Changing the user agent would in effect make me responsible for the success of their business model, and I am not, nor will I ever be. They'll have to find a way to be successful without my cooperation.
No, it is fact very easy. It took me about ten lines of code back in the OS 9 days, and both development tools for the mac, and quicktime, have progressed quite a bit since those days, so I guess it's even less than that with XCode.
Given how long Vista pre-releases have been available, this issue either didn't occur in those versions, or was fixed in the most recent iTunes update. The windows market is too important for Apple to not fix this. Therefore this is probably something that only appeared in the release version, and not in earlier versions. And given the release date for Zune, I'd strongly suspect Microsoft, but with one anti-trust lawsuit behind them, they're probably too smart to leave a trail this time around.
Either that, or they're just incompetent nincompoops...
Let assume there's two companies in that non-existent country where child porn is legal. One has a site, the other has only brochures. Should the executives of both companies be arrested when they travel outside their country? Both brochures and the web pages are available to visitors (of either the site or the country), so what's the difference? And if you think both should be arrested, then you'd be fine if a muslim country arrested the CEO of Budweiser for producing alcohol, right?
There's few international laws about this because it never has been an issue, and the USA is making it an issue, and they're wrong.
Paul Rosenzweig, a high-level Homeland Security official, told Congress in September that the system had "encountered 4801 positive matches for known or suspected terrorists." However, it is unclear how many of those were correct matches.
No, it's very clear. Zero. Zilch, none, nada. If there were any correct matches, they would trot them out and use them to demonstrate the "success" of the program.
Universal only cares about the next sentence in your rant, which is currently missing, so I'll have to guess.
If it's "I'll continue buying" they won't give a shit about it.
If it's "I won't buy from an industry that considers me to be a criminal, so I've suspended all my buying indefinately" they may pay attention some day.
Really? How is it my fault that their business model doesn't work? Is it my obligation to make sure that whatever business model a web site works out is actually going to work and make them a profit? Is it my obligation they make a profit?
Is it really my fault for not wanting to bend over, anal lube conveniently nearby?
My guess is he's going to get it from here. Personally I'm just going to ignore it. They significantly dropped PS2 prices over here, and I'm still not going to get one.
And if you do manage to produce something marginally useful in that impossible schedule, they'll give you even less time to do it next time around. After all, you managed to meet the deadline, right?
Because I pulled over and asked that gentleman who was walking his dog. He also told me not to take the coffee, it's not that good in his experience.
What about things you don't know exist, or things that are new?
I don't miss them at the moment, so I guess I don't really need them, and if I do, I'll probably see other people using them. I don't have to be the first one on the block. Mankind went along just find inventing new things and spreading their use before advertising existed - the use of fire wasn't really hampered by the lack of the 30 second spot.
What is the alternative of a loved one to prayer? Nothing, nadda, zilch.
Sorry, not true. How about simply telling the truth: "You will be on my mind tonight. I will be waiting for news on your operation over there in the waiting room. I care very much about the results, because I care very much about you and I want the operation to be a success."
No prayer involved, but the message is just as clear and true.
they dispatch one to you the moment you pull out of the main lanes.
Get a group of, say, 20 people together who dislike this policy (should not be too difficult). Get all 20 in their cars on different parts of the road system. At a predetermined time, all of the pull over, sit on the shoulder for 60 seconds, and start moving again.
Repeat two or three times a day, during a week or two, change it to no longer all do it at the same time, but in 15 minute intervals.
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So, who do we hold responsible?
Start with the current administration (perhaps throw in the previous one if you want to prevent bullshit about being "partisan").
Because there's another french saying about these beheadings:
"pour encourager les autres".
Changing the user agent would in effect make me responsible for the success of their business model, and I am not, nor will I ever be. They'll have to find a way to be successful without my cooperation.
So, without ads, where do they get the money to stay online?
I'm sorry, I'm not being paid to come up with another business model, they'll have to figure it out for themselves.
No, it is fact very easy. It took me about ten lines of code back in the OS 9 days, and both development tools for the mac, and quicktime, have progressed quite a bit since those days, so I guess it's even less than that with XCode.
