I don't see that you've said anything new. But I will elaborate.
eBay's rule banning sellers from bidding on their own auction is, in my view, wrong. It's nearly impossible to enforce anyway. Personally, I don't care, and therefore it doesn't affect me.
The only real issue is bid cancellation. The ability to discover another bidder's highest offer without putting one's own skin in the game is the essential problem. That applies whether you're the seller or anyone else. eBay knows this, and I believe they try hard to make that as difficult as possible, but they also have to avoid creating even worse avenues for abuse.
Auctions create an irrational mind-set in many, maybe most people. It's closely related to the gambling urge. If you have that, none of my rational argument is going to get through to you. But just because you get your hopes up to get something a lot cheaper than its value doesn't mean that you're entitled to it.
You guys are such ninnies. 5,999,999,999 people out of 6,000,000,000 in the world can bid on the item, but not the 1 who has possession at the moment? That seems rather arbitrary.
If the seller or any other bidder values the item more than you do at the time of sale, then you're just going to have to sit and pout. Or get over it. But nobody cares.
Excellent summary of the degradation of the Bill of Rights.
I suggest, however, that you learn to spell and proofread. Every error detracts from your credibility.
"...of us loosing our rights..." "...warrant less wire taping,..." "...How can the City of New London takes peoples land..." "Why is José Padilla been in jail for 4 years being tortured, when his case is still pre-trail?" "...accused of mutable crimes..." "...and widdle down the other rights..." "...the court would not allow him to use constructional law..." "...you can't use the construction..." "...but its entirely irreverent anymore."
If you depend entirely on your spellchecker, you're going to look like an idiot.
Those were fundamentally bad things to do, but at least the consitution was lawfully amended, as opposed to being merely ignored as it is today. In fact, I'd say Prohibition was the last time anyone saw the need to amend the constitution to add an unenumerated power. Today, the idea that Congress can't legislate on any subject it pleases is considered quaint.
On the other hand, it seems that Congress cares for no power except that to spend the country's money, essentially on getting themselves re-elected. Which has led to the "democratic" dictatorship we live under today. Because presidents do want power, and will take all they can get.
This is getting to be a typical/. thing. Anyone with more intelligence than bile knows there are many facets and points of disagreement in the area of "global warming". Starting 3rd-grade arguments about whether "golbal warming" is "true" or not is a big waste of time, energy and cyberspace (remmember cyberspace?).
Same goes with "evolution".
Until the editors decide to start editing article introductions to frame intelligent discussion, I'm tuning out.
Just a quick guideline... the major questions in the "global warming" arena are:
if (the globe warming)
{
if (it matters)
{
if (humans causing it && it can be fixed)
{
what to do...
}
else
oh shit
}
else
{
relax
} else
{
move on
}
It's beyond pointless for someone to make vague claims about question 1, and then have arguments about question 3 in response.
The competition between the formats impels the backers of those formats to make their format better, cheaper, faster, etc. so as to beat out the other one, and maximize their return on investment.
From the perspective of the content, it's irrelevent. These systems are basically just storage media. It makes no difference to a studio what technology is used to distribute their product, within certain parameters. There's nothing stopping them from publishing it in several formats, and they will if the market so desires. If they incur slightly more distribution costs because of multiple formats, so what?
The content makers are not the hardware makers. Their whole worlds are different.
Ford was our first Dumbass president, and I guess we like that now. Yes, he had good intentions, but unfortunately good intentions and great power in a dumbass lead to big screwups.
Ford should have said "Richard Nixon's long national nightmare is over." A majority of the country wanted justice served. And if dealing with it was taking 25% of the energy and time of the white house staff, well boo-frickin'-hoo. I'm sure we'd all be much better off if more of the government was distracted more often anyway.
"Goblet of Fire" was a gigantic mess. The major story line is ridiculous and nonsensical.
"Order of the Phoenix" was too long and tedious.
Everything else is great (and the two above have much to recommend them). My theory is that like many wildly successful authors, she became uneditable, much to the detriment of her books. But JKR really is good, and the books are improving since GoF.
Ha! Good one. Have you ever met a systems administrator that gave a crap about what users wanted or needed? Half of them get their jollies bossing around the lusers, the other half are geeks who care only about their preciousss servers.
I'm not quite as cynical as I sound in general... I just generally don't post unless something pisses me off. Hmmm... sounds like a sig.
But yes, it would make sense. What you said. Refer to Gmail.
Amazon still gets 50% of my disposable income, but I agree that it's sometimes maddening. Browsing by category in Electronics or Computer is a disaster. Hundreds of miscategorized items, hundreds of items that haven't been available for years. And of course, much of what you want to see has been miscategorized as well, so you don't see it.
Not so, young padawan. You evidently suffer from the naive belief that "lawmakers" spend any time at all reading or thinking about the laws they pass. They do not in any substantive way. The only "law" they think about is revenues and spending, so they can use your money to bribe themselves another election. The rest of the stuff is interesting to them only as to its value as marketing.
Well, in my day it was Fortran, System/370 Assembler, PL/I, Survey (APL, Algol, Lisp, SNOBOL), then hardware design and math for the 1st three years. Never heard of C, and I don't think C++ was out of Bjarne's skull yet.
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I don't see that you've said anything new. But I will elaborate.
eBay's rule banning sellers from bidding on their own auction is, in my view, wrong. It's nearly impossible to enforce anyway. Personally, I don't care, and therefore it doesn't affect me.
