I think you're too pessimistic. The "Do Not Call" list was effective in stopping telemarketers, even though they are not required to obey that list if they are outside the US. This "Do Not Track" header could be similarly effective.
I think that's the problem. It would cut down on the tracking by more or less legitimate firms, but it wouldn't do anything about the ones that are offshore and lacking in scruples.
And the offshore ones are the ones causing the biggest headaches at present with spam.
Yes, but at some point if you're lucky the audience takes ownership of it. Very few writers ever write anything that the audience takes on to that extent. George Lucas going back and screwing with it was a bad idea for that reason. It left an entire generation of film goers upset over him revising their experience.
If you're lucky enough to have anything adopted like that for the love of God leave it alone.
I tried watching the second one and was literally unable to do it. The problem that people had with the other movies is that the Wachowski brothers grossly misinterpreted what made the original movie work. If you're equating it to pop-philosophy then you've got no basis for assessing the work.
The original was surprisingly deep as far as films go. The Matrix itself was a MacGuffin to keep the plot going and to establish the motivations and the freaky physics. The mystery and the puzzle about what one was seeing is largely what made the whole thing work.
The problem with 2 and 3 is that they didn't understand what made the original one work and hence you got that unwatchable dribble in the second movie.
I was able to sit through the other 2 Star Wars movies in the original trilogy and the entire new trilogy without any trouble. I gave up on that second Matrix movie after about 15 minutes because it was unwatchable dribble and exceedingly dull.
That's the thing, if they hadn't taken the characters from the Matrix and put it in it wouldn't have been anywhere near as good. The original worked on more than just the strength of the amazing effects, there was an interesting philosophy to the movie and a lot of mystery.
The other two films shouldn't have been released with the same name and characters. I tried watching the second one and gave up after what seemed like ages because absolutely nothing was happening. And in retrospect I'm glad I gave up because I've heard those movies go a long ways toward ruining the original movie.
No, the problem was that the reason why everything in the first movie was so cool, was that it was mysterious and it was the result of the matrix. After the 1st movie when Neo manages to figure out his gift they didn't really leave themselves any room for sequels. Basically they wrote themselves out of a series and then tried to continue anyways.
Good writers tend to leave the door open in some fashion for a sequel, which is almost inevitable in most cases, in this case though they managed to slam the door shut.
That being said, I haven't bothered to watch either of the last two movies because they're not legitimate matrix movies. They use the same characters and effects, but with Neo winning in the first movie there's no way for the series to continue without resorting to something really lame.
It is expensive, but it's not that expensive. A significant portion of the money goes to tell people what they want to buy. You could easily cut that out and just spend it on more groups. There's little reason for high price music videos other than demonstrating that you've got a bit of an insecurity about your dick.
Which is the problem. The Palestinian Authority also has the right to exist, assuming that it can do so peaceably. The view by zealots on both sides that anything other than a 2 state solution or one in which both groups share the same nation is possible is just plain fantasy.
They lived like that for a long time until the balance was upset by outsiders.
The only thing in that which is even the slightest bit shocking is that the Israelis know Lieberman to be full of it.
I think most Israelis know that building settlements in the disputed territories isn't helping the cause of piece and is certainly provoking further attacks. I think they also realize that unnecessary provocation isn't going to serve their interests in the long term. Whether they're more aware of that or scared of the FUD is not something I have any clue about.
If the French had left helping us out at that or continued to be civil we likely wouldn't. But we've had to contend with their collective ego ever since. Then when it didn't end when we liberated them after WWII it just got more ingrained.
The whole thing is kind of silly, but it's not like they're banging down our door demanding to be friendly with us.
I suspect they would, but as long as they aren't US funded rocks, that's really their own business. What does bother me is that they're using US provided weapons in the pursuit of making the ultimate asses out of themselves.
Neither party is clean in all this, but if they really are that dead set on having at it, they can do it without our help.
