Sharing is a perfectly reasonable term to use in this case. It's better than when people claim they're "sharing" music which they never bought, never had the rights to give/share/whatever to anyone else and have no intention of ever paying someone for the work they did.
In this case Microsoft has the rights to all the information regarding Windows 10 (assuming they're not talking out their ass) and have decided to release the information which they have gathered at whatever expense to their company.
Plus we have put real fiat dollars into our lawyers' pockets
As opposed to giving them Bitcoin which isn't backed by anyone, may not exist tomorrow (or even later today) and costs them money to convert into something useful?
How odd they chose to use the very thing they've trying to get away from.
I checked AT&T's corporate site to see how dire their cash situation is. If this company is asking the taxpayers to foot the bill for upgrading their network then they must be in serious trouble.
According to AT&T's press release dated October 22, 2015, AT&T had $39.1 billion in consolidated revenue, up 19% from the previous period (primarily due to the DirecTV purchase).
Apparently making a few billion dollars in a single quarter equates to not being able to spend $100 million to upgrade their own equipment. Who would have thought?
Will we be able to use a holophone while holoporting across the globe? Or will having a holo-something inside another holo-something open a hole in the space-time continuum?
Thing is, I bet that the lottery companies know the average win rate of the tickets per machine.
Yes they do. From the article:
The Courant says that the lottery commission wised up to the scheme back in November when it heard that people were winning the 5 Card Cash game at a higher-than-expected rate.
So almost any deviation from that percentage would have been a yellow flag.
That's what people whined about President Obama when he came to office. That he didn't immediately resolve the financial crisis in his first few months at the helm.
And yet extraordinarily they were left free to carry out bombings and kill innocent civilians.
Several of the 9/11 hijackers, including the two lead planners, were on watch lists yet not only entered the U.S. under their own names, moved about the country at will. They were never stopped, including after their visas had expired and, as we know, flew on multiple flights out of Boston to test and gauge security and to plan their attack.
Sounds like Belgium and Turkey were following the lead of George Bush and ignoring the problem.
I'm older than you and it annoyed me when Yahoo started suggesting I give them my phone number. When I later went to add a second account (since you can't add multiple emails under an umbrella account), they require you to give out a phone number. As if a spammer or other type wouldn't be able to fool the system.
They have enough ads on their site (okay, I don't most any of them) they don't need my phone number to give away so advertisers can annoy me. Nor do I worry about forgetting what my account or password is since I have it documented.
If Starboard has taken over they should fire every web developer and person involved with the crapfest they call a web site. Since they changed to the horrid design I, and many others I know, haven't gone back.
It had to have been "redesigned" by a web developer because no one with any sort of common sense or scintilla of design comprehension would have thought it looks good or is usable.
The next up to be fired are the idiots who force people to give up their phone number to make an account. It doesn't do anything for security or prevent spammers from generating accounts. All it does is annoy people.
This is probably one of the few times a hedge fund taking over a company may actually produce something useful.
people on here cackling about the incompetence of government workers in regards to the iPhone issue (no MDM software installed), the IRS hack and a few other items.
Considering the near daily reports of private industry being hacked or compromised, it looks like the government has some work to do if it wants to run its operations like private industry does as some say should be done.
Trickle down hasn't worked in over 30 years. Just ask Kansas how well it's working for them. Yet somehow "conservatives" think this works.
You cannot make people more people successful if you attack the people who make them successful.
You cannot make more people richer by only giving them crumbs.
I'm not a socialist. I'm one of the dying breed of real conservatives. However, when I hear multi-billion dollar companies whine they can't pay their people more yet have no problem giving out multi-million dollar bonuses to people already making a million or more a year AND have billions socked away overseas AND go to the taxpayer for either bailouts or tax breaks or have them build something, it's disingenuous at best and arrogant at worst for them to claim how horrible things are.
We always hear why certain people are paid huge salaries, because the companies want the best, yet by their actions these same companies are showing they don't want the best people working for them in other capacities because they're not willing to pay them.
