Precisely, my good man! The automobile is nothing but a play thing for the rich, and such a foray shall never result in an improvement of the technology, nor greater economies of scale, nor any other positive externality.
I don't know why you, and most atheists, would even concede that he existed in the first place?
I often here things like, "Yeah, Jesus existed, but he was probably just a cool guy, with a good philosophy".
Why even concede that when there's no records or references to him, beyond the bible (Which includes sources which may have the bible influencing them).
Perhaps the best idea, would be a science orientated source control repository, where the data and a brief could be "dumped", and others that wanted to work with it, or incorporate it into their work, could either create a new branch (if they join the repository), or they could create their own fork.
Of course it would need to have a good interface like GitHub, but more orientated for publishing in TeX.
That's cool, but text is not an optimal format for this. Some sort of large online database or code repository, would be much better suited to it. Like those Google has.
Radios and records in general, sounded pretty poor. Still enough information came across. Tapes wear out? Oh well, make another.
Seriously, VHS and tapes were bootlegged ridiculously. They had similar properties to current music, and were the norm. Even my grandmother had a dual VHS recorded and would make bootlegs for everyone she knew. It was awesome.
"If you needed space on a cassette, you had to dub over your least favorite songs, and then go find your friend who had the original and borrow it - again."
Which we did, or we'd borrow from libraries, or we'd copy someone else's tape, or off the radio, or buy another bootleg.
"This was never really an issue worth enforcing because it cost so damn much unless you bought cassettes in bulk."
Which we did.
So... umb... yeah. The few exceptions you've listed... most people I know did. Then again, your average Joe didn't do it, because it was too much of a hassle... just like modern day piracy, they need someone to walk them through it, or do it for them. It was only the people that spent heaps of money and time on music/movies, that needed to do this.... and we did... just like modern day pirates.
I originally started reading this thinking "Of course the ADA has been effective", however by the end of it, I came to the conclusion that it's actually useless.
It was found that those with mental disorders and those with disabilities classified as "other" experienced a positive employment impact of the ADA. Workers with musculoskeletal and internal system disabilities did not experience any different employment probability growth than those without disabilities.
I didn't see them controlling for the increase in the amount of companies which cater to work specifically for the mentally disabled, nor the government incentives that companies which employ them receive. This may dramatically decrease the significance of the ADA.
Workers with musculoskeletal and internal system disabilities did not experience any different employment probability growth than those without disabilities.
So there was no change there.
The level of employment for previously employed handicapped folks stayed the same or possible increased slightly.
So these laws are likely useless and should be removed then, even if you do agree with them (which I think most would). The paper finishes arguing that we should treat this law not on its economic merits but its moral merits, however they are one and the same. If there is no economic change, then these morals are already held by everyone, or those who don't, aren't going to change, ergo, this is a useless piece of legislation.
On top of this, it is a bit harsh to label people who were not in the workforce and became disabled, as 'people who are doing it because of benefits', while that many be true in many cases, our knowledge of disabilities, especially mental disabilities is increasing every day. As such many of these people may be 'legitimate'.
As such, the case for the efficacy of the ADA gets increasingly weaker, where it's hard to argue that it provides any benefit. Especially given the social cost its implementation and regulation would impose.
Ahhh... do I see a Nintendo Entertainment System in the lower left hand corner in front of the screen? It sure looks like it? Do they do "science" on Duck Hunt? Is Dr. Mario their only Medical Engineering software?
Then your business does not sound like a good one. They should be dictating it, unless you're fulfilling that role. This means you're looking at the financials of the company and trying to figure out how this would impact you, and what the likelihood of problems regarding this would be. If you are, then bean counters are dictating the warranty, because YOU ARE THE BEAN COUNTER. If you're not doing this, then you're being pretty irresponsible with your business.
So, now you've got a choice to make.... a) You ARE THE BEAN COUNTER and you're running your business properly. b) You aren't the bean counter and you're running your business negligently, and are waiting for some problem to happen which will make you insolvent.
Hrmmmm, that's not good practice. Sales and marketing would have a too short view of the company. They would be more likely to give a really long warranty that appeals to the customer, when they really shouldn't be, as their bonuses are almost always based on the latest set of results.
While I am sure that some companies make decisions this way, Seagate likely wouldn't be one of them. Just like the engineers, sales and marketing would provide information about 'what the usual warranty life is' and if they go 'it can be a lot shorter than it is' the bean counters would love to make it shorter, as it reduces their risk.
Also, I'm an accountant/economics/finance guy, if you're not working on these sorts of decisions, it might look as if the engineers/sales/marketing make these decisions, but at all well run companies, it's always the accounting/actuary guys, who take information from every other department. As they're the only ones with access to the information and tools, to understand how this would impact the company.
