As someone who works at a second-hand store, this is a very rude thing to do,..
Frankly, and without trying to be insulting to you personally, but second hand stores can take that attitude and cram it right up wherever your species traditionally crams things.
As someone who used to manage a retail software store, I can tell you that 8% margins are pretty typical for software and game sales. Second hand stores operate on a 200 - 300% margin because they pay pennies on the dollar for the buyback, then resell for a small discount off new retail. This kid of "poached" transaction may be considered rude by the second hand stores, but it's OBVIOUS and INEVITABLE because you're offering so far below market value for it.
On top of the jerky scroll, auto-image zoom jumping nonsense, the part I don't understand most is why...WHY when I find what I'm looking for, does clicking take me to a web page with the photo I clicked on superimposed on the top of it that I now have to close to get to the actual page?
I know what photo I clicked...I just clicked it. Why do I have to click it again? Just take me to the damned page already.
...that since I don't have a Facebook account, it's less hysterical to me, and more like watching retarded monkeys fling feces at each other, but miss (because they're retarded) so nothing actually interesting ever happens.
I gotta admit I don't get the whole Facebook thing. It seems like just another in the long string of hot social thing of the moment that's going to be supplanted by the next hot social thing of the moment in 3...2...1...
you are aware that the USPTO has allowed IBM to patent collating documents by hand right. You set each page on a table in sequence and then you simply walk along grabbing a page at a time.
the new idea bar is already pretty low.
the words "patent" and "invention" are a long way from synonymous. The USPTO has given patents for everything from "method of swinging on a swing" to "using a school desk at bullet shield".
So no, I don't allow the goverment to define "invent" either, I hold that bar a little higher.
I don't want to see a single new Google technology until they put the Google image search back to the way it used to be before they shitified it. It's so damned annoying to use now that I'm actually using Bing when I want to search images.
If Cameron came up with the idea and had someone build it for him, I'd say you could argue he invented it
That sets the bar for the concept of "invention" pretty damn low. If one can claim invented status for anything you can dream of, then I can produce quite a list of inventions on my resume. It's the actually making it work that is the hard part
He may not have been the one doing the technical details, but if it's his concept developed on his dime... well, my past employers own the works I did for them, so why not in this case?
owning is one thing, being attributed as the inventor is another.
I get so damn sick of this time and again, and again and again...
What Rossy has been doing with his rocket wing is cutting edge stuff, and cool as hell besides.
But what we get from the media is exaggeration, and dare I say deliberate dishonesty...such that when you actually read the article it's disappointing instead of exciting. The term "wingsuit" means something...this isn't it. The term "loop" means something...this isn't it.
Why can journalists not resist the temptation to exaggerate every damn thing they report on?
But as time went 'my shows' stopped showing new stuff. I was not keeping up with new stuff so I dont care about it.
That's how I found my TV viewing changing after I got Tivo. I recorded the shows I like, but due to skipping all commercials and not watching stuff "just because it was on", I wasn't getting into any NEW shows. The only new shows I'd start watching were ones that other people said were really good, and then I'd pick up the DVD's from Netflix after the season was over.
My tolerance for watching actual live TV is almost non-existent now. Both due to commercials, and not being able to watch 2-3 episodes in a row (or half of one) if I feel like it.
...there's maybe a half dozen universities whose name carries "weight". If it's not an Ivy League caliber school (and not even all of them), nobody gives a rat WHAT school you went to. nobody, but NOBODY cares if University "x" has a more exclusive student body than University "y". Mostly they don't care because they don't know...and they don't know because they don't care.
There are a few exceptions for schools that are particularly well known for a given discipline, but mostly a degree is a degree is a degree...unless it's from University of Phoenix, then it's trash.
Furthermore, why are electric cars marketed in terms of "miles per gallon"? "Miles per kilowatt hour" is a more useful measure for a truly electric car. Even for hybrids, "miles per gallon" alone does not provide an accurate measure of energy usage.
