the beef industry is throwing our safety out the window for immediate profits.
While I agree that the motive is profit, I don't really understand why the industry is moving that way. Organic Beef is $14 per pound vs $6 per pound for the chemistry set beef. Surely there is just as much profit to be made with improved quality, vs cheaper production.
her biggest problem is dealing with boredom at school.
That was a problem for me in school as well, however for me the boredom manifest as discipline problems because I didn't respect my teachers, because they were assigning me (in my perspective at the time) remedial work. It lead to huge amounts of anger, frustration, etc. for me, my parents, and my teachers. Life would have been much better for everyone involved if could have spent that time in class learning something. I don't mean to tell you how to raise you kids, but I know what a difference it would have made for me if I had been allowed (or even encouraged) independent study during the class times that I was "bored".
if I did math homework I would get grades in the 80s or 90s. If I didn't, I would barely pass a test or even fail.
Homework works for you, that's great. Homework was a waste of childhood for me. If I could do the last three math problems (always the hardest) why did I need to do the other 30? If I got an "A" on the test who cares how much or little of the homework I did? And if some child does every last bit of the homework but bombs the test, they are still not learning the material, and need a different way to learn it. We need to get rid of any attachment of social value to grades and get back to teaching the kids the skills need to get along in the world.....Don't get me started on the worthless "grading" in college these days.
programming desperately needs the kind of accountability and professionalism that 'real' engineering has.
So would a PE software engineer lose his license if he made software with numerous bugs? Can software engineers really be held to the same level of accountability as structural engineers? I thought it was near on impossible to write error free software these days. What criteria would you use for standards?
Look at your proportion of tax dollars paid to the feds vs your state. That's the same amount of control your state has over it's own "state" law. When a stae lowers it's income tax or property tax to attract residents, it loses some autonomy. Imagine what a diverse country we would live in if States had equal power and money to the Fed.
I would be rather suprised if MicroSoft didn't give to every senator's campaign. I wonder what would happen if this was extended to other things. "Dell charging only $300 for non-exploding batteries." "Nintendo Deluxe wrist strap for only $45"
I hate to break it to you, but the complexity of tax law enable the very wealthy to pay less of their taxes, putting more burden on the lower and middle incomes. How many minimum wage earners do you know with "tax shelters"?
From the article:which means that businesses like bars and banks that require ID would be capable of scanning and recording customers' home addresses.
Because reading it off the front isn't good enough? Why would they need to scan my address unless they wanted to send me junk mail or make a database of my drinking habits? This is security theater at best.
For instance you can get all-you-can-eat access to a large music library for as long as you pay a subscription. Whether these business models will succeed or not, I cannot say. I know people who subscribe to them and are happy with them. Nonetheless it's impossible to argue that this is not a business model enabled by DRM - if your access did not expire then it'd be equivalent to giving away huge amounts of content for free.
No not for free if you pay for the subscription. Maybe you would be selling music for very low prices then, but that is not a problem since there is no limit to the amount of music or downloads that the world can supply. Just make more. If the artist makes a song, and only get's one tenth of a cent for each download, but a 10 million people download it, that's $10,000. Make ten decent songs a year, and you have a good living. Sure you can wank about advertising costs and millionaire rockstars, but those things are not necessary to good music, they might even inhibit it. There are thousands if not millions of people it this world with worthy musical skill. Recording and distribution only consume electricity and bandwidth, which are easily renewed and plentiful. Why is the supply of music kept as artificially low as the supply of diamonds? Same reason: to inflate the price. At least with diamonds there is a limited supply.
Is this really a problem with multinational companies being 'evil'?
Multinationals are prone to "evil". Moving your production facilities overseas is evil if you ask the small town that was built around your industry. Buying huge quanities of a product at a required huge volume discount is evil if you as your competition or you supplier. Undercutting small business is evil if you ask small business. Having an annual income higher than the GDP of many small countries is a money/power behemoth that begs for abuse. It's possible to have a "good" multinational, but that's got to be at least as tough to pull off as a government that "does no evil". We have yet to see that in history.
While I doubt that this is a case of Civil Disobedience, you are correct it's not evil. But it's so much fun to label any non-wonderful Google practice as "evil" because of their "do no evil" ideal.
Please stop inappropriate prosthetising in the name of my God. Things like only alienate and irritate. Be a light unto the world, not a hair-trigger car alarm.
Welcome our independent artist labels, err, overlords. Maybe national CD sales aren't down, just "RIAA member" sales are down. I've purchased nothing mainstream for almost a year. I buy all of my CDs straight from the artists. Support your local talent. In New York City Subway, concerts come to you.
