Top 10 Reasons It's Better to be a Bartender than an Engineer:
10. You get to throw out annoying customers
9. The tips are bigger than the sunshare bonus.
8. You don't have to go to a steering committee to mix someone a drink.
7. Drunks are not nearly as long winded as Tony.
6. It doesn't take 6 signatures to hire a new bartender.
5. It's in a growth industry.
4. It's a lot more fun to work from home.
3. You don't need ARC approval for a new Cosmo recipe.
2. You never look at one of your fellow bartenders and think "what the heck does that guy do all day?"
1. Being a bartender helps you get action.
Ok, lemme take it. If there is no guarantee of access to free porn, there is no ban also.
In other words, if porn is so bad, let government and all of us work together to remove all websites, magazines and everything else that comes close to porn. This is not going to happen. So restricting at one place and allowing at other place is DEFINITELY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Not that I am supporter of free acces to porn, but I find this move laughable. The scale at which this all has grown up is beyond governance. The market forces are already in place. These patchworks will only make certain class of people (read drivers) being discriminated. SIMPLE...:-D
Hmmm.. your fears are not baseless. Their monopoly and financial muscle certainly brings some concerns. But if the organization is giving better signals, why not just accept it.
Moreover this is not their first gesture. If u are aware, Google is supporting Firefox big way. Internet world has gained a lot from Google.
The trouble is internet can not be regulated as everything else.
A web site can be located outside jurisdiction of US. The contents can not be blocked without massive firewalling. Worse enough, emails might carry specific IP addresses with different port to look at prohibited contents. If u look at the artillary of protocols, It will be gigantic task to setup a watchdog to regulate things there.
That will be awful waste of taxpayers money.
my 2 cents.
I have worked for a publishing company and could answer your question.
Apart from the simple economics of demand and supply, the publishing industry believes in pyramid of knowledge. More people are at the bottom of pyramid and are less interested in (technical) knowledge/expertise etc.
A journal/book/dart is targetted to a class of readers. This is called 'pitching'. A highly technical book/journal is likely to be read by limited number of readers.
This leaves the marketing people no other option except keeping the prices high. This is counterproductive sometimes, as it might reduce the reader base further. But this is how the publishing economics works.
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Top 10 Reasons It's Better to be a Bartender than an Engineer:
10. You get to throw out annoying customers
9. The tips are bigger than the sunshare bonus.
8. You don't have to go to a steering committee to mix someone a drink.
7. Drunks are not nearly as long winded as Tony.
6. It doesn't take 6 signatures to hire a new bartender.
5. It's in a growth industry.
4. It's a lot more fun to work from home.
3. You don't need ARC approval for a new Cosmo recipe.
2. You never look at one of your fellow bartenders and think "what the heck does that guy do all day?"
1. Being a bartender helps you get action.
Ok, lemme take it. If there is no guarantee of access to free porn, there is no ban also.
In other words, if porn is so bad, let government and all of us work together to remove all websites, magazines and everything else that comes close to porn. This is not going to happen. So restricting at one place and allowing at other place is DEFINITELY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Not that I am supporter of free acces to porn, but I find this move laughable. The scale at which this all has grown up is beyond governance. The market forces are already in place. These patchworks will only make certain class of people (read drivers) being discriminated. SIMPLE...:-D
What? The Da Vinci Code is fiction? :D
Moreover this is not their first gesture. If u are aware, Google is supporting Firefox big way. Internet world has gained a lot from Google.
A web site can be located outside jurisdiction of US. The contents can not be blocked without massive firewalling. Worse enough, emails might carry specific IP addresses with different port to look at prohibited contents. If u look at the artillary of protocols, It will be gigantic task to setup a watchdog to regulate things there.
That will be awful waste of taxpayers money. my 2 cents.
Apart from the simple economics of demand and supply, the publishing industry believes in pyramid of knowledge. More people are at the bottom of pyramid and are less interested in (technical) knowledge/expertise etc.
A journal/book/dart is targetted to a class of readers. This is called 'pitching'. A highly technical book/journal is likely to be read by limited number of readers.
This leaves the marketing people no other option except keeping the prices high. This is counterproductive sometimes, as it might reduce the reader base further. But this is how the publishing economics works.
my 2 cents .
Oh .. it was you ... I kept getting Destination Unreachable.
certainly missing ability to find porn sites, password crackers, yahoo booters, free downloads, free mp3 files, free gifts on clicks, funny pictures ;-)
U kiddin..... my terminal was *HOT*. :-D