Especially if you are a photographer. No one cares (and wants to pay you) until they see your work.
Amen to that! I'm just questioning whether Facebook is a smart way to get your work seen. Setting up your own domain is approximately as easy as falling off a log (but it does have a nominal cost). Setting up your own online gallery is not hard either.
Historians have a strong consensus that Jesus of Nazareth, Mohammed, and Gautama Buddha were real, historical people, and it's on their words major religions are based. So even if you don't believe in the Divinity of, well, anything, to put these major religious figures on the same level as a green rubber puppet is just ignorant of history and culture.
Sorry, "blame" isn't the right word. What I meant to say is that, as we learned from the anti-SOPA campaign, if enough voters get angry enough about an issue, politicians will take notice. So there's simply not enough momentum. Yet.
There are several answers to "how is this legal" but they boil down to a lack of political will to outlaw the practice. You could blame the politicians for being the in pocket of big Wall Street firms, or you could blame the small investor for not marching on Washington in an outrage. Take your pick.
So Chernobyl had zero deaths and zero health side effects and zero long-term ecological disruptions? I'd be interested in knowing your sources for that because they conflict with the news reports I was listening to when it happened.
I think that's the point. Give up on nuclear power. Given the consequences of an accident, the safety record of nuclear power is appalling. The costs per megawatt are high even without counting the externalities of contamination. The only thing nuclear reactors can do, that can't be done more safely and cheaply with coal or wind, is create weapons-grade fissionable material. A bomb-making reactor can be built out in the middle of the freaking desert where it belongs.
It depends on the company, and perhaps on state regulations (so it can differ in different states). My employer gives free sick leave for up to 5 business days (after that it counts as short-term disability). However, we were recently acquired by a company that takes sick time out of vacation time. So far my company's executives have been able to keep our original policy. Wish them luck...
How does this compare with other employment sectors? Adjusted for inflation, real median household income in the United States went down between 1990 and 2010.
I always find it hailarious that you in the states cite the ability to own firarms as something that keeps you safe
You're inferring a unanimity of opinion that doesn't actually exist. Only a vocal minority of Americans think guns keep them safer. I'm American and I can't imagine a scenario where I would want a gun in my house.
True, but if the terms are unacceptable to you at the time you install the software, unchecking the "I agree" box is your last chance to bail. Some of these "agreements" are more odious than others.
Students, if you are driving, it is important to STOP THE CAR before attempting to photograph the road kill. (It should go without saying, but with all due respect to the smart teenagers, 50% of all teenagers are below average.)
I forget where I read this, but it still rings true. "When you sit down at the poker table, look around for the sucker. If you don't see one, it's you."
Put in more concrete terms: the existence of exploits like this means there will be winners and losers. If you didn't find the exploit, you're not the winner. So why would I want to wager in a market that I can't guarantee is fair?
According to Wolfram Alpha, $1 in 1950 had the approximate purchasing power of $9.54 today. So the dollar is the new dime. Pop quiz: did it make sense to print ten-cent notes in 1950? (Hint: no) Then why retain the $1 bill today?
"One's" is probably 70 or 80 years old, and grew up and raised children at a time when economic realities were totally different. When it was normal to support a family on a single salary. When you didn't have to go to college to break into (or stay in) the middle class. (One of my college professors told me that when he was in college in the 1940s, he earned enough money in his summer job to pay tuition for the year!) When the median house cost 2x the median annual salary, not 8x. When employees had job security and strong unions and could expect a pension, and medical costs were not 20% of the GDP.
The bigger TV and even the second car are small expenses compared to the costs of establishing economic security in modern America.
It's a conceit of the old that because they had it hard, we somehow have it easier. But it's understandable.
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Amen to that! I'm just questioning whether Facebook is a smart way to get your work seen. Setting up your own domain is approximately as easy as falling off a log (but it does have a nominal cost). Setting up your own online gallery is not hard either.
I Am Not A Lawyer (and if I were I would not tell you this for free). I none the less strongly recommend AGAINST posting samples of your work to Facebook. Unless you actually understand that you are granting them a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook and understand what that implies for your business and your clients.
How many pretend to be Christian, I wonder? Probably more than pretend to be Jedi.
