No need to be upset my Molson drinking friend. There's nothing wrong with Canada, I just think that if you're trying to illustrate your point using a country whose constitution dates back to the 1875 but who was not the supreme adjudicator of its own laws until almost 75 years later and whose constitution wasn't even the supreme legal document until a British parliamentary act in 1982 isn't the best example.
India, for example, was left out of the 1931 act giving the dominions autonomy and through non-violent means established their own state in a relatively short amount of time.
God Save the Queen was still the national anthem until 1986. It was very nice of the UK to say yes when Canada asked for permission to modify its own constitution without expressed approval from the homeland. Their government also still officially recognizes The Crown, which although purely ceremonial at this point doesn't change the fact that Canadian taxpayers are paying monarchist appointees who have some pretty impressive job titles like governor general or viceroy. They're not a colony in a technical sense, but they're not exactly a shining example of how effective non-violent revolution is.
If you have to ride your bike hours to get to a DVD store the rain seems like a minor inconvenience compared to the realization that by the time you get home from your epic ride you wont have time to watch the movie anyway.
So in order to gouge people $.20 cents on a gallon of milk you're going to roll out thousands of tiny, fragile screens that are larger and less readable than modern paper labels as well as the licensing of the software to watch these trends?
I'm not saying that might not be the case, I'm just saying that I'd like to see someone actually run the cost/benefit analysis before I believe that this is anything beyond a marketable but flawed idea.
I actually work in retail as well, and if the place you work is doing centralized printing and shipping of labels rather than just printing them off at $.04 a sheet with a Laserjet maybe this could help you. Major retailers, Target, Walmart, print all of their basic signage on site according to planograms or other similar systems, there is no sorting and putting up labels takes a tenth of the time that pulling stock to go with it does. The only thing our stores are shipped is the poster size advertising, which they would still need.
Sales in most places also include putting up signs, bright signs easily noticeable, as well as setting up special displays and moving product around. None of this can be automated and that's the every week work. Go to a grocery store that you're familiar with, ofter do they rearrange things? How often do the prices actually change on the majority of items?
I don't like walking in the rain either, but I still have to do it to get to my car and into the store. It sounds like buying movies is the least of your trouble.
It's neat, but unless the prices change constantly I can't imagine how rolling out this system and keeping it running is more cost effective than printing out and replacing paper labels that cost less than a penny each and only need to be updated every few weeks.
Calling a friend to ask a question, arranging a late night study session on the fly, any time that communication is useful having a cell phone is better than not having one. Email only works if it gets check, which for most people happens far less often than checking their beeping/ringing/humming phone.
Or shit, maybe since he's a college student he wants to be social and network, which depending on his field may be just as important as any of the work hes doing in the classroom. No one thinks the world will end if he's not on call, everyone breaks of loses a phone in their life, that doesn't mean that life with one is not easier and generally more effective.
The trigger pull on most single action autoloaders is only in the range of 4-6lbs, not an insurmountable amount for a child using both hands. I heard a story while going through firearms safety training about a guy who believed his revolver was safe because the double action trigger pull was closer to 10lbs. What he never considered was that a child could prop the gun against a chair and use its body weight to bring back the hammer, giving it a single action 4lb pull. As far as the story goes no one was hurt, but he went out and bought a safe that day.
The lesson was never underestimate the ability of a child to do things you assumed they couldn't for any reason.
I'm sure he's feeling pretty terrible, but slightly less terrible than a three year old who has been shot in the chest as a result of the poor judgment of someone who should know better and who should have probably considered her safety a little sooner. My pity stays with the child.
Saying "terrible lapse of judgment" and "be responsible next time" isn't enough for me. This man should be charged with child endangerment so that people take their Second Amendment Rights seriously and responsibly should they choose to exercise them.
As a gun owner who cherishes my second amendment rights, I agree completely. Every time I see a moron shoot his child (or himself) while cleaning a gun, or hear about kids who found something they shouldn't have, I cringe. Children are not responsible for their parents keeping them safe, parents are, and this kind of blatant negligence needs to be stopped. There's no excuse for leaving a loaded handgun on a table around a three year old. The problem is not that she mistook it for a Wii controller, it's that she has a criminally negligent father. I bet he's in a horrible place right now, but if their was really a sense of fair play in the world she would have accidentally shot him, not herself.