I don' think it's intended to be an accurate measure, just a measure in unites people already understand. Publishing M/kW-h numbers is going to be useless except to compare two electrics to each other, the intent is to allow people to compare them to the cars they currently have.
Given your reasoned response I'd like to hear why you do not support hate crime legislation.
Mostly because the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits it. Equal protection under the law is a little difficult to come by if you say one class of people is deliberately to be treated differently.
Beyond that, there is the guilty until proven innocent element of hate crime legislation.
So you don't care if someone's motivation for killing is self-defense?
I don't support hate crimes either, but intent is, and should be, very important in determining the punishment for an action.
Self-defense isn't a crime. Also, you've confused "intent" with "motivation", they're very different things. As long as a person INTENDS to commit a crime, I don't care what their MOTIVATION is.
Many people in this thread have made the same mistake. The difference between murder, manslaughter, and self-defense are in no way related to the motivations for the action.
and while we're at it can we get rid of the "hate" category of crime too? Personally I'm not much interested in someone's motivations for committing a crime, only the results and their actual actions. I'll even compromise and agree to ratchet the levels of punishment UP to the "hate crime" level for everything.
I'm tired in the EXTREME of "new" car designs being touted as "100mpg" or "200mpg" as if it were something remarkable or fantastic...then finding the car is basically a plastic shell on a tricycle frame. 3 wheels means the vehicle is licensed as a motorcycle, not a car, so the typical safety requirements don't count. It's EASY as hell to design and even build, a high mileage vehicle when you get to ignore all the things that are dragging down MPG on traditional cars...things like pollution control, crumple zones, air bags, even bare minimum crash safety.
Build (not propose) something with 4 wheels, is street legal, that gets 100mpg, and I'll listen...until then this is just noise.
I use mine as an alarm clock. A few weeks ago my brother was asleep on the couch and I couldn't wake him up by calling his name, or poking him in the face, so I set the alarm on my iPhone and it woke him up.
If I had someone asleep on my couch who couldn't be woken up by calling his name, or face poking...I think i'd call an ambulance. That sounds like "coma" not "asleep".
This mode of thinking is so common it has a name, the logical fallacy represented here is called "The Argument from Ignorance".
Basically it's summed up by saying "we can't say for sure what "x" is, therefore I know exactly what "x" is"
There is ZERO evidence that the person is holding ANYTHING to his/her ear, no less an electronic device, no less a cell phone, and no less by a time traveler.
I would advocate applying the logical principle of Occams Razor, but it's not even useful here either, because there's no question beyond "what is that person holding" and the only reasonable answer is "how the hell should I know?"
Really, all voters should be presumed to cast a "none of the above" ballot unless they specifically vote otherwise. Yes, even those who abstain by not showing up. Failure to even show up is a vote of no confidence in the system itself, which is a very important statement and deserves to be counted.
I was with you right up to the last sentence. You start by saying no assumptions should be made with the ballot, that all votes should be specific. Then you finish by saying a lack of a vote should be assumed to mean something that you've decided, rather than a specific vote.
Yes, I run autocad (light) on a netbook. I'm far from a power user, but my point is that the netbook (acer aspire one) runs ALL my business apps at more than acceptable performance for my needs.
In fact, the only performance complaint I have about autocad is exporting to viso format is tediously long, but it was terrible on my previous workstation too so I do that on a server.
and no, I don't dvd transcode for work...I didn't know ANYONE did, but ok. But I don't think it takes as long as you think it does.
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As someone who works at a second-hand store, this is a very rude thing to do,..
Frankly, and without trying to be insulting to you personally, but second hand stores can take that attitude and cram it right up wherever your species traditionally crams things.
As someone who used to manage a retail software store, I can tell you that 8% margins are pretty typical for software and game sales. Second hand stores operate on a 200 - 300% margin because they pay pennies on the dollar for the buyback, then resell for a small discount off new retail. This kid of "poached" transaction may be considered rude by the second hand stores, but it's OBVIOUS and INEVITABLE because you're offering so far below market value for it.