If trickle down had ever worked the salaries of people wouldn't still be the same, adjusted for inflation, as they were 20+ years ago.
This is why analog is still better, but I'm sure there will be people on here who will give excuses for why we absolutely, positively, without exception MUST go digital.
The book (a real one. Made of wood products and glue) that I paid.50 for never needs to connect to the internet, never needs to get anyone else's permission to be read and never expires.
That people think paying $100 or more just to start the process of being able to read a book speaks volumes about the inanity of believing technology can solve all problems or makes one more advanced.
The solution then is to not get stopped by the police. Remember what The Transporter said:
Transportation is a precise business.
Don't speed down the road in a car with a broken tail light. As The Transporter also said:
I always say, the way a man treats his car is how he treats himself.
Considering I recently took a 3,500 mile round trip vacation across the middle of the country, I had no problems with not getting stopped. I could have been carrying thousands of greenbacks or anything else and no one would have known.
When I whip out the greenbacks I'm not, as far as I know, treated as a terrorist. Everyone gladly accepts them as payment for the goods or services I am purchasing. Nor have I ever been stopped in or outside the store by anyone from the government questioning why I'm using cash.
However, I'm sure comments I've made about the gaping holes in TSA "security" have put me on a watch list somewhere so in that regard I am a terrorist because I dared to exercise my First Amendment rights.
Or the fascist idea of taking money from the people and giving it to corporations to protect them from their own incompetence or prop up their profits, or the taking of someone's land for the benefit of a corporation or two sets of rules: one for the plebes and one for the corporations.
The problem was (and I've had this very discussion with people) not him invading Russia but not letting those he asked to plan invasion stick to their plans.
If you've read Hitler's Panzers East you would know the author showed that before the six week halt outside Moscow, the Wehrmacht had achieved every single goal it had set out to do, in some case ahead of schedule. Further, at that point there was no significant, organized Russian resistance.
However, as the author relates, Hitler's mentality (such that is was) was about forming a fortress and to do that he felt he had to destroy all resistance, not grasping the significance that Stalingrad could have been left to wither on the vine because by taking Moscow and its rail yards, no supplies or reinforcements could have reached the last remaining, strong Russian forces.
Just like his meddling at Dunkirk, he allowed the enemy to grasp victory from the jaws of defeat.
Because this is America and having to wait while others go about their business isn't how things are done. If I have to wait to cross an intersection, so does everyone else.
Where I live red lights are treated as "I have an extra 2 seconds to blast through the intersection at 10-15 miles over the speed limit". Even better, if the people who have the green light are moving into the intersection, there are those who will drive through the intersection or make a turn and cut you off because they're the most important driver on the road.
Apparently in your fantasy world the stuff which is made costs nothing to produce, the people who make that stuff don't need to pay any bills and there is no cost to distribute this stuff in any format.
Leeching is when you get to be as fat as you want, smoke as much as you want, do as many drugs as you want and expect, nay, demand everyone else around you be forced to pay to protect you from your own doings.
The very opposite of what the OP said, not expect anyone else to care for the animal they have taken in.
I accept all the responsibilities of owning that puppy. I don't expect my neighbor, or a person in another city to help me.
Hey now, that's personal responsibility talk. We don't cater to such nonsense round these parts.
You take your "I can take care of myself without leeching off others" and mosey on down the road. We here are proud of requiring others to hand over their money whether they want to or not so we can live the good life without having to worry bout none of that fancy responsibility stuff.
Since he's so enamored with reducing head count because of labor costs, get rid of him and replace him with a computer.
Faster, more nimble, doesn't require any sleep (though needs 24/7 electricity), no healthcare costs, certainly far less expensive to keep around than someone making millions who does so little.
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Sharing is a perfectly reasonable term to use in this case. It's better than when people claim they're "sharing" music which they never bought, never had the rights to give/share/whatever to anyone else and have no intention of ever paying someone for the work they did.