Though, from the outside it could look like sales/marketing is making the decision, such as in the Seagate, if sales/marketing says that they can reduce it, that would be no problem, however if sales/marketing had said they need to increase it, then that could be a problem.
This smells like the sort of move a company makes when it is run by bean-counters...
Just so you know, warranty decisions are always made by "bean counters" (accountants) and actuaries. Doesn't matter what company it is, they're the ones that have to assess the impact it would have on the company, and what the company can reasonably take on. Engineers and similar would at most provide information to help them make that decision.
They don't specify what the frequency for abuse would be, but hourly would probably be a touch excessive, however daily wouldn't. I've used DynDNS and most clients update daily, or based on changes. Never had a problem.
I bought an all aluminium case in the mid 90s, and I still use it today! A Lian Li server tower. It cost a lot. Was great for moving around for LAN parties, and is really strong. However, it's got a resonance problem. There seem to be many frequencies which it can start vibrating at, and then it's suddenly making all sorts of loud twanging sounds. It's unbearable to put the sides on any more.
But modern ones have sound dampening foam, rubber on the seals, and all sorts of cool stuff like that.
if they were they would be farming gold on wallstreet themselves
Why would the regulators do the job someone in China could do for a lot less? I mean, we don't even know if they like playing World of WarCraft, let alone whether they want to grind for gold.
So what I meant to say was, while that works in many cases, it's not exactly right. Also, some libraries have a lot of buying power, and can negotiate for much lower, much more reasonable prices.
Excellent! This would affect me heaps as I use wikipedia many times each day. Given it affects me, I know it would affect many others, and so hopefully it would raise the profile of what's happening.
Hopefully other companies which are against it, such as Google, can do something similar.
Either way, if they start doing stuff like this, that SOPA bill will get a lot more publicity about how bad it is, and it will be dead in the water.
LOL Awesome response. Though, the Anti-Science is a bit of a stretch. However, Scientists weren't much of a fan of his in the early days, as he didn't use science to come to his conclusions.
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Precisely, my good man! The automobile is nothing but a play thing for the rich, and such a foray shall never result in an improvement of the technology, nor greater economies of scale, nor any other positive externality.
I don't know why you, and most atheists, would even concede that he existed in the first place?
I often here things like, "Yeah, Jesus existed, but he was probably just a cool guy, with a good philosophy".
Why even concede that when there's no records or references to him, beyond the bible (Which includes sources which may have the bible influencing them).
Perhaps the best idea, would be a science orientated source control repository, where the data and a brief could be "dumped", and others that wanted to work with it, or incorporate it into their work, could either create a new branch (if they join the repository), or they could create their own fork.
Of course it would need to have a good interface like GitHub, but more orientated for publishing in TeX.
That's cool, but text is not an optimal format for this. Some sort of large online database or code repository, would be much better suited to it. Like those Google has.
Radios and records in general, sounded pretty poor. Still enough information came across. Tapes wear out? Oh well, make another.
Seriously, VHS and tapes were bootlegged ridiculously. They had similar properties to current music, and were the norm. Even my grandmother had a dual VHS recorded and would make bootlegs for everyone she knew. It was awesome.
"If you needed space on a cassette, you had to dub over your least favorite songs, and then go find your friend who had the original and borrow it - again."
Which we did, or we'd borrow from libraries, or we'd copy someone else's tape, or off the radio, or buy another bootleg.
"This was never really an issue worth enforcing because it cost so damn much unless you bought cassettes in bulk."
Which we did.
So... umb... yeah. The few exceptions you've listed... most people I know did. Then again, your average Joe didn't do it, because it was too much of a hassle... just like modern day piracy, they need someone to walk them through it, or do it for them. It was only the people that spent heaps of money and time on music/movies, that needed to do this.... and we did... just like modern day pirates.
Ahhhh, okay. I read that differently. Though, I think the report was saying that. But perhaps I should re-read it with a different emphasis.
I originally started reading this thinking "Of course the ADA has been effective", however by the end of it, I came to the conclusion that it's actually useless.
It was found that those with mental disorders and those with disabilities classified as "other" experienced a positive employment impact of the ADA. Workers with musculoskeletal and internal system disabilities did not experience any different employment probability growth than those without disabilities.
I didn't see them controlling for the increase in the amount of companies which cater to work specifically for the mentally disabled, nor the government incentives that companies which employ them receive. This may dramatically decrease the significance of the ADA.
Workers with musculoskeletal and internal system disabilities did not experience any different employment probability growth than those without disabilities.
So there was no change there.
The level of employment for previously employed handicapped folks stayed the same or possible increased slightly.
