Beck's not a moron, just his listeners. I used to listen to Beck back before he went national, and his current persona is a complete act. He just realized there was a lot more money in pandering to crazy people than in continuing to talk about what he actually believes.
He was always the first to cover for doctors who were on call. He was always the first to volunteer to work on holidays. He had the most articles published by the American Medical Association. He was the first to get new training and share it with others one-on-one. And by the way, he was the highest revenue producer of all the doctors in the group. In fact, he was producing twice the revenue of some of the doctors. He had been the third doctor to join the group and without his revenue, the start-up could not have been successful.
*rolls eyes* Oh yeah, sounds like a TERRIBLE person to work with.
The unions are just another set of corporations. They're not about protecting workers, they're about using workers to make their officers rich and powerful.
The stock market is about people being able to buy and sell securities that allows businesses to raise additional capital.
Businesses only raise capital when they issue new stock. Once shares are on the stock market, the business itself doesn't make or lose a single dime regardless of what happens to the share price.
Oh you live in a fascist mini-dictatorship. Shoulda thought of who could have a say in what you can do on your property beforehand.
If not wanting extension cords running all over the place makes my condo board a fascist mini-dictatorship, what is the federal government when it tells me what kind of car I have to buy?
Higher population densities are why it's so much better in Asia. It's far more cost effective to provide highspeed wireless to densely packed areas than to lightly packed one, because the cost of an additional tower is spread over more potential customers.
So the fact you're unable to explain your concept with anything close the the precision needed for a law is "The Big ISPs" fault? Do you blame them when your cereal gets soggy too?
That's great. And where exactly am I supposed to plug in this EV? So only people who can afford to own a garage and install EV stations are allowed to have cars now?
If you RTFA, you discover that they can use it to confirm that you recognize particular things, so the system doesn't "leak" secrets. They can only "steal" things they already know.
...is that Blizzard still thinks their have enough of a quality advantage that they can still charge and monthly subscription fee AND the price of a new game for an expansion pack.
It also has the "interesting effect" of making road congestion worse by reducing the road capacity. If everyone leaves an extra car length in front of them because they're "hanging back", you've just cut the number of cars the road can handle in a given stretch of time in half.
The tax is really about rent seeking by European telecom companies. They're having trouble competing with US companies like google, facebook, etc. on a level paying field, so they're hoping to make it too expensive for them to operate in other countries, allowing local clones to take over the market.
Actually, BMW was one of the third reich's major defense contractors and produced most of the airplane engines used by the Luftwaffe. The little cross logo is actually supposed to be a spinning propeller. They also used slave labor from a number of the concentration camps, particularly Dachau. By the end of the war, more than half of BMW's workforce was concentration camp prisoners.
So guys and girls are increasingly having trouble interacting socially, and the immediate assumption is that this is because there must be something wrong with the guys. Ever occured that this attitude is precisely why more guys are remaining single?
"Our business is subject to numerous risks described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus. You should carefully consider these risks before making an investment. Some of these risks include:... Growth in use of Facebook through our mobile products, where our ability to monetize is unproven, as a substitute for use on personal computers may negatively affect our revenue and financial results; "
This was reported on by major financial news sources almost two weeks before the IPO:
This information was freely available to anyone who was paying attention. They're trying to blame Facebook for their own failure to do even basic due dilligence.
The basic point of the article ("Some Icons have outdated images on them! ") has been done numerous times before. But like most articles of the type, it never really address the actual problem and just stops at a Seinfeldesque, "Flopp icons, what's up with that!?"
Icons need to be pictures that are very easy to identify despite being very small, and still give a ready menmonic suggestion as to their use. Everyone knows that a floppy is an outdated image for a save icon. The problem is that no one can really come up with a good replacement. So why don't you suggest one, Scott Hanselman?
Want to indicate Settings or Setup to a twenty something? Show them a tool they've never used in their lives.
What makes you think 20 somethings have never seen a screwdriver or a wrench? Those are still common tools that a normal person would be expected to be familiar with.
Of course, even if this law passes, the company just claim it's for cybersecurity purposes and, under the terms of CISPA, just ignore the privacy protections in this law.
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Elevation Burger is way and ahead the best fast food burgers. Sadly there's only about a hundred of them so far. Happily one is near me.
Secret is that they only use organic grass-fed free range beef. Once you taste it, everyone elses patties taste like crap by comparison.
