If you have a marketing degree, you know what I mean. Anyone who has a degree in marketing knows what I'm talking about. Nearly EVERY posting at Monster or wherever are postings for sales positions. SALES DOES NOT EQUAL MARKETING!! It's impossible to sort through all of those listings, it sucks.
Sure, you're not supposed to believe that you're completely safe by doing anything on the internet. But Yahoo crossed a line by voluntarily giving sensitive information over to China, knowing that the person they were looking for would be prosecuted. That's a line that should never be crossed by any ethical person. Therefore, I believe that Yahoo went from being an ethical company (which I try to assume with anyone, before given reason to believe otherwise) to an unethical company.
So you're cool with Yahoo turning over people to the Chinese government. I see.
Maybe the people who have been locked up for surfing the net were assuming that an American company wouldn't rat them out? I would have assumed that Yahoo would rather protect human rights and the privacy of their customers over making a buck, but I guess I'm wrong.
Read about China's human rights abuses and see if you can still say it's ok to do business with them. It is equivalent to Nazi Germany, in that people are killed, tortured, sold into the sex trade, and more for just opposing the government. Without a trial, you could be sent to a hard labor prison camp for four years. What the senator is trying to say is that IBM was wrong then, and Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are wrong now.
What if we found out Google was using slaves for labor? By your logic, if we had slaves years ago, then Google should be allowed slaves now.
Are you serious? China is a world leader in human rights abuses. You're not allowed freedom of religion, only Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity and Islam are allowed. Free speech? An extensive censorship bureaucracy licenses all media outlets and publishing houses and must approve all books before publication. Dissidents who make their opinions known to the foreign media are often subject to threats, detention, harassment, intensive surveillance or imprisonment. Independent advocacy on labor, human rights, environmental, development or political issues is outlawed. They torture their prisoners, political and otherwise. You can be arrested by the police and taken to a hard labor camp for four years without trial. Then your family will have money extorted from them to pay for 'prison supplies'.
I could go on and on, but the point is that this is an evil government that's a blight on humanity. We're all in agreement here, I hope. So if you're a company doing business in China, you're supporting the conditions that they're living in. We had tough trade restrictions against the Soviet Union, and it was a major factor in their implosion. Google, Microsoft, et al, should be ashamed that they're looking out for a few shareholders to the detriment of millions living in China under the current regime. Do you have a soul?
I can't believe this administration hired some young kid to this position (well, I can but...).
Besides the Michael Brown/FEMA disaster, there's this shocking bit (from Al Franken's latest):
And then there was Scott Erwin, twenty-one, a former intern for Dick Cheney and Tom DeLay, who didn't need a job because he was still in college. Erwin marveled to the University of Richmond newletter that "in one week I went from chatting on the quad, eating in the Heilman Dining Center and attending ODK [Omicron Delta Kappa] meetings to being briefed in the Pentagon, flying in a C-130 military plane from Kuwait City to Baghdad and living in one of Saddam's many palaces."
Erwin soon landed a gig as the top Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) official managing the finances of Iraq's civilian security forces -- fire units, customs, border patrols, and police. What a great job! Almost as much fun as his previous favorite job, which he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch was "my time as an ice cream truck driver."
Erwin was one of the six youngsters given control of Iraq's $13 billion budget.... CPA Inspector General Stuart Bowen concluded that no less than $8.8 billion went unaccounted for...
Most students I knew who lived on campus were less mature, not more. I had to commute an hour from my parents' house, work two to three jobs, and I'd say that I was much more mature than them. It's not that all kids who lived on college didn't have to work, of course. It's just that most worried more about parties or just their classes. I knew kids that were fairly competent in high school that became drug addled losers in college.
I really question the methodology of this study. And it's insulting.
We need more pressure from the government on these crazy DRM schemes that are a) illegal as described, b) harmful to consumer's equipment, and c) EVIL!
Hasn't the general populace been victim to viruses, spyware, and such that hog up their bandwith? You'll see a huge outcry from people who state that they AREN'T using as much bandwith as the ISPs say they are. Give me a fool proof internet, and maybe we'll see some legitimate pay scales, but otherwise, this is total BS.
How much do you want to bet that IBM sells this technology to the Middle East? So the terrorists won't have to learn English, they can get all our news real time, on the fly.
The potential is that this will help in the war against terror. Allowing the other side to have it, would make it almost a moot point.
It's just like Microsoft, google, et al, enabling China's human rights abuses because they want to make a buck.
Not really, it's just you can see more detail that you couldn't before.
In the early days, they noticed that when Johnny Carson wore a certain pattern on his suits that the camera would make it have some weird motion visual effect on it. You won't see people in non-HD shows wearing that type of pattern. In high-def, the resolution is high enough that it doesn't matter what people wear because you can see all the way to the stitching. You can see the texture in people's clothes.