What's next kids?
If I had to guess, it will be something equally inane and pointless, with a slightly different spin.
Yeah...Facebook has been the hot social thing of the moment for almost an entire decade. Aren't you edgy with your opinions???
Facebook didn't overtake Myspace until 2008. Is two years almost a decade in your world?
On top of the jerky scroll, auto-image zoom jumping nonsense, the part I don't understand most is why...WHY when I find what I'm looking for, does clicking take me to a web page with the photo I clicked on superimposed on the top of it that I now have to close to get to the actual page?
I know what photo I clicked...I just clicked it. Why do I have to click it again? Just take me to the damned page already.
...that since I don't have a Facebook account, it's less hysterical to me, and more like watching retarded monkeys fling feces at each other, but miss (because they're retarded) so nothing actually interesting ever happens.
I gotta admit I don't get the whole Facebook thing. It seems like just another in the long string of hot social thing of the moment that's going to be supplanted by the next hot social thing of the moment in 3...2...1...
...seem to consist largely of flashlights attached to stuff.
you are aware that the USPTO has allowed IBM to patent collating documents by hand right. You set each page on a table in sequence and then you simply walk along grabbing a page at a time.
the new idea bar is already pretty low.
the words "patent" and "invention" are a long way from synonymous. The USPTO has given patents for everything from "method of swinging on a swing" to "using a school desk at bullet shield".
So no, I don't allow the goverment to define "invent" either, I hold that bar a little higher.
I don't want to see a single new Google technology until they put the Google image search back to the way it used to be before they shitified it. It's so damned annoying to use now that I'm actually using Bing when I want to search images.
If Cameron came up with the idea and had someone build it for him, I'd say you could argue he invented it
That sets the bar for the concept of "invention" pretty damn low. If one can claim invented status for anything you can dream of, then I can produce quite a list of inventions on my resume. It's the actually making it work that is the hard part
He may not have been the one doing the technical details, but if it's his concept developed on his dime ... well, my past employers own the works I did for them, so why not in this case?
owning is one thing, being attributed as the inventor is another.
I get so damn sick of this time and again, and again and again...
What Rossy has been doing with his rocket wing is cutting edge stuff, and cool as hell besides.
But what we get from the media is exaggeration, and dare I say deliberate dishonesty...such that when you actually read the article it's disappointing instead of exciting. The term "wingsuit" means something...this isn't it. The term "loop" means something...this isn't it.
Why can journalists not resist the temptation to exaggerate every damn thing they report on?
false.
I graduate from Harvard business school is going to have a lot more opportunities then someone who got a business degree at the community college.
You started by saying "false" and then almost quoted what I DID say. You are aware that Harvard is an "ivy league" school, right?
But as time went 'my shows' stopped showing new stuff. I was not keeping up with new stuff so I dont care about it.
That's how I found my TV viewing changing after I got Tivo. I recorded the shows I like, but due to skipping all commercials and not watching stuff "just because it was on", I wasn't getting into any NEW shows. The only new shows I'd start watching were ones that other people said were really good, and then I'd pick up the DVD's from Netflix after the season was over.
My tolerance for watching actual live TV is almost non-existent now. Both due to commercials, and not being able to watch 2-3 episodes in a row (or half of one) if I feel like it.
I stopped my cable last month and have been happily using netflix and hulu plus for 2 months now. .
So except for all the stuff you miss, you don't miss having cable? That doesn't sound like like a perfect solution.
...there's maybe a half dozen universities whose name carries "weight". If it's not an Ivy League caliber school (and not even all of them), nobody gives a rat WHAT school you went to. nobody, but NOBODY cares if University "x" has a more exclusive student body than University "y". Mostly they don't care because they don't know...and they don't know because they don't care.
There are a few exceptions for schools that are particularly well known for a given discipline, but mostly a degree is a degree is a degree...unless it's from University of Phoenix, then it's trash.
If we get hot female astronauts, skin tight bodysuits could protect from boner loss too.
thank you, thanks...I'll be here all week.
