No but there was/is large scale abuse of our welfare system in the United States. On 20/20a while back they documented several mothers who admitted to having babies to increase their monthly welfare checks. It was sickening in a way...imagine the kids finding out later in life that the only reason their mother had them was for a higher monthly income.
I have not kept up with the issue but I believe welfare reform was a big topic in the last several years.
I'm feeding the trolls here but he didn't specify a "general internet outage". He specified the event as a "major" internet outage in which case it qualifies. As much as if the event happened in Europe.
Tsk...tsk...typical Anti-American. You've probably been waiting for a comment like that all day just so you could pounce on it.
Its a good sign of the state of affairs in this country when we are expecting the Dems to restrict the power of the government. Are we in the Twilight Zone? Republicans/Democrats are NOT what they used to be. Me? I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal and like a small federal government. What the hell am I?
Your liver must love you. I don't think you put forth the best argument for lowering the drinking age. My opinion...If you're old enough to die for your country, you should be old enough to drink.
You did your exchange wrong. You're paying closer to $45/month over there.
And I must be your someone because Verizon has rolled out FIOS to a large portion of the DC area already offering services close to what you subscribe to. From what I gather, broadband is overpriced in the US because of over regulation and cities/counties giving exclusive TV contracts to local providers. Verizon's FIOS (fiber network) has been installed in every county around me except mine because of some political bullshit. It's certainly not becuase of Verizon's unwillingness to do so.
"Would the US constitution allow the government to form a body which could effectively dictate prices to a company without the company getting any say in the matter?"
IANAEconomist but fixing prices is a stop gap measure in my opinion. When you fix prices the laws of supply and demand go out the window which I think has a more detrimental impact to our wellfare and progress moving forward.
The way we work tomorrow may not be the way we work today. Someone could envision a future where no one works at a "desk" because every resource you need is instantly portable and accessible anywhere through your neural interconnect. Given enough technology the need for a desk dissapears...along with the office. I don't know if any of that would work but the potential is there. If you would have told someone in the 50's that we would have the telecommunications network we have today they probably would have called you crazy.
I think you guys are missing the point. Let me give you an extreme example. We have had a problem finding a receptionist at our work. We keep getting applicants with degrees wanting the job just to get their foot in the door. The point is, someone way overqualified for a job will get bored very quickly and either move on to another part of the company or leave once a job they are properly qualified for comes along. The receptionist's manager doesn't want to have to go through the hassle of training a new receptionist every two months because we are hiring an MBA to answer the phone and sign visitors in.
Companies that post upper limits usually have serious problems (either they don't want to pay for more experience, or management has so little clue they fear for their own jobs).
Not exactly. Upper limits are often placed to prevent over qualified people from applying for the job for the exact reason that they are more likely to jump ship as soon as a better paying job comes along. Hiring employees costs money...all departments of a business are involved, finance, hr, it, management, etc.
Great...then maybe now all my supported users will stop downloading and playing this crap. Things change. Get used to it (not you, the developers). All I here is a bunch of wining because WildTangent's user base can't comprehend the new model. Ohh well.
You don't need an HDTV for your 360. Just use your existing computer monitor. You accuse the GP of comparing apples and oranges but you proceed to do the same thing. They are different plain and simple (although the lines are being blurred with the media capabilities of the 360/PS3 and the threat of "trusted computing" in the PC's future) and any cost comparisons leave out a lot of intangible variables that go into deciding which route to take. If I was neutral on the kb/mouse issue and I enjoyed all genres I think the 360 is a no brainer for the simple fact that it just works. For a large majority of the population that fact that "it just works" is enough to sway them.
While the Northeastern US has had a very warm winter so far (I like it;-)), the mountain states in the west have been having near record snowfalls. I don't present this as evidence but merely an anecdote.
This is a little OT but...I have had great luck in the past recovering data from a Linux Live-CD. This is on drives that were completely unreadable in Windows, occasionally the drives are so bad they prevent Windows from booting even as a slave drive.
My experience has been, 100%, if the drive is readable in the BIOS then Knoppix has been able to mount the drive and copy data. YMMV
people still don't mind being raped by their local provider. Do you enjoy paying insane rates for an infrastructure that has been paid for a million times over?