That was the main point I was making, is that you can see details in people that you can't normally see in SD. Seeing some gorgeous hollywood actress is just a good example of it. But I'm also a perv too.
Comcast Sports Net is the worst. They take standard definition games and stretch the screen for you. That is fucking abhorrent. They're telling you that they have HD programming on there, and over 90% is just a stretched screen. They're lying to your face!!! It's not high-def!!!
I would love to sue those bastards.
You forgot sports. And nature programs. And concerts, since that HD signal gives you better audio quality as well.
As for talk shows? Hot actresses just look that much hotter in HD. You can see each strand of hair and the threads on their clothes.
I agree that most won't see a difference when they upgrade to HD, but if you can train them to watch the HD channels exclusively for a while, they'll notice the difference if they try to go backwards to SD again.
I bought several CDs that way as well. I try it out with the P2P, then I buy it if it's worth buying. I've heard of so many bands that are supposedly amazing, but I never hear them on crappy radio. So what else am I supposed to do? Buy an album without ever hearing one song? No, I get to listen to them for free and if I like them, I'll buy it.
I like to support music, but I won't buy a CD without knowing what I'm getting.
Not every new PC comes with a monitor. There would HAVE to be a disclaimer stating that if you buy this PC without a monitor that you might not be able to use the one you already have.
Which is BULL. I think consumers will look at that disclaimer and say it's bull too.
If they don't put a disclaimer on and people take their new PCs home and find it won't work on their existing monitor, people will be PISSED. They will sue, and rightfully so.
My computers haven't had an anti-virus program installed on it in 5 years, and I've never had a virus, spyware, or anything. Ever.
If you know what to look out for, you're not going to get hit.
I think the people who are using AdBlock (I just started a few days ago) are people who wouldn't click on the ads to begin with.
Those who are dumb enough to click on those ads probably aren't sophisticated enough to use Firefox or AdBlock.
They're just whining. "Don't use AdBlock OR ELSE THE NET WON'T BE FREE!!" BOOO!!!!
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Dude, I'm with you. This sucks so bad that I can't see how a class action lawsuit won't be popping up soon.
If you have a marketing degree, you know what I mean. Anyone who has a degree in marketing knows what I'm talking about. Nearly EVERY posting at Monster or wherever are postings for sales positions. SALES DOES NOT EQUAL MARKETING!! It's impossible to sort through all of those listings, it sucks.
Sure, you're not supposed to believe that you're completely safe by doing anything on the internet. But Yahoo crossed a line by voluntarily giving sensitive information over to China, knowing that the person they were looking for would be prosecuted. That's a line that should never be crossed by any ethical person. Therefore, I believe that Yahoo went from being an ethical company (which I try to assume with anyone, before given reason to believe otherwise) to an unethical company.
So you're cool with Yahoo turning over people to the Chinese government. I see. Maybe the people who have been locked up for surfing the net were assuming that an American company wouldn't rat them out? I would have assumed that Yahoo would rather protect human rights and the privacy of their customers over making a buck, but I guess I'm wrong.
Tell that to the guy that Yahoo turned over to China's police, who's likely being tortured right now. Real ethical behavior.
Read about China's human rights abuses and see if you can still say it's ok to do business with them. It is equivalent to Nazi Germany, in that people are killed, tortured, sold into the sex trade, and more for just opposing the government. Without a trial, you could be sent to a hard labor prison camp for four years. What the senator is trying to say is that IBM was wrong then, and Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are wrong now. What if we found out Google was using slaves for labor? By your logic, if we had slaves years ago, then Google should be allowed slaves now.
Are you serious? China is a world leader in human rights abuses. You're not allowed freedom of religion, only Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity and Islam are allowed. Free speech? An extensive censorship bureaucracy licenses all media outlets and publishing houses and must approve all books before publication. Dissidents who make their opinions known to the foreign media are often subject to threats, detention, harassment, intensive surveillance or imprisonment. Independent advocacy on labor, human rights, environmental, development or political issues is outlawed. They torture their prisoners, political and otherwise. You can be arrested by the police and taken to a hard labor camp for four years without trial. Then your family will have money extorted from them to pay for 'prison supplies'. I could go on and on, but the point is that this is an evil government that's a blight on humanity. We're all in agreement here, I hope. So if you're a company doing business in China, you're supporting the conditions that they're living in. We had tough trade restrictions against the Soviet Union, and it was a major factor in their implosion. Google, Microsoft, et al, should be ashamed that they're looking out for a few shareholders to the detriment of millions living in China under the current regime. Do you have a soul?
