Sometimes isn't it worth getting your news "unfilted"? I mean, just like the bland "filtered" beers of Budweiser and Miller, wouldn't you want a full-flavored unfiltered news source that gives you ALL of the news so that you can gain an understanding of events going on outside your narrow interests? Don't you want to be engaged to enlarge your perspective as opposed to narrowing your views?
I mean, if you wanted to filter your news and input, might as well just turn on Rush Limbaugh for one point of view.
I would beg to differ and say that Souros is a billionaire philanthropist who promotes open societies across the world.
Just because he's more libertarian than you does not make him a liberal.
Sean Hannity on the other hand is a die-hard republican and always has been. Beyond being a "political commentator" who is the follow-up act to Limbaugh, what has he actually contributed to society?
You need 1 Green or Libertarian party supporter to work at each and every polling location in the country that uses electronic voting.
Exploiting the extensive flaws that have been documented in the Diebold systems and others, these "operatives" need to infiltrate the system, execute a hastily written program in the hated VB language, and change one out of every 3 votes to be for the Libertarian candidate and one out of every 3 for the Green party.
I don't understand why that link was for "polls are often wrong" when the first 2 paragraphs of the story it linked to specifically say:
"A review of the 159 Governor and U.S. Senate polls reported by the media in 2002 shows a very good performance for most polling organizations. The average candidate error for all polls was 2.4 percentage points. 84% of the polls differed from the election outcome by less than their theoretical margin of error."
Basically, it comes down to two different business approaches / contract models.
If the photographer insists on keeping the negatives, that means they are viewing it as their intellectual material as the covering of an event. In this model they keep the work product and "license" you copies of the images.
If you hire a photographer, my general take is that they are "work for hire", which means that you are paying for their time, equipment, and work product. If you are basically paying by the roll, and paying for their time to be there, then all of their work product should belong to you. Anything less than that is them exacting an unfair contract from you.
The first model is if the photographer sets up at an elementary school, doesn't charge anything for their time, but then sells copies of the pictures that were taken to the parents.
The second model should be for all occasions when you are paying the photographer to be at the location for a specified amount of time.
Do you honestly go to blogs to learn the news? Some fat looser sitting around at night wearing tighty whities drinking red bull alternating between typing his blog and playing counterstrike has enough journalistic integrity and resources to replace WSJ and NYT?
Yes, and the Drudge Report is accurate reporting at its best. Talk to the "Kerry intern" for her take on that journalistic integrity.
if you don't want to use their service, don't use their service. if they wish to charge for their service or require a registration, that's entirely their decision. if you don't want to do that, go read Fox News.
regardless of what you think about the quality of the information they have printed in the past, journalism is journalism. They printed the best information they had at the time, and retracted information when they determined it was false. what else can you ask for?
you're not doing them a favor, you are using their service. you want to use their service, you abide by their rules. those are the TOS.
you're fighting a losing battle. honestly, why even bother?
The only people that leave their built-in browser fall into 3 groups:
1) they're geeks and/or linux users 2) their nephew/friend/grandson/etc. moved them and made it so that couldn't launch IE even if they tried 3) IE got corrupted on their machine so the can't actually launch IE
nobody else will move. they don't feel there is a need, nor do they feel that the move is worth the imagined hassle.
there are much better battles to fight, most of which are easier to point to and explain why they're better.
In my opinion the best is moving development and client services from being ASP/SQL Server to PHP/MySQL. With this you can point to a savings on licensing fees that can be passed on to the client (or not), can point to fewer bugs and security holes from MS products, and the availability of support from the vast number of developers that use the products.
I received a phone call a few days ago in the middle of the day that when I picked the phone up it just said "we're sorry, this phone message was intended only for your answering machine" and then it hung up.
you must not be from NYC. why would you need a car if you live in the city? where would you really want to go that you can't take public transportation to?
and no, 2 bedroom apts go for 1400-1600 (not great apt, but livable). 1000 a piece when you roll in your monthly metrocard and utilities. that leaves 1200 for food and fun (and student loans)
2 friends of mine both earn 38k each, live together in a decent 2BR in chinatown.
they have enough money for living expenses and the ability to go out... yea, they dont drink at the $10 a beer places, but there are enough places in the city with reasonable prices.
