I played Wolfenstein and then DOOM, but always in God mode. This because I was more interested in how things worked and not in the game play itself.
When I bought World Of Goo, I looked at the YouTube solutions and then did them after trying 2 or 3 times.
It was not video games that made me interested in computers. It was computers. My first program was on a HP41C. Even before that I was interested in computers.
Tracking commuters has been on the increase with the use of license-plate scaners. When you get them to use a bicycle, that advantage is no longer an option
Bicycles in Belgium used to have had a license plates: Some samples: http://s.houghi.org/y4jq5k Each year there was a different shape and color.
So don't be alarmed when (not if) they start doing this.
Please hand over your geek card if you can not understand why there are different systems. Compare it to operating systems: There is one closed system coming from America that has a monopoly and can do whatever it likes. Then there comes an open system from Europe that breaks that monopoly and is intended to be used by the people made for the people. (See what I did there?)
I grudgingly use Facebook (Forcebook, Farcebook, Facebroke, Facebork) because so many of my real friends from overseas postings here and there can be found on it.
I have many people I know that are overseas as well. If we want to keep in contact, we email or phone each other.
Those who can not take the time to do that, I do not really consider friends. Not everybody I know is a friend, nor does that person needs to be.
Inline editing is terrible if you give them ALL options.
First it has nothing to do with development. It has to do with content.
What we did was first disable anything that could be abused. This included almost anything. What was left was bullets, bold, the colors black and red and links. Also placing images was allowed.
Next we explained everybody how to use those things and had the amount of users limited. Never had an issue.
If it can break anything, then the developer did a shoddy job.
And that is your problem right there. I have NO idea what has been promoted and even if it were ALL ads that I would not only was willing to buy, but was actually looking for. Even if it would be 100% what I was looking for, I would still not use them. I do not value a company for their marketing results.
Also I know they are not interested in individual users. Every marketing company knows they will NEVER have 100% targeted results.
With direct marketing we were happy if we had 1% correct. That means we did not mind having it wrong 99% of the time.
But you can. Vote with your wallet, or in their case, your date. Do not give it to them.
I have all of facebook in my DNS server pointed towards oblivion (You could use your hosts file as well). I don't have an account with them. The one I had was not my real name. So unless people host the linking image on their own server, I don't even see them.
I agree with them on that part. For me animals should live free or bread for consumption. Having them as pets is unnatural.
And when breading them, please let them roam around as much as possible. Do not put them in cages. Not because it is cruel, but because it ruins the taste and structure of the meat.
And FYI: You don't own a cat. Nobody does. Either you hold it prison or it tolerates you.
The only way this could work is if companies were people and if they owned the government, but that is silly as companies are clearly not people and the government is there for the people. There is no way this will ever change. Amazing that you all do not know that.
Now for something more serious. I am from 1985 and my time machine is broken. How can I get back?
A company that puts "time at your desk" before "results" will be eaten by one that has the two in the correct order.
One also does not exclude the other. If you put results before time at your desk, that will end in people working double shifts for the same pay. Now this might be great for the company and the shareholders, but not for the people working there. Some will move away to companies that have a better work/home balance and others will burn out and become less productive.
The other way obviously is also not an option, as then people would be doing nothing while at the office.
So instead of picking one, pick both of them and see that they are equal. When I look at the evaluation forms we have, I see several KPIs. Time at your desk and results are both on it, as well as others.
This is basically every company I worked for in Europe. If you do 2-5 hours of overtime a week it will be much. That is 30 minutes to 1 hour per day.
Where I work now, when I do one hour overtime, my manager comes to me and asks when I want to take that hour back and go home early or come in late.
If there are 2 people working 60 hours a week, it could also be 3 people working 40 and most likely more efficient as they won't be burned out.
Now you could say that if I would work 60 hours instead of 40, I could earn 50% more. (Not true, but let us assume that) I still would not be willing to do that, because I work to live. I do not live to work. This is also understood by all the bosses I have had and they do the same.
Yes, most of the companies made money and some lost money, just like any other business in the world.
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Another thing that should be done s to introduce the US to the 21st century and use the chip reader like the rest of the world.
Sure, that won't be 100% proof, but it is a LOT better then without it.
People will complain that it will be expensive, yet everybody in the rest of the world was somehow able to pay for it.
You, sir, are a hero.
And I mean that not in how the media calls everybody a hero. I mean that as a man admired for his achievements and noble qualities
They are very well aware that you are able to get your news elsewhere. They just want money if they are the source.
And even if it isn't a law now, it could be in the future. For better or for worse.
