I am aware of one case where someone actively was using G+ for their business (he is a writer), had over 100 business followers, then had Google basically reset his account and have him start from scratch.
Who the heck wants to deal with that type of uncertainty from a product? Why would anyone want to risk resources on something as unstable as that? Businesses want stability, particularly from a marketing platform - something that G+ does not have, and will probably only achieve 3 months before they discontinue support for it..... like Google Wave
This is all a lie! You can't trust statistics or facts. Where there is money, there is wealth.... at least so I am told. Just look at the government's own numbers for the number of dollars in the economy (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BASE Federal Reserve) - they have created $650billion more dollars in the last three months effectively increasing the total number of dollars in the economy by only 61%. Wealth has nothing to do with the goods in the economy, only the number of pieces of paper exchanged as currency.
I say the only way to create more stuff is to let the government print more money. Just think how much better everyone will be.... you know.... when everyone is a millionaire.
... if they collect all of this urine, is there not a job that requires someone pour all of it into the toilet?.... I guess, could you say that it really is a piss pour job?
All this does is give companies an incentive to shift to a new platform every year rather than reconsider it every three years.
This might just give me the motivation that I need to switch back to ClarisWorks..... ahhhh the good days.
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I don't know what that smell is, but I know it's not the body that I buried in the basement.
Forgive me, but I just don't see how this helps humanity blow up the universe. The universe is far too important for humanity not to blow it up.
How we feel if someone else got there first? I think I would die of shame.
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I help people find cats - http://www.funnybutsad.com/Content/2007/10/17/LostCatFound.aspx/
How dare he not obey the officer. Where the heck does he think he lives? Next he'll say that I don't need to take off my pants when I go through airport security, or that I have some sort of legal right not to be arrested when all I'm doing is walking down the street with the body last night's date.
The younger IT folks here know full well that they will never see a penny of any government entitlement program that are continuously taken from your paychecks. We see the diminishing value of each dollar as we can only buy half as many cool ranch chips as we did the year before.
What we see on a daily basis are the stories that stories that mainstream news organizations fail to report upon. We see how government intervention limits productive capacities and our abilities to built new things. Society is made up of individuals. There can be no just means of sacrificing one for others, because perpetual sacrifice will be just around the corner.
"So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?"(1)
We are familiar with the works of Mises and Rothbard and have seen what government actions have done on so many levels. Why do so many Canadians come to America for medical care even with socialized medicine in their home country (Cleavland is the hip replacement capital of America)? Why is there such a large shortage of doctors in Germany (they get paid a good and fair wage of $12/hour)? Why is it that all of the people America is at war with today were our 'friends' 20 years ago? It is because of these and many other examples that nerds embrace libertarian principles.
To quote Dennis Leary from Demolition Man, "I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal?"
"rape - an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside."
"plunder - to rob, despoil, or fleece"
- source: dictionary.com
The state, or in this case the US governing body, is the only organization that is legally permitted to carry out violent actions. Though the removal of funds from my bank account by anyone else would be considered theft, I have a legal recourse in this matter. The only recourse that I have from the plundering done on the fruits of my labor by the state is to payoff some representatives to maybe get a change in the law...but this has to be done with fewer dollars because they raped/pillaged/plundered my account - leaving me with even less money.
The wonderful/deplorable part of the English language is that there is more than one definition to everything.
Maybe if Google didn't have to pay 40% of its profits in taxes, they wouldn't have to spend millions on accountants to move money. We have all seen the fantastic things that Google has done with the money they have, just think of what they could have done (4D Google earth, Google desktop that doesn't take up 1GB, chocolate pudding that tastes as good as Bill Cosby thought it should taste... who knows?) if the government didn't rape them for being successful.
If anything, we should be proud that Google doesn't put money into the vast wasteland of government spending.
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- Seconds per year ~ Pi * 10^7
Poverty != Crime
To say that crime is caused by those that are impoverished is a horrible insult. Crime stems from the lack of respect for property right. Those that are the beneficiaries of government programs plunder the labor and the successes of others. The take from others without any labor or effort. They receive rewards for producing no value. When the value of labor is marginalized, the fruits of that labor (i.e. material possessions) and subject to criminal exploitation and criminal intentions.
Cities like Chicago and Washington DC are centers for government programs and are blackholes for 'urban renewal programs'. We should be ashamed that we allow the government to steal our labor for their 'get-elected-quick-schemes'.
Now some of the stuff that they want research on is cool stuff, but completely useless in 99 out of 100 applications.
Real progress/research comes from individuals who have an objective in mind (other than the government bureaucrat just wanting to spend his department's money before the end of the fiscal year). I'd be willing to bet that anyone here would be able to do more effective research individually if they were allowed to keep more than 60% of their earnings.
Plus, does anyone actually trust the government to know what they 'should' fund when members of Congress think that the internet is just a bunch of 'tubes'?
The fact is that there are a lot of people who are in the IT field and a small number of them know anything of use. Go for a CS or EE degree but take as many courses as you can in business development, project management and alike; it's there where you will make money.
People who learn CS and EE typically learn nothing else and are doomed to be at the same pay grade for most of their lives (until they start sucking up social security - then their income increases).
I came to the realization that I would never be the best programmer in the world, that is what the monkeys in the basement are for. The money is not in doing the programming yourself, the money is getting the contracts and the people to do the work. It is great to have ideas, but is more important to capitalize on the ideas of others.
