... which still doesn't make them correct from a business standpoint. Excessive reliance on one client is risky. Wal-Mart's suppliers would be smart to seek other sources of revenue. Sites using Adsense would be smart to seek other sources of revenue.
Bist sounds like Best, but it's highly unlikely to be a typo (the keys are too far apart)
On the Dvorak keyboard, which a lot of typosquatters target, the i and e are very close together. (They're at the d and g positions of the Qwerty keyboard.)
Imaging scenario. Company X (Apple in the story) develops new cool product. Employee A leaks (for money or for fun) info about the product. Patent holding companies/competitors Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc start patenting *everything* possibly related to the product. Product comes on market. Patents as usually get granted and competitors start sueing company X.
Still, if you required hands-free, wouldn't that reduce the percentage of drivers yacking on the phone? People don't always remember to bring along their hands-free device.
Lower percentage of people on cell phones means these laws do at least a little bit of good.
Yeah, it's interesting how few of the posters rated 5 actually read TFA. The Red Cross isn't talking about suing anybody. It's not going to send out threatening cease and desist letters. Instead it's going to work on having games developed where, for example, players would get points for respecting humanitarian workers.
So why not become independently wealthy? Imagine if you saved just 1 out of every 5 dollars you take home. Put it into a total stock market index mutual fund, which has an expected rate of return of about 10% per year (based on historical data).
Suppose you take home (after taxes) $1,000 a week. You put $200 of that each week into your index fund.
After just two years, you'll be making so much money just in passive investment income (which means money from not working) to cover a full month of rent (over $2,000).
After five years of continuing this investment plan, you'll be making over $6,000 a year just in investment income.
After 10 years, you've got a nice $16,500 boost to your salary each year... automatically, with zero work on your part.
By year 20, you've got almost $600k in savings, and you're bringing in $60k a year, just for sitting around doing nothing.
You CAN become independently wealthy... but it requires a bit of discipline on your part (saving 1 out of every 5 dollars you take home). Put away 20%. You won't even miss it.
I run an Internet business. I hate when people write me from a hotmail address because there are low odds that my even *replying* to their email will get through their filter. Every once in awhile I'll run into this situation...
Customer with a hotmail address emails me with a question.
I hit reply and give them my answer
A few days later they write me again asking why I haven't responded.
I reply again. They don't get my response. They then get pissed and I lose the sale.
The problem is that Hotmail errs on the side of filtering out too much when you can't even reply to a hotmail user. And many people don't even bother to check their "spam" folders.
I'm no computer engineer, but I would think that merely replying to an email should make it through a spam filter 100% of the time. It's amazing that a company like Microsoft can't hire engineers competent enough to figure that out.
I believe the steady growth in the price of copper is more of an effect of fiat currency inflation causing all consumer goods and salaries to go up (basically devaluing everyone's labor even if they feel they're earning more).
A lot of economists think it's actually the other way around -- i.e., that much of today's inflation is caused by rising commodity prices.
Oddly enough, the composition of pennies did not change between 1962 and 1982. There should be no difference between a 1971 penny and a 1981 penny, in terms of copper content.
The parent poster actually meant to say 1981. Pennies from that year actually have $0.016 worth of copper in them.
Message for Republicans Only:
The fact that the Bush Administration is doing something just as bad as what the Clinton Administration did is ALL THE MORE REASON why some serious reform is in order.
Good point. I remember in high school chemistry class we learned how to convert carbon dioxide from the air into solid carbon and O2 gas.
Why couldn't something like that be done on a mass scale? Just reduce carbon dioxide levels to where they were 50 years ago or so, and then keep them there.
The parent post hits the nail on the head. There are two ways for the government to combat wrongdoing:
1) Punish the wrongdoers.
2) Punish EVERYBODY.
Newsflash to Ohio officials - It is already illegal to scam people. You can prosecute people using existing laws. The problem is that government often doesn't like to simply enforce the laws that are already on the books. Instead it creates new laws that punish everybody.
Therein lies the problem. Everybody gets punished for the misdeeds of a few bad apples.
Of course, all this makes sense to government officials, who make desicions in committee and have never had to run a business or work a real job in their entire lives.
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That's true. You should see how much I can pack into my wife's tiny 30+ MPG Saturn. SUV drivers are simply wasting their money.