Historians have a strong consensus that Jesus of Nazareth, Mohammed, and Gautama Buddha were real, historical people, and it's on their words major religions are based. So even if you don't believe in the Divinity of, well, anything, to put these major religious figures on the same level as a green rubber puppet is just ignorant of history and culture.
Sorry, "blame" isn't the right word. What I meant to say is that, as we learned from the anti-SOPA campaign, if enough voters get angry enough about an issue, politicians will take notice. So there's simply not enough momentum. Yet.
Well, defending a patent on something as stupid as rounded corners is probably very hard intellectual work, but it's not *productive.*
There are several answers to "how is this legal" but they boil down to a lack of political will to outlaw the practice. You could blame the politicians for being the in pocket of big Wall Street firms, or you could blame the small investor for not marching on Washington in an outrage. Take your pick.
If it's even possible to flunk someone "constantly," you're doing it wrong.
Because flunking people who don't care about learning is preferable to pandering to them?
So Chernobyl had zero deaths and zero health side effects and zero long-term ecological disruptions? I'd be interested in knowing your sources for that because they conflict with the news reports I was listening to when it happened.
I think that's the point. Give up on nuclear power. Given the consequences of an accident, the safety record of nuclear power is appalling. The costs per megawatt are high even without counting the externalities of contamination. The only thing nuclear reactors can do, that can't be done more safely and cheaply with coal or wind, is create weapons-grade fissionable material. A bomb-making reactor can be built out in the middle of the freaking desert where it belongs.
Let's compute the total market value of all coastal real estate below 1m elevation before we declare this "hardly a doomsday scenario."
Let's also factor in the costs of re-aligning all land use to the new climate and the impact of that re-alignment on the global food supply.
I'm not qualified to do that analysis, myself -- but I would venture, neither is the Slashdot editor who commented so dismissively on the report.
Or you can drop Ubuntu for another distro, and you don't have to worry about the next "feature" to turn off.
It depends on the company, and perhaps on state regulations (so it can differ in different states). My employer gives free sick leave for up to 5 business days (after that it counts as short-term disability). However, we were recently acquired by a company that takes sick time out of vacation time. So far my company's executives have been able to keep our original policy. Wish them luck...
Do the paid Google Apps have advertising? (If so, you can be both!)
How does this compare with other employment sectors? Adjusted for inflation, real median household income in the United States went down between 1990 and 2010.
I will believe that when I believe everyone reads, understands, and, after due consideration of alternatives, agrees to the EULA.
You're inferring a unanimity of opinion that doesn't actually exist. Only a vocal minority of Americans think guns keep them safer. I'm American and I can't imagine a scenario where I would want a gun in my house.
How about, "Sure thing, but you need a warrant to access them"?
True, but if the terms are unacceptable to you at the time you install the software, unchecking the "I agree" box is your last chance to bail. Some of these "agreements" are more odious than others.
Students, if you are driving, it is important to STOP THE CAR before attempting to photograph the road kill. (It should go without saying, but with all due respect to the smart teenagers, 50% of all teenagers are below average.)
I forget where I read this, but it still rings true. "When you sit down at the poker table, look around for the sucker. If you don't see one, it's you."
Put in more concrete terms: the existence of exploits like this means there will be winners and losers. If you didn't find the exploit, you're not the winner. So why would I want to wager in a market that I can't guarantee is fair?
You speak of government as if it weren't the people. You must be thinking of some other country (other than the one where Illinois resides).
According to Wolfram Alpha, $1 in 1950 had the approximate purchasing power of $9.54 today. So the dollar is the new dime. Pop quiz: did it make sense to print ten-cent notes in 1950? (Hint: no) Then why retain the $1 bill today?
"One's" is probably 70 or 80 years old, and grew up and raised children at a time when economic realities were totally different. When it was normal to support a family on a single salary. When you didn't have to go to college to break into (or stay in) the middle class. (One of my college professors told me that when he was in college in the 1940s, he earned enough money in his summer job to pay tuition for the year!) When the median house cost 2x the median annual salary, not 8x. When employees had job security and strong unions and could expect a pension, and medical costs were not 20% of the GDP.
The bigger TV and even the second car are small expenses compared to the costs of establishing economic security in modern America.
It's a conceit of the old that because they had it hard, we somehow have it easier. But it's understandable.