Way to scare your customers. How do they stay in business?
You are only a customer if you buy something. Have you sent the RIAA a letter telling them that because of this tactic, you will be boycotting? How much did you spend on CDs last year? Here at/. love to hate the RIAA but that only matters to them if they are losing paying customers. If the 1.8 million/.ers actually sent all of these rants to the PR dept of the RIAA, they might care. If they thought they could win us back by stopping.
Considering what a complete piece of crap that movie was, pretty well. From:http://theclientside.blogspot.com/2006/08/sna kes-on-brain-when-marketing-works.html"Third, it was still a big huge success. Why? There is no fleeping way that this movie would ever have opened at #1 without the web. Never ever never ever never.... ever. This is an amazing feat. Without the attention from the blogosphere, consumer generated content and the conversations via social media, this film would likely have raked in $1.4 million for the entire weekend. According to Wiki, it cost $33 million and made $59 million. $26 million is far from a record, but it's still a nice profit.
Spend a summer roofing, or working on a factory floor, or hanging drywall. Then come back and tell me how hard it was to not check you personal e-mail at work at you old desk job. Why does it make perfect sense that blue collar workers should have such a clear distinction between personal and work time, but white collar workers should be allowed to hop back and forth? What would you do if your plumber decided to check his personal e-mail while you where paying him?
The mass marketing adavantage/need is beginning to slip as well. Look as far back as "Blair Witch", grassroots internet buzz and viral marketing are overtaking billboards and TV commercials.
You are correct: you cannot "rent" a download without DRM. The deeper problem, the consumers are basically demanding to own (not license) a movie for the price of rental. If the industry doesn't comply, the consumer goes pirate. Suprise, profit margins just got smaller. The industry needs to stop bitching and accept it. All major profits for a movie must be made in the box office, just like it was before home video.
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the beef industry is throwing our safety out the window for immediate profits.
While I agree that the motive is profit, I don't really understand why the industry is moving that way. Organic Beef is $14 per pound vs $6 per pound for the chemistry set beef. Surely there is just as much profit to be made with improved quality, vs cheaper production.
her biggest problem is dealing with boredom at school.
That was a problem for me in school as well, however for me the boredom manifest as discipline problems because I didn't respect my teachers, because they were assigning me (in my perspective at the time) remedial work. It lead to huge amounts of anger, frustration, etc. for me, my parents, and my teachers. Life would have been much better for everyone involved if could have spent that time in class learning something. I don't mean to tell you how to raise you kids, but I know what a difference it would have made for me if I had been allowed (or even encouraged) independent study during the class times that I was "bored".
if I did math homework I would get grades in the 80s or 90s. If I didn't, I would barely pass a test or even fail.
....Don't get me started on the worthless "grading" in college these days.
Homework works for you, that's great. Homework was a waste of childhood for me. If I could do the last three math problems (always the hardest) why did I need to do the other 30? If I got an "A" on the test who cares how much or little of the homework I did? And if some child does every last bit of the homework but bombs the test, they are still not learning the material, and need a different way to learn it. We need to get rid of any attachment of social value to grades and get back to teaching the kids the skills need to get along in the world.
programming desperately needs the kind of accountability and professionalism that 'real' engineering has.
So would a PE software engineer lose his license if he made software with numerous bugs? Can software engineers really be held to the same level of accountability as structural engineers? I thought it was near on impossible to write error free software these days. What criteria would you use for standards?
There is a different between freefall in an atmosphere in a gravitational field and the absence of gravity.
Yeah, The rushing wind is a dead give-away too.
(though we'll still take your tax money)
Look at your proportion of tax dollars paid to the feds vs your state. That's the same amount of control your state has over it's own "state" law. When a stae lowers it's income tax or property tax to attract residents, it loses some autonomy. Imagine what a diverse country we would live in if States had equal power and money to the Fed.
I would be rather suprised if MicroSoft didn't give to every senator's campaign. I wonder what would happen if this was extended to other things. "Dell charging only $300 for non-exploding batteries." "Nintendo Deluxe wrist strap for only $45"
I hate to break it to you, but the complexity of tax law enable the very wealthy to pay less of their taxes, putting more burden on the lower and middle incomes. How many minimum wage earners do you know with "tax shelters"?
From the article:which means that businesses like bars and banks that require ID would be capable of scanning and recording customers' home addresses.
Because reading it off the front isn't good enough? Why would they need to scan my address unless they wanted to send me junk mail or make a database of my drinking habits? This is security theater at best.