I'm sure the US is more than happy to extend the same courtesy to Italy, right?
Right?
(but don't bring your cam-corders!)
Given how long Vista pre-releases have been available, this issue either didn't occur in those versions, or was fixed in the most recent iTunes update. The windows market is too important for Apple to not fix this. Therefore this is probably something that only appeared in the release version, and not in earlier versions. And given the release date for Zune, I'd strongly suspect Microsoft, but with one anti-trust lawsuit behind them, they're probably too smart to leave a trail this time around.
Either that, or they're just incompetent nincompoops...
Let assume there's two companies in that non-existent country where child porn is legal. One has a site, the other has only brochures. Should the executives of both companies be arrested when they travel outside their country? Both brochures and the web pages are available to visitors (of either the site or the country), so what's the difference? And if you think both should be arrested, then you'd be fine if a muslim country arrested the CEO of Budweiser for producing alcohol, right?
There's few international laws about this because it never has been an issue, and the USA is making it an issue, and they're wrong.
No, that's correct. They only have 2% talent.
That's what the word "oversight" was invented for. Something the current administration seems to hate...
From the article:
Paul Rosenzweig, a high-level Homeland Security official, told Congress in September that the system had "encountered 4801 positive matches for known or suspected terrorists." However, it is unclear how many of those were correct matches.
No, it's very clear. Zero. Zilch, none, nada. If there were any correct matches, they would trot them out and use them to demonstrate the "success" of the program.
Better that than Michael Jackson's mansion.
So when I say "advertising as a business model doesn't work" I'm suddenly responsible for finding a replacement business model?
Universal only cares about the next sentence in your rant, which is currently missing, so I'll have to guess.
If it's "I'll continue buying" they won't give a shit about it.
If it's "I won't buy from an industry that considers me to be a criminal, so I've suspended all my buying indefinately" they may pay attention some day.
Check again. The house races are there, and the current projection is 229 Democrats, 205 Republicans, 1 Tie.
typical. A lot of americans have similar reactions: "All congresscritters are asshats, except for the fine upstanding gentleman representing us"...
they're both at fault
Really? How is it my fault that their business model doesn't work? Is it my obligation to make sure that whatever business model a web site works out is actually going to work and make them a profit? Is it my obligation they make a profit?
Is it really my fault for not wanting to bend over, anal lube conveniently nearby?
My guess is he's going to get it from here. Personally I'm just going to ignore it. They significantly dropped PS2 prices over here, and I'm still not going to get one.
And if you do manage to produce something marginally useful in that impossible schedule, they'll give you even less time to do it next time around. After all, you managed to meet the deadline, right?
how do you know there's a BurgerBell
Because I pulled over and asked that gentleman who was walking his dog. He also told me not to take the coffee, it's not that good in his experience.
What about things you don't know exist, or things that are new?
I don't miss them at the moment, so I guess I don't really need them, and if I do, I'll probably see other people using them. I don't have to be the first one on the block. Mankind went along just find inventing new things and spreading their use before advertising existed - the use of fire wasn't really hampered by the lack of the 30 second spot.
In the past, every time a "traditional" distribution method was upset and replaced, it was because the new one took out at least one intermediate.
"we want to be the replacement intermediate" is a businessplan destined for failure.
That's fine, as long as Google remembers - I'm sure I can find them when I need their products.
What is the alternative of a loved one to prayer? Nothing, nadda, zilch.
Sorry, not true. How about simply telling the truth: "You will be on my mind tonight. I will be waiting for news on your operation over there in the waiting room. I care very much about the results, because I care very much about you and I want the operation to be a success."
No prayer involved, but the message is just as clear and true.
But that 95% still needs to be done. After all, the most interesting phrase in research is NOT "Eureka!", it is "that's odd.."
they dispatch one to you the moment you pull out of the main lanes.
Get a group of, say, 20 people together who dislike this policy (should not be too difficult). Get all 20 in their cars on different parts of the road system. At a predetermined time, all of the pull over, sit on the shoulder for 60 seconds, and start moving again.
Repeat two or three times a day, during a week or two, change it to no longer all do it at the same time, but in 15 minute intervals.
See if the policy survives...