...what else costs twice as much as it did 10 years ago?
Some of that is simple inflation. (which isn't helped by minimum wage increases etc - watch for gas prices to jump again soonish. it'll have little if any relation to fuel cost, and more to do with paying the attendant that is working.)
And every spring break when I go out of town, I have to call the center and verify that, yes really, I do want to spend $1000 on ski tickets even though I just spent $1500 on lodging and $200 on gas\cash and $150 on groceries for 8 people for a week. And yes, I know that,not counting this week, the last time I put more than $5 on my card was LAST spring break, when we had this same conversation.
It's not AI until it can start learning. The year I don't have to have that particular conversation in the ski ticket office will be the year I belive that the 'AI' on it has gotten better.
Vast is "great" not "tiny". A vast minority would be 49% of a population, not something like 1%. I'm not sure if the two words make any sense when used together.
VAST: very great in degree, intensity, etc.: an artisan of vast skill.
Thus, a vast minority would refer to a minority that is very, very small, as opposed to only slightly smaller than the majority. IE,.1% or 1% instead of 25% or 48%.
I have no problem with people being pedantic over stupid english lit/grammar/spelling, etc. However, if you're going to do it, do it right.
Fascism:
1. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism.
2. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
3. Oppressive, dictatorial control.
Fascism does not necessarily point to racism. It can - and belligerent nationalism often does. But that doesn't mean it has to.
Besides - we can't call "Bushitler" - the economy of Germany absolutely skyrocketed and was doing awesomely while hitler was in charge.
...they can't/won't get their act together and think for a change.
There's your problem. You're expecting people to actually think. In a society where we have to protect people from telemarketers, and where the government is being pushed to replace parents in the taking care of our children bit, why, on god's (or anyone else's) green (or any other color) earth (or any other planet) would people think?
Is now a good time to point out that not only your email address is in your sig, but by clicking ONE link on your page, I've got your full name, City, and State (from which I could get your full address, phone number, SS#, and MMN in less than 10 minutes?)
Sprint doesn't use SIM cards, but other carriers do. Including the newest Cingular/AT&T merger. You can just change those between any phone built with a sim card requirement.
In addition, Through cingular (as an example) I can get Motorola phones, Samsung phones, LG phones, and a couple of the little guys. No RAZRs 'cause they don't support sim cards - but that doens't mean a lot.
In addition, T-Moblie uses SIM cards, and any phone that will work on one network will work on the other. And if you can't transfer a phone between sprint and verizon, someone's pulling your leg.
No, Cingular and T-Mobile aren't on the list of the article, but they have tended to be behind the times anyway.
Either way, its hardly 'some weird non-American' thing'.
Are the USA a country where the average family is 7+? * Lets take my family, 8 years ago, when I still lived at home, and was in high school. Now, We're not 7 big. Its just me and my brother (younger) and my parents. So, you're up to four.
Add my best friend, because what fun is a trip to..erm..somewhere fun without your best friend?
Add my brother's best friend, because its only fair....If I get one, he gets one too.
Now we're at 6. A midsized car simply doesn't seat six. A *few* will seat five with seatbelts....but, take a Dodge Intrepid, or a Pontiac Bonneville - these are 5 seat cars. Maybe a small 6th person could fit in front, if there was a seatbelt (which admittedly, there are in some models, granted), but still.....
Hell, take out the friends and put in one very, very large golden retriever. That's fun on a trip. (To add to that, think canoeing or camping - and look out for space for all the gear!)
Obviously two kids, two carseats was never a problem, but if you have 3 kids within 4 years of each other - the 'safety' equipment won't let them all fit in a standard mid-size car.
Anyway, the situation will change in the US in a few years, since gas prices will raise.(sic) People said that when gas hit $2/gal that we would change.
Then it did, and stayed there, and people said that we'd change when it hit $3, because $3 was too outrageous.
Want to know what happened? We hit the $3, and then went down, and now a lot of people are singing praises at our low gas prices!
