The wide array of choice enabled by technology has made the FCC irrelevant. My kids watch a few cable channels and DVDs. It is all geared for kids. The channels I let my kid watch self select into programming that does not contain profanity because they know that is a factor in the purchase factor I make on behalf of my kids. So, you see, good old fashioned free market economics has provided a safe haven for kids. FCC? Who needs them!
Here is an idea that could help you avoid this problem: start your own search engine company. Be explicit that essay writing services are OK as advertisers. I'll bet the world will beat a path to your door.
Sooner or later, a career at Novell will require a stint at the Provo, Utah headquarters. Perhaps he did not want to reside or raise a family deep within the heartland of Mormonism.
That's an interesting moral justification you are using. Let's apply it to another situation:
I will never pay for a cable TV service. Therefore, there is no harm in me splicing some coaxial able into my neighbor's cable and then sitting back in my living room to watch TV.
If there is a corporate policy on outside email usage then it sounds like a place I would not want to work. Please expect me to be an adult and I will act like one.
I agree completely. Lovers of free video have options. I'd like to see more of them produce their own content that is slick enough to generate huge demand for that video and then release it for free on YouTube.
That is more compelling than sitting in their parent's basement and whining for free access to the content Viacom has created.
Now that its light after dinner, I'm more likely to go for a walk or bike ride in the evening. I'm more likely to play catch with my son in the yard. Those are the wonderful reasons for DST. For me, it offers opportunity for a more balanced life. Things seem more mellow.
It's an emotional thing, and none of your crass arm chair smart guy arguments will persuade me.
I'm not sure what motivated you to drag the Americans into this. The story stands well on its own without using it as a yet another opportunity to criticize the USA.
Is YouTube going to be banned in the USA? Which government agency in the USA has the means to do that? Can you be specific?
I imagine that a lot of this is web traffic logs. What if the US government really does force ISP's to keep records detailing the sites visited by their customers? Will my ISP rates increase to pay for all of that disk space?
There is a big difference. Public funding is a nice way of saying 'force taxation for everyone'. No indvidual discretion is allow.
With HBO, however, there is a choice. Consumers who dislike HBO for any reason, including their copyright enforcement policy, can voluntarily decide not to participate.
Then how do you explain that there are several examples of flourishing television content production without any compulsory tax funding? Like, for example, HBO. HBO continues to create great shows that lots of people will voluntarily pay for. HBO does not need the tax man, armed cops, and prisons to make it work.
Would you use it if you were not going to run an Oracle DBMS on it? All Oracle products that are not the core DBMS exist for one reason: sell the DBMS.
If you buy anything from Oracle that is not the DBMS (such as OAS) then you are buying a me too, second best product.
I'm curious to hear how other Slashdotters are able to make use of wiki's within the corporate firewall. I have seen some companies where really useful wiki's begin on someone's desktop and are subsequently subject to push back, mostly based on security concerns.
If the restaurant "isn't too hurt" then why not do it out in the open. How about if the waiter says, "If you order a side of cheese fries then I won't charge you if you agree to kick 50% of the cheese fries price into my tip." Would you do this if you were a waiter?
Have you ever looked at your check in a restaurant and noticed that the waiter forgot to charge you for something your ordered and ate? What do you do? I tell the waiter so they can add it to the check. Then I pay for what I ate. All of it. It's the right thing to do and that's the kind of society I want my kids to inherit.
In your world, there is no honor system. You'd sneer and leave the resaurant without paying what you owe. You'd pat yourself on the back while the restaurant owner struggles to pay his workers and keep the doors open.
In my example, there is a moral choice on the table. I made it one wa and you made it the other way. Who is the better man?
I hope this works out. I am interested in any invention that provides an environmentally clean method of power generation. The final goal of which is to increase the available per capita of energy. Forget conservation. The true progressive ideal is to find the means to allow for an increase in personal energy consumption.
Define conservative. I don't let membership in the Republican party serve as a definition. I do call for an end to farm subsidies. I also call for withdrawal from Iraq. That was an act of radicalism, not conservatism.
I hope this works out. I am interested in any invention that provides an environmentally clean method of power generation. The final goal of which is to increase the available per capita of energy. Forget conservation. The true progressive ideal is to find the means to allow for an increase in personal energy consumption.
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On the whole, do you think business has a positive or a negative effect on society?
The wide array of choice enabled by technology has made the FCC irrelevant. My kids watch a few cable channels and DVDs. It is all geared for kids. The channels I let my kid watch self select into programming that does not contain profanity because they know that is a factor in the purchase factor I make on behalf of my kids. So, you see, good old fashioned free market economics has provided a safe haven for kids. FCC? Who needs them!
