Sounds like you're talking about Executive Outcomes. Although to be honest, this job would probably better benefit a small group of enthusiastic hobbyists.
Because they have found and are using an OS that kicks Windows in the groin, but they can't get as many apps for it as the market would dictate if there were no MS monopoly.
They know there are Jabillions (i.e. very large number) of developers out there that only develop for MS Windows because that is where 95% of the market rests. If Office was not made by the same company as Windows, then Office would not 'magically' perform better on Windows. It would pay the makers of Office to port it to other platforms (e.g. Linux, BeOS). With Office on other platforms, users could migrate more easily. Developers migrate to follow the user base and bang! More apps for other operating systems.
Internet businesses are not exempt from all taxes that brick and morters pay, mostly just sales tax (and obviously they will not have property tax except for where they have offices). The reason for this is that these companies do not utilize the services for which the sales tax is supposed to pay, ar at least not all of them. You can make a case about access to the court system, but how about things like the state education system or the State Police? It is inappropriate to tax Internet businesses to pay for these things.
Additionally, there are Constitutional issues involved when you start talking about taxing business that is Interstate. In this case (Borders) it seems pretty clear that the court made a good call. We should be careful about over extrapolating that to other businesses.
The only chance we have is when the next windows "more money, better computer needed edition" comes out.
How about installing a $30 home router using NAT, Firefox, Thunderbird, and a common anti-virus client? Total cost less than $100, maybe two hours.
Alternatively, install Linux, Firefox, and Thunderbird, snicker quietly to yourself, and enjoy. Total cost $0, couple hours to figure out/configure Linux.
Having shot both weapons I can say that there definitely is a difference between them... in the hands of a properly trained marksman. There is a reason the US trains their infantry so hard. Those guys can shoot. They make good use of the superior accuracy of they M-16/M-4.
Also, the M-16 has a much lighter kick, allowing for faster accurate followup shots than you can get with the AK. Even using three-round-bursts there is less deflection/vibration.
Another major advantage of the smaller lighter round is that the troops can carry far more 5.56 ammunition. The loudest sound in a gun fight is *click*, and he who runs out of ammunition first loses. Sure, you get a bunch of jerks out there with only 15 or 20 rounds in their AKs, but these are not long-lived individuals, generally. The word 'cannonfodder' comes to mind.
And, yes, our third-world adversaries do consider it a victory when one of their illiterate enthusiasts manages to shoot on of our boys/girls (or blows him/her up, more likely), but this has nothing to do with the quality of the American rifle.
I know there was debate about the decreased kill probability when using the smaller round. I think the final outcome was that a wounded enemy was often better than a dead one, and I think this speaks well of Americans generally.
Oops, I just realized that this isn't a gun thread. Sorry. Back to Star Wars.
...an organization that has nude women providing high quality automotive finishes to members of an automotive club:
www.aaa.xxx
Wax...get it? It's funny... right?
No, I believe that's BS. I was in the navy and I worked on bombs (including the MK 20 Rockeye and the APAM). I was an Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd class. I know what I'm talking about.
There were ignition failures in submunitions (but nowhere near 50%) but those failed bomblets would not be sensitive enough to detonate from someone stepping on them or driving over them after surface impact. A bigger problem is failure to function in the fuse that forces separation in the casing and releases the bomblets.
There was a weapon (called Gator) that dropped landmines as submunitions, but it was never popular because of the strong resentment against landmine usage in general.
This reminds me of the belief that the US planted tracking chips in printers and monitors that were being sold to Iraq before the first Gulf War so that the US could more accurately bomb those offices. It's not just wrong, it's conceptually stupid.
I've had a colonoscopy (I had colon cancer when I was 34; it's cool, I'm all better now) and they make well sure that you are all 'cleaned out' prior to the procedure. I'm sure it's the same with this.
First, you take a powerful laxative. This tastes like toxic 7-up. Make sure your bathroom is well-stocked.