So these laws are likely useless and should be removed then, even if you do agree with them (which I think most would). The paper finishes arguing that we should treat this law not on its economic merits but its moral merits, however they are one and the same. If there is no economic change, then these morals are already held by everyone, or those who don't, aren't going to change, ergo, this is a useless piece of legislation.
On top of this, it is a bit harsh to label people who were not in the workforce and became disabled, as 'people who are doing it because of benefits', while that many be true in many cases, our knowledge of disabilities, especially mental disabilities is increasing every day. As such many of these people may be 'legitimate'.
As such, the case for the efficacy of the ADA gets increasingly weaker, where it's hard to argue that it provides any benefit. Especially given the social cost its implementation and regulation would impose.
All in all, this was very disappointing.
Ahhh... do I see a Nintendo Entertainment System in the lower left hand corner in front of the screen? It sure looks like it? Do they do "science" on Duck Hunt? Is Dr. Mario their only Medical Engineering software?
LOL Hilarious.
Then your business does not sound like a good one. They should be dictating it, unless you're fulfilling that role. This means you're looking at the financials of the company and trying to figure out how this would impact you, and what the likelihood of problems regarding this would be. If you are, then bean counters are dictating the warranty, because YOU ARE THE BEAN COUNTER. If you're not doing this, then you're being pretty irresponsible with your business.
So, now you've got a choice to make....
a) You ARE THE BEAN COUNTER and you're running your business properly.
b) You aren't the bean counter and you're running your business negligently, and are waiting for some problem to happen which will make you insolvent.
Hrmmmm, that's not good practice. Sales and marketing would have a too short view of the company. They would be more likely to give a really long warranty that appeals to the customer, when they really shouldn't be, as their bonuses are almost always based on the latest set of results.
While I am sure that some companies make decisions this way, Seagate likely wouldn't be one of them. Just like the engineers, sales and marketing would provide information about 'what the usual warranty life is' and if they go 'it can be a lot shorter than it is' the bean counters would love to make it shorter, as it reduces their risk.
Also, I'm an accountant/economics/finance guy, if you're not working on these sorts of decisions, it might look as if the engineers/sales/marketing make these decisions, but at all well run companies, it's always the accounting/actuary guys, who take information from every other department. As they're the only ones with access to the information and tools, to understand how this would impact the company.
Though, from the outside it could look like sales/marketing is making the decision, such as in the Seagate, if sales/marketing says that they can reduce it, that would be no problem, however if sales/marketing had said they need to increase it, then that could be a problem.
This smells like the sort of move a company makes when it is run by bean-counters...
Just so you know, warranty decisions are always made by "bean counters" (accountants) and actuaries. Doesn't matter what company it is, they're the ones that have to assess the impact it would have on the company, and what the company can reasonably take on. Engineers and similar would at most provide information to help them make that decision.
They don't specify what the frequency for abuse would be, but hourly would probably be a touch excessive, however daily wouldn't. I've used DynDNS and most clients update daily, or based on changes. Never had a problem.
I bought an all aluminium case in the mid 90s, and I still use it today! A Lian Li server tower. It cost a lot. Was great for moving around for LAN parties, and is really strong. However, it's got a resonance problem. There seem to be many frequencies which it can start vibrating at, and then it's suddenly making all sorts of loud twanging sounds. It's unbearable to put the sides on any more.
But modern ones have sound dampening foam, rubber on the seals, and all sorts of cool stuff like that.
That's a terrible analogy, doesn't make sense at all.
Now, if it was they can't find the body, because of all the other bodies, due to everybody murdering, then it would make sense, but loses its punch.
if they were they would be farming gold on wallstreet themselves
Why would the regulators do the job someone in China could do for a lot less? I mean, we don't even know if they like playing World of WarCraft, let alone whether they want to grind for gold.
WHOAH! A +1 TROLL!
One of the rarest of all creatures!
Good point!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit
So what I meant to say was, while that works in many cases, it's not exactly right. Also, some libraries have a lot of buying power, and can negotiate for much lower, much more reasonable prices.
Excellent! This would affect me heaps as I use wikipedia many times each day. Given it affects me, I know it would affect many others, and so hopefully it would raise the profile of what's happening.
Hopefully other companies which are against it, such as Google, can do something similar.
Either way, if they start doing stuff like this, that SOPA bill will get a lot more publicity about how bad it is, and it will be dead in the water.
Someone should ask Google to run a YaCy server! :-)
LOL Awesome response. Though, the Anti-Science is a bit of a stretch. However, Scientists weren't much of a fan of his in the early days, as he didn't use science to come to his conclusions.
CHURCHES! CHURCHES!
You didn't even read my whole post? It wasn't even that long!
Damn straight! It's gotta taste good. LOL.