Given that there are no ages discrimination laws to protect younger workers, I can't blame them for being somewhat suspicious of older workers. Especially considering that age does not guarantee that a person has more to contribute. The simple fact is that once a worker gets to be 40, it can be really hard to get rid of them due to age discrimination legislation. Whereas younger workers have to work harder because there is no protection or job security.
It depends on your major, doing science and math for my undergrad the books would typically start at $90 or so and go up. But when I went back for my TESL, I think the most expensive book wast $90 and most of them were quite a bit less.
It's interesting that you're suggesting that Amazon is building on the B&N model when B&N didn't release Nook until well after Amazon released Kindle.
In terms of B&N, they make a profit on every Nook they sell and as such their main concern is almost certainly that there's an ebook that is guaranteed to make it convenient to buy from them. And it seems to work, I buy most of my ebooks from them because they're the most convenient. The only times I don't are if I find an especially good price elsewhere or I can find the book DRM free.
I haven't tried it, but supposedly you can install a custom firmware to a MicroSD card and run it without touching the main system firmware if you like.
Indeed, after tax, my Thinkpad was just a bit north of $600 and much, much better hardware. Sure it would be nice sometimes, to be able to turn the screen around and use it as a tablet, but most of the time I really need a keyboard, and after you buy an iPad and a keyboard you might as well just buy a proper laptop.
Or a somewhat less expensive laptop and a Nook or Kindle.
That's a little bit of an exaggeration. I'd personally say Quake rather than Doom as Quake implemented a few necessities like rooms being stacked and enemies that were sector based.
The biggest thing to happen since then is the implementation of levels that aren't just head for the exit switch.
They do in certain areas. As do we in the US in certain areas. It's just that those areas aren't really aligned,nor do they necessarily always make sense rationally.
Many of their magazines would get me sued for sexual harassment if I was caught reading on the job.
Sprint customer service pissed me off, but the coverage around here is easily the best in my experience. I rarely if ever had a dropped call and I was getting bars where none of the other folks were getting bars. Considering I'm living in Seattle and there are portions of the city without any coverage from AT&T at all, I think it bodes poorly if the DoJ ultimately backs off.
With stadiums it's generally an honest, if incorrect belief, whereas in this case, I'm pretty sure they know that it's not going to happen. They're not going to need as many employees to do the work and consequently I can't imagine how this wouldn't result in massive layoffs. Beyond that, I have a really hard time believing that they'll keep prices lower when Verizon and Sprint need to merge to remain competitive.
And let's be honest, AT&T service sucks, and it has sucked for a number of years, and quite frankly it isn't getting any better.
Indeed, I ended up with AT&T following AT&T's purchase of Cingular. The service went down the crapper pretty much over night. Service still hasn't recovered to what it was when Cingular was providing the service.
This is a bit like the 3 or so acquisitions of my parents' cable account before they ditched cable for DirecTV, each cable provider was worse than the previous one and the cost sky rocketed even as there was no meaningful improvement in the selection of programming provided.
I predict that if the DoJ does ultimately give the OK that Sprint will file its own antitrust suit against AT&T to block the merger. Ultimately, they'd almost certainly win, the only conclusion one can make is that there would be reduced competition. Whether prices and service suffers as a result would largely be rendered moot by the decrease from 4 to 3 and possibly 2 when Sprint can no longer compete with both AT&T and Verizon.
That's one of the problems right there. There's no teeth in the promises that corporations make. At a minimum they should be broken up if they fail to comply with the terms of the agreement.
Care to provide an actual credible citation? The numbers that back my assertion are from precisely the same studies as the numbers that are deemed accurate enough to justify accusing men at large of committing domestic violence at a rate sufficient to call it an epidemic. If they're reliable enough when it's aimed at men, then why precisely are those same studies unreliable when women start to look bad?
Unlikely, most folks don't realize that they're being indoctrinated. Chances are that you didn't know that the women's rights lectures were actually propaganda that were filled with half truths and outright lies.