[x] Used specifically to cause fear and hatred
[x] Vague enough to be supportable with only a few quotes
[x] Generally irrelevant to the subject at hand
[x] Frequently irrational
[x] Heavily stigmatized in the community
Exactly. At its start Facebook was vastly inferior to services like Myspace, but by creating an environment for people to contact people they already have a basic connection with with a clean standardized interface and with registration requirements that at least in some respects weeded out "social undesirables" he was able to tap a whole new market and gradually use it to tear into the industry Goliaths.
Things would be harder, and progress would be a little slower. A very small minority of people would feel the adverse impact in any significant way and they'll have to learn to live with it,
You mean like all the people whose employments and skillsets depends in their entirety on the internet? Software developers? Hardware manufacturers? Not just the ones making routers and Ethernet cables, the ones who produce the next line of affordable budget systems designed to keep just ahead of the requirement curve for screwing around on Facebook. And all the people who sell these items? Tech support? The telecomms? Energy producers? Their suppliers? Online businesses?
No, it's not like if the internet was gone it'd be the same as the sun dying out, but in some crazy hypothetical situation where it suddenly disappeared the ramifications would be far more wide than not being able to read BBC news and watch YouTube videos.
There's plenty of very bandwidth intensive streaming content that's perfectly legal, so yes, even if I was entirely sure that everything that's being done was 100% legal it would still be a problem. Not that that's relevant at all, the point is that the shortcoming of their broadband are not reflected by the statistics of "broadband penetration" and "price per advertised speed". At no point is an acceptable argument to say "well if they need more bandwidth they should just use less", it makes the entire discussion pointless.
The issue is not that the service isn't great, it's that as it's reflected in the study their service is acceptable, as it exists in reality it isn't. For the first week the service is fine, there's no complaints about 9 people sharing one line until they hit the cap. Caps are something almost entirely unheard of in North America, thus this reflects a problem with service not reflected by either of the studies. Obviously it's a matter of great discussion, and the final point is that they have no alternative. All of the providers for this area only provide capped service so why pay for shit service when they already have free shit service?
So, to reiterate: "what is "installed" and what is "usable" are two entirely different things." and I think the article is a rather interesting read about the shortcoming of a previous studies methodology because I'm personally living another factor they missed.
High enough in fact that they can export their grain to sub-Saharan Africa and run local farmers into the ground in some cases. Add in the status symbol of buying EU grains instead of the local ones and it can be hard to compete.
Having lived in various parts of Europe for the past year (albeit probably not in the finest of establishments) my biggest comment to this would be that it's understandable that almost all of the Euro comments here are coming from Sweden. I'm currently living in Belgium where all of the ISP are capped to the extent that everyone in the house is on a 56K quality connection for three weeks a month because it's provided by their landlord and they refuse to pay more. In Germany my experience was more familiar, uncapped but service varies greatly between what people are trying to get and what they actually have access to. By contrast I was in Bulgaria for two months and our internet access was frequently wireless only, shared access point between God knows how many customers but I guess it's still broadband!
Sweden would do well you enjoy their connectivity, because it's not the same story everywhere else.
My girlfriends mother lives in Duisburg, her DSL is in terms of latency not terrible, but the actual downstream is frequently barely above DSL levels. I'm currently staying in Belgium and the ISP here cuts service down to 56K levels after 100Gb. I don't know what they're paying for it, but for a house of 9 students they're on 56K service for roughly 3 weeks a month.
Point being, what is "installed" and what is "usable" are two entirely different things.
They'd also be upset about the nuclear arsenals of many European countries, or their offensive military capabilities (even the Germans are deploying combat troops now), hell Japan even censors their pornography to keep it from being too indecent (even if it's bizarre tentacle rape). The problem with subjective standards is that people try to make blanket statements that are frequently unsupported the more evidence is brought into play. Good luck convincing anyone that a given country is more civilized than another reasonably comparable one.
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No need to be upset my Molson drinking friend. There's nothing wrong with Canada, I just think that if you're trying to illustrate your point using a country whose constitution dates back to the 1875 but who was not the supreme adjudicator of its own laws until almost 75 years later and whose constitution wasn't even the supreme legal document until a British parliamentary act in 1982 isn't the best example.