Not to turn this into a huge discussion on globalization, but the sad fact is that entry level programmers aren't just competing against the local competition in whatever city they choose, but they're also competing against high-level programmers in India and other lower-wage countries (Argentina among others) that will work for the same equivalent wage. While an entry level programmer would have to think about whether $20/hr is a decent wage, an experienced programmer in Argentina or India would LOVE to take that same job.
Not to be a complete buzzkill, but at $20/hr (hopefully w/ benefits), grab that opportunity because it's a good one. If for nothing else, it gets you in the industry during a tough period at a very livable wage. Yes, you could live in NYC on that wage (would probably need a roomate or to live in one of the lower cost areas...)
just as the above poster said, build customer relationships. start by mowing lawns, mention that you also are pretty tech saavy and people will ask you to fix their aol or remove a pesky virus...
you'll learn a valuable skill: getting in the door is the hardest part of any business.
before you know it you'll have all of the neighborhood kids working for you painting houses, fixing printer jams, setting up wireless ethernet connections, mowing lawns, helping old ladies carry their groceries home, etc.
you can be an entrepreneur without stifling your youth.
That's not what I said. Read the line you quoted again:
"My tax dollars go to american workers."
Tax dollars. I'm not saying to erect protectionist borders to prevent foreign products and companies from coming into the country and selling their wares. I'm saying that my tax dollars should be spent on purchasing products and services from American companies. And yes, I encourage all other countries to do this as well. Why should MY tax dollars be outsourced to India when they could be used to hire the out of work guy next door?
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Joe replaced Bob as the manager at the local frozen yogurt stand.
Sometimes isn't it worth getting your news "unfilted"? I mean, just like the bland "filtered" beers of Budweiser and Miller, wouldn't you want a full-flavored unfiltered news source that gives you ALL of the news so that you can gain an understanding of events going on outside your narrow interests? Don't you want to be engaged to enlarge your perspective as opposed to narrowing your views?
I mean, if you wanted to filter your news and input, might as well just turn on Rush Limbaugh for one point of view.
I would have thought this would be your link source...
last time I checked you simply had to register to get the news via the NY Times. So that's free... no buying involved.
Additionally, it's also one of the largest news companies so I can't see how you've drawn this conclusion.
Empornium!
I would beg to differ and say that Souros is a billionaire philanthropist who promotes open societies across the world.
Just because he's more libertarian than you does not make him a liberal.
Sean Hannity on the other hand is a die-hard republican and always has been. Beyond being a "political commentator" who is the follow-up act to Limbaugh, what has he actually contributed to society?
You need 1 Green or Libertarian party supporter to work at each and every polling location in the country that uses electronic voting.
Exploiting the extensive flaws that have been documented in the Diebold systems and others, these "operatives" need to infiltrate the system, execute a hastily written program in the hated VB language, and change one out of every 3 votes to be for the Libertarian candidate and one out of every 3 for the Green party.
techrevolt!
I don't condone this, but it'll fix the situation...
I don't understand why that link was for "polls are often wrong" when the first 2 paragraphs of the story it linked to specifically say:
"A review of the 159 Governor and U.S. Senate polls reported by the media in 2002 shows a very good performance for most polling organizations. The average candidate error for all polls was 2.4 percentage points. 84% of the polls differed from the election outcome by less than their theoretical margin of error."
I'm confused.
most fun book ever.
Basically, it comes down to two different business approaches / contract models.
If the photographer insists on keeping the negatives, that means they are viewing it as their intellectual material as the covering of an event. In this model they keep the work product and "license" you copies of the images.
If you hire a photographer, my general take is that they are "work for hire", which means that you are paying for their time, equipment, and work product. If you are basically paying by the roll, and paying for their time to be there, then all of their work product should belong to you. Anything less than that is them exacting an unfair contract from you.
The first model is if the photographer sets up at an elementary school, doesn't charge anything for their time, but then sells copies of the pictures that were taken to the parents.
The second model should be for all occasions when you are paying the photographer to be at the location for a specified amount of time.