Those are credible sources and I have other ones. The sort of ignorance you're displaying is not uncommon, unfortunately, nor is it unexpected.
It's a bit over the top, but it's completely true.
Rape, sexual abuse, domestic violence, cancer, homelessness, those are all things for which society provides resources above and beyond what men receive. In the case of domestic violence, it's especially egregious seeing as women make up a full half of all abusers and yet are rarely targeted by public awareness campaigns.
What's worse is that schools are continuing to indoctrinate men with the notion that they are in some fashion inferior to women and that they are less valuable than women are.
You'd be surprised. There's a surprising number of people that will hand that information over to Israeli agents that would never do so to American agents. Additionally, neither the CIA nor the FBI would be willing to assassinate a couple nobodies just to collect that information.
Believe it or not, a car is a necessity in much of the US if you want to have a job. And you can thank the people that fight against the taxes necessary to properly fund mass transit for that. We've got a good system in general around here, but there are times during the week when one can't find a bus anywhere.
Wow, let me bask in the glow of your self entitlement.
Social justice means recognizing that all men were not born with equal opportunity. It's a notion which conservatives tend to ignore, but the reality is that a person growing up poor, black and let's say blind is not going to have the same road to prosperity that somebody that's born black and sighted or black, sighted and rich wil.
Social justice recognizes that anybody can fall on hard times, no matter how careful they are, and that there's dignity in all humans.
Just because you're lucky enough not to have to worry about such things does not mean that you have any more right to them than anybody else does. I've seen the folks that work janitorial and in kitchens and chances are good that they work harder than you do for less.
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Given that there are no ages discrimination laws to protect younger workers, I can't blame them for being somewhat suspicious of older workers. Especially considering that age does not guarantee that a person has more to contribute. The simple fact is that once a worker gets to be 40, it can be really hard to get rid of them due to age discrimination legislation. Whereas younger workers have to work harder because there is no protection or job security.
It depends on your major, doing science and math for my undergrad the books would typically start at $90 or so and go up. But when I went back for my TESL, I think the most expensive book wast $90 and most of them were quite a bit less.
That's a fair point, but Cyanogenmod offers better security. Some apps will FC if you restrict their permissions, but it's an option.
Yeah, and they're policy of allowing me to download all my data is preventing me from moving it somewhere else.
If you're not going to tell us what it is, perhaps linking to something that does would be in order.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_App_Engine
It's interesting that you're suggesting that Amazon is building on the B&N model when B&N didn't release Nook until well after Amazon released Kindle.
In terms of B&N, they make a profit on every Nook they sell and as such their main concern is almost certainly that there's an ebook that is guaranteed to make it convenient to buy from them. And it seems to work, I buy most of my ebooks from them because they're the most convenient. The only times I don't are if I find an especially good price elsewhere or I can find the book DRM free.
I haven't tried it, but supposedly you can install a custom firmware to a MicroSD card and run it without touching the main system firmware if you like.
http://nookdevs.com/Softroot
Indeed, after tax, my Thinkpad was just a bit north of $600 and much, much better hardware. Sure it would be nice sometimes, to be able to turn the screen around and use it as a tablet, but most of the time I really need a keyboard, and after you buy an iPad and a keyboard you might as well just buy a proper laptop.
Or a somewhat less expensive laptop and a Nook or Kindle.
To be fair, they do the degrading themselves, the dehumanizing is just wishful thinking.
Yes, but no more so than a pro-lifer.
Now if only we could develop some sort of device for changing history, we could go back and make sure he doesn't give us any ideas.
That's a little bit of an exaggeration. I'd personally say Quake rather than Doom as Quake implemented a few necessities like rooms being stacked and enemies that were sector based.
The biggest thing to happen since then is the implementation of levels that aren't just head for the exit switch.
They do in certain areas. As do we in the US in certain areas. It's just that those areas aren't really aligned,nor do they necessarily always make sense rationally.
Many of their magazines would get me sued for sexual harassment if I was caught reading on the job.
