clearly you are not the target audience of those books, throw them out. You two are the only ones who know enough about your relationship to suggest anything, but if your mindset is having fun walking through life together, you'll be better off than thinking about all the things that go wrong. You mostly find what you're looking for, you know.
And if you let it get boring, it will be boring, and probably short, too.
Don't buy their products anymore. While not a retroactive solution, proactive is better then no solution.
Sell it back to them, saying "that wasn't part of the deal".
Oh, and it's 2009 now, any game that still requires a loading screen should die out soon. Seriously, loading screens were fine on C64s and 286s, now my fucking laptop has 3 Gb of RAM. USE IT.
"No, but I've seen the movie" becomes "No but I've played the game" when "Read a book" becomes "Watch a movie". Strange times we live in.
If you really want to appreciate some literary work, try translating it into another language while giving back the full literal meaning, the full meaning in context, and preserving the author's style. You'll know it's a good book if you give up on page one, or after the second line in a poem.
That's something no movie or video game could ever give back. Examples: The Count of Monte Christo, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, and pretty much everything Endre Ady ever wrote.
Remove the defacto right that everybody is supposed to have to children - a lot of the less intelligent people will never make good parents, and shouldn't be allowed.
So who gets to decide in a culture where your right to vote is among the most sacred? Oh, and this very discussion is about how bad it is when governments just decide things.
Not to mention how easy it is to take this idea futher, but I don't want to be Godwinned.
1. This is not something you can vote on, or discuss. Some goverment official just said "Hey, I have an idea, here's 400 million pounds, go implement it." 2. Youngsters don't get into crime because they have a chaotic family life. They do it, because it's cool, they have too much free time, and they live in a neutered society. They simply have no outlet for violence, which is a pretty basic instinct if you think about it (ever seen a little boy who just starts to walk? The first thing he does is picking up a stick and beating stuff with it).
Does anyone have anything original to say, or are we going to end up with 500 "OMG 1984!!!!1!1!1!1!" comments?
Dude, we're talking about surveillance cameras to make sure the kids go to bed in time. What did you expect?
Here's another application of cameras, which would've been unthinkable even 5 years ago. Pretty soon, you'll get used to it like you did with public cameras, and a bit later, you'll find it natural that everyone is monitored constantly for their own safety. Or you won't, and it will cost you dearly.
Otherwise, as the spokesman notes, those costs are absorbed by the other system users who do not have solar, effectively increasing their rates.
I didn't hear them offering to lower everyone elses rates. May I suggest maintenance fees are already included, and this is just an extra layer of profit?
It is perfectly reasonable for the company to try to recoup those costs from all their customers, so making that portion of your bill a fixed fee as opposed to a percentage of usage is quite reasonable.
When you buy a loaf of bread, do you get billed for an oven maintenance fee?
than to actually wait a whole fucking fiscal year and take into account the number major releases that hit a particular year.
Oh come on. Everyone knows nothing happens towards the end of the year anyway. Especially not that thing where everyone buys stuff for their kids at the same time.
Research is something an established company can afford to do.
Mod me flamebait, but from the amount of money the US government spends on securing oil, there really shouldn't be any problems with fusion research funding.
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant and vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! [He slashes a large V through a propaganda poster.] The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [giggles] Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me "V".
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What the hell is this? Twitter? some blag? Where on earth is the link to TFA?
It's not like you'd actually read it.
Does Google advertise Internet Explorer on Youtube?
Do not be a door-mat, while it may keep a certain amount of peace at times, do it too much and your women will lose interest.
Rephrase: Learn to say "Yes, dear" and do what you want anyway.
Dear OP,
clearly you are not the target audience of those books, throw them out. You two are the only ones who know enough about your relationship to suggest anything, but if your mindset is having fun walking through life together, you'll be better off than thinking about all the things that go wrong. You mostly find what you're looking for, you know.
And if you let it get boring, it will be boring, and probably short, too.
That's how MS got where they are after all
MS got there with pure dumb luck, shady business tactics and buying out potential competitors.
And yes, it's lazyness: he's a sysadmin, and he knows the security implications. He just chooses not to care.
Lazy sysadmin wants to compromise his company to work less. News at 11.
