so much for blaming people for killing people, this is blaming the gun maker for the people killed by it.
Notice how this hasn't gone to court? The DEA would be shut down so fast from harassing Mr. Wallace in court that they wouldn't even dare it. Instead, they shut him down by threats alone, aka PIPA/SOPA.
What groupon *should do*, is up to them, not anyone else.
If they do a bad job, the market will deal with it by people choosing other offers, as appropriate. As a result, a lot of other sites offer what groupon does now: youswoop, livingsocial, etc.
I do know math, but you don't know business. All you think is what groupon "should" do. Business deals are not the same as consumer deals. Business deals are *NOT* about some kind of a relationship unless it's written in a contract. Obviously Groupon followed their contract, or they'd be sued for this.
If you can only make a profit selling 2000 cupcakes, then you make sure the coupon has a limited issue that would end up at or around 2000 cupcakes. This isn't fucking hard to do. Guess what? This makes this more *exclusive* and increases the value of the offer. Ever heard of "offer for a limited time!"? If someone says "I'd like the deal they have" it is up to the business on the "how to deal with that". That is *NOT* the fault of groupon.
Groupon is not the merchant, why should they care if the merchant is happy or not? They are selling what they promised to sell. Groupon has done absolutely nothing wrong here, and the business blaming groupon shows you who really made the mistake: the business. In short, don't offer what you can't provide. How dare groupon offer a business something, and the business take them up on the offer! that is the message you're sending.
A little bit of basic math on profits vs if groupon people take the coupon would have easily shown what is and isn't profitable, and then the business could have decided a: whether to do business with groupon and b: whether or not it's profitable.
so basically, she made a completely moronic business decision, but the article's slant is that it is the fault of groupon? Is this woman not aware she could have set these at a price that would have been reasonable as opposed to bankrupting?
absolutely. This is a bipartisan rape of people's rights, it's not specific to republican or democrat. It should also be noted that Tea party and libertarians were in full support of SOPA via various political figures too.
your representation of this versus "a kid got his foot run over by a bike and then shoved the bike over" is not the same as the implied aggression you bullshitted your original explanation with, dumbass.
What is missing from my viewpoint? If we didn't have trivial patents granted in the first place, a "17 year monopoly" wouldn't matter either. As is, the "17 years" part is a joke due to patent extensions anyway.
I think the idea is great. However, exactly that: the *idea*. I'd like to see this become more successful for sure!
It seems like a majority of games listed cannot be installed directly through this, steam style.
Is it me or is there not an easy way to split off "which games can be installed directly" vs "which games you're just adding a link" from their website?
are you joking? You can patent *anything*. It doesn't mean the feature goes away, nor that it can be prevented, etc. Apple even tried to stop samsung from releasing competition to their tablet. Meanwhile, it's still selling. Surprise? Not really.
You can claim you own the world but if the court doesn't hold up to it (and even if they do), it doesn't mean it magically goes away. Patents don't remove what is patented. It's just a government sponsored monopoly.
This is a bad thing, but no more newsworthy than the sky being blue.
If you want to see tracking end, start with the CARRIER/ISP. Android doesn't turn it on - verizon, tmobile, comcast, all ISPs are who track you.
There is a constitutional right to free speech. Maybe you've never heard of it, or only know how to look at trash and think "by golly, I'm an armchair retard posting on the internet about a video I saw!" Included in that is also yelling whatever they want, at any time. That's called, you know, freedom of speech. Calling a cop a pig, screaming police brutality, given the videos above are you surprised? They're stating facts.
Yes, some have done bad things, yes they've done dirty and/or bad shit. All of them? No, not unless you're straight up ignorant.
There's an enormous difference from "some protest groups are retarded" and "the entire movement needs to be shut down".
There is also an enormous difference between truly resisting arrest and being cited for disorderly conduct/resisting arrest by a police guy who is just itching for a reason to jail you.
Granted, it's hard to keep up a protest, but I applaud them for doing what is constitutionally protected.
Wow, you sure have the least facts out of anything I've ever seen. Last I checked the amount of facts there, is zero. "Yes, they're Evil" Ok, you create a point of your own. WHY? where is the actual explanation instead of a waste of text?
Tell me, since when does open source (which doesn't mean what you falsely imply it does) explicitly say they can't do what is exactly within the apache license, dumbass? That was a link directly from slashdot.
Apple makes all sorts of excuses for lockdowns. They are not real "bad user experience" excuses. They are censorship. . That's not the same as a "bad user experience" as defined by google.
So lets look back. Google makes honeycomb, it looks like shit (and runs horribly), so they say acknowledge it publicly stating "bad user experience". Apple goes anti-jailbreaking and uses the excuse of "it's a bad user experience"? Do you understand the difference between the two? methinks you're somewhere between petarded and a complete fail.
Not broadcasting your SSID causes *problems*. Parts of network detection and certain devices/software have problems with turning off your SSID. It also doesn't add anything as far as security, not even remotely.