I find that if I allow myself to use cheats during the first play through that invariably I never get back to completing the game without cheats.
The lack of ammo in these games for most weapons is why I didn't really mind DNF having the weapon limit on launch.
Sprint customer service pissed me off, but the coverage around here is easily the best in my experience. I rarely if ever had a dropped call and I was getting bars where none of the other folks were getting bars. Considering I'm living in Seattle and there are portions of the city without any coverage from AT&T at all, I think it bodes poorly if the DoJ ultimately backs off.
With stadiums it's generally an honest, if incorrect belief, whereas in this case, I'm pretty sure they know that it's not going to happen. They're not going to need as many employees to do the work and consequently I can't imagine how this wouldn't result in massive layoffs. Beyond that, I have a really hard time believing that they'll keep prices lower when Verizon and Sprint need to merge to remain competitive.
And let's be honest, AT&T service sucks, and it has sucked for a number of years, and quite frankly it isn't getting any better.
Indeed, I ended up with AT&T following AT&T's purchase of Cingular. The service went down the crapper pretty much over night. Service still hasn't recovered to what it was when Cingular was providing the service.
This is a bit like the 3 or so acquisitions of my parents' cable account before they ditched cable for DirecTV, each cable provider was worse than the previous one and the cost sky rocketed even as there was no meaningful improvement in the selection of programming provided.
I predict that if the DoJ does ultimately give the OK that Sprint will file its own antitrust suit against AT&T to block the merger. Ultimately, they'd almost certainly win, the only conclusion one can make is that there would be reduced competition. Whether prices and service suffers as a result would largely be rendered moot by the decrease from 4 to 3 and possibly 2 when Sprint can no longer compete with both AT&T and Verizon.
That's one of the problems right there. There's no teeth in the promises that corporations make. At a minimum they should be broken up if they fail to comply with the terms of the agreement.
Care to provide an actual credible citation? The numbers that back my assertion are from precisely the same studies as the numbers that are deemed accurate enough to justify accusing men at large of committing domestic violence at a rate sufficient to call it an epidemic. If they're reliable enough when it's aimed at men, then why precisely are those same studies unreliable when women start to look bad?
Unlikely, most folks don't realize that they're being indoctrinated. Chances are that you didn't know that the women's rights lectures were actually propaganda that were filled with half truths and outright lies.
Those are credible sources and I have other ones. The sort of ignorance you're displaying is not uncommon, unfortunately, nor is it unexpected.
It's a bit over the top, but it's completely true.
Rape, sexual abuse, domestic violence, cancer, homelessness, those are all things for which society provides resources above and beyond what men receive. In the case of domestic violence, it's especially egregious seeing as women make up a full half of all abusers and yet are rarely targeted by public awareness campaigns.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSPAT97046720080520
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2013743521_domesticviolence26.html
What's worse is that schools are continuing to indoctrinate men with the notion that they are in some fashion inferior to women and that they are less valuable than women are.
You'd be surprised. There's a surprising number of people that will hand that information over to Israeli agents that would never do so to American agents. Additionally, neither the CIA nor the FBI would be willing to assassinate a couple nobodies just to collect that information.
Believe it or not, a car is a necessity in much of the US if you want to have a job. And you can thank the people that fight against the taxes necessary to properly fund mass transit for that. We've got a good system in general around here, but there are times during the week when one can't find a bus anywhere.
Wow, let me bask in the glow of your self entitlement.
Social justice means recognizing that all men were not born with equal opportunity. It's a notion which conservatives tend to ignore, but the reality is that a person growing up poor, black and let's say blind is not going to have the same road to prosperity that somebody that's born black and sighted or black, sighted and rich wil.
Social justice recognizes that anybody can fall on hard times, no matter how careful they are, and that there's dignity in all humans.
Just because you're lucky enough not to have to worry about such things does not mean that you have any more right to them than anybody else does. I've seen the folks that work janitorial and in kitchens and chances are good that they work harder than you do for less.