When it comes to it, people aren't going to change, as a whole (especially with minimum wage going up, which, mark me - will raise gas prices - but thats a different argument). Rather, they'll gripe about it without actually doing anything other than forking over the cash.
You're missing something that the government *does* do: Regulate labeling.
A company develops a new drug, let's call it "Crystal Meth". The company knows, from clinical trials and the social history of similar drugs, that Crystal Meth is extremely addictive and will effectively ruin the lives of a sizable percentage of the people who use it. The company then markets Crystal Meth as an alternative to coffee and places it on the supermarket shelves next to coffee, with massive ad campaigns and promotions.
You're missing the part where the company gets tied up in federal criminal proceedings for not putting an effective label on the product for rational adults to read and learn from. It happens in all food, drink, and most substances that are legal.
Hell, even AIR FRESHENER labels say that if you inhale the concentrated vapor, its bad for your healt. Coffee has a label saying that its a stimulant. And surely you've seen the surgeon general's warning on alcohol and cigarettes......
The government should continue making sure that we, the people are informed about what's in these products - but that doesn't mean that they need to choose for us. Or our children - parents should parent. Thats what you sign up for when you have a child.
1) You do sign up to die for your country in the US (if you're male) at 18. Its called the Selective Service, and, among other things, it registers you for the draft, should it ever be instituted.
2) Maybe the solution isn't to lower the drinking age, but rather, to raise the age at which you can sign up to die for your country.
Further, 18-21yr olds are known for their poor decision making capabilities and are frequently the ones to die from doing stupid things...
Yes, I truncated it. But, assuming this is true (which I'm not agreeing with, but not making the argument here either), then why, exactly, do we want these people in our armed forces?
The minimum drinking age on a DoD installation located in a State (including the District of Columbia) shall be consistent with the age established by the law of that State as the State minimum drinking age.
Minimum drinking age means the minimum age established for persons who may purchase, possess, or consume alcoholic beverages.
In the case of a DoD installation located in more than one State or in one State but within 50 miles of another State or Mexico or Canada, the minimum drinking age on that DoD installation shall be the lowest applicable age of the State in which the DoD installation is located or the State or jurisdiction of Mexico or Canada that is within 50 miles of such DoD installation.
The minimum drinking age on a DoD installation located outside the United States shall be 18 years of age. Higher minimum drinking age will be based on international treaties and agreements and on the local situation as determined by the local installation commander.
The commander of a DoD installation may waive the above requirements, if such commander determines that the exemption is justified by special circumstances. Special circumstances are those infrequent, non-routine military occasions when an entire unit, as a group, marks at a military installation a uniquely military occasion such as the conclusion of arduous military duty or the anniversary of the establishment of a military service or organization. The event must be held on a military installation. The commander shall ensure that appropriate controls are in place to prevent endangering Military Service members or the surrounding community.
These points come up because they are things that are controlled by an ID service already. It was said once that this is a scary prospect, because it is what Germany did before WWII, to 'control' the jewish population. Now, while Hitler was justifiably insane (which we do have proof of now), no one said that of him at the time. And this is EXACTLY how he started keeping track of the people in his country so that he'd know when and how many and where to move them to so that he could make way for his perfect Aryan race.
Its a slippery slope. A VERY slippery slope. and its easy to say "no, we won't ever go that far." But it scares me, and should scare you, to see the government of one of the most powerful (militarily and otherwise) countries in the world approaching this slope. Whether you live here or not. And it certainly doesn't help that England and the rest of the EU are considering following.
The current copyright and patent system is broken and nees to be fixed. It will not be fixed if its rules are obeyed by the masses simply because it is not in the immediate financial interests of those who hold the money and power. I will be fixed when people forces governments to fix it.
I agree - wholeheartedly. What we appear to disagree on is the respect of the law - stupid though it may be, as many changes as it may need - it is still the law.
On that note: how many ads actually get *PASSED AROUND*? With people PAYING to send them to each other over the internet?
