A much better alternative would be if EMI were actually able to market their products in a sustainable way. It is a shame that the music will suffer. I am not sorry that in this case a terrible company is going out of business, but that when they do go out of business, a certain amount of music will be lost to a degree.
When they go down, their assets will just be bought by another group. I say we Blender EMI, buy their copyrights and then release them all to the public domain. I'm in for $500, who's with me?
That's the big one and I'm constantly confused as to why people demand protections from the commercial sector but then rant and rampage when it's given to them. If you want to open your own website for family use and you call it FacetoFacewithUnity100 - that's allowed! If you want to call it FaceofMe and include thousands of pictures of your face...thats allowed!
Allowed but you still have to put up with barratry.
It might be interesting to try introducing meerkats in a few areas. They're incredibly cute, and they also like to eat rodents. They also like to make burrows, and could probably invade a lot of the rodents' turfs. There are some other mongooses (mongeese?) that also have potential for urban rodent control.
Not a good idea. Mongooses are diurnal, rats are nocturnal. It's already been tried in Hawaii and all it did was kill off a lot bird species because the mongooses ate their eggs instead of eating the rats.
Buddhists would say that the meaning of the icon lies in the mind of the one ascribes the meaning to it. Therefore the icon has no intrinsic meaning in and of itself and thus they would have no problem finding another meaningless icon to use in its place.
That cuts both ways - you can count on the neo-nazis just using other symbols in response to the ban too.
And, I don't need my parents (or anyone else) seeing me interacting with a bunch of idiots with swastika logos... To their credit, that's probably the only thing they're going to care about. There certainly hasn't been a decline in the number of ejaculating penis logos.
But you're good with your parents seeing you interacting with a bunch of cum-spewing dicks? I guess you gotta draw the line somewhere...
I'm all for changing the "at will" bit, or at least imposing some very heavy tax penalties on companies that routinely engage in layoffs. I'm as sick as anyone of seeing people treated as some kind of disposable widget.
That's what unions are for. Despite the hate, unions are about as pure a free-market solution to the kind of problem as it gets.
Some might argue that "free-market" idealism goes out the window when unions get special-interest laws passed in their favor, well if the corps can do it, so to should the unions.
"Terrorists" are not a myth, you do not ward them off with superstition and half-assed attempts to look good,
Actually, those half-assed attempts to look good are either working or terrorists are essentially a myth. After all, no domestic flight has been hijacked or otherwise attacked since the creation of the TSA.
Seems like the USA could act just like california does - if the ships want to do business in US territorial waters they must conform to US requirements. Since essentially everybody wants to do business with the USA, practically the USA would be setting a world-wide standard. It wouldn't be the first time the USA acted like an 800lb gorilla for international standards (like banking regulation).
The solution is a simple one. If a company requires you to use a phone for business purposes that will be sending/receiving business e-mails and subject to remote wiping by that company, then that company needs to issue phones to their employees that may not be used for non-business purposes.
Why require they be used strictly for business? If the user is willing to take the risk of losing it all, then let them. One less low-value rule to worry about enforcing.
So your wife is a harping shrew who complains until she gets her way, and you just sit quietly and wait for the tantrums to end. Go turn in your Man Card, immediately.
In this case, the man won the fight. She just doesn't know it. Look at the end result and who is now doing all the work.
most people who buy cars like to keep their warranty
Back in 1975, when congress was owned by a wider variety of corporations, they passed the Magnuson-Moss Act to prevent exactly those kinds of shenanigans.
If it turns out that Firefox is so leaky that cookies can be placed outside of the context of the fake home directory, then I'll just have to raise the stakes and use a chroot directory (definitely not secure once arbitrary code can be run),
(A) Flash cookies go in ~/.macromedia - I haven't played with changing $HOME yet to see if that is sufficient to make flash use different.macromedia directories, instead I use the BetterPrivacy plugin set to wipe flash cookies older than 5 minutes.
(B) Why do you think chroot is vulnerable to arbitrary code? AFAIK only root can break out of a chroot.