In this case Microsoft has the rights to all the information regarding Windows 10 (assuming they're not talking out their ass) and have decided to release the information which they have gathered at whatever expense to their company.
That actually is sharing.
Plus we have put real fiat dollars into our lawyers' pockets
As opposed to giving them Bitcoin which isn't backed by anyone, may not exist tomorrow (or even later today) and costs them money to convert into something useful?
How odd they chose to use the very thing they've trying to get away from.
I checked AT&T's corporate site to see how dire their cash situation is. If this company is asking the taxpayers to foot the bill for upgrading their network then they must be in serious trouble.
According to AT&T's press release dated October 22, 2015, AT&T had $39.1 billion in consolidated revenue, up 19% from the previous period (primarily due to the DirecTV purchase).
They also had $10.8 billion in cash from operations and $5 billion in free cash flow.
Apparently making a few billion dollars in a single quarter equates to not being able to spend $100 million to upgrade their own equipment. Who would have thought?
but what about a holophone?
Will we be able to use a holophone while holoporting across the globe? Or will having a holo-something inside another holo-something open a hole in the space-time continuum?
Thing is, I bet that the lottery companies know the average win rate of the tickets per machine.
Yes they do. From the article:
The Courant says that the lottery commission wised up to the scheme back in November when it heard that people were winning the 5 Card Cash game at a higher-than-expected rate.
So almost any deviation from that percentage would have been a yellow flag.
Which it did:
The game was temporarily halted.
That's what people whined about President Obama when he came to office. That he didn't immediately resolve the financial crisis in his first few months at the helm.
And yet extraordinarily they were left free to carry out bombings and kill innocent civilians.
Several of the 9/11 hijackers, including the two lead planners, were on watch lists yet not only entered the U.S. under their own names, moved about the country at will. They were never stopped, including after their visas had expired and, as we know, flew on multiple flights out of Boston to test and gauge security and to plan their attack.
Sounds like Belgium and Turkey were following the lead of George Bush and ignoring the problem.
I'm older than you and it annoyed me when Yahoo started suggesting I give them my phone number. When I later went to add a second account (since you can't add multiple emails under an umbrella account), they require you to give out a phone number. As if a spammer or other type wouldn't be able to fool the system.
They have enough ads on their site (okay, I don't most any of them) they don't need my phone number to give away so advertisers can annoy me. Nor do I worry about forgetting what my account or password is since I have it documented.
If Starboard has taken over they should fire every web developer and person involved with the crapfest they call a web site. Since they changed to the horrid design I, and many others I know, haven't gone back.
It had to have been "redesigned" by a web developer because no one with any sort of common sense or scintilla of design comprehension would have thought it looks good or is usable.
The next up to be fired are the idiots who force people to give up their phone number to make an account. It doesn't do anything for security or prevent spammers from generating accounts. All it does is annoy people.
This is probably one of the few times a hedge fund taking over a company may actually produce something useful.
people on here cackling about the incompetence of government workers in regards to the iPhone issue (no MDM software installed), the IRS hack and a few other items.
Considering the near daily reports of private industry being hacked or compromised, it looks like the government has some work to do if it wants to run its operations like private industry does as some say should be done.
Trickle down hasn't worked in over 30 years. Just ask Kansas how well it's working for them. Yet somehow "conservatives" think this works.
You cannot make people more people successful if you attack the people who make them successful.
You cannot make more people richer by only giving them crumbs.
I'm not a socialist. I'm one of the dying breed of real conservatives. However, when I hear multi-billion dollar companies whine they can't pay their people more yet have no problem giving out multi-million dollar bonuses to people already making a million or more a year AND have billions socked away overseas AND go to the taxpayer for either bailouts or tax breaks or have them build something, it's disingenuous at best and arrogant at worst for them to claim how horrible things are.
We always hear why certain people are paid huge salaries, because the companies want the best, yet by their actions these same companies are showing they don't want the best people working for them in other capacities because they're not willing to pay them.
If trickle down had ever worked the salaries of people wouldn't still be the same, adjusted for inflation, as they were 20+ years ago.