That would be fraud. It's not really an accident if you clicked it on purpose, and whether or not it was an accident you don't have the authorization to keep billing. It's not unreasonable for a customer to expect that after having said no twice that the next step is actually cancelling the service. If even that many times.
Please explain to me how this is suppose to work where the "rich" supposedly are not paying their fair share. I am not saying the distribution of earnings in the US is a good/perfect thing. I do think everyone still has a chance to make more money and own their own business today, if they are willing to work hard and take the risks required.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on this. They don't do the work, it's the employees that do, it is an exceedingly rare person who ends up rich without having others do the actual work. Bill Gates, didn't become massively wealthy without the help of a good number of employees.
The reason why the upper classes get called out for being stingy is that they are. They benefit more from society not dissolving and from the opportunities provided so they should pay more. That line of reasoning goes all the way back to the Greeks.
You forgot the step where you have to curse the CRS out in order for them to acknowledge that you told them to quit. I remember spending a full half an hour on the phone with one of them people before I had the bright idea to just curse him out for being a liar and a general son of a bitch. I'd told him several times that I wasn't interested in continuing to subscribe.
To be fair, they have yet to invent a razor that actually gives me a decent shave. And until they hit that point there's a legitimate reason to keep coming up with better designs.
The term you're looking for is fraud. I remember trying out their music service and being billed for things that I didn't want or need. And each time I'd call them they'd magically find other options. I ended up having to curse out the customer retention specialist before they'd accept that I wanted to be disconnected. Stupid prick made all sorts of distortions to try to scare me into staying.
What you do in cases like that is report it to the Attorney General's office. While they can charge you whether or not you're using it, they can't generally charge you for something that you can't possibly use and definitely not without proving that it was signed up for by the party paying the bill.
A submission to ISO definitely isn't a request for standardization. I think we settled that with that whole debacle over MS' entry into the open document niche. They said themselves that they prefer to allow the market to decide. Which is just a fancy way of saying that they aren't a standards organization.
A standards organization that allows competing standards to battle it out is completely worthless in that respect. They're supposed to pick winners and losers otherwise you don't get an interoperable standard.
pain, lane, feign: again, same sound different spelling
Not to be nitpicky, but in standard American English again does not fit with that patter, it's pronounced roughly similar to the ending of mountain.
Not that I'm griping too much, because your post is spot on. It's really not that much more work to get people to recognize which homophone it is just because you collapse the spellings down to something reasonable.
It's not possible to completely ignore phonetics, more likely it was mostly pushed to the back burner. It's not possible to learn to read and genuinely avoid phonetics to that degree. Because at some point you're going to have to know how to translate the written word into sounds and vice versa and to date nobody has ever figured out how to genuinely eliminate phonetics from the process. Some have managed to minimize it, but nobody has managed to completely eliminate it.
The problem is that you need a bit of phonetics in order to read, but after you've had the basics, a proper whole language program is really the way to go. As in once you can decode the words enough to identify the word, then you're supposed to start reading real texts. As in text that is appropriate to that stage of development but real text. Basically pared down vocabulary and with mainly simple sentence constructs.
One of the problems with education is that there's a lot of stuff being passed off as reliable, when there's maybe a handful of studies and often times they're not represented accurately.
You might want to look that one up. Ironic does indeed mean "coincidental" if you're going to complain about people's dubious grasp on language, it might make sense for you to look it up before looking like a dumb ass.
I suppose you're also one of those people who refuses to acknowledge that literally also means virtually. As in I run into him literally all the time.
It wasn't that long ago that homophone substitution as your main spelling mistake would qualify you to be a judge. However, when you start going beyond that and doing too much abbreviation you end up in a position where you may as well not be writing anything, because it's not really English anymore. And same goes for abbreviations in other languages. It might work well as a replacement for shorthand, but it isn't a reliable form of conveying information.
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I think you're too pessimistic. The "Do Not Call" list was effective in stopping telemarketers, even though they are not required to obey that list if they are outside the US. This "Do Not Track" header could be similarly effective.