Then the next day you drink a GALLON of electrolytic fluid (like soapy gatorade) over the course of a couple of hours. You will have nuclear diarrhea for a while. This is way worse (the diarrhea) than you get from the chemotherapy (depending on what drugs you get; I got leukovorin and 5FU).
Even with all of this, swallowing the camera would be way better than the old way. Let me just say that the cable on the camera they use on the other end is over 7 feet long. I'm not even 6 feet tall. *shudders*
All right,now. You two are being entirely too mature and reasonable, here. This is Slashdot, not Sesame Street. I want to hear some personal imprecations, I want to hear some ad hominem, and dammit, I want to hear someone get called an asshat!
Sheesh.
All right, now. You two are being entirely too mature and reasonable, here. This is Slashdot, not Sesame Street. I want to hear some personal imprecations, I want to hear some ad hominem, and dammit, I want to hear someone get called an asshat!
Actually, I think it IS legal. If I recall correctly (IANAL), fraudulent activity is not protected by the law. It's analogous to a crack purchaser calling the police to complain that their dealer ripped them off.
The police might arrest the purchaser (he did just CONFESS) and they might investigate the dealer (they now have a tip) but they don't care about the rip-off because fraudulent activity receives no protection under the law.
... I am an MBA student (honor student, at that) and I could not get close to any of these questions. I mean, it wasn't even approximately in my reach. F*ck.
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Good call.
That was pretty insightful.
I didn't get it. Dang it. I hate being in the bottom half. "Below average." Dang it.
Sounds like you're talking about Executive Outcomes. Although to be honest, this job would probably better benefit a small group of enthusiastic hobbyists.
Because they have found and are using an OS that kicks Windows in the groin, but they can't get as many apps for it as the market would dictate if there were no MS monopoly.
They know there are Jabillions (i.e. very large number) of developers out there that only develop for MS Windows because that is where 95% of the market rests. If Office was not made by the same company as Windows, then Office would not 'magically' perform better on Windows. It would pay the makers of Office to port it to other platforms (e.g. Linux, BeOS). With Office on other platforms, users could migrate more easily. Developers migrate to follow the user base and bang! More apps for other operating systems.
Also, most Windows users are 'teh 1uzers'.
Internet businesses are not exempt from all taxes that brick and morters pay, mostly just sales tax (and obviously they will not have property tax except for where they have offices). The reason for this is that these companies do not utilize the services for which the sales tax is supposed to pay, ar at least not all of them. You can make a case about access to the court system, but how about things like the state education system or the State Police? It is inappropriate to tax Internet businesses to pay for these things.
Additionally, there are Constitutional issues involved when you start talking about taxing business that is Interstate. In this case (Borders) it seems pretty clear that the court made a good call. We should be careful about over extrapolating that to other businesses.
Come! Join us!
How about, her other class was ethics?
She's like, I'm fired? Why?
She thinks it's because of her blog? She was probably just bad at her job.
The only chance we have is when the next windows "more money, better computer needed edition" comes out.
How about installing a $30 home router using NAT, Firefox, Thunderbird, and a common anti-virus client? Total cost less than $100, maybe two hours.
Alternatively, install Linux, Firefox, and Thunderbird, snicker quietly to yourself, and enjoy. Total cost $0, couple hours to figure out/configure Linux.
Having shot both weapons I can say that there definitely is a difference between them... in the hands of a properly trained marksman. There is a reason the US trains their infantry so hard. Those guys can shoot. They make good use of the superior accuracy of they M-16/M-4.
Also, the M-16 has a much lighter kick, allowing for faster accurate followup shots than you can get with the AK. Even using three-round-bursts there is less deflection/vibration.
Another major advantage of the smaller lighter round is that the troops can carry far more 5.56 ammunition. The loudest sound in a gun fight is *click*, and he who runs out of ammunition first loses. Sure, you get a bunch of jerks out there with only 15 or 20 rounds in their AKs, but these are not long-lived individuals, generally. The word 'cannonfodder' comes to mind.