India, for example, was left out of the 1931 act giving the dominions autonomy and through non-violent means established their own state in a relatively short amount of time.
God Save the Queen was still the national anthem until 1986. It was very nice of the UK to say yes when Canada asked for permission to modify its own constitution without expressed approval from the homeland. Their government also still officially recognizes The Crown, which although purely ceremonial at this point doesn't change the fact that Canadian taxpayers are paying monarchist appointees who have some pretty impressive job titles like governor general or viceroy. They're not a colony in a technical sense, but they're not exactly a shining example of how effective non-violent revolution is.
If you have to ride your bike hours to get to a DVD store the rain seems like a minor inconvenience compared to the realization that by the time you get home from your epic ride you wont have time to watch the movie anyway.
So in order to gouge people $.20 cents on a gallon of milk you're going to roll out thousands of tiny, fragile screens that are larger and less readable than modern paper labels as well as the licensing of the software to watch these trends?
I'm not saying that might not be the case, I'm just saying that I'd like to see someone actually run the cost/benefit analysis before I believe that this is anything beyond a marketable but flawed idea.
I actually work in retail as well, and if the place you work is doing centralized printing and shipping of labels rather than just printing them off at $.04 a sheet with a Laserjet maybe this could help you. Major retailers, Target, Walmart, print all of their basic signage on site according to planograms or other similar systems, there is no sorting and putting up labels takes a tenth of the time that pulling stock to go with it does. The only thing our stores are shipped is the poster size advertising, which they would still need.
Sales in most places also include putting up signs, bright signs easily noticeable, as well as setting up special displays and moving product around. None of this can be automated and that's the every week work. Go to a grocery store that you're familiar with, ofter do they rearrange things? How often do the prices actually change on the majority of items?
Is it any worse than paying $10x2 to go to a movie at a theater?
I don't like walking in the rain either, but I still have to do it to get to my car and into the store. It sounds like buying movies is the least of your trouble.
It's neat, but unless the prices change constantly I can't imagine how rolling out this system and keeping it running is more cost effective than printing out and replacing paper labels that cost less than a penny each and only need to be updated every few weeks.
Calling a friend to ask a question, arranging a late night study session on the fly, any time that communication is useful having a cell phone is better than not having one. Email only works if it gets check, which for most people happens far less often than checking their beeping/ringing/humming phone.
Or shit, maybe since he's a college student he wants to be social and network, which depending on his field may be just as important as any of the work hes doing in the classroom. No one thinks the world will end if he's not on call, everyone breaks of loses a phone in their life, that doesn't mean that life with one is not easier and generally more effective.
The trigger pull on most single action autoloaders is only in the range of 4-6lbs, not an insurmountable amount for a child using both hands. I heard a story while going through firearms safety training about a guy who believed his revolver was safe because the double action trigger pull was closer to 10lbs. What he never considered was that a child could prop the gun against a chair and use its body weight to bring back the hammer, giving it a single action 4lb pull. As far as the story goes no one was hurt, but he went out and bought a safe that day.
The lesson was never underestimate the ability of a child to do things you assumed they couldn't for any reason.
I'm sure he's feeling pretty terrible, but slightly less terrible than a three year old who has been shot in the chest as a result of the poor judgment of someone who should know better and who should have probably considered her safety a little sooner. My pity stays with the child.
Saying "terrible lapse of judgment" and "be responsible next time" isn't enough for me. This man should be charged with child endangerment so that people take their Second Amendment Rights seriously and responsibly should they choose to exercise them.
As a gun owner who cherishes my second amendment rights, I agree completely. Every time I see a moron shoot his child (or himself) while cleaning a gun, or hear about kids who found something they shouldn't have, I cringe. Children are not responsible for their parents keeping them safe, parents are, and this kind of blatant negligence needs to be stopped. There's no excuse for leaving a loaded handgun on a table around a three year old. The problem is not that she mistook it for a Wii controller, it's that she has a criminally negligent father. I bet he's in a horrible place right now, but if their was really a sense of fair play in the world she would have accidentally shot him, not herself.
[x] Used specifically to cause fear and hatred
[x] Vague enough to be supportable with only a few quotes
[x] Generally irrelevant to the subject at hand
[x] Frequently irrational
[x] Heavily stigmatized in the community
We may have a winner.