(C) Much, if not all, of what you describe can be done with firefox profiles. I run firefox with the "-no-remote -ProfileManager" arguments to get different config and storage (cache/cookies/plugins/etc) options.
Or modify the OS clock functions. Few people need that level of precision and a smart modification could average out to zero deviation over the long term. One could even an add an interface to remove skew randomization for specific processes that way the user who cares about such things could "fix" it on a case by case basis.
Record yourself speaking. Transcribe it. Then compare that to something you have written. If you don't notice the difference you are either remarkably eloquent or shockingly illiterate.
That's not something as extreme as a different dialect, its just simpler construction + slang + pause words.
Wrong. They care about doing what they think is good. What they don't care about is if you agree with what they think is good.
Practically no one ever considers themselves "the bad guy" even guys like saddam hussein, idi amin and the khmer rouge all rationalized their actions as somehow being for the greater good.
Personally, I think wikileaks is well over the line into the territory of "good" -- I'm just saying the argument that someone thinks they are doing good doesn't necessarily make it so.
I also would say that much of the audio quality comes from the DACs and Sampling rate conversion.
The difference in DAC outputs has been essentially indistinguishable by the human ear for at least the last ten years. Opamps, on the other hand, still have a pretty wide variation.
The "free market" is really only best suited for packaging up bad mortgages, chopping them up into little pieces, wrapping them in derivative origami, giving them a triple-A rating, selling them to themselves and then asking for a handout from 300 million people when they lose their shirts.
Of course you realize that the handout is anything BUT a free market. If it had really been a free market, they would never have had the ability to socialize their losses in the first place.
I think that's a point that a lot of the upper class and other folks that go to those schools fail to grasp. It's a luxury that a lot of folks don't have to spend that much time with nose stuck in a book doing homework.
This is the problem with the "merit-based" system we have to day - the well off are able to give their kids tons more opportunity to develop their "merit" compared to the not so well off. It starts at preschool, if not sooner - get the kids into the "right" (and expensive) preschool, make sure the kids spend all of their free time going from one extracurricular activity to another (all of which cost money and parental time to shuffle the kids around) then make sure they get into an expensive private high school and if needed, get them a tutor.
So the end result is that yes you get highly qualified kids going to the best colleges, but when the only way a kid can become so highly qualified is because their parents are wealthy enough to afford all the preparation you end up with exactly the same sort of social stratification that the merit system was intended to eliminate. Back in the early 1900s the wealthy were smart enough to realize that stratification was not good for the long term health of society and so the SATs were created. Nowadays, when rich kids average 400 points higher than poor kids, it's time for a change in the system. I don't know what that change is, but you don't need to be a baker to know that the bread is stale.
One place where "conservatives" and "libertarians" agree is that the "free market" is better suited to protecting the environment than the government,
Spare us the hyperbole deliberately simplified to the point of misrepresentation. A Libertarian would point out that air pollution is a standard "tragedy of the commons" failure and would propose a market-based solution like emissions trading as a means of stopping polluters from treating the damage they do to property they do not own as an economic externality.
If you can't be bothered to talk to friends offline, then maybe you don't really know what friends are.
That itself seems to be part of your definition of a friend. That's a far cry from simply "wishing to keep in touch." I have to agree with the other guy, you are projecting your own personal definition of friend onto everyone else and then condemning those who don't require the same kind of social interaction that you do. That's pretty narcissistic.
The mistake you make is thinking that the GP wants to keep in touch with people like you.
You are totally right. But the AC's opinion is equally valid and, unfortunately, far more common and he doesn't deserve to be rated "troll" for it - it is pretty much a fact of modern life.
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A much better alternative would be if EMI were actually able to market their products in a sustainable way. It is a shame that the music will suffer. I am not sorry that in this case a terrible company is going out of business, but that when they do go out of business, a certain amount of music will be lost to a degree.
When they go down, their assets will just be bought by another group.