Furthermore, why are electric cars marketed in terms of "miles per gallon"? "Miles per kilowatt hour" is a more useful measure for a truly electric car. Even for hybrids, "miles per gallon" alone does not provide an accurate measure of energy usage.
I don' think it's intended to be an accurate measure, just a measure in unites people already understand. Publishing M/kW-h numbers is going to be useless except to compare two electrics to each other, the intent is to allow people to compare them to the cars they currently have.
In that case, let's make manslaughter the same as 1st degree murder. After all, intent doesn't matter, only results, right?
The words "motivation" and "intent" are not synonyms. I'd suggest when you look up the definitions, you also look up "straw man argument" as well.
Given your reasoned response I'd like to hear why you do not support hate crime legislation.
Mostly because the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits it. Equal protection under the law is a little difficult to come by if you say one class of people is deliberately to be treated differently.
Beyond that, there is the guilty until proven innocent element of hate crime legislation.
So you don't care if someone's motivation for killing is self-defense?
I don't support hate crimes either, but intent is, and should be, very important in determining the punishment for an action.
Self-defense isn't a crime. Also, you've confused "intent" with "motivation", they're very different things. As long as a person INTENDS to commit a crime, I don't care what their MOTIVATION is.
Many people in this thread have made the same mistake. The difference between murder, manslaughter, and self-defense are in no way related to the motivations for the action.
and while we're at it can we get rid of the "hate" category of crime too? Personally I'm not much interested in someone's motivations for committing a crime, only the results and their actual actions. I'll even compromise and agree to ratchet the levels of punishment UP to the "hate crime" level for everything.
I'm tired in the EXTREME of "new" car designs being touted as "100mpg" or "200mpg" as if it were something remarkable or fantastic...then finding the car is basically a plastic shell on a tricycle frame. 3 wheels means the vehicle is licensed as a motorcycle, not a car, so the typical safety requirements don't count. It's EASY as hell to design and even build, a high mileage vehicle when you get to ignore all the things that are dragging down MPG on traditional cars...things like pollution control, crumple zones, air bags, even bare minimum crash safety.
Build (not propose) something with 4 wheels, is street legal, that gets 100mpg, and I'll listen...until then this is just noise.
I use mine as an alarm clock. A few weeks ago my brother was asleep on the couch and I couldn't wake him up by calling his name, or poking him in the face, so I set the alarm on my iPhone and it woke him up.
If I had someone asleep on my couch who couldn't be woken up by calling his name, or face poking...I think i'd call an ambulance. That sounds like "coma" not "asleep".
This mode of thinking is so common it has a name, the logical fallacy represented here is called "The Argument from Ignorance".
Basically it's summed up by saying "we can't say for sure what "x" is, therefore I know exactly what "x" is"
There is ZERO evidence that the person is holding ANYTHING to his/her ear, no less an electronic device, no less a cell phone, and no less by a time traveler.
I would advocate applying the logical principle of Occams Razor, but it's not even useful here either, because there's no question beyond "what is that person holding" and the only reasonable answer is "how the hell should I know?"
Really, all voters should be presumed to cast a "none of the above" ballot unless they specifically vote otherwise. Yes, even those who abstain by not showing up. Failure to even show up is a vote of no confidence in the system itself, which is a very important statement and deserves to be counted.
I was with you right up to the last sentence. You start by saying no assumptions should be made with the ballot, that all votes should be specific. Then you finish by saying a lack of a vote should be assumed to mean something that you've decided, rather than a specific vote.
Yes, I run autocad (light) on a netbook. I'm far from a power user, but my point is that the netbook (acer aspire one) runs ALL my business apps at more than acceptable performance for my needs.
In fact, the only performance complaint I have about autocad is exporting to viso format is tediously long, but it was terrible on my previous workstation too so I do that on a server.
and no, I don't dvd transcode for work...I didn't know ANYONE did, but ok. But I don't think it takes as long as you think it does.