I can't believe this administration hired some young kid to this position (well, I can but...). Besides the Michael Brown/FEMA disaster, there's this shocking bit (from Al Franken's latest): And then there was Scott Erwin, twenty-one, a former intern for Dick Cheney and Tom DeLay, who didn't need a job because he was still in college. Erwin marveled to the University of Richmond newletter that "in one week I went from chatting on the quad, eating in the Heilman Dining Center and attending ODK [Omicron Delta Kappa] meetings to being briefed in the Pentagon, flying in a C-130 military plane from Kuwait City to Baghdad and living in one of Saddam's many palaces." Erwin soon landed a gig as the top Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) official managing the finances of Iraq's civilian security forces -- fire units, customs, border patrols, and police. What a great job! Almost as much fun as his previous favorite job, which he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch was "my time as an ice cream truck driver." Erwin was one of the six youngsters given control of Iraq's $13 billion budget. ... CPA Inspector General Stuart Bowen concluded that no less than $8.8 billion went unaccounted for ...
Nice way to insult everyone here when you don't say anything to discredit their posts. Please enlighten us with your 'inside info'.
Most students I knew who lived on campus were less mature, not more. I had to commute an hour from my parents' house, work two to three jobs, and I'd say that I was much more mature than them. It's not that all kids who lived on college didn't have to work, of course. It's just that most worried more about parties or just their classes. I knew kids that were fairly competent in high school that became drug addled losers in college. I really question the methodology of this study. And it's insulting.
We need more pressure from the government on these crazy DRM schemes that are a) illegal as described, b) harmful to consumer's equipment, and c) EVIL!
Hasn't the general populace been victim to viruses, spyware, and such that hog up their bandwith? You'll see a huge outcry from people who state that they AREN'T using as much bandwith as the ISPs say they are. Give me a fool proof internet, and maybe we'll see some legitimate pay scales, but otherwise, this is total BS.
How much do you want to bet that IBM sells this technology to the Middle East? So the terrorists won't have to learn English, they can get all our news real time, on the fly. The potential is that this will help in the war against terror. Allowing the other side to have it, would make it almost a moot point. It's just like Microsoft, google, et al, enabling China's human rights abuses because they want to make a buck.
This summary doesn't actually tell you what happened. It tells you that they lost money, but I had to go to the article to find out HOW.
Not really, it's just you can see more detail that you couldn't before. In the early days, they noticed that when Johnny Carson wore a certain pattern on his suits that the camera would make it have some weird motion visual effect on it. You won't see people in non-HD shows wearing that type of pattern. In high-def, the resolution is high enough that it doesn't matter what people wear because you can see all the way to the stitching. You can see the texture in people's clothes. That was the main point I was making, is that you can see details in people that you can't normally see in SD. Seeing some gorgeous hollywood actress is just a good example of it. But I'm also a perv too.
Then it would only be cheaper, since the dollar blows when compared to the pound.
Dude, that happened to me too! The cable guy set up my HDTV with coax! That's his !#@!@ job!!!
Comcast Sports Net is the worst. They take standard definition games and stretch the screen for you. That is fucking abhorrent. They're telling you that they have HD programming on there, and over 90% is just a stretched screen. They're lying to your face!!! It's not high-def!!! I would love to sue those bastards.
That's hilarious. She doesn't have the $25-50 to get a cheapo DVD player?
You forgot sports. And nature programs. And concerts, since that HD signal gives you better audio quality as well. As for talk shows? Hot actresses just look that much hotter in HD. You can see each strand of hair and the threads on their clothes. I agree that most won't see a difference when they upgrade to HD, but if you can train them to watch the HD channels exclusively for a while, they'll notice the difference if they try to go backwards to SD again.
I bought several CDs that way as well. I try it out with the P2P, then I buy it if it's worth buying. I've heard of so many bands that are supposedly amazing, but I never hear them on crappy radio. So what else am I supposed to do? Buy an album without ever hearing one song? No, I get to listen to them for free and if I like them, I'll buy it.
I like to support music, but I won't buy a CD without knowing what I'm getting.
Not every new PC comes with a monitor. There would HAVE to be a disclaimer stating that if you buy this PC without a monitor that you might not be able to use the one you already have. Which is BULL. I think consumers will look at that disclaimer and say it's bull too. If they don't put a disclaimer on and people take their new PCs home and find it won't work on their existing monitor, people will be PISSED. They will sue, and rightfully so.
I've become so used to doing all my computer work at home on my 50" HDTV. Me = pissed off
My computers haven't had an anti-virus program installed on it in 5 years, and I've never had a virus, spyware, or anything. Ever. If you know what to look out for, you're not going to get hit.
I think the people who are using AdBlock (I just started a few days ago) are people who wouldn't click on the ads to begin with. Those who are dumb enough to click on those ads probably aren't sophisticated enough to use Firefox or AdBlock. They're just whining. "Don't use AdBlock OR ELSE THE NET WON'T BE FREE!!" BOOO!!!!