Re:Libraries are terrible, terrible institutions.
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While for the most part I couldn't agree with you more, you must remember that Google will be selling ad space on those searches whereas the libraries, as you say, only charge for the cost of the copying, and therein lies the difference. As ridiculous as the article may have been and as much as I abhor it and it's principles, it is wrong to make a profit off of other people's work without their knowledge or at least without passing some of the profit along to the owner of the work.
I love what Google is doing and I truly hope they are successful, whether that means that they have to change copyright laws or not, although changing said laws gets us into some extremely dangerous territory. What does someone get to call their own if anyone anywhere can simply copy it and put it on the internet? And what if it's not anyone anywhere and it's only the $90 billion corporations that are allowed to do it because they're the only ones that can afford the lawyers and the lobbyists?
These are dangerous times for our society with questions such as these and it's important to have people on both sides taking these battles to the courts. We can only hope that the courts will be able to look past the conservative revival in this country and do what is just and right under the law and what is just and right for the rest of this century.
So, 2 years ago an Iranian immigrant comes to this tiny rural county with an idea to set up a wireless network that would allow all sorts of surveillance of any transactions or other data sent over it by those that set it up. Oh, and by the way, this tiny rural county that has this Iranian immigrant creating a wireless network that is privately funded (yet they never mention who exactly is funding it except to say that it was at Ziari's expense) just happens to have one of the largest stockpiles of chemical weapons in the US.
Is it just me, or does this coincidence sound like the beginning of a 24 season?
I have absolutely nothing to back this up, but I wouldn't be suprised if the percent of bloggers that actually make 6 figure salaries is probably similar to the percentage of "higher educated" (read college+) people who make 7 figure+ salaries.
It's just the same as always. Some people get are lucky. Some people are extraordinary. Some people are just really good at what they do and therefore people will pay them for it.
Remember, the wealthiest man in the world dropped out of college.
I tried Opera, and I have to admit that i really liked it. The only problem with it (and this was a massive problem for me) was that I could not scroll a webpage in it using my IBM Laptop's middle button and eraserhead. That to me makes it impossible to switch as I use that little nubbin all the time.
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While for the most part I couldn't agree with you more, you must remember that Google will be selling ad space on those searches whereas the libraries, as you say, only charge for the cost of the copying, and therein lies the difference. As ridiculous as the article may have been and as much as I abhor it and it's principles, it is wrong to make a profit off of other people's work without their knowledge or at least without passing some of the profit along to the owner of the work.
I love what Google is doing and I truly hope they are successful, whether that means that they have to change copyright laws or not, although changing said laws gets us into some extremely dangerous territory. What does someone get to call their own if anyone anywhere can simply copy it and put it on the internet? And what if it's not anyone anywhere and it's only the $90 billion corporations that are allowed to do it because they're the only ones that can afford the lawyers and the lobbyists?
These are dangerous times for our society with questions such as these and it's important to have people on both sides taking these battles to the courts. We can only hope that the courts will be able to look past the conservative revival in this country and do what is just and right under the law and what is just and right for the rest of this century.
So, 2 years ago an Iranian immigrant comes to this tiny rural county with an idea to set up a wireless network that would allow all sorts of surveillance of any transactions or other data sent over it by those that set it up. Oh, and by the way, this tiny rural county that has this Iranian immigrant creating a wireless network that is privately funded (yet they never mention who exactly is funding it except to say that it was at Ziari's expense) just happens to have one of the largest stockpiles of chemical weapons in the US.
Is it just me, or does this coincidence sound like the beginning of a 24 season?
I have absolutely nothing to back this up, but I wouldn't be suprised if the percent of bloggers that actually make 6 figure salaries is probably similar to the percentage of "higher educated" (read college+) people who make 7 figure+ salaries.
It's just the same as always. Some people get are lucky. Some people are extraordinary. Some people are just really good at what they do and therefore people will pay them for it.
Remember, the wealthiest man in the world dropped out of college.
windows xp, T42. no idea why it doesn't work on mine, but it makes me quite sad
I tried Opera, and I have to admit that i really liked it. The only problem with it (and this was a massive problem for me) was that I could not scroll a webpage in it using my IBM Laptop's middle button and eraserhead. That to me makes it impossible to switch as I use that little nubbin all the time.
hehe, whoops. it was late... yeah, that's it...
what are the deffinitions of the two jobs, designer and developer?
omg 3 that was beautiful