likewise, quality speakers shouldn't cost tens of thousands of dollar
They don't. You can get -really- good speakers from several internet only vendors for a couple grand. Check out Axiom for one example. I have a 5.1 home theatre set that cost $2400 a few years back that is as good a set of speakers as any I've ever heard. I'm old enough that my hearing is starting to go, so I'll probably never hear a better set.;-) I drive these with a Pioneer Elite amplifier, feed them music through the SPDIF optical source, and don't think I will ever need a better system.
I think you hit a rapidly diminishing returns situation in speakers somewhere around the 2 to 3 grand price range. Interestingly, this has been true for about 30 years - which means that the cost of good speakers has dropped significantly in real terms over that time.
When I was young, we wrote code on the paper teletype, and stored our programs on those rolls of punched paper. What is this editing thing you speak of?
And I really did walk two miles to school, through the snow, uphill both ways (through a good sized valley), so that I could do said programming. Though we were well off, so I did have shoes.
Thanks. I've been through this path, and had it briefly working under Ubuntu, once. I'll keep pecking away at it, though I'm just about to ditch the Toshiba and get something with a different chipset. All I use this laptop for is surfing while watching TV, and editing code and I don't need Vista for that.
Son, when you get done waving your dick around, go back and read what you just wrote. Kraft provides food, more or less ready to go, for something like 60 cents a serving. You're going to suggest that someone should try and beat that price? Your prices suggest that to make it from scratch is 37 cents a serving, without the milk, flour, cookware, and modest talent it takes to make mac and cheese.
I repeat, my young friend, why don't you actually cook some mac and cheese, and see what it takes? And then ask yourself what a poor single mother ought to do to feed her children with her abundant free time. Cooking from scratch takes time, and time is not always free.
I doubt you've ever checked, or that you have ever cooked a pasta meal from scratch from ingreients you bought, or you wouldn't persist in this silliness. Do you even know what cheese costs a pound? Please go buy a box of Kraft mac and cheese, and then try to duplicate it. Joy of Cooking has a recipe. Feel free to report back.
While I am sympathetic to your main point, it's clear you don't have kids. It is simply NOT true that healthy food is cheaper. Price out the calories available from Kraft Mac and Cheese, and compare to chicken breast. Compare to apples, lettuce, broccolli. Add some milk in. COmpare some good breads to wonder bread. Beans and rice are cheap, but not nutritional complete.
Poor people are fat for a reason. One of the reasons is that shitty food is more affordable.
An excellent idea, but shouldn't all jobs pay a living wage?
Let's consider this statement for a second. There is some level of pay that you consider to be an acceptable level, a living wage, if you will. Let's say that is $24,000/year, for sake of argument. It really doesn't matter what the number is.
For an employer to be willing to hire and keep that person, the employer has to earn at least that much additional income. Not sales, income. If you are a rational employer, and you have an employee whom you pay $24,000 for, who is only earning for you say, $22,0000, what is your rational choice? Do you eliminate the job, of what?
If we say that there is some minimal level of pay that is reasonable to allow, then we are consigning all the jobs that don't deliver that much value to an employer to oblivion.
Other things equal, mass will grow faster than surface area as the size of an object increases. A child will therefore likely fall more slowly than an adult. Consider the extremes of a mouse and an elephant to think about this.
I'm typing this on a Toshiba with the Atheros 5007 chipset, which still doesn't work with Ubuntu/Madwifi. Vista "just works" (tm). Ubuntu doesn't yet, for me, and I've given it three good treis so far. I'll wait for another couple of months and try again, but the record isn't good so far.
Actually, it looks like a pretty good search technique. It's fast, easy to automate, probably a low percentage of false positives, and can be used to link perps together through shared files. As you note, it would be easy for the pervs to block, by dropping a few bits, but I suspect it would be effective for a while.
It's still a search, with all that goes along with that. But it's probably better than having Officer O'Reilly deciding that your picture of your daughter playing at the beach sans diaper is porn.
I wasn't clear enough. I'm referring to acts where the employee is operating under instruction, or on approved behalf of the employer. If the employer is committing injury through approved acts of the employees, the employer is going to be the one catching the grief from the courts. If for no other reason than that they have deeper pockets.
Now, for criminal acts, such as assault, fraud, or theft, where the employee is a knowing participant, I agree, the employee is at risk of prosecution as well. But I don't see any criminality here, just a potential contract violation.
I don't think it's as bad as you are making it out to be. This is basically whistleblowing, and whistleblowing is somewhat protected in the states, and is usually regarded as reasonable ethical. If the OP informs an injured party where to watch for the injurying party, I don't think many courts are going to stand up for the injurying party.
That said, there is no sense taking chances, so a little gmail activity would be warranted.
I also work for a large company, whose name I can't reveal. The lawyers here recently turned on an email journaling application that archives -every- piece of email, due to recent court decisions that they interpret to require this.
You don't need to send copies to your private address. Just note the time, date, subject, and adressees of the email. If it comes to court, your lawyer just subpoena's the archives.
Now, I'm a belt and suspenders guy, so I'd probably have a printed copy or two.
