Yes, if the people entering the contests agree to the terms and conditions before-hand. If I say 'hey, do this work for me for free, and I won't offer you any compensation' and someone willingly does it, what the heck is the problem? Are we in Bizarro World today?
I'm assuming the rules on what the company gets to do with the leftover entries is presented up front in the terms and conditions? If you don't agree with those, then don't bother and enter. What's the problem again?
Isn't that all the more reason to not get your panties all up in a bunch about it? Why the eff should I care how what I do now affects the state of affairs millions of years down the road? The only constant is change.
Actually, I'm all for trying to not make things worse than they are now. If I can do something during my existence that isn't a complete pain in the ass and doesn't *hurt* the environment then great. But if it's too much inconvenience to myself all to keep the human race more comfortable for 100,000 years instead of 90,000, I just don't care.
But having a bunch of hippies telling me I'm causing doomsday scenarios just makes me want to burn a bunch of tires, waste gas idling my car pointlessly, and find other ways to piss them off.
So I say to them "Do you really want to hire only those disloyal or dissatisfied with their current job?"
So you're basically hiring new grads, unemployed, or people in situations where they must find a new job? Sure, I understand how jobhopping can look bad. But I've never heard of bashing someone for leaving a job they hate, either.
How does this keep you from putting songs, ringtones, games, etc. on your phone outside of Verizon - this doesn't lock you into Verizon's ecosystem at all. It locks you out of loading your own unofficial (unsupported) firmwares, bootloaders, ROMs, and operating systems. But as far as what you can do with Motorola's stock-ish Android, you can do anything any of the other Androids can do, right?
Yes! I think this is one of the biggest problems in politics and debate today. Saying 'I'm right, you're wrong' only comes across and condescending and naturally turns the other person away from truly engaging with you. Help them see what you're trying to say and as you put it, come to their own conclusion. Brute forcing your ideas onto others under the umbrella that they're stupid since they don't agree only leads to the animosity and divided nature that is happening way too much these days.
But what if I want "bikini girl pictures FREE" apps anyway? As long as they're not spyware or malicious, I don't see why *any* app should be kept out. Find ways for the cream to rise to the top, but don't necessarily keep anything out.
You just identified the very social programs that I would eliminate or at least cut back heavily on first. Social security is an unsustainable pyramid scheme, so that would go first.
I was going to say the same thing, wondering where this married person tax break is that everyone speaks of. Before we got married, everyone said we'd get economic benefits. So far, the only way I see that actually being the case is if one partner stays home or makes minimal income. If you're married and both professionals making roughly the same decent income, the government bends you over and makes you collectively their bitch.
1000 years from now none of this generation will still be around anyway, so who the fuck cares? Methinks people will adapt to whatever climate change is present and life will go on....like it has all along. Where did this movement of keeping *everything* status quo come from?
What went wrong was that they premiered on Sprint. If they'd been on Verizon from the beginning, VZW would have had it's flagship next-gen smartphone six months earlier, and Palm would have it's device on the largest network in the US. I cannot for the life of me understand why Android and Palm phones debut on 2nd class carriers like TMobile and Sprint. Like it or not, there's really only two players in the business that can offer true national footprint - AT&T and Verizon. Not going on one of those cripples you right out the gate.
We watched Supersize Me while eating McDonalds, and continue to eat it occasionally to this day. It was entertaining, I got it's point...but it was also kinda blatantly biased propaganda, too. News flash - eating extra large fries/half-poundburgers/and an extra shake each meal is bad for you! Really?
I also think it's totally possible to eat at McDonalds every meal for 30 days and *not* feel like crap. How many times did he order a salad or water or a basic chicken filet? He didn't *have* to get the Big Mac and large shake every meal...
How are any of those unethical? You can't legislate the stupid out of people. If you provide something they want, who is anyone else to decide for either party that that *isn't* the case?
Last I knew Buzz was also tied to Gmail. Not all of my friends have Gmail, some have their own email addresses and probably don't want to sign up for Google's just to use Buzz. I use Gmail for email, Twitter for its niche, and Facebook for its own use. Until Buzz gets decoupled into a standalone service I don't see it competing much with Twitter even, let alone Facebook.
Isn't the signal to noise on Facebook directly related to the people you "friend"? I don't get spammed by complete strangers, and the people I get tired of seeing pictures of babies and games for get blocked, hidden, or removed from my list. It's not Facebook's problem that your friends blow up your timeline with a bunch of crap....
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Yes, if the people entering the contests agree to the terms and conditions before-hand. If I say 'hey, do this work for me for free, and I won't offer you any compensation' and someone willingly does it, what the heck is the problem? Are we in Bizarro World today?