Don't buy their products anymore. While not a retroactive solution, proactive is better then no solution.
Sell it back to them, saying "that wasn't part of the deal".
Oh, and it's 2009 now, any game that still requires a loading screen should die out soon. Seriously, loading screens were fine on C64s and 286s, now my fucking laptop has 3 Gb of RAM. USE IT.
If you don't own something you can't license it out, pretty simple.
You can, however, relicense something that's in the public domain. You're not even obliged to tell them it's public domain.
Sigh. When will these people ever learn.
Repeat until it sinks in: paper trail is more important than storage and search efficiency. CYA über alles!
So how did you translate "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea"? "Not coffee"?
"No, but I've seen the movie" becomes "No but I've played the game" when "Read a book" becomes "Watch a movie". Strange times we live in.
If you really want to appreciate some literary work, try translating it into another language while giving back the full literal meaning, the full meaning in context, and preserving the author's style. You'll know it's a good book if you give up on page one, or after the second line in a poem.
That's something no movie or video game could ever give back. Examples: The Count of Monte Christo, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, and pretty much everything Endre Ady ever wrote.
Nah, it's not that, it's where it makes them look...
Fixed that for you.
it also cuts down on all the illegal porn
You mean spam, which is 90+ percent of all internet traffic? And censorship isn't really the solution for this.
That will be interesting when your iPhone gets hacked.
The moon is a dead end - tackling deep space is the real future!
And what are you going to do once you get there? Come back and proclaim it's a dead end?
I want a house on the Moon to visit for the weekend.
Remove the defacto right that everybody is supposed to have to children - a lot of the less intelligent people will never make good parents, and shouldn't be allowed.
So who gets to decide in a culture where your right to vote is among the most sacred? Oh, and this very discussion is about how bad it is when governments just decide things.
Not to mention how easy it is to take this idea futher, but I don't want to be Godwinned.
After reading the article, here are my thoughts:
1. This is not something you can vote on, or discuss. Some goverment official just said "Hey, I have an idea, here's 400 million pounds, go implement it."
2. Youngsters don't get into crime because they have a chaotic family life. They do it, because it's cool, they have too much free time, and they live in a neutered society. They simply have no outlet for violence, which is a pretty basic instinct if you think about it (ever seen a little boy who just starts to walk? The first thing he does is picking up a stick and beating stuff with it).
Does anyone have anything original to say, or are we going to end up with 500 "OMG 1984!!!!1!1!1!1!" comments?
Dude, we're talking about surveillance cameras to make sure the kids go to bed in time. What did you expect?
Here's another application of cameras, which would've been unthinkable even 5 years ago. Pretty soon, you'll get used to it like you did with public cameras, and a bit later, you'll find it natural that everyone is monitored constantly for their own safety. Or you won't, and it will cost you dearly.
How is that not 1984?
So how do we game this system? Find people who have recently changed carriers and start having them call you.
So for only $500 worth of phone calls, you'll get a dollar off your monthly bill!
P.S. This again shows how corporations think. I'm not a valued customer, I'm a dot in a graph who tends to exhibit profit-threatening behavior.
Otherwise, as the spokesman notes, those costs are absorbed by the other system users who do not have solar, effectively increasing their rates.
I didn't hear them offering to lower everyone elses rates. May I suggest maintenance fees are already included, and this is just an extra layer of profit?
It is perfectly reasonable for the company to try to recoup those costs from all their customers, so making that portion of your bill a fixed fee as opposed to a percentage of usage is quite reasonable.
When you buy a loaf of bread, do you get billed for an oven maintenance fee?
Being older doesn't make you any more right; it just makes you older and still wrong.
Age should bring with it the experience to make you not wrong. If you're not stuck in a permanent puberty like so many people.
than to actually wait a whole fucking fiscal year and take into account the number major releases that hit a particular year.
Oh come on. Everyone knows nothing happens towards the end of the year anyway. Especially not that thing where everyone buys stuff for their kids at the same time.
Research is something an established company can afford to do.
Mod me flamebait, but from the amount of money the US government spends on securing oil, there really shouldn't be any problems with fusion research funding.
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant and vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! [He slashes a large V through a propaganda poster.] The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [giggles] Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me "V".