... which still doesn't make them correct from a business standpoint. Excessive reliance on one client is risky. Wal-Mart's suppliers would be smart to seek other sources of revenue. Sites using Adsense would be smart to seek other sources of revenue.
Not only that, but IE on a Mac doesn't work. You can only access MSN's Adcenter using IE with Windows.
On the Dvorak keyboard, which a lot of typosquatters target, the i and e are very close together. (They're at the d and g positions of the Qwerty keyboard.)
If you got taxed based on wealth, what incentive would there be to save?
Imaging scenario. Company X (Apple in the story) develops new cool product. Employee A leaks (for money or for fun) info about the product. Patent holding companies/competitors Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc start patenting *everything* possibly related to the product. Product comes on market. Patents as usually get granted and competitors start sueing company X.
That is a false scenario. US patent law (see 35 USC Section 101) requires an invention to be new in order to be patentable.
Still, if you required hands-free, wouldn't that reduce the percentage of drivers yacking on the phone? People don't always remember to bring along their hands-free device.
Lower percentage of people on cell phones means these laws do at least a little bit of good.
Yes, and that worked out well for them, didn't it?
Yes, it did. The Roman Republic lasted 476 years.
Your link is dead. What's the correct link? I'd like to check it out.
Yeah, it's interesting how few of the posters rated 5 actually read TFA. The Red Cross isn't talking about suing anybody. It's not going to send out threatening cease and desist letters. Instead it's going to work on having games developed where, for example, players would get points for respecting humanitarian workers.
The stock of Ceragenix just started being traded. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=CGXP.OB&t=5d
If you think pharmaceutical companies make obscene profits, you should buy stock in them.
Suppose you take home (after taxes) $1,000 a week. You put $200 of that each week into your index fund.
After just two years, you'll be making so much money just in passive investment income (which means money from not working) to cover a full month of rent (over $2,000).
After five years of continuing this investment plan, you'll be making over $6,000 a year just in investment income.
After 10 years, you've got a nice $16,500 boost to your salary each year... automatically, with zero work on your part.
By year 20, you've got almost $600k in savings, and you're bringing in $60k a year, just for sitting around doing nothing.
You CAN become independently wealthy... but it requires a bit of discipline on your part (saving 1 out of every 5 dollars you take home). Put away 20%. You won't even miss it.
Customer with a hotmail address emails me with a question.
I hit reply and give them my answer
A few days later they write me again asking why I haven't responded.
I reply again. They don't get my response. They then get pissed and I lose the sale.
The problem is that Hotmail errs on the side of filtering out too much when you can't even reply to a hotmail user. And many people don't even bother to check their "spam" folders.
I'm no computer engineer, but I would think that merely replying to an email should make it through a spam filter 100% of the time. It's amazing that a company like Microsoft can't hire engineers competent enough to figure that out.
Interesting how people can just make shit up and be modded insightful. In reality alcohol use declined substantially during Prohition. See http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/article/miron.prohi bition.alcohol
Sorry about that. I'll give the exact link in my sig. It is http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=4235
Thanks man. I'll check out that ebook.
A lot of economists think it's actually the other way around -- i.e., that much of today's inflation is caused by rising commodity prices.
The parent poster actually meant to say 1981. Pennies from that year actually have $0.016 worth of copper in them.
Message for Republicans Only:
The fact that the Bush Administration is doing something just as bad as what the Clinton Administration did is ALL THE MORE REASON why some serious reform is in order.
Hate "speach" (sic) is not illegal in the United States.
Good point. I remember in high school chemistry class we learned how to convert carbon dioxide from the air into solid carbon and O2 gas.
Why couldn't something like that be done on a mass scale? Just reduce carbon dioxide levels to where they were 50 years ago or so, and then keep them there.
That way it won't matter how much gas we burn.
"And it's advertising free
;)
No it ain't."
Well, it is if you use Firefox, have javascript disabled, and don't allow pop-up windows.
Find it here. That way you don't have to click through to 6(!) pages just to read one article. And it's advertising free, in plain text.
1) Punish the wrongdoers.
2) Punish EVERYBODY.
Newsflash to Ohio officials - It is already illegal to scam people. You can prosecute people using existing laws. The problem is that government often doesn't like to simply enforce the laws that are already on the books. Instead it creates new laws that punish everybody.
Therein lies the problem. Everybody gets punished for the misdeeds of a few bad apples.
Of course, all this makes sense to government officials, who make desicions in committee and have never had to run a business or work a real job in their entire lives.