Some things that were allowed in the past are not now (e.g. Soft drugs/Slavery)
Some things that were forbidden in the past are allowed now (Find your own examples)
Just because something is allowed/forbidden now does not mean it should always be that way.
That is a workaround. A solution would be a government for the people(1), by the people(1).
(1)Not including companies as they are people as well.
I know it is too late to change anything now, but I still feel that a robot.txt is an opt-out.
In hindsight it would have been better to have opt-in robot.txt. No robot.txt? No indexing.
A bit like opt-out and opt-in for almost anything else. opt-in should be the default, not opt-out.
mod parent up
It's not an iPad. I want and iPad. (Originated from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg)
In Korea, only old people make cuisine jokes.
The last time I read about this, the person was not yelling "Put them in jail." but rather "Off with their heads!"
When I was in school, we had an open day for parents to visit. This mainly directed at getting new kids to join the school, so for new parents.
We were asked first to do something with paper that changed color. I told the teacher that that would look very boring and we should do something that includes a lot of twirled tubes and some flames and something that just LOOKS what people think chemistry should look like.
He asked what I was thinking about and I responded 'making alcohol'. We did just that. Looked great. I was 13 or 14 at the time.
Everybody was interested. No parent was offended, but then I live in Europe.
Having a justice system that fails sometimes is better then no justice system at all.
Yes, mistakes will be made. Yes, guilty people will be set free or never be charged. A small price to pay (even if that means some people die) then to have no system at all.
Letting Anonymous be the judge and jury means having no system at all. Telling a person is guilty without due process is not a good thing, no matter how you look at it.
I never played video games. I bought books and typed games in days on end on my C64, but I never played them. Later I played Wolfenstein and then DOOM, but always in God mode. This because I was more interested in how things worked and not in the game play itself.
When I bought World Of Goo, I looked at the YouTube solutions and then did them after trying 2 or 3 times.
It was not video games that made me interested in computers. It was computers. My first program was on a HP41C. Even before that I was interested in computers.
But games? Never.
Bicycles in Belgium used to have had a license plates:
Some samples: http://s.houghi.org/y4jq5k
Each year there was a different shape and color.
So don't be alarmed when (not if) they start doing this.
Please hand over your geek card if you can not understand why there are different systems. Compare it to operating systems:
There is one closed system coming from America that has a monopoly and can do whatever it likes.
Then there comes an open system from Europe that breaks that monopoly and is intended to be used by the people made for the people.
(See what I did there?)
I have many people I know that are overseas as well. If we want to keep in contact, we email or phone each other.
Those who can not take the time to do that, I do not really consider friends. Not everybody I know is a friend, nor does that person needs to be.
http://goo.gl/maps/XfYm3
Look at step 16
Inline editing is terrible if you give them ALL options.
First it has nothing to do with development. It has to do with content.
What we did was first disable anything that could be abused. This included almost anything. What was left was bullets, bold, the colors black and red and links. Also placing images was allowed.
Next we explained everybody how to use those things and had the amount of users limited. Never had an issue.
If it can break anything, then the developer did a shoddy job.
But you can. Vote with your wallet, or in their case, your date. Do not give it to them.
I have all of facebook in my DNS server pointed towards oblivion (You could use your hosts file as well). I don't have an account with them. The one I had was not my real name.
So unless people host the linking image on their own server, I don't even see them.
The only way this could work is if companies were people and if they owned the government, but that is silly as companies are clearly not people and the government is there for the people. There is no way this will ever change.
Amazing that you all do not know that.
Now for something more serious. I am from 1985 and my time machine is broken. How can I get back?
One also does not exclude the other. If you put results before time at your desk, that will end in people working double shifts for the same pay.
Now this might be great for the company and the shareholders, but not for the people working there. Some will move away to companies that have a better work/home balance and others will burn out and become less productive.
The other way obviously is also not an option, as then people would be doing nothing while at the office.
So instead of picking one, pick both of them and see that they are equal. When I look at the evaluation forms we have, I see several KPIs. Time at your desk and results are both on it, as well as others.
This is basically every company I worked for in Europe. If you do 2-5 hours of overtime a week it will be much. That is 30 minutes to 1 hour per day.
Where I work now, when I do one hour overtime, my manager comes to me and asks when I want to take that hour back and go home early or come in late.
If there are 2 people working 60 hours a week, it could also be 3 people working 40 and most likely more efficient as they won't be burned out.
Now you could say that if I would work 60 hours instead of 40, I could earn 50% more. (Not true, but let us assume that) I still would not be willing to do that, because I work to live. I do not live to work. This is also understood by all the bosses I have had and they do the same.
Yes, most of the companies made money and some lost money, just like any other business in the world.