The only real issue is bid cancellation. The ability to discover another bidder's highest offer without putting one's own skin in the game is the essential problem. That applies whether you're the seller or anyone else. eBay knows this, and I believe they try hard to make that as difficult as possible, but they also have to avoid creating even worse avenues for abuse.
Auctions create an irrational mind-set in many, maybe most people. It's closely related to the gambling urge. If you have that, none of my rational argument is going to get through to you. But just because you get your hopes up to get something a lot cheaper than its value doesn't mean that you're entitled to it.
You guys are such ninnies. 5,999,999,999 people out of 6,000,000,000 in the world can bid on the item, but not the 1 who has possession at the moment? That seems rather arbitrary.
If the seller or any other bidder values the item more than you do at the time of sale, then you're just going to have to sit and pout. Or get over it. But nobody cares.
You're on the right track, but the minimum drinking age should be put right back where it started: At zero.
Not.
I suggest, however, that you learn to spell and proofread. Every error detracts from your credibility.
If you depend entirely on your spellchecker, you're going to look like an idiot.
Those were fundamentally bad things to do, but at least the consitution was lawfully amended, as opposed to being merely ignored as it is today. In fact, I'd say Prohibition was the last time anyone saw the need to amend the constitution to add an unenumerated power. Today, the idea that Congress can't legislate on any subject it pleases is considered quaint.
On the other hand, it seems that Congress cares for no power except that to spend the country's money, essentially on getting themselves re-elected. Which has led to the "democratic" dictatorship we live under today. Because presidents do want power, and will take all they can get.
In the American system, we call that a factor of 1000. But what 2-3 orders of magnitude to /.ers?
I thought the metrix system was supposed to be easier?
You see? If we'd just stick to 186,000 miles per second, there's be no confusion.
...when you pry my yardstick out of my cold, dead hand.
Same goes with "evolution".
Until the editors decide to start editing article introductions to frame intelligent discussion, I'm tuning out.
Just a quick guideline... the major questions in the "global warming" arena are: It's beyond pointless for someone to make vague claims about question 1, and then have arguments about question 3 in response.
The competition between the formats impels the backers of those formats to make their format better, cheaper, faster, etc. so as to beat out the other one, and maximize their return on investment.
From the perspective of the content, it's irrelevent. These systems are basically just storage media. It makes no difference to a studio what technology is used to distribute their product, within certain parameters. There's nothing stopping them from publishing it in several formats, and they will if the market so desires. If they incur slightly more distribution costs because of multiple formats, so what?
The content makers are not the hardware makers. Their whole worlds are different.
I think it has something to do with not letting the fat guy buy 50 chocolate bars, and leave you no choice...
Why I don't look words up *before* I submit, I'll never know. That should be "non sequitur" above, of course.
Nice lesson in non sequitor.
A common format is in the industry's (short-term) interest; it is not in the consumer's interest.
Competition drives innovation, cost savings, and value faster than any other method.
I wonder if anyone with a mod point to spare will get it.
Good post! Saved me the trouble.
This is insightful, moderators... and how come I get no points any more?
Ford was our first Dumbass president, and I guess we like that now. Yes, he had good intentions, but unfortunately good intentions and great power in a dumbass lead to big screwups.
Ford should have said "Richard Nixon's long national nightmare is over." A majority of the country wanted justice served. And if dealing with it was taking 25% of the energy and time of the white house staff, well boo-frickin'-hoo. I'm sure we'd all be much better off if more of the government was distracted more often anyway.
"Goblet of Fire" was a gigantic mess. The major story line is ridiculous and nonsensical.
"Order of the Phoenix" was too long and tedious.
Everything else is great (and the two above have much to recommend them). My theory is that like many wildly successful authors, she became uneditable, much to the detriment of her books. But JKR really is good, and the books are improving since GoF.
Ha! Good one. Have you ever met a systems administrator that gave a crap about what users wanted or needed? Half of them get their jollies bossing around the lusers, the other half are geeks who care only about their preciousss servers.
I'm not quite as cynical as I sound in general... I just generally don't post unless something pisses me off. Hmmm... sounds like a sig.
But yes, it would make sense. What you said. Refer to Gmail.
Amazon still gets 50% of my disposable income, but I agree that it's sometimes maddening. Browsing by category in Electronics or Computer is a disaster. Hundreds of miscategorized items, hundreds of items that haven't been available for years. And of course, much of what you want to see has been miscategorized as well, so you don't see it.
Not so, young padawan. You evidently suffer from the naive belief that "lawmakers" spend any time at all reading or thinking about the laws they pass. They do not in any substantive way. The only "law" they think about is revenues and spending, so they can use your money to bribe themselves another election. The rest of the stuff is interesting to them only as to its value as marketing.
Damn, I thought they meant Vagina...
With sufficient wining, the resolution will matter very little, given you won't be able to focus anyway.
A good lameness filter would have blocked this post.
Crap! It would pay me to run my examples before posting them.
I would have inserted
using namespace std;
instead, however.
Well, in my day it was Fortran, System/370 Assembler, PL/I, Survey (APL, Algol, Lisp, SNOBOL), then hardware design and math for the 1st three years. Never heard of C, and I don't think C++ was out of Bjarne's skull yet.
Ironically, this was Texas A&M.