And according to "conservatives", businesses should be free from taxes.
Because. . . trickle down.
This is why analog is still better, but I'm sure there will be people on here who will give excuses for why we absolutely, positively, without exception MUST go digital.
Because . . . digital.
The book (a real one. Made of wood products and glue) that I paid .50 for never needs to connect to the internet, never needs to get anyone else's permission to be read and never expires.
That people think paying $100 or more just to start the process of being able to read a book speaks volumes about the inanity of believing technology can solve all problems or makes one more advanced.
at a traffic stop
The solution then is to not get stopped by the police. Remember what The Transporter said:
Transportation is a precise business.
Don't speed down the road in a car with a broken tail light. As The Transporter also said:
I always say, the way a man treats his car is how he treats himself.
Considering I recently took a 3,500 mile round trip vacation across the middle of the country, I had no problems with not getting stopped. I could have been carrying thousands of greenbacks or anything else and no one would have known.
When I whip out the greenbacks I'm not, as far as I know, treated as a terrorist. Everyone gladly accepts them as payment for the goods or services I am purchasing. Nor have I ever been stopped in or outside the store by anyone from the government questioning why I'm using cash.
However, I'm sure comments I've made about the gaping holes in TSA "security" have put me on a watch list somewhere so in that regard I am a terrorist because I dared to exercise my First Amendment rights.
Or the fascist idea of taking money from the people and giving it to corporations to protect them from their own incompetence or prop up their profits, or the taking of someone's land for the benefit of a corporation or two sets of rules: one for the plebes and one for the corporations.
The problem was (and I've had this very discussion with people) not him invading Russia but not letting those he asked to plan invasion stick to their plans.
If you've read Hitler's Panzers East you would know the author showed that before the six week halt outside Moscow, the Wehrmacht had achieved every single goal it had set out to do, in some case ahead of schedule. Further, at that point there was no significant, organized Russian resistance.
However, as the author relates, Hitler's mentality (such that is was) was about forming a fortress and to do that he felt he had to destroy all resistance, not grasping the significance that Stalingrad could have been left to wither on the vine because by taking Moscow and its rail yards, no supplies or reinforcements could have reached the last remaining, strong Russian forces.
Just like his meddling at Dunkirk, he allowed the enemy to grasp victory from the jaws of defeat.
It was in all the high schools.
The message is simple:
Don't. Date. Robots.
Because this is America and having to wait while others go about their business isn't how things are done. If I have to wait to cross an intersection, so does everyone else.
Where I live red lights are treated as "I have an extra 2 seconds to blast through the intersection at 10-15 miles over the speed limit". Even better, if the people who have the green light are moving into the intersection, there are those who will drive through the intersection or make a turn and cut you off because they're the most important driver on the road.
Apparently in your fantasy world the stuff which is made costs nothing to produce, the people who make that stuff don't need to pay any bills and there is no cost to distribute this stuff in any format.
Have you taken your meds today?
spewing state secrets all over the place.
Is that anything like Dick Cheney outing an undercover CIA agent and lying about it?
The road benefits all. That is not leeching.
Leeching is when you get to be as fat as you want, smoke as much as you want, do as many drugs as you want and expect, nay, demand everyone else around you be forced to pay to protect you from your own doings.
The very opposite of what the OP said, not expect anyone else to care for the animal they have taken in.
I accept all the responsibilities of owning that puppy. I don't expect my neighbor, or a person in another city to help me.
Hey now, that's personal responsibility talk. We don't cater to such nonsense round these parts.
You take your "I can take care of myself without leeching off others" and mosey on down the road. We here are proud of requiring others to hand over their money whether they want to or not so we can live the good life without having to worry bout none of that fancy responsibility stuff.
Since he's so enamored with reducing head count because of labor costs, get rid of him and replace him with a computer.
Faster, more nimble, doesn't require any sleep (though needs 24/7 electricity), no healthcare costs, certainly far less expensive to keep around than someone making millions who does so little.