So adding _nomap sounds pretty reasonable to me, aside from that SSID's are not the best of concepts as they are implemented anyway.
They were never evil. They're not MS/Apple. Do you have a short term memory loss? Honeycomb was withheld, and they told people why.
They said basically honeycomb was a bad implementation, they didn't want people to move forward with it, they do want people to move forward on ICS. It's not like a "honeycomb is a goddamn secret!" This has been announced like 500x. It's like a design for a car that they say "this design causes engines to explode" so they don't release the design. Is this a surprise that they then release ICS source? Did you hear them say "ICS is a bad implementation"? No.
[Andy] Rubin says that if Google were to open-source the Honeycomb code now, as it has with other versions of Android at similar periods in their development, it couldn't prevent developers from putting the software on phones "and creating a really bad user experience. We have no idea if it will even work on phones." "Android is an open-source project," he adds. "We have not changed our strategy."
IQ is just a term being referred to incredibly loosely here. Why are you getting so hung up on this? Do you hate quizzes? Are you fearful of knowledge questions? Doing horribly on this "geek IQ test" (also known as quiz) doesn't mean "you're stupid", but it could mean "you're not keeping up with current technology". Pop quizzes of sports reflect on your knowledge of sports. This isn't difficult. Lastly you have the fact that some people just aren't good at tests.
Meanwhile, guess what? Your reply nothing to do with the article, and now you don't even make sense anymore.
complaining about the name just shows a lack of understanding of the issues of the party, completely.
Considering the "rent is too damn high" party and how the democratic and republican party logos are about the worst animal choices possible (donkey/elephant? really?), I'd say that the issue has nothing to do with the name.
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You mean like, if you had read the fucking article? Or were you going for sarcasm?
so much for blaming people for killing people, this is blaming the gun maker for the people killed by it.
Notice how this hasn't gone to court? The DEA would be shut down so fast from harassing Mr. Wallace in court that they wouldn't even dare it. Instead, they shut him down by threats alone, aka PIPA/SOPA.
What groupon *should do*, is up to them, not anyone else.
If they do a bad job, the market will deal with it by people choosing other offers, as appropriate. As a result, a lot of other sites offer what groupon does now: youswoop, livingsocial, etc.
I do know math, but you don't know business. All you think is what groupon "should" do. Business deals are not the same as consumer deals. Business deals are *NOT* about some kind of a relationship unless it's written in a contract. Obviously Groupon followed their contract, or they'd be sued for this.
No, a limit is not self defeating.
If you can only make a profit selling 2000 cupcakes, then you make sure the coupon has a limited issue that would end up at or around 2000 cupcakes. This isn't fucking hard to do. Guess what? This makes this more *exclusive* and increases the value of the offer. Ever heard of "offer for a limited time!"? If someone says "I'd like the deal they have" it is up to the business on the "how to deal with that". That is *NOT* the fault of groupon.
Groupon is not the merchant, why should they care if the merchant is happy or not? They are selling what they promised to sell. Groupon has done absolutely nothing wrong here, and the business blaming groupon shows you who really made the mistake: the business. In short, don't offer what you can't provide. How dare groupon offer a business something, and the business take them up on the offer! that is the message you're sending.
A little bit of basic math on profits vs if groupon people take the coupon would have easily shown what is and isn't profitable, and then the business could have decided a: whether to do business with groupon and b: whether or not it's profitable.
so basically, she made a completely moronic business decision, but the article's slant is that it is the fault of groupon? Is this woman not aware she could have set these at a price that would have been reasonable as opposed to bankrupting?
absolutely. This is a bipartisan rape of people's rights, it's not specific to republican or democrat. It should also be noted that Tea party and libertarians were in full support of SOPA via various political figures too.
Doesn't matter.
This is public, not under seal. This will have effects that reach far, far beyond this single case.
The strongest patents Microsoft can bring to bear would also suddenly become their biggest and dumbest decision. Why?
Can you imagine how much effort would be dedicated to invalidating them? Hint: a lot.
your representation of this versus "a kid got his foot run over by a bike and then shoved the bike over" is not the same as the implied aggression you bullshitted your original explanation with, dumbass.
What is missing from my viewpoint? If we didn't have trivial patents granted in the first place, a "17 year monopoly" wouldn't matter either. As is, the "17 years" part is a joke due to patent extensions anyway.
I like Dredmor a lot personally, and already have a copy on steam.
Royalties on zero $$ are still zero.
when I looked, I looked for EA games and a few others - they were the top of the list. It said "we can add a shortcut" but not "install".
examples: http://www.desura.com/company/electronic-arts/games
they all say "shortcut"...so, can't install straight through desura on linux, right?
I think the idea is great. However, exactly that: the *idea*. I'd like to see this become more successful for sure!
It seems like a majority of games listed cannot be installed directly through this, steam style.