Exactly. At its start Facebook was vastly inferior to services like Myspace, but by creating an environment for people to contact people they already have a basic connection with with a clean standardized interface and with registration requirements that at least in some respects weeded out "social undesirables" he was able to tap a whole new market and gradually use it to tear into the industry Goliaths.
Things would be harder, and progress would be a little slower. A very small minority of people would feel the adverse impact in any significant way and they'll have to learn to live with it,
You mean like all the people whose employments and skillsets depends in their entirety on the internet? Software developers? Hardware manufacturers? Not just the ones making routers and Ethernet cables, the ones who produce the next line of affordable budget systems designed to keep just ahead of the requirement curve for screwing around on Facebook. And all the people who sell these items? Tech support? The telecomms? Energy producers? Their suppliers? Online businesses?
No, it's not like if the internet was gone it'd be the same as the sun dying out, but in some crazy hypothetical situation where it suddenly disappeared the ramifications would be far more wide than not being able to read BBC news and watch YouTube videos.
There's plenty of very bandwidth intensive streaming content that's perfectly legal, so yes, even if I was entirely sure that everything that's being done was 100% legal it would still be a problem. Not that that's relevant at all, the point is that the shortcoming of their broadband are not reflected by the statistics of "broadband penetration" and "price per advertised speed". At no point is an acceptable argument to say "well if they need more bandwidth they should just use less", it makes the entire discussion pointless.
The issue is not that the service isn't great, it's that as it's reflected in the study their service is acceptable, as it exists in reality it isn't. For the first week the service is fine, there's no complaints about 9 people sharing one line until they hit the cap. Caps are something almost entirely unheard of in North America, thus this reflects a problem with service not reflected by either of the studies. Obviously it's a matter of great discussion, and the final point is that they have no alternative. All of the providers for this area only provide capped service so why pay for shit service when they already have free shit service?
So, to reiterate: "what is "installed" and what is "usable" are two entirely different things." and I think the article is a rather interesting read about the shortcoming of a previous studies methodology because I'm personally living another factor they missed.
Why not take it a step further and ask him to pay you to read the site?
High enough in fact that they can export their grain to sub-Saharan Africa and run local farmers into the ground in some cases. Add in the status symbol of buying EU grains instead of the local ones and it can be hard to compete.
Having lived in various parts of Europe for the past year (albeit probably not in the finest of establishments) my biggest comment to this would be that it's understandable that almost all of the Euro comments here are coming from Sweden. I'm currently living in Belgium where all of the ISP are capped to the extent that everyone in the house is on a 56K quality connection for three weeks a month because it's provided by their landlord and they refuse to pay more. In Germany my experience was more familiar, uncapped but service varies greatly between what people are trying to get and what they actually have access to. By contrast I was in Bulgaria for two months and our internet access was frequently wireless only, shared access point between God knows how many customers but I guess it's still broadband!
Sweden would do well you enjoy their connectivity, because it's not the same story everywhere else.
My girlfriends mother lives in Duisburg, her DSL is in terms of latency not terrible, but the actual downstream is frequently barely above DSL levels. I'm currently staying in Belgium and the ISP here cuts service down to 56K levels after 100Gb. I don't know what they're paying for it, but for a house of 9 students they're on 56K service for roughly 3 weeks a month.
Point being, what is "installed" and what is "usable" are two entirely different things.
True enough. You caught some stray fire for an AC. Sorry.
They'd also be upset about the nuclear arsenals of many European countries, or their offensive military capabilities (even the Germans are deploying combat troops now), hell Japan even censors their pornography to keep it from being too indecent (even if it's bizarre tentacle rape). The problem with subjective standards is that people try to make blanket statements that are frequently unsupported the more evidence is brought into play. Good luck convincing anyone that a given country is more civilized than another reasonably comparable one.
I still don't understand why the U.S. government doesn't treat these wide-spread, expensive crimes as a priority.
When the US investigates or attempts to punish nationals of another country they are generally scorned. Maybe you should ask the Spanish?
Japan will be sad to hear they're not "civilized" anymore.
How is this informative? Insightful?
Three Spaniards arrested in alleged global hacking scheme
Accused Masterminds of World's Largest Computer Virus Network Arrested
I don't particularly think the comment above was funny, but at least I wouldn't be so confused if that's why it was modded up.