I think that's the problem. It would cut down on the tracking by more or less legitimate firms, but it wouldn't do anything about the ones that are offshore and lacking in scruples.
And the offshore ones are the ones causing the biggest headaches at present with spam.
You just wait while they finish the script for Bill & Ted 3: Bill & Ted go to Aurora Illinois.
Yes, but at some point if you're lucky the audience takes ownership of it. Very few writers ever write anything that the audience takes on to that extent. George Lucas going back and screwing with it was a bad idea for that reason. It left an entire generation of film goers upset over him revising their experience.
If you're lucky enough to have anything adopted like that for the love of God leave it alone.
I tried watching the second one and was literally unable to do it. The problem that people had with the other movies is that the Wachowski brothers grossly misinterpreted what made the original movie work. If you're equating it to pop-philosophy then you've got no basis for assessing the work.
The original was surprisingly deep as far as films go. The Matrix itself was a MacGuffin to keep the plot going and to establish the motivations and the freaky physics. The mystery and the puzzle about what one was seeing is largely what made the whole thing work.
The problem with 2 and 3 is that they didn't understand what made the original one work and hence you got that unwatchable dribble in the second movie.
I was able to sit through the other 2 Star Wars movies in the original trilogy and the entire new trilogy without any trouble. I gave up on that second Matrix movie after about 15 minutes because it was unwatchable dribble and exceedingly dull.
That's the thing, if they hadn't taken the characters from the Matrix and put it in it wouldn't have been anywhere near as good. The original worked on more than just the strength of the amazing effects, there was an interesting philosophy to the movie and a lot of mystery.
The other two films shouldn't have been released with the same name and characters. I tried watching the second one and gave up after what seemed like ages because absolutely nothing was happening. And in retrospect I'm glad I gave up because I've heard those movies go a long ways toward ruining the original movie.
No, the problem was that the reason why everything in the first movie was so cool, was that it was mysterious and it was the result of the matrix. After the 1st movie when Neo manages to figure out his gift they didn't really leave themselves any room for sequels. Basically they wrote themselves out of a series and then tried to continue anyways.
Good writers tend to leave the door open in some fashion for a sequel, which is almost inevitable in most cases, in this case though they managed to slam the door shut.
That being said, I haven't bothered to watch either of the last two movies because they're not legitimate matrix movies. They use the same characters and effects, but with Neo winning in the first movie there's no way for the series to continue without resorting to something really lame.
It is expensive, but it's not that expensive. A significant portion of the money goes to tell people what they want to buy. You could easily cut that out and just spend it on more groups. There's little reason for high price music videos other than demonstrating that you've got a bit of an insecurity about your dick.
Which is the problem. The Palestinian Authority also has the right to exist, assuming that it can do so peaceably. The view by zealots on both sides that anything other than a 2 state solution or one in which both groups share the same nation is possible is just plain fantasy.
They lived like that for a long time until the balance was upset by outsiders.
The only thing in that which is even the slightest bit shocking is that the Israelis know Lieberman to be full of it.
I think most Israelis know that building settlements in the disputed territories isn't helping the cause of piece and is certainly provoking further attacks. I think they also realize that unnecessary provocation isn't going to serve their interests in the long term. Whether they're more aware of that or scared of the FUD is not something I have any clue about.
If the French had left helping us out at that or continued to be civil we likely wouldn't. But we've had to contend with their collective ego ever since. Then when it didn't end when we liberated them after WWII it just got more ingrained.
The whole thing is kind of silly, but it's not like they're banging down our door demanding to be friendly with us.
I suspect they would, but as long as they aren't US funded rocks, that's really their own business. What does bother me is that they're using US provided weapons in the pursuit of making the ultimate asses out of themselves.
Neither party is clean in all this, but if they really are that dead set on having at it, they can do it without our help.
That would be fraud. It's not really an accident if you clicked it on purpose, and whether or not it was an accident you don't have the authorization to keep billing. It's not unreasonable for a customer to expect that after having said no twice that the next step is actually cancelling the service. If even that many times.