And, yes, our third-world adversaries do consider it a victory when one of their illiterate enthusiasts manages to shoot on of our boys/girls (or blows him/her up, more likely), but this has nothing to do with the quality of the American rifle.
I know there was debate about the decreased kill probability when using the smaller round. I think the final outcome was that a wounded enemy was often better than a dead one, and I think this speaks well of Americans generally.
Oops, I just realized that this isn't a gun thread. Sorry. Back to Star Wars.
Hey, that guy doesn't even look like Mr. Wilson...
Now if someone would just kill Bill Gates in front of his kids, we could look forward to a couple of decades of kick-ass crimefighting.
...an organization that has nude women providing high quality automotive finishes to members of an automotive club: www.aaa.xxx Wax...get it? It's funny... right?
...Microsoft would be releasing updates for Office 2000, XP, and 2003...
Any chance they'll try to cut out users using pirated versions of Office, or do you think they'll let it fly like the GDI bug fix?
No, I believe that's BS. I was in the navy and I worked on bombs (including the MK 20 Rockeye and the APAM). I was an Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd class. I know what I'm talking about.
There were ignition failures in submunitions (but nowhere near 50%) but those failed bomblets would not be sensitive enough to detonate from someone stepping on them or driving over them after surface impact. A bigger problem is failure to function in the fuse that forces separation in the casing and releases the bomblets.
There was a weapon (called Gator) that dropped landmines as submunitions, but it was never popular because of the strong resentment against landmine usage in general.
This reminds me of the belief that the US planted tracking chips in printers and monitors that were being sold to Iraq before the first Gulf War so that the US could more accurately bomb those offices. It's not just wrong, it's conceptually stupid.
I'm a Republican, and I hope you're right about that. Dammit.
I've had a colonoscopy (I had colon cancer when I was 34; it's cool, I'm all better now) and they make well sure that you are all 'cleaned out' prior to the procedure. I'm sure it's the same with this.
First, you take a powerful laxative. This tastes like toxic 7-up. Make sure your bathroom is well-stocked.
Then the next day you drink a GALLON of electrolytic fluid (like soapy gatorade) over the course of a couple of hours. You will have nuclear diarrhea for a while. This is way worse (the diarrhea) than you get from the chemotherapy (depending on what drugs you get; I got leukovorin and 5FU).
Even with all of this, swallowing the camera would be way better than the old way. Let me just say that the cable on the camera they use on the other end is over 7 feet long. I'm not even 6 feet tall. *shudders*
This article reminded me of "Behold a Pale Horse" by William Cooper.
"It's a conspiracy, I say!!! A conspiracy!!! Doom!! Doom!! DOOM!!"
Thanks, LOL.
Dammit, that was pretty insightful.
All right,now. You two are being entirely too mature and reasonable, here. This is Slashdot, not Sesame Street. I want to hear some personal imprecations, I want to hear some ad hominem, and dammit, I want to hear someone get called an asshat! Sheesh.
All right, now. You two are being entirely too mature and reasonable, here. This is Slashdot, not Sesame Street. I want to hear some personal imprecations, I want to hear some ad hominem, and dammit, I want to hear someone get called an asshat!
Sheesh.
Actually, I think it IS legal. If I recall correctly (IANAL), fraudulent activity is not protected by the law. It's analogous to a crack purchaser calling the police to complain that their dealer ripped them off.
The police might arrest the purchaser (he did just CONFESS) and they might investigate the dealer (they now have a tip) but they don't care about the rip-off because fraudulent activity receives no protection under the law.
...and if they weren't before, they will be once the tinfoil goes up.
... I am an MBA student (honor student, at that) and I could not get close to any of these questions. I mean, it wasn't even approximately in my reach. F*ck.