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I have not kept up with the issue but I believe welfare reform was a big topic in the last several years.
What's worse than that is I actually did a google search on this magic fuel you mentioned and then it dawned on me.
I'm feeding the trolls here but he didn't specify a "general internet outage". He specified the event as a "major" internet outage in which case it qualifies. As much as if the event happened in Europe. Tsk...tsk...typical Anti-American. You've probably been waiting for a comment like that all day just so you could pounce on it.
I bet you told your kid there is no Santa Claus too you JERK.
school not tool.
Either I am ignorant to second grade curriculum or a particular mod is on crack. If it is true...sounds like an awesome tool.
Have you tried using any imaging software? It will greatly reduce the time required to prep machines for new people.
extreme times call for exreme measures.
Its a good sign of the state of affairs in this country when we are expecting the Dems to restrict the power of the government. Are we in the Twilight Zone? Republicans/Democrats are NOT what they used to be. Me? I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal and like a small federal government. What the hell am I?
Your liver must love you. I don't think you put forth the best argument for lowering the drinking age. My opinion...If you're old enough to die for your country, you should be old enough to drink.
haha...good luck!
And I must be your someone because Verizon has rolled out FIOS to a large portion of the DC area already offering services close to what you subscribe to. From what I gather, broadband is overpriced in the US because of over regulation and cities/counties giving exclusive TV contracts to local providers. Verizon's FIOS (fiber network) has been installed in every county around me except mine because of some political bullshit. It's certainly not becuase of Verizon's unwillingness to do so.
IANAEconomist but fixing prices is a stop gap measure in my opinion. When you fix prices the laws of supply and demand go out the window which I think has a more detrimental impact to our wellfare and progress moving forward.
The way we work tomorrow may not be the way we work today. Someone could envision a future where no one works at a "desk" because every resource you need is instantly portable and accessible anywhere through your neural interconnect. Given enough technology the need for a desk dissapears...along with the office. I don't know if any of that would work but the potential is there. If you would have told someone in the 50's that we would have the telecommunications network we have today they probably would have called you crazy.
I'd like to add that this was on a residential cable connection 4k/384.
Actually, a little birdie told me it only took him a couple days to download SouthPark seasons 1-10. That came in at around 36gb...or so I'm told.
Didn't you see the sign that says "Don't feed the trolls". It's bad for their digestive system.
I think you guys are missing the point. Let me give you an extreme example. We have had a problem finding a receptionist at our work. We keep getting applicants with degrees wanting the job just to get their foot in the door. The point is, someone way overqualified for a job will get bored very quickly and either move on to another part of the company or leave once a job they are properly qualified for comes along. The receptionist's manager doesn't want to have to go through the hassle of training a new receptionist every two months because we are hiring an MBA to answer the phone and sign visitors in.
Haha, jokes, I get jokes. /homer
Not exactly. Upper limits are often placed to prevent over qualified people from applying for the job for the exact reason that they are more likely to jump ship as soon as a better paying job comes along. Hiring employees costs money...all departments of a business are involved, finance, hr, it, management, etc.
Great...then maybe now all my supported users will stop downloading and playing this crap. Things change. Get used to it (not you, the developers). All I here is a bunch of wining because WildTangent's user base can't comprehend the new model. Ohh well.
You don't need an HDTV for your 360. Just use your existing computer monitor. You accuse the GP of comparing apples and oranges but you proceed to do the same thing. They are different plain and simple (although the lines are being blurred with the media capabilities of the 360/PS3 and the threat of "trusted computing" in the PC's future) and any cost comparisons leave out a lot of intangible variables that go into deciding which route to take. If I was neutral on the kb/mouse issue and I enjoyed all genres I think the 360 is a no brainer for the simple fact that it just works. For a large majority of the population that fact that "it just works" is enough to sway them.
While the Northeastern US has had a very warm winter so far (I like it ;-)), the mountain states in the west have been having near record snowfalls. I don't present this as evidence but merely an anecdote.
My experience has been, 100%, if the drive is readable in the BIOS then Knoppix has been able to mount the drive and copy data. YMMV
people still don't mind being raped by their local provider. Do you enjoy paying insane rates for an infrastructure that has been paid for a million times over?