Is it me or is there not an easy way to split off "which games can be installed directly" vs "which games you're just adding a link" from their website?
are you joking? You can patent *anything*. It doesn't mean the feature goes away, nor that it can be prevented, etc. Apple even tried to stop samsung from releasing competition to their tablet. Meanwhile, it's still selling. Surprise? Not really.
You can claim you own the world but if the court doesn't hold up to it (and even if they do), it doesn't mean it magically goes away. Patents don't remove what is patented. It's just a government sponsored monopoly.
This is a bad thing, but no more newsworthy than the sky being blue.
If you want to see tracking end, start with the CARRIER/ISP. Android doesn't turn it on - verizon, tmobile, comcast, all ISPs are who track you.
yes, but it'll take far longer to invalidate versus how quickly apple will go trying to use the patent monopoly to sue their competitors.
I should hope you realize that not all protestors destroy property. The ones that do are committing a crime, not protesting.
The one's that don't, are not committing a crime.
Guess which one of these is the majorty? Hint: the latter.
are you a fucking moron? have you seen the videos?
tell me which one of these sounds like violent protest. The one where a cop throws a flashbang at a kid whose skull they fractured, or the one where they arrest a press reporter? Were they riding motorcycles? Did they insult the police? no. Did they crap in the streets and commit vandalism? no.
There is a constitutional right to free speech. Maybe you've never heard of it, or only know how to look at trash and think "by golly, I'm an armchair retard posting on the internet about a video I saw!" Included in that is also yelling whatever they want, at any time. That's called, you know, freedom of speech. Calling a cop a pig, screaming police brutality, given the videos above are you surprised? They're stating facts.
Yes, some have done bad things, yes they've done dirty and/or bad shit. All of them? No, not unless you're straight up ignorant.
There's an enormous difference from "some protest groups are retarded" and "the entire movement needs to be shut down".
There is also an enormous difference between truly resisting arrest and being cited for disorderly conduct/resisting arrest by a police guy who is just itching for a reason to jail you.
Granted, it's hard to keep up a protest, but I applaud them for doing what is constitutionally protected.
oh, and just to shut you up further:
did you read https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-building/T4XZJCZnqF8 ? I was hoping I wouldn't have to mention it, but here goes: It's called "they are releasing honeycomb source as well".
Open source means you don't use the term as a hammer and make stupid statements. At least optimally.
Wow, you sure have the least facts out of anything I've ever seen. Last I checked the amount of facts there, is zero.
"Yes, they're Evil" Ok, you create a point of your own. WHY? where is the actual explanation instead of a waste of text?
Tell me, since when does open source (which doesn't mean what you falsely imply it does) explicitly say they can't do what is exactly within the apache license, dumbass? That was a link directly from slashdot.
Apple makes all sorts of excuses for lockdowns. They are not real "bad user experience" excuses. They are censorship. . That's not the same as a "bad user experience" as defined by google.
So lets look back. Google makes honeycomb, it looks like shit (and runs horribly), so they say acknowledge it publicly stating "bad user experience". Apple goes anti-jailbreaking and uses the excuse of "it's a bad user experience"? Do you understand the difference between the two? methinks you're somewhere between petarded and a complete fail.
uh, do you know anything about networking?
Not broadcasting your SSID causes *problems*. Parts of network detection and certain devices/software have problems with turning off your SSID. It also doesn't add anything as far as security, not even remotely.
So adding _nomap sounds pretty reasonable to me, aside from that SSID's are not the best of concepts as they are implemented anyway.
They were never evil. They're not MS/Apple. Do you have a short term memory loss? Honeycomb was withheld, and they told people why.
They said basically honeycomb was a bad implementation, they didn't want people to move forward with it, they do want people to move forward on ICS. It's not like a "honeycomb is a goddamn secret!" This has been announced like 500x. It's like a design for a car that they say "this design causes engines to explode" so they don't release the design. Is this a surprise that they then release ICS source? Did you hear them say "ICS is a bad implementation"? No.
That's not a lack of transparency either, they announced this repeatedly.
IQ is just a term being referred to incredibly loosely here. Why are you getting so hung up on this? Do you hate quizzes? Are you fearful of knowledge questions? Doing horribly on this "geek IQ test" (also known as quiz) doesn't mean "you're stupid", but it could mean "you're not keeping up with current technology". Pop quizzes of sports reflect on your knowledge of sports. This isn't difficult. Lastly you have the fact that some people just aren't good at tests.
Meanwhile, guess what? Your reply nothing to do with the article, and now you don't even make sense anymore.
complaining about the name just shows a lack of understanding of the issues of the party, completely.
Considering the "rent is too damn high" party and how the democratic and republican party logos are about the worst animal choices possible (donkey/elephant? really?), I'd say that the issue has nothing to do with the name.
Kettle, meet pot.
late reply, but essentially the same here. If it wasn't directx making wine also a pain in the ass I'd never be even looking at windows.