I'm assuming the rules on what the company gets to do with the leftover entries is presented up front in the terms and conditions? If you don't agree with those, then don't bother and enter. What's the problem again?
Wasn't this already sort of being addressed by Internet2? Well, other than the paying for premium services part?
Isn't that all the more reason to not get your panties all up in a bunch about it? Why the eff should I care how what I do now affects the state of affairs millions of years down the road? The only constant is change.
Actually, I'm all for trying to not make things worse than they are now. If I can do something during my existence that isn't a complete pain in the ass and doesn't *hurt* the environment then great. But if it's too much inconvenience to myself all to keep the human race more comfortable for 100,000 years instead of 90,000, I just don't care.
But having a bunch of hippies telling me I'm causing doomsday scenarios just makes me want to burn a bunch of tires, waste gas idling my car pointlessly, and find other ways to piss them off.
Dropbox or any other sort of remote file storage or web server, with an encrypted file(s)? Doesn't TrueCrypt do something like that?
So I say to them "Do you really want to hire only those disloyal or dissatisfied with their current job?"
So you're basically hiring new grads, unemployed, or people in situations where they must find a new job? Sure, I understand how jobhopping can look bad. But I've never heard of bashing someone for leaving a job they hate, either.
How does this keep you from putting songs, ringtones, games, etc. on your phone outside of Verizon - this doesn't lock you into Verizon's ecosystem at all. It locks you out of loading your own unofficial (unsupported) firmwares, bootloaders, ROMs, and operating systems. But as far as what you can do with Motorola's stock-ish Android, you can do anything any of the other Androids can do, right?
Yes! I think this is one of the biggest problems in politics and debate today. Saying 'I'm right, you're wrong' only comes across and condescending and naturally turns the other person away from truly engaging with you. Help them see what you're trying to say and as you put it, come to their own conclusion. Brute forcing your ideas onto others under the umbrella that they're stupid since they don't agree only leads to the animosity and divided nature that is happening way too much these days.
But what if I want "bikini girl pictures FREE" apps anyway? As long as they're not spyware or malicious, I don't see why *any* app should be kept out. Find ways for the cream to rise to the top, but don't necessarily keep anything out.
Well....Google Docs *is* free.....
You just identified the very social programs that I would eliminate or at least cut back heavily on first. Social security is an unsustainable pyramid scheme, so that would go first.
I was going to say the same thing, wondering where this married person tax break is that everyone speaks of. Before we got married, everyone said we'd get economic benefits. So far, the only way I see that actually being the case is if one partner stays home or makes minimal income. If you're married and both professionals making roughly the same decent income, the government bends you over and makes you collectively their bitch.
2005 called, they want their ant-Verizon rant back...
What is a 'big site'?
1000 years from now none of this generation will still be around anyway, so who the fuck cares? Methinks people will adapt to whatever climate change is present and life will go on....like it has all along. Where did this movement of keeping *everything* status quo come from?
How does it work if the first hole blows before you get the second hole drilled? One of them has to be first, right?
So you can pay extra to get access to the source of an open-source software project?? Wha??
What went wrong was that they premiered on Sprint. If they'd been on Verizon from the beginning, VZW would have had it's flagship next-gen smartphone six months earlier, and Palm would have it's device on the largest network in the US. I cannot for the life of me understand why Android and Palm phones debut on 2nd class carriers like TMobile and Sprint. Like it or not, there's really only two players in the business that can offer true national footprint - AT&T and Verizon. Not going on one of those cripples you right out the gate.
We watched Supersize Me while eating McDonalds, and continue to eat it occasionally to this day. It was entertaining, I got it's point...but it was also kinda blatantly biased propaganda, too. News flash - eating extra large fries/half-poundburgers/and an extra shake each meal is bad for you! Really?
I also think it's totally possible to eat at McDonalds every meal for 30 days and *not* feel like crap. How many times did he order a salad or water or a basic chicken filet? He didn't *have* to get the Big Mac and large shake every meal...
How are any of those unethical? You can't legislate the stupid out of people. If you provide something they want, who is anyone else to decide for either party that that *isn't* the case?
Haha, it's that easy!
You just described the Internet. Yay?
Last I knew Buzz was also tied to Gmail. Not all of my friends have Gmail, some have their own email addresses and probably don't want to sign up for Google's just to use Buzz. I use Gmail for email, Twitter for its niche, and Facebook for its own use. Until Buzz gets decoupled into a standalone service I don't see it competing much with Twitter even, let alone Facebook.
Isn't the signal to noise on Facebook directly related to the people you "friend"? I don't get spammed by complete strangers, and the people I get tired of seeing pictures of babies and games for get blocked, hidden, or removed from my list. It's not Facebook's problem that your friends blow up your timeline with a bunch of crap....
sudo BanzaiBuddy
See, it works!