Mastercard had one with a date ending and the guy's elbow was on the intercom. You see several foreign ads that get posted to YouTube or similar vid sites - because they're cute, and funny.
Perhaps the solution is to come up with ads taht are worth watching.
You're comparing apples to oranges - or, more precisely, physical property with intellectual property.
If someone sees this shopowner's product and that someone decides to make his or her own, its not stealing the physical property, but it IS stealing the intellectual property. Difference is, taking that intellectual property isn't against the law. (Ignoring some of the more obscure patent laws here, so those of you that know them, forgive me.)
A person who buys a plant from a nursery and then makes a cutting of the plant for his friend didn't steal the plant from the nursery - but, you are considered to be "depriving of potential profit" - which, for a nursery, isn't illegal. It is, for software and software companies.
I'm not saying the laws are right, or wrong, or fair. I'm saying that, as they stand, making an illegal copy of a piece of software IS against the law, and arguing the semantics of whether or not it's 'stealing' is rather pointless. The law has chosen to group them together under accusations of stealing, and the word 'stealing' or 'stolen' will appear in the court and official charges against you if someone/company chooses to prosecute you for making illegal copies of software - whether you've resold them or not.
1) The highways were built because the ARMY was taking two months to travel cross country. He wanted to fix it. Thats why they got government funding to be built.
2)Social Security will be gone by the time anyone from my generation is ready for it. Hell, they're saying now it may even be gone by the time my parents are ready for it. (they're mid 40s now). Anyone now with sense understands that social security, if it exists when they retire, is a nice bonus, but can't pay for everything - thats why Americans STILL SAVE FOR RETIREMENT
3)Americans, slowly but surely, are giving up their rights to be protected. In 100 years, they'll be looking at us now, saying that we were voting away our freedoms. THey'll look at FDR's "new deal" and say that we let this happen to ourselves. And the worst part?
google.cn is made by google, not the Chinese government.
In THEORY its possible that you'd get 34 pages of images from the google.com search in china just as you would here.
Although. . . most of those pages would be blank broken links and/or little white icons with red x's....
Which is why google made google.cn in the first place - it makes good business sense. They needed a reliable way into the market to begin with.
Google users in China today struggle with a service that, to be blunt, isn't very good. Google.com appears to be down around 10% of the time. Even when users can reach it, the website is slow, and sometimes produces results that when clicked on, stall out the user's browser. Our Google News service is never available; Google Images is accessible only half the time. At Google we work hard to create a great experience for our users, and the level of service we've been able to provide in China is not something we're proud of.
This problem could only be resolved by creating a local presence, and this week we did so, by launching Google.cn, our website for the People's Republic of China. In order to do so, we have agreed to remove certain sensitive information from our search results.
Unfortunately, once google makes that 'business decision' it goes back to the 'who controls the internet' question. If google sets up a server in China, they must play by China's rules. Just like the US gambling sites vs the offshore ones.
The answer is and has been - the country which plays home to the servers gets, ultimately, to control the content etc on the server. No amount of internet 'controling body' can change that without a drastic overhaul in legislation. Not to mention the US's ability/desire/willingness to follow law that isn't its own.
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Have you paid attention to AT&T recently?
Some of that is simple inflation. (which isn't helped by minimum wage increases etc - watch for gas prices to jump again soonish. it'll have little if any relation to fuel cost, and more to do with paying the attendant that is working.)
for the same reason we did, and are, implementing DST to begin with - Money.
24 hours is 360 (think degrees) divided by 15.
15 degrees of the earth per timezone
360 \ 25 is... not a nice pretty even number.
And every spring break when I go out of town, I have to call the center and verify that, yes really, I do want to spend $1000 on ski tickets even though I just spent $1500 on lodging and $200 on gas\cash and $150 on groceries for 8 people for a week. And yes, I know that,not counting this week, the last time I put more than $5 on my card was LAST spring break, when we had this same conversation.
It's not AI until it can start learning. The year I don't have to have that particular conversation in the ski ticket office will be the year I belive that the 'AI' on it has gotten better.