I say we Blender EMI, buy their copyrights and then release them all to the public domain.
I'm in for $500, who's with me?
That's the big one and I'm constantly confused as to why people demand protections from the commercial sector but then rant and rampage when it's given to them. If you want to open your own website for family use and you call it FacetoFacewithUnity100 - that's allowed! If you want to call it FaceofMe and include thousands of pictures of your face...thats allowed!
Allowed but you still have to put up with barratry.
Are they native to an urban area like Chicago?
At least as native as dogs are to the moscow subway.
It might be interesting to try introducing meerkats in a few areas. They're incredibly cute, and they also like to eat rodents. They also like to make burrows, and could probably invade a lot of the rodents' turfs. There are some other mongooses (mongeese?) that also have potential for urban rodent control.
Not a good idea. Mongooses are diurnal, rats are nocturnal. It's already been tried in Hawaii and all it did was kill off a lot bird species because the mongooses ate their eggs instead of eating the rats.
Buddhists would say that the meaning of the icon lies in the mind of the one ascribes the meaning to it. Therefore the icon has no intrinsic meaning in and of itself and thus they would have no problem finding another meaningless icon to use in its place.
That cuts both ways - you can count on the neo-nazis just using other symbols in response to the ban too.
And, I don't need my parents (or anyone else) seeing me interacting with a bunch of idiots with swastika logos ...
To their credit, that's probably the only thing they're going to care about. There certainly hasn't been a decline in the number of ejaculating penis logos.
But you're good with your parents seeing you interacting with a bunch of cum-spewing dicks?
I guess you gotta draw the line somewhere...
I'm all for changing the "at will" bit, or at least imposing some very heavy tax penalties on companies that routinely engage in layoffs. I'm as sick as anyone of seeing people treated as some kind of disposable widget.
That's what unions are for. Despite the hate, unions are about as pure a free-market solution to the kind of problem as it gets.
Some might argue that "free-market" idealism goes out the window when unions get special-interest laws passed in their favor, well if the corps can do it, so to should the unions.
"Terrorists" are not a myth, you do not ward them off with superstition and half-assed attempts to look good,
Actually, those half-assed attempts to look good are either working or terrorists are essentially a myth.
After all, no domestic flight has been hijacked or otherwise attacked since the creation of the TSA.
Seems like the USA could act just like california does - if the ships want to do business in US territorial waters they must conform to US requirements. Since essentially everybody wants to do business with the USA, practically the USA would be setting a world-wide standard. It wouldn't be the first time the USA acted like an 800lb gorilla for international standards (like banking regulation).
The solution is a simple one. If a company requires you to use a phone for business purposes that will be sending/receiving business e-mails and subject to remote wiping by that company, then that company needs to issue phones to their employees that may not be used for non-business purposes.
Why require they be used strictly for business? If the user is willing to take the risk of losing it all, then let them. One less low-value rule to worry about enforcing.
So your wife is a harping shrew who complains until she gets her way, and you just sit quietly and wait for the tantrums to end. Go turn in your Man Card, immediately.
In this case, the man won the fight. She just doesn't know it. Look at the end result and who is now doing all the work.
most people who buy cars like to keep their warranty
Back in 1975, when congress was owned by a wider variety of corporations, they passed the Magnuson-Moss Act to prevent exactly those kinds of shenanigans.
If it turns out that Firefox is so leaky that cookies can be placed outside of the context of the fake home directory, then I'll just have to raise the stakes and use a chroot directory (definitely not secure once arbitrary code can be run),
(A) Flash cookies go in ~/.macromedia - I haven't played with changing $HOME yet to see if that is sufficient to make flash use different .macromedia directories, instead I use the BetterPrivacy plugin set to wipe flash cookies older than 5 minutes.
(B) Why do you think chroot is vulnerable to arbitrary code? AFAIK only root can break out of a chroot.
(C) Much, if not all, of what you describe can be done with firefox profiles. I run firefox with the "-no-remote -ProfileManager" arguments to get different config and storage (cache/cookies/plugins/etc) options.