Violating a web site's TOS is unlikely to be illegal. At most, this is a violation of a contract between the OP's company and the site operator. More likely, it's just use of the site which is declared to be abusive by the site operator, and the operator's only recourse is to black the scraper.
The OP isn't in legal jeopardy. The TOS of the site being scraped at at best a contract (if the employer has a paying agreement with them) and are just words otherwise. If the contract is being violated, the employer is completely liable for the acts of the employee.
I'd just do it. I'd point out to the boss that most sites have logging and other measures in place that may render the work product unreliable, or possibly unobtainable.
I remember someone at our company writing a scraper for for Yahoo some years back. Yahoo blocked our domain, and they had to go back to Yahoo, hat in hand, to get us allowed again. Now Yahoo has (when I last checked) a 4000/request a day limit.
You could combat this with use of proxies, but at that point, you have a case to tell the boss, "you know, if the news media found out about this, what are you going to say to them?" Normal fear should solve the problem then.
An anonymous email to the scrapee's web admin, noting that they might watch traffic from IP thus an such, might also elicit a fun little "I told you so" opportunity to the boss.
I don't think this is worth quitting over. This is just an uninformed boss, who, if the OP is adroit, may become a little more informed.
It's common. Heineken is different and better in Europe, though they have the good graces to use a yellow label (or used to, when I was last there, long ago).
While I agree with you on the American micro-brew scene, it's unfortunately still true that the vast majority of american beer is Budweiser and that ilk, and that they still suck.
But for our visiting friends, try a Red Hook ESB, which is available across the country, before you insist that all US beer sucks.
Um, at various times, "Assembler" has actually been the name of the language, at least in common parlance. This was true when I last used any assembly code, back in the early 80's.
the west only seems to notice or care when these fundamentalist muslim assholes victimize the west
Well, what else should we care about? One of the chief objections against the US keeps poking our nose where it shouldn't be. If muslims wish to kill muslims in Iraq or wherever, I'm not sure that's our business. Sure it's heinous, but I don't hink its my or our job to police the rest of the world. We have plenty of problems of our own that are frankly more important to me.
My point was that the attacks against US citizens seem to have abated, and I'm OK with that. It further implies that maybe we don't need to treat our own citizens as if they are at war with us.
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likewise, quality speakers shouldn't cost tens of thousands of dollar
They don't. You can get -really- good speakers from several internet only vendors for a couple grand. Check out Axiom for one example. I have a 5.1 home theatre set that cost $2400 a few years back that is as good a set of speakers as any I've ever heard. I'm old enough that my hearing is starting to go, so I'll probably never hear a better set. ;-) I drive these with a Pioneer Elite amplifier, feed them music through the SPDIF optical source, and don't think I will ever need a better system.
I think you hit a rapidly diminishing returns situation in speakers somewhere around the 2 to 3 grand price range. Interestingly, this has been true for about 30 years - which means that the cost of good speakers has dropped significantly in real terms over that time.
When I was young, we wrote code on the paper teletype, and stored our programs on those rolls of punched paper. What is this editing thing you speak of?
And I really did walk two miles to school, through the snow, uphill both ways (through a good sized valley), so that I could do said programming. Though we were well off, so I did have shoes.
Thanks. I've been through this path, and had it briefly working under Ubuntu, once. I'll keep pecking away at it, though I'm just about to ditch the Toshiba and get something with a different chipset. All I use this laptop for is surfing while watching TV, and editing code and I don't need Vista for that.
Try running an Atheros 5007EG chipset. Doesn't work with Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora so far. Just about to kick off a Sabayan install to try that.
And yeah, I know about madwifi.
Son, when you get done waving your dick around, go back and read what you just wrote. Kraft provides food, more or less ready to go, for something like 60 cents a serving. You're going to suggest that someone should try and beat that price? Your prices suggest that to make it from scratch is 37 cents a serving, without the milk, flour, cookware, and modest talent it takes to make mac and cheese.
I repeat, my young friend, why don't you actually cook some mac and cheese, and see what it takes? And then ask yourself what a poor single mother ought to do to feed her children with her abundant free time. Cooking from scratch takes time, and time is not always free.
I doubt you've ever checked, or that you have ever cooked a pasta meal from scratch from ingreients you bought, or you wouldn't persist in this silliness. Do you even know what cheese costs a pound? Please go buy a box of Kraft mac and cheese, and then try to duplicate it. Joy of Cooking has a recipe. Feel free to report back.
While I am sympathetic to your main point, it's clear you don't have kids. It is simply NOT true that healthy food is cheaper. Price out the calories available from Kraft Mac and Cheese, and compare to chicken breast. Compare to apples, lettuce, broccolli. Add some milk in. COmpare some good breads to wonder bread. Beans and rice are cheap, but not nutritional complete.
Poor people are fat for a reason. One of the reasons is that shitty food is more affordable.
An excellent idea, but shouldn't all jobs pay a living wage?
Let's consider this statement for a second. There is some level of pay that you consider to be an acceptable level, a living wage, if you will. Let's say that is $24,000/year, for sake of argument. It really doesn't matter what the number is.