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Those videos should help you determine what an emo is.
VAST: very great in degree, intensity, etc.: an artisan of vast skill.
Thus, a vast minority would refer to a minority that is very, very small, as opposed to only slightly smaller than the majority. IE, .1% or 1% instead of 25% or 48%.
I have no problem with people being pedantic over stupid english lit/grammar/spelling, etc. However, if you're going to do it, do it right.
1. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism.
2. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
3. Oppressive, dictatorial control.
Fascism does not necessarily point to racism. It can - and belligerent nationalism often does. But that doesn't mean it has to.
Besides - we can't call "Bushitler" - the economy of Germany absolutely skyrocketed and was doing awesomely while hitler was in charge.
But here's the catch:
Even if the RIAA does win in the courtroom, they've lost a crapton of good PR. And thats if they do end up winning.
Is now a good time to point out that not only your email address is in your sig, but by clicking ONE link on your page, I've got your full name, City, and State (from which I could get your full address, phone number, SS#, and MMN in less than 10 minutes?)
Sprint doesn't use SIM cards, but other carriers do. Including the newest Cingular/AT&T merger. You can just change those between any phone built with a sim card requirement.
In addition, Through cingular (as an example) I can get Motorola phones, Samsung phones, LG phones, and a couple of the little guys. No RAZRs 'cause they don't support sim cards - but that doens't mean a lot.
In addition, T-Moblie uses SIM cards, and any phone that will work on one network will work on the other. And if you can't transfer a phone between sprint and verizon, someone's pulling your leg.
No, Cingular and T-Mobile aren't on the list of the article, but they have tended to be behind the times anyway.
Either way, its hardly 'some weird non-American' thing'.
Add my best friend, because what fun is a trip to..erm..somewhere fun without your best friend?
Add my brother's best friend, because its only fair....If I get one, he gets one too.
Now we're at 6. A midsized car simply doesn't seat six. A *few* will seat five with seatbelts....but, take a Dodge Intrepid, or a Pontiac Bonneville - these are 5 seat cars. Maybe a small 6th person could fit in front, if there was a seatbelt (which admittedly, there are in some models, granted), but still.....
Hell, take out the friends and put in one very, very large golden retriever. That's fun on a trip. (To add to that, think canoeing or camping - and look out for space for all the gear!)
Obviously two kids, two carseats was never a problem, but if you have 3 kids within 4 years of each other - the 'safety' equipment won't let them all fit in a standard mid-size car.
Anyway, the situation will change in the US in a few years, since gas prices will raise.(sic) People said that when gas hit $2/gal that we would change.Then it did, and stayed there, and people said that we'd change when it hit $3, because $3 was too outrageous.
Want to know what happened? We hit the $3, and then went down, and now a lot of people are singing praises at our low gas prices!
When it comes to it, people aren't going to change, as a whole (especially with minimum wage going up, which, mark me - will raise gas prices - but thats a different argument). Rather, they'll gripe about it without actually doing anything other than forking over the cash.
They did.
http://www.puzzlepirates.com/
But it was created by a (then) no name company, so its release didn't get the frenzy that some games get. Still, the player base is growing.....
...I don't care if they make the batteries out of baby seals.But...http://www.wildfoto.com/wildlife_image10.jpg
Now how could you honestly considering wasting such good meat?
You're missing the part where the company gets tied up in federal criminal proceedings for not putting an effective label on the product for rational adults to read and learn from. It happens in all food, drink, and most substances that are legal.
Hell, even AIR FRESHENER labels say that if you inhale the concentrated vapor, its bad for your healt. Coffee has a label saying that its a stimulant. And surely you've seen the surgeon general's warning on alcohol and cigarettes......
The government should continue making sure that we, the people are informed about what's in these products - but that doesn't mean that they need to choose for us. Or our children - parents should parent. Thats what you sign up for when you have a child.
As has been said before - It's only illegal if it's done with fraudulent intent.
2) Maybe the solution isn't to lower the drinking age, but rather, to raise the age at which you can sign up to die for your country.