Why block IM for security reasons? No place I have ever worked has done this.
Here is an idea that could help you avoid this problem: start your own search engine company. Be explicit that essay writing services are OK as advertisers. I'll bet the world will beat a path to your door.
Sooner or later, a career at Novell will require a stint at the Provo, Utah headquarters. Perhaps he did not want to reside or raise a family deep within the heartland of Mormonism.
That's an interesting moral justification you are using. Let's apply it to another situation:
I will never pay for a cable TV service. Therefore, there is no harm in me splicing some coaxial able into my neighbor's cable and then sitting back in my living room to watch TV.
In your world, that is morally OK. Right?
Coal fired plants release a lot of radio activity that is already present in coal. see: http://www.kgoam810.com/viewentry.asp?ID=346099&PT =PERSONALITIES
If there is a corporate policy on outside email usage then it sounds like a place I would not want to work. Please expect me to be an adult and I will act like one.
How would you suggest that musicians who record music get paid?
I agree completely. Lovers of free video have options. I'd like to see more of them produce their own content that is slick enough to generate huge demand for that video and then release it for free on YouTube.
That is more compelling than sitting in their parent's basement and whining for free access to the content Viacom has created.
Now that its light after dinner, I'm more likely to go for a walk or bike ride in the evening. I'm more likely to play catch with my son in the yard. Those are the wonderful reasons for DST. For me, it offers opportunity for a more balanced life. Things seem more mellow.
It's an emotional thing, and none of your crass arm chair smart guy arguments will persuade me.
FatSean,
I'm not sure what motivated you to drag the Americans into this. The story stands well on its own without using it as a yet another opportunity to criticize the USA.
Is YouTube going to be banned in the USA? Which government agency in the USA has the means to do that? Can you be specific?
I imagine that a lot of this is web traffic logs. What if the US government really does force ISP's to keep records detailing the sites visited by their customers? Will my ISP rates increase to pay for all of that disk space?
There is a big difference. Public funding is a nice way of saying 'force taxation for everyone'. No indvidual discretion is allow.
With HBO, however, there is a choice. Consumers who dislike HBO for any reason, including their copyright enforcement policy, can voluntarily decide not to participate.
Then how do you explain that there are several examples of flourishing television content production without any compulsory tax funding? Like, for example, HBO. HBO continues to create great shows that lots of people will voluntarily pay for. HBO does not need the tax man, armed cops, and prisons to make it work.
Would you use it if you were not going to run an Oracle DBMS on it? All Oracle products that are not the core DBMS exist for one reason: sell the DBMS.
If you buy anything from Oracle that is not the DBMS (such as OAS) then you are buying a me too, second best product.
I'm curious to hear how other Slashdotters are able to make use of wiki's within the corporate firewall. I have seen some companies where really useful wiki's begin on someone's desktop and are subsequently subject to push back, mostly based on security concerns.
If the restaurant "isn't too hurt" then why not do it out in the open. How about if the waiter says, "If you order a side of cheese fries then I won't charge you if you agree to kick 50% of the cheese fries price into my tip." Would you do this if you were a waiter?
Have you ever looked at your check in a restaurant and noticed that the waiter forgot to charge you for something your ordered and ate? What do you do? I tell the waiter so they can add it to the check. Then I pay for what I ate. All of it. It's the right thing to do and that's the kind of society I want my kids to inherit.
In your world, there is no honor system. You'd sneer and leave the resaurant without paying what you owe. You'd pat yourself on the back while the restaurant owner struggles to pay his workers and keep the doors open.
In my example, there is a moral choice on the table. I made it one wa and you made it the other way. Who is the better man?
Can someone here please define 'Hate' as it is meant to be applied to determine which websites to ban?
I hope this works out. I am interested in any invention that provides an environmentally clean method of power generation. The final goal of which is to increase the available per capita of energy. Forget conservation. The true progressive ideal is to find the means to allow for an increase in personal energy consumption.
Define conservative. I don't let membership in the Republican party serve as a definition. I do call for an end to farm subsidies. I also call for withdrawal from Iraq. That was an act of radicalism, not conservatism.
I hope this works out. I am interested in any invention that provides an environmentally clean method of power generation. The final goal of which is to increase the available per capita of energy. Forget conservation. The true progressive ideal is to find the means to allow for an increase in personal energy consumption.
Texas is a conservative state and conservative values call for open and unfettered competition. This is what I expected would happen.
Dude, let's say we all make you King for one year. You can rule with absolute power. What would you do to fix this problem?