For an employer to be willing to hire and keep that person, the employer has to earn at least that much additional income. Not sales, income. If you are a rational employer, and you have an employee whom you pay $24,000 for, who is only earning for you say, $22,0000, what is your rational choice? Do you eliminate the job, of what?
If we say that there is some minimal level of pay that is reasonable to allow, then we are consigning all the jobs that don't deliver that much value to an employer to oblivion.
Other things equal, mass will grow faster than surface area as the size of an object increases. A child will therefore likely fall more slowly than an adult. Consider the extremes of a mouse and an elephant to think about this.
I'm typing this on a Toshiba with the Atheros 5007 chipset, which still doesn't work with Ubuntu/Madwifi. Vista "just works" (tm). Ubuntu doesn't yet, for me, and I've given it three good treis so far. I'll wait for another couple of months and try again, but the record isn't good so far.
14, actually, when she started.
Actually, it looks like a pretty good search technique. It's fast, easy to automate, probably a low percentage of false positives, and can be used to link perps together through shared files. As you note, it would be easy for the pervs to block, by dropping a few bits, but I suspect it would be effective for a while.
It's still a search, with all that goes along with that. But it's probably better than having Officer O'Reilly deciding that your picture of your daughter playing at the beach sans diaper is porn.
I wasn't clear enough. I'm referring to acts where the employee is operating under instruction, or on approved behalf of the employer. If the employer is committing injury through approved acts of the employees, the employer is going to be the one catching the grief from the courts. If for no other reason than that they have deeper pockets.
Now, for criminal acts, such as assault, fraud, or theft, where the employee is a knowing participant, I agree, the employee is at risk of prosecution as well. But I don't see any criminality here, just a potential contract violation.
I don't think it's as bad as you are making it out to be. This is basically whistleblowing, and whistleblowing is somewhat protected in the states, and is usually regarded as reasonable ethical. If the OP informs an injured party where to watch for the injurying party, I don't think many courts are going to stand up for the injurying party.
That said, there is no sense taking chances, so a little gmail activity would be warranted.
I also work for a large company, whose name I can't reveal. The lawyers here recently turned on an email journaling application that archives -every- piece of email, due to recent court decisions that they interpret to require this.
You don't need to send copies to your private address. Just note the time, date, subject, and adressees of the email. If it comes to court, your lawyer just subpoena's the archives.
Now, I'm a belt and suspenders guy, so I'd probably have a printed copy or two.
Violating a web site's TOS is unlikely to be illegal. At most, this is a violation of a contract between the OP's company and the site operator. More likely, it's just use of the site which is declared to be abusive by the site operator, and the operator's only recourse is to black the scraper.
The OP isn't in legal jeopardy. The TOS of the site being scraped at at best a contract (if the employer has a paying agreement with them) and are just words otherwise. If the contract is being violated, the employer is completely liable for the acts of the employee.
I'd just do it. I'd point out to the boss that most sites have logging and other measures in place that may render the work product unreliable, or possibly unobtainable.
I remember someone at our company writing a scraper for for Yahoo some years back. Yahoo blocked our domain, and they had to go back to Yahoo, hat in hand, to get us allowed again. Now Yahoo has (when I last checked) a 4000/request a day limit.
You could combat this with use of proxies, but at that point, you have a case to tell the boss, "you know, if the news media found out about this, what are you going to say to them?" Normal fear should solve the problem then.
An anonymous email to the scrapee's web admin, noting that they might watch traffic from IP thus an such, might also elicit a fun little "I told you so" opportunity to the boss.
I don't think this is worth quitting over. This is just an uninformed boss, who, if the OP is adroit, may become a little more informed.
No it doesn't. There are plenty of bottled conditioned beers (Cartright's for one) that clearly have live yeast in the bottle.
It's common. Heineken is different and better in Europe, though they have the good graces to use a yellow label (or used to, when I was last there, long ago).
While I agree with you on the American micro-brew scene, it's unfortunately still true that the vast majority of american beer is Budweiser and that ilk, and that they still suck.
But for our visiting friends, try a Red Hook ESB, which is available across the country, before you insist that all US beer sucks.
Um, at various times, "Assembler" has actually been the name of the language, at least in common parlance. This was true when I last used any assembly code, back in the early 80's.
Let's see, there's a straw man, a red herring, and an ad hominum. That's pretty good, but I'd prefer to actually debate the points being discussed.
Have fun trolling, hope you get a bigger fish next time.
the west only seems to notice or care when these fundamentalist muslim assholes victimize the west
Well, what else should we care about? One of the chief objections against the US keeps poking our nose where it shouldn't be. If muslims wish to kill muslims in Iraq or wherever, I'm not sure that's our business. Sure it's heinous, but I don't hink its my or our job to police the rest of the world. We have plenty of problems of our own that are frankly more important to me.
My point was that the attacks against US citizens seem to have abated, and I'm OK with that. It further implies that maybe we don't need to treat our own citizens as if they are at war with us.
Would everyone better than us be at the outskirts?
Just like real life, everyone with kids wants to live in the suburbs...
Shoot, just look for the Oracle licenses, and you're done there.