Do you honestly go to blogs to learn the news? Some fat looser sitting around at night wearing tighty whities drinking red bull alternating between typing his blog and playing counterstrike has enough journalistic integrity and resources to replace WSJ and NYT?
Yes, and the Drudge Report is accurate reporting at its best. Talk to the "Kerry intern" for her take on that journalistic integrity.
if you don't want to use their service, don't use their service. if they wish to charge for their service or require a registration, that's entirely their decision. if you don't want to do that, go read Fox News.
regardless of what you think about the quality of the information they have printed in the past, journalism is journalism. They printed the best information they had at the time, and retracted information when they determined it was false. what else can you ask for?
you're not doing them a favor, you are using their service. you want to use their service, you abide by their rules. those are the TOS.
hold on... banner advertising to subsidize content delivery?
didn't we give up on that business model years ago?
you're fighting a losing battle. honestly, why even bother?
The only people that leave their built-in browser fall into 3 groups:
1) they're geeks and/or linux users
2) their nephew/friend/grandson/etc. moved them and made it so that couldn't launch IE even if they tried
3) IE got corrupted on their machine so the can't actually launch IE
nobody else will move. they don't feel there is a need, nor do they feel that the move is worth the imagined hassle.
there are much better battles to fight, most of which are easier to point to and explain why they're better.
In my opinion the best is moving development and client services from being ASP/SQL Server to PHP/MySQL. With this you can point to a savings on licensing fees that can be passed on to the client (or not), can point to fewer bugs and security holes from MS products, and the availability of support from the vast number of developers that use the products.
multitask?
just cuz I've downloaded it doesn't mean I've watched it all without fast forwarding!
this past week.
a partition on my external 250 gig drive got corrupted. couldn't recover the data.
120 gigs of pr0n was lost. oh well, time to restock with empornium!
yea... was that anything BUT a request for traffic?
that wasn't supposed to be funny! it really did happen!
I received a phone call a few days ago in the middle of the day that when I picked the phone up it just said "we're sorry, this phone message was intended only for your answering machine" and then it hung up.
Very strange.
come on.. can you name another 2,3,4 examples of web-based software so that you can actually say the era of web-based software is upon us?
you must not be from NYC. why would you need a car if you live in the city? where would you really want to go that you can't take public transportation to?
and no, 2 bedroom apts go for 1400-1600 (not great apt, but livable). 1000 a piece when you roll in your monthly metrocard and utilities. that leaves 1200 for food and fun (and student loans)
2 friends of mine both earn 38k each, live together in a decent 2BR in chinatown.
they have enough money for living expenses and the ability to go out... yea, they dont drink at the $10 a beer places, but there are enough places in the city with reasonable prices.
Not to turn this into a huge discussion on globalization, but the sad fact is that entry level programmers aren't just competing against the local competition in whatever city they choose, but they're also competing against high-level programmers in India and other lower-wage countries (Argentina among others) that will work for the same equivalent wage. While an entry level programmer would have to think about whether $20/hr is a decent wage, an experienced programmer in Argentina or India would LOVE to take that same job.
Not to be a complete buzzkill, but at $20/hr (hopefully w/ benefits), grab that opportunity because it's a good one. If for nothing else, it gets you in the industry during a tough period at a very livable wage. Yes, you could live in NYC on that wage (would probably need a roomate or to live in one of the lower cost areas...)
just as the above poster said, build customer relationships. start by mowing lawns, mention that you also are pretty tech saavy and people will ask you to fix their aol or remove a pesky virus...
you'll learn a valuable skill: getting in the door is the hardest part of any business.
before you know it you'll have all of the neighborhood kids working for you painting houses, fixing printer jams, setting up wireless ethernet connections, mowing lawns, helping old ladies carry their groceries home, etc.
you can be an entrepreneur without stifling your youth.
That's not what I said. Read the line you quoted again:
"My tax dollars go to american workers."
Tax dollars. I'm not saying to erect protectionist borders to prevent foreign products and companies from coming into the country and selling their wares. I'm saying that my tax dollars should be spent on purchasing products and services from American companies. And yes, I encourage all other countries to do this as well. Why should MY tax dollars be outsourced to India when they could be used to hire the out of work guy next door?