Yeah, no original thoughts! Where does that leave slashdot?
For instance you can get all-you-can-eat access to a large music library for as long as you pay a subscription. Whether these business models will succeed or not, I cannot say. I know people who subscribe to them and are happy with them. Nonetheless it's impossible to argue that this is not a business model enabled by DRM - if your access did not expire then it'd be equivalent to giving away huge amounts of content for free.
No not for free if you pay for the subscription. Maybe you would be selling music for very low prices then, but that is not a problem since there is no limit to the amount of music or downloads that the world can supply. Just make more. If the artist makes a song, and only get's one tenth of a cent for each download, but a 10 million people download it, that's $10,000. Make ten decent songs a year, and you have a good living. Sure you can wank about advertising costs and millionaire rockstars, but those things are not necessary to good music, they might even inhibit it. There are thousands if not millions of people it this world with worthy musical skill. Recording and distribution only consume electricity and bandwidth, which are easily renewed and plentiful. Why is the supply of music kept as artificially low as the supply of diamonds? Same reason: to inflate the price. At least with diamonds there is a limited supply.
Is this really a problem with multinational companies being 'evil'?
Multinationals are prone to "evil". Moving your production facilities overseas is evil if you ask the small town that was built around your industry. Buying huge quanities of a product at a required huge volume discount is evil if you as your competition or you supplier. Undercutting small business is evil if you ask small business. Having an annual income higher than the GDP of many small countries is a money/power behemoth that begs for abuse. It's possible to have a "good" multinational, but that's got to be at least as tough to pull off as a government that "does no evil". We have yet to see that in history.
While I doubt that this is a case of Civil Disobedience, you are correct it's not evil. But it's so much fun to label any non-wonderful Google practice as "evil" because of their "do no evil" ideal.
I wonder if this was a decent simulation of a more dangerous spill? What would they do if there was a leaking battery or something worse?
Please stop inappropriate prosthetising in the name of my God. Things like only alienate and irritate. Be a light unto the world, not a hair-trigger car alarm.
Welcome our independent artist labels, err, overlords. Maybe national CD sales aren't down, just "RIAA member" sales are down. I've purchased nothing mainstream for almost a year. I buy all of my CDs straight from the artists. Support your local talent. In New York City Subway, concerts come to you.
If you can come up with an (cost&energy) efficent way to extract pure carbon from the CO2 in the atmosphere. I want to buy some of your stock.
Way to scare your customers. How do they stay in business?
/. love to hate the RIAA but that only matters to them if they are losing paying customers. If the 1.8 million /.ers actually sent all of these rants to the PR dept of the RIAA, they might care. If they thought they could win us back by stopping.
You are only a customer if you buy something. Have you sent the RIAA a letter telling them that because of this tactic, you will be boycotting? How much did you spend on CDs last year? Here at
The argument against DRM has been so that people can back up their media.
This makes it difficult for you to back up your media to my hard drive.
Considering what a complete piece of crap that movie was, pretty well. From:http://theclientside.blogspot.com/2006/08/sna kes-on-brain-when-marketing-works.html "Third, it was still a big huge success. Why? There is no fleeping way that this movie would ever have opened at #1 without the web. Never ever never ever never.... ever. This is an amazing feat. Without the attention from the blogosphere, consumer generated content and the conversations via social media, this film would likely have raked in $1.4 million for the entire weekend.
According to Wiki, it cost $33 million and made $59 million. $26 million is far from a record, but it's still a nice profit.
I'm sure you could find enough space between the end of Season 1 and the beginning of Season 2 to fit a movie's worth of plot.
A story of Picard just out of the academy could be interesting.
Spend a summer roofing, or working on a factory floor, or hanging drywall. Then come back and tell me how hard it was to not check you personal e-mail at work at you old desk job. Why does it make perfect sense that blue collar workers should have such a clear distinction between personal and work time, but white collar workers should be allowed to hop back and forth? What would you do if your plumber decided to check his personal e-mail while you where paying him?
The mass marketing adavantage/need is beginning to slip as well. Look as far back as "Blair Witch", grassroots internet buzz and viral marketing are overtaking billboards and TV commercials.
Oh sure. Show off your functioning democracy, with your multiple opposition parties, and your voter confidence. Wanna buy some Diebold black boxes?
You are correct: you cannot "rent" a download without DRM. The deeper problem, the consumers are basically demanding to own (not license) a movie for the price of rental. If the industry doesn't comply, the consumer goes pirate. Suprise, profit margins just got smaller. The industry needs to stop bitching and accept it. All major profits for a movie must be made in the box office, just like it was before home video.