Further, 18-21yr olds are known for their poor decision making capabilities and are frequently the ones to die from doing stupid things...Yes, I truncated it. But, assuming this is true (which I'm not agreeing with, but not making the argument here either), then why, exactly, do we want these people in our armed forces?
3)Anyone that actually *does* get drafted into the military at 18,19 etc. have ... different rules, particularly overseas. f site.htm?site=http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/c orres/html/101510.htm
From The law is codified in DoD Instruction 1015.10:http://usmilitary.about.com/gi/dynamic/of
These points come up because they are things that are controlled by an ID service already. It was said once that this is a scary prospect, because it is what Germany did before WWII, to 'control' the jewish population. Now, while Hitler was justifiably insane (which we do have proof of now), no one said that of him at the time. And this is EXACTLY how he started keeping track of the people in his country so that he'd know when and how many and where to move them to so that he could make way for his perfect Aryan race.
Its a slippery slope. A VERY slippery slope. and its easy to say "no, we won't ever go that far." But it scares me, and should scare you, to see the government of one of the most powerful (militarily and otherwise) countries in the world approaching this slope. Whether you live here or not. And it certainly doesn't help that England and the rest of the EU are considering following.
word 2000 documents open fine in word 2003. If word 2003 docs opened perfectly in word 2000, how would microsoft ever get you to upgrade?
I agree - wholeheartedly. What we appear to disagree on is the respect of the law - stupid though it may be, as many changes as it may need - it is still the law.
Mastercard had one with a date ending and the guy's elbow was on the intercom. You see several foreign ads that get posted to YouTube or similar vid sites - because they're cute, and funny.
Perhaps the solution is to come up with ads taht are worth watching.
If someone sees this shopowner's product and that someone decides to make his or her own, its not stealing the physical property, but it IS stealing the intellectual property. Difference is, taking that intellectual property isn't against the law. (Ignoring some of the more obscure patent laws here, so those of you that know them, forgive me.)
A person who buys a plant from a nursery and then makes a cutting of the plant for his friend didn't steal the plant from the nursery - but, you are considered to be "depriving of potential profit" - which, for a nursery, isn't illegal. It is, for software and software companies.
I'm not saying the laws are right, or wrong, or fair. I'm saying that, as they stand, making an illegal copy of a piece of software IS against the law, and arguing the semantics of whether or not it's 'stealing' is rather pointless. The law has chosen to group them together under accusations of stealing, and the word 'stealing' or 'stolen' will appear in the court and official charges against you if someone/company chooses to prosecute you for making illegal copies of software - whether you've resold them or not.
2)Social Security will be gone by the time anyone from my generation is ready for it. Hell, they're saying now it may even be gone by the time my parents are ready for it. (they're mid 40s now). Anyone now with sense understands that social security, if it exists when they retire, is a nice bonus, but can't pay for everything - thats why Americans STILL SAVE FOR RETIREMENT
3)Americans, slowly but surely, are giving up their rights to be protected. In 100 years, they'll be looking at us now, saying that we were voting away our freedoms. THey'll look at FDR's "new deal" and say that we let this happen to ourselves. And the worst part?
They'll be absolutely right.
In THEORY its possible that you'd get 34 pages of images from the google.com search in china just as you would here.
Although. . . most of those pages would be blank broken links and/or little white icons with red x's....
Which is why google made google.cn in the first place - it makes good business sense. They needed a reliable way into the market to begin with.
From the article:
Unfortunately, once google makes that 'business decision' it goes back to the 'who controls the internet' question. If google sets up a server in China, they must play by China's rules. Just like the US gambling sites vs the offshore ones.The answer is and has been - the country which plays home to the servers gets, ultimately, to control the content etc on the server. No amount of internet 'controling body' can change that without a drastic overhaul in legislation. Not to mention the US's ability/desire/willingness to follow law that isn't its own.
Click the scroll wheel and position your cursor a set place down below the circle thing that comes up, and slide away.