Slashdot Mirror
I am aware of one case where someone actively was using G+ for their business (he is a writer), had over 100 business followers, then had Google basically reset his account and have him start from scratch.
Who the heck wants to deal with that type of uncertainty from a product? Why would anyone want to risk resources on something as unstable as that? Businesses want stability, particularly from a marketing platform - something that G+ does not have, and will probably only achieve 3 months before they discontinue support for it..... like Google Wave
I would love the Dept. of Transporation to listen to the man...... and the cop that pulled me over last week. I was just trying to free up some road.
This is all a lie! You can't trust statistics or facts. Where there is money, there is wealth.... at least so I am told. Just look at the government's own numbers for the number of dollars in the economy (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BASE Federal Reserve) - they have created $650billion more dollars in the last three months effectively increasing the total number of dollars in the economy by only 61%. Wealth has nothing to do with the goods in the economy, only the number of pieces of paper exchanged as currency.
I say the only way to create more stuff is to let the government print more money. Just think how much better everyone will be.... you know.... when everyone is a millionaire.
Bottom line - we boned.
... if they collect all of this urine, is there not a job that requires someone pour all of it into the toilet?.... I guess, could you say that it really is a piss pour job?
All this does is give companies an incentive to shift to a new platform every year rather than reconsider it every three years.
This might just give me the motivation that I need to switch back to ClarisWorks..... ahhhh the good days.
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I don't know what that smell is, but I know it's not the body that I buried in the basement.
So will it be able to simulate a anthrax covered minivan with seven free Wii systems in the trunk? Seems impossibly complex to me.
They should remember that sometimes it's cheaper to do experiments in real life.
That would read better if it actually said, "How would we feel if someone else got there first? I think I would die of shame."
When you're an idiot, 'Preview' looks like 'Submit'.
Forgive me, but I just don't see how this helps humanity blow up the universe. The universe is far too important for humanity not to blow it up.
How we feel if someone else got there first? I think I would die of shame.
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I help people find cats - http://www.funnybutsad.com/Content/2007/10/17/LostCatFound.aspx/
Some people just make me sick.
"So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?"(1)
We are familiar with the works of Mises and Rothbard and have seen what government actions have done on so many levels. Why do so many Canadians come to America for medical care even with socialized medicine in their home country (Cleavland is the hip replacement capital of America)? Why is there such a large shortage of doctors in Germany (they get paid a good and fair wage of $12/hour)? Why is it that all of the people America is at war with today were our 'friends' 20 years ago? It is because of these and many other examples that nerds embrace libertarian principles.
To quote Dennis Leary from Demolition Man, "I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal?"
(1) Any Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"rape - an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside."
...but this has to be done with fewer dollars because they raped/pillaged/plundered my account - leaving me with even less money.
"plunder - to rob, despoil, or fleece"
- source: dictionary.com
The state, or in this case the US governing body, is the only organization that is legally permitted to carry out violent actions. Though the removal of funds from my bank account by anyone else would be considered theft, I have a legal recourse in this matter. The only recourse that I have from the plundering done on the fruits of my labor by the state is to payoff some representatives to maybe get a change in the law
The wonderful/deplorable part of the English language is that there is more than one definition to everything.
Maybe if Google didn't have to pay 40% of its profits in taxes, they wouldn't have to spend millions on accountants to move money. We have all seen the fantastic things that Google has done with the money they have, just think of what they could have done (4D Google earth, Google desktop that doesn't take up 1GB, chocolate pudding that tastes as good as Bill Cosby thought it should taste... who knows?) if the government didn't rape them for being successful.
If anything, we should be proud that Google doesn't put money into the vast wasteland of government spending.
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- Seconds per year ~ Pi * 10^7
Poverty != Crime To say that crime is caused by those that are impoverished is a horrible insult. Crime stems from the lack of respect for property right. Those that are the beneficiaries of government programs plunder the labor and the successes of others. The take from others without any labor or effort. They receive rewards for producing no value. When the value of labor is marginalized, the fruits of that labor (i.e. material possessions) and subject to criminal exploitation and criminal intentions. Cities like Chicago and Washington DC are centers for government programs and are blackholes for 'urban renewal programs'. We should be ashamed that we allow the government to steal our labor for their 'get-elected-quick-schemes'.
If you want to see improvements in research, stop having the state try to fund it.
i r071/index.htm (current DOD funded program).
Want to see the tripe crap that the State tries to push off as research? Just go to their Small Business Innovative Research pages.
http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/solicitations/sb
Now some of the stuff that they want research on is cool stuff, but completely useless in 99 out of 100 applications.
Real progress/research comes from individuals who have an objective in mind (other than the government bureaucrat just wanting to spend his department's money before the end of the fiscal year). I'd be willing to bet that anyone here would be able to do more effective research individually if they were allowed to keep more than 60% of their earnings.
Plus, does anyone actually trust the government to know what they 'should' fund when members of Congress think that the internet is just a bunch of 'tubes'?
The fact is that there are a lot of people who are in the IT field and a small number of them know anything of use. Go for a CS or EE degree but take as many courses as you can in business development, project management and alike; it's there where you will make money.
People who learn CS and EE typically learn nothing else and are doomed to be at the same pay grade for most of their lives (until they start sucking up social security - then their income increases).
I came to the realization that I would never be the best programmer in the world, that is what the monkeys in the basement are for. The money is not in doing the programming yourself, the money is getting the contracts and the people to do the work. It is great to have ideas, but is more important to capitalize on the ideas of others.