Please explain to me how this is suppose to work where the "rich" supposedly are not paying their fair share. I am not saying the distribution of earnings in the US is a good/perfect thing. I do think everyone still has a chance to make more money and own their own business today, if they are willing to work hard and take the risks required.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on this. They don't do the work, it's the employees that do, it is an exceedingly rare person who ends up rich without having others do the actual work. Bill Gates, didn't become massively wealthy without the help of a good number of employees.
.1% or so also make double what the other 99.9% make combined. http://earthblognews.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/income-distribution-in-america/
The reason why the upper classes get called out for being stingy is that they are. They benefit more from society not dissolving and from the opportunities provided so they should pay more. That line of reasoning goes all the way back to the Greeks.
Sure they pay 38% more taxes than the rest, but the top
You forgot the step where you have to curse the CRS out in order for them to acknowledge that you told them to quit. I remember spending a full half an hour on the phone with one of them people before I had the bright idea to just curse him out for being a liar and a general son of a bitch. I'd told him several times that I wasn't interested in continuing to subscribe.
To be fair, they have yet to invent a razor that actually gives me a decent shave. And until they hit that point there's a legitimate reason to keep coming up with better designs.
The term you're looking for is fraud. I remember trying out their music service and being billed for things that I didn't want or need. And each time I'd call them they'd magically find other options. I ended up having to curse out the customer retention specialist before they'd accept that I wanted to be disconnected. Stupid prick made all sorts of distortions to try to scare me into staying.
What you do in cases like that is report it to the Attorney General's office. While they can charge you whether or not you're using it, they can't generally charge you for something that you can't possibly use and definitely not without proving that it was signed up for by the party paying the bill.
A submission to ISO definitely isn't a request for standardization. I think we settled that with that whole debacle over MS' entry into the open document niche. They said themselves that they prefer to allow the market to decide. Which is just a fancy way of saying that they aren't a standards organization.
A standards organization that allows competing standards to battle it out is completely worthless in that respect. They're supposed to pick winners and losers otherwise you don't get an interoperable standard.
pain, lane, feign: again, same sound different spelling
Not to be nitpicky, but in standard American English again does not fit with that patter, it's pronounced roughly similar to the ending of mountain.
Not that I'm griping too much, because your post is spot on. It's really not that much more work to get people to recognize which homophone it is just because you collapse the spellings down to something reasonable.
It's not possible to completely ignore phonetics, more likely it was mostly pushed to the back burner. It's not possible to learn to read and genuinely avoid phonetics to that degree. Because at some point you're going to have to know how to translate the written word into sounds and vice versa and to date nobody has ever figured out how to genuinely eliminate phonetics from the process. Some have managed to minimize it, but nobody has managed to completely eliminate it.
The problem is that you need a bit of phonetics in order to read, but after you've had the basics, a proper whole language program is really the way to go. As in once you can decode the words enough to identify the word, then you're supposed to start reading real texts. As in text that is appropriate to that stage of development but real text. Basically pared down vocabulary and with mainly simple sentence constructs.
One of the problems with education is that there's a lot of stuff being passed off as reliable, when there's maybe a handful of studies and often times they're not represented accurately.
Given that he doesn't know what ironic means, I'm not so sure that he really knows that it's wrong. He might just have stumbled on it.
You might want to look that one up. Ironic does indeed mean "coincidental" if you're going to complain about people's dubious grasp on language, it might make sense for you to look it up before looking like a dumb ass.
I suppose you're also one of those people who refuses to acknowledge that literally also means virtually. As in I run into him literally all the time.
It wasn't that long ago that homophone substitution as your main spelling mistake would qualify you to be a judge. However, when you start going beyond that and doing too much abbreviation you end up in a position where you may as well not be writing anything, because it's not really English anymore. And same goes for abbreviations in other languages. It might work well as a replacement for shorthand, but it isn't a reliable form of conveying information.