Ahhh. Ok. Since the guy didn't explicitly list the merger/aquisition history exactly correctly, his entire opinion is wrong. If you think the guy is wrong about big corporations not always acting in ethical ways, say so. Attacking some trvial error in an effort to discredit the author does not strengthen your position.
Calling him a 'troll' does not give me any information about your opinion, which may be valid. (I don't know if it is valid or not, because you failed to state your position.)
Labeling his post 'inflamitory' does not provide information on your position.
Now, if your thesis is that corporations are always ethical, or that they do harm only without intention, let us know why we should agree with you. Maybe you can enlighten those of us that wrongfully believe that some corporations have in the past ignored the common good with the intention of controling costs or increasing revenue.
You can start by correcting my understanding of the tobacco companies. I'd mention Phillip Morris, but aside from a hazy memory of something about "Altera" I don't understand the merger history well enough to discuss the subject.
I was actually kinda hoping they would create a way for me to enter my social security number, medical recards, and banking information. Now THAT would be convenient (and all that for free!!).
Please excuse my lack of sophistication, but is there some special reason that Office and Acrobat are required for making pdf's?
I've been very happy with OpenOffice.org. It creates nice pdf's without any hassle.
I'm not sure that publishers would be hurt by this at all. There is a different dynamic at play here. If I were to download a particular song, the song would be exactly the same for me as a consumer as if I had purchased it. Maybe the liner notes would be missing, but otherwise the same.
If, on the other hand I download Boswell's Life of Johnson, I have a means of accessing the material. But it is not the same as holding a book in my hands. I have been enjoying Project Gutenberg for years, and the bookstores see me no less frequently. In fact, I can think of quite a few purchases that I would not have made had it not been for the availibility of the text online. The real booklover enters a bookstore to enjoy the smell of print and coffee, and engage in a carefree hour of meandering and thinking.
I had a job trading currency and derivitives for almost five years. It involved sitting in an office chair for 14 hours a day, five and a half days a week. If you get the right kind of chair it isn't too bad.
There is a payoff point at which you make enough money while working to make it up to yourself when you are not working. For me, the birth of my son was an incentive to find ways to be home more, working less.
That's not a bad point, really. There is probably nothing pathologic about feeling negative emotions in response to negative stimulus. My guess is that quite a few people taking SSRI's are not depressed in the neurophysiologic sense, but rather "unhappy."
If any real understanding of the efficacy of one depression treatment vs. another is ever to be had, it will be after sorting out the true depressives from the larger group of unhappy people. If you drop out of med school to work at a potato chip factory, marry an unpleasant woman and move to an industrial-gray part of town, your response shouldn't be joy and delight. Of course, if you can't quite feel anything when you get the letter from Harvard begging you to come to school and pick up your fat stipend, that's quite another matter.
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What are thoes guys? Communists?!?
Ahhh. Ok. Since the guy didn't explicitly list the merger/aquisition history exactly correctly, his entire opinion is wrong. If you think the guy is wrong about big corporations not always acting in ethical ways, say so. Attacking some trvial error in an effort to discredit the author does not strengthen your position. Calling him a 'troll' does not give me any information about your opinion, which may be valid. (I don't know if it is valid or not, because you failed to state your position.) Labeling his post 'inflamitory' does not provide information on your position. Now, if your thesis is that corporations are always ethical, or that they do harm only without intention, let us know why we should agree with you. Maybe you can enlighten those of us that wrongfully believe that some corporations have in the past ignored the common good with the intention of controling costs or increasing revenue. You can start by correcting my understanding of the tobacco companies. I'd mention Phillip Morris, but aside from a hazy memory of something about "Altera" I don't understand the merger history well enough to discuss the subject.
I was actually kinda hoping they would create a way for me to enter my social security number, medical recards, and banking information. Now THAT would be convenient (and all that for free!!).
Please excuse my lack of sophistication, but is there some special reason that Office and Acrobat are required for making pdf's? I've been very happy with OpenOffice.org. It creates nice pdf's without any hassle.
I'm not sure that publishers would be hurt by this at all. There is a different dynamic at play here. If I were to download a particular song, the song would be exactly the same for me as a consumer as if I had purchased it. Maybe the liner notes would be missing, but otherwise the same. If, on the other hand I download Boswell's Life of Johnson, I have a means of accessing the material. But it is not the same as holding a book in my hands. I have been enjoying Project Gutenberg for years, and the bookstores see me no less frequently. In fact, I can think of quite a few purchases that I would not have made had it not been for the availibility of the text online. The real booklover enters a bookstore to enjoy the smell of print and coffee, and engage in a carefree hour of meandering and thinking.
I had a job trading currency and derivitives for almost five years. It involved sitting in an office chair for 14 hours a day, five and a half days a week. If you get the right kind of chair it isn't too bad. There is a payoff point at which you make enough money while working to make it up to yourself when you are not working. For me, the birth of my son was an incentive to find ways to be home more, working less.
Excellent use of an AD&D reference! I am always happy to see one of the primary culture badges of geek culture flashed with pride.
That's not a bad point, really. There is probably nothing pathologic about feeling negative emotions in response to negative stimulus. My guess is that quite a few people taking SSRI's are not depressed in the neurophysiologic sense, but rather "unhappy." If any real understanding of the efficacy of one depression treatment vs. another is ever to be had, it will be after sorting out the true depressives from the larger group of unhappy people. If you drop out of med school to work at a potato chip factory, marry an unpleasant woman and move to an industrial-gray part of town, your response shouldn't be joy and delight. Of course, if you can't quite feel anything when you get the letter from Harvard begging you to come to school and pick up your fat stipend, that's quite another matter.