Some may, but most don't. And the ones that do are usually out in the country away from the other drivers.
The main point of cars is to get from Point A to Point B. Some people do enjoy driving, but I have yet to find anybody for whom driving in traffic is something they find to be enjoyable.
I think a car analogy is in order. It's like if you had the choice between sitting in traffic cursing out the idiots around you, or could use that time to check up on email or read a book.
Ignorant people like you are why we can't have nice things. Bottom line is that socialism is about running government to better the people. Fascism is a combination of xenophobia, nationalism, FUD and corporatism, and it's not really healthy in any dose.
Not the same place, but close enough. There's a ton of places within a half mile of each other in urban areas. If one can't walk a quarter mile, then one needs to get some more exercise and deal with their pathetic body. I know that some folks with disabilities aren't so lucky, but ignoring them you can still make a huge difference.
The point of congestion pricing is that it encourages either carpooling or delaying the trip until off peak times. Adding additional capacity to the roads, just ensures that more people will use the roads.
Ultimately, you need to take vehicles off the road, and this kind of bullshit doesn't help that.
It's not bullshit. You greatly underestimate the cost of having employees there regardless of whether there are any sales. The store shelf space itself is rather expensive and things sit there regardless of whether or not anything sells.
Sure, it cost a pretty penny, but you're greatly underestimating the cost of just having a shop where people show up to browse. If people buy things there it's not such a big deal, but why should retailers stay in business if they're just providing show room space for online retailers.
Umm, carpooling and congestion charges both work. Ultimately, unless you force people to not leave their home, people still need to go to work, and there aren't very many options available for dealing with that.
The problem there is that it costs a lot of money to have items on a retail shelf. One of the main reasons why online retailers can be so inexpensive, is that they don't have retail space, they put up the photos and have a warehouse.
It makes no sense for them to pay for staff to answer questions and store shelf space, just to serve as a show room for goods being sold for less by online retailers.
In general I don't have much sympathy for poorly run retailers, but in this case, it's a perfectly legitimate complaint to make.
It's not true. I remember when the tax cuts were going out 10 or so years ago, and what you're saying isn't true. The largest tax cuts went to the people with the most money, and the difference wasn't even close. If what you're saying is true, it's purely because we've allowed wealth to accumulate in a tiny number of households.
It's not the same thing. The states generally already have taxes that cover the operations of businesses, what they don't have is a good way of collecting taxes on purchases made by consumers buying from out of state businesses.
These businesses generally pay things like property tax and Business and Operations tax, and various other taxes that pay for the resources they use in the state. However, many states with an income tax also have a use tax which covers the costs that residents represent to the state.
I'm not a particular fan of sales tax, but allowing businesses to all locate themselves where the taxes are the lowest on their business just means that states with higher sales tax have to find that revenue elsewhere. And the place they located it might be even less appealing.
In the past this might have represented an undue burden on businesses, but this is the 21st century, we have computers and databases and even if a business can't do it themselves, I'm sure that contractors can handle that for an affordable sum of money. Being located online is already a substantial advantage over brick and mortar retail establishments, we don't need to give them an additional 9% discount over the in state stores.
Right, because fascists are such cute and cuddly people.If you're too stupid to understand that, then do us all a favor and don't vote and don't breed.
Because god forbid that the government do something nice for us.
And where's the money to develop new versions coming from? They have to find ways of forcing people to upgrade to pay for the development cost. This way they don't have to think as much about older versions as they can just render them obsolete knowing that everybody will be updating.
For professional users a subscription makes a lot of sense, I'm just baffled as to why they aren't leaving the amateurs alone here. That being said, I wouldn't necessarily mind paying for a software subscription if I got to keep the most recent version that was released during the term of the contract. For expensive software that could be a win for everybody.
A large part of the problem with those services is that they suck. Netflix's streaming library is still tiny compared with it's disc library, but the cost is the same. It blew my mind that people weren't going to be outraged by the change to online only for the same price as the disc service.
Similarly for Hulu, you have to watch ads either way, subscription gets you the ability to watch some of it on your TV, and programs may well still be delayed, unless you're a subscriber to one of the partner TV providers. And in some cases the delay can be up to a month.
If there are ads, then what's the point of it? I can already hook youtube up to a TV, I'm not sure what the point of a subscription rate is if I'm going to have to see ads anways.
OTOH, at $2 a month, at least it isn't as expensive as Hulu that makes you watch ads on most stuff and holds back programming until it's not as useful to watch anymore.
Most likely the easy availability of acetaminophen is what contributes to it's use for suicide attempts. That and the poor understanding of what it actually does in large concentrations. Because of the damage it does to the liver, it can destroy the liver even in cases where people manage to survive the OD and ultimately kill later on if there isn't a liver available for transplant.
I still don't understand why acetaminophen is legal for sale, given the danger and the fact that it doesn't seem to do crap for pain. I'm guessing the reason for this result is the same as the alleged result for pain, that it's just a big fat placebo.
To an extent statistics are valuable, however it's difficult to establish what to track with any certainty. Prior to 9/11 it wouldn't have occurred to anybody to track flight schools for possible terrorists as the worst cases previously were flights to Cuba and generally the pilot was trained to just voluntarily make the trip to keep people safe.
OTOH, we do know that things like building height, clear line of site and lighting do correlate with local crime rates and making the conditions that commonly accompany crime less does often times have positive results on making crime harder to commit.
The problem is that you have to store and process all of that data. And much of that data isn't in a form that the computer system can process. Which means that they're storing tons of data that they'll never be able to use, or will at most be able to use it after they've determined whom to arrest. But, in terms of prevention, which is what safety is about, it doesn't do you any real good.
Remember that statistics can talk about populations accurately, but if you try and take that description and apply it to individuals, there's no guarantee at all that the description is accurate.
Sort of, the right seems to care more about their right to bear arms than to rights that are actually meaningful in day to day life. If we ever get to the point where private ownership of firearms is going to make a difference, we've got more serious problems on our hands.
Focusing on things like real trials rather than show trials and actually having an independent judiciary would make a much larger difference in the long run.
Perhaps it's time that changed. I've regularly had problems setting passwords online because I can't see what the system thinks I've typed into the box. So, I type something and after it hits the end of the box and starts scrolling I have no way of knowing if it's truncating my input.
At least