Beck's not a moron, just his listeners. I used to listen to Beck back before he went national, and his current persona is a complete act. He just realized there was a lot more money in pandering to crazy people than in continuing to talk about what he actually believes.
From the article:
*rolls eyes* Oh yeah, sounds like a TERRIBLE person to work with.
Does anyone else have problems with the phrasing of the question, as though there is one right answer?
The unions are just another set of corporations. They're not about protecting workers, they're about using workers to make their officers rich and powerful.
Businesses only raise capital when they issue new stock. Once shares are on the stock market, the business itself doesn't make or lose a single dime regardless of what happens to the share price.
If not wanting extension cords running all over the place makes my condo board a fascist mini-dictatorship, what is the federal government when it tells me what kind of car I have to buy?
Higher population densities are why it's so much better in Asia. It's far more cost effective to provide highspeed wireless to densely packed areas than to lightly packed one, because the cost of an additional tower is spread over more potential customers.
So the fact you're unable to explain your concept with anything close the the precision needed for a law is "The Big ISPs" fault? Do you blame them when your cereal gets soggy too?
Oh yeah, I'm sure my condo board is just gonna LOVE that.
That's great. And where exactly am I supposed to plug in this EV? So only people who can afford to own a garage and install EV stations are allowed to have cars now?
If you RTFA, you discover that they can use it to confirm that you recognize particular things, so the system doesn't "leak" secrets. They can only "steal" things they already know.
...everyone gets F's. If they can't figure out how to break in and change it to a better grade, they don't deserve to pass.
The letter from Blizzard itself says they use the Secure Remote Password protocol, so this is what they mean by "Cryptographically Scrambled":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protocol
...is that Blizzard still thinks their have enough of a quality advantage that they can still charge and monthly subscription fee AND the price of a new game for an expansion pack.
It also has the "interesting effect" of making road congestion worse by reducing the road capacity. If everyone leaves an extra car length in front of them because they're "hanging back", you've just cut the number of cars the road can handle in a given stretch of time in half.
The tax is really about rent seeking by European telecom companies. They're having trouble competing with US companies like google, facebook, etc. on a level paying field, so they're hoping to make it too expensive for them to operate in other countries, allowing local clones to take over the market.
Actually, BMW was one of the third reich's major defense contractors and produced most of the airplane engines used by the Luftwaffe. The little cross logo is actually supposed to be a spinning propeller. They also used slave labor from a number of the concentration camps, particularly Dachau. By the end of the war, more than half of BMW's workforce was concentration camp prisoners.
So guys and girls are increasingly having trouble interacting socially, and the immediate assumption is that this is because there must be something wrong with the guys. Ever occured that this attitude is precisely why more guys are remaining single?
Facebook also filed an ammended S-1 with the SEC:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512222368/d287954ds1a.htm
That says right in it:
"Our business is subject to numerous risks described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus. You should carefully consider these risks before making an investment. Some of these risks include: ... Growth in use of Facebook through our mobile products, where our ability to monetize is unproven, as a substitute for use on personal computers may negatively affect our revenue and financial results; "
This was reported on by major financial news sources almost two weeks before the IPO:
http://blogs.ft.com/tech-blog/2012/05/facebook-admits-to-mobile-weakness/#axzz1viB00j8h
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-05-07/tech/31602869_1_zynga-facebook-linkedin
This information was freely available to anyone who was paying attention. They're trying to blame Facebook for their own failure to do even basic due dilligence.
Sure they are. How do you think they get computer cases open? Or engage in their various geeky electronic hacking projects?
The basic point of the article ("Some Icons have outdated images on them! ") has been done numerous times before. But like most articles of the type, it never really address the actual problem and just stops at a Seinfeldesque, "Flopp icons, what's up with that!?"
Icons need to be pictures that are very easy to identify despite being very small, and still give a ready menmonic suggestion as to their use. Everyone knows that a floppy is an outdated image for a save icon. The problem is that no one can really come up with a good replacement. So why don't you suggest one, Scott Hanselman?
What makes you think 20 somethings have never seen a screwdriver or a wrench? Those are still common tools that a normal person would be expected to be familiar with.
Or would anyone else be worried about being inside a spaceship named after a tea company?
Of course, even if this law passes, the company just claim it's for cybersecurity purposes and, under the terms of CISPA, just ignore the privacy protections in this law.