Or modify the OS clock functions. Few people need that level of precision and a smart modification could average out to zero deviation over the long term. One could even an add an interface to remove skew randomization for specific processes that way the user who cares about such things could "fix" it on a case by case basis.
Record yourself speaking. Transcribe it. Then compare that to something you have written. If you don't notice the difference you are either remarkably eloquent or shockingly illiterate.
That's not something as extreme as a different dialect, its just simpler construction + slang + pause words.
And the US government would be best described as Lawful-Evil. Pick your sides.
Totally disagree. Being able to arbitrarily specify what the laws are is about as chaotic as it gets. I'm not going to comment on the good/evil part.
Wrong. They care about doing what they think is good. What they don't care about is if you agree with what they think is good.
Practically no one ever considers themselves "the bad guy" even guys like saddam hussein, idi amin and the khmer rouge all rationalized their actions as somehow being for the greater good.
Personally, I think wikileaks is well over the line into the territory of "good" -- I'm just saying the argument that someone thinks they are doing good doesn't necessarily make it so.
It is, but that's why we have separate dialects for speech and for writing.
Huh? Since when? Written English and spoken English are the same. The existence of creoles, pidgins and patois not withstanding.
I also would say that much of the audio quality comes from the DACs and Sampling rate conversion.
The difference in DAC outputs has been essentially indistinguishable by the human ear for at least the last ten years.
Opamps, on the other hand, still have a pretty wide variation.
The "free market" is really only best suited for packaging up bad mortgages, chopping them up into little pieces, wrapping them in derivative origami, giving them a triple-A rating, selling them to themselves and then asking for a handout from 300 million people when they lose their shirts.
Of course you realize that the handout is anything BUT a free market. If it had really been a free market, they would never have had the ability to socialize their losses in the first place.
I think that's a point that a lot of the upper class and other folks that go to those schools fail to grasp. It's a luxury that a lot of folks don't have to spend that much time with nose stuck in a book doing homework.
This is the problem with the "merit-based" system we have to day - the well off are able to give their kids tons more opportunity to develop their "merit" compared to the not so well off. It starts at preschool, if not sooner - get the kids into the "right" (and expensive) preschool, make sure the kids spend all of their free time going from one extracurricular activity to another (all of which cost money and parental time to shuffle the kids around) then make sure they get into an expensive private high school and if needed, get them a tutor.
So the end result is that yes you get highly qualified kids going to the best colleges, but when the only way a kid can become so highly qualified is because their parents are wealthy enough to afford all the preparation you end up with exactly the same sort of social stratification that the merit system was intended to eliminate. Back in the early 1900s the wealthy were smart enough to realize that stratification was not good for the long term health of society and so the SATs were created. Nowadays, when rich kids average 400 points higher than poor kids, it's time for a change in the system. I don't know what that change is, but you don't need to be a baker to know that the bread is stale.
FACT: less the 25% of IBM employees were born in the USA.
So what? All that matters in this debate is whether they are citizens or on the path to citizenship.
One place where "conservatives" and "libertarians" agree is that the "free market" is better suited to protecting the environment than the government,
Spare us the hyperbole deliberately simplified to the point of misrepresentation. A Libertarian would point out that air pollution is a standard "tragedy of the commons" failure and would propose a market-based solution like emissions trading as a means of stopping polluters from treating the damage they do to property they do not own as an economic externality.
If you can't be bothered to talk to friends offline, then maybe you don't really know what friends are.
That itself seems to be part of your definition of a friend. That's a far cry from simply "wishing to keep in touch." I have to agree with the other guy, you are projecting your own personal definition of friend onto everyone else and then condemning those who don't require the same kind of social interaction that you do. That's pretty narcissistic.
The mistake you make is thinking that the GP wants to keep in touch with people like you.
You are totally right. But the AC's opinion is equally valid and, unfortunately, far more common and he doesn't deserve to be rated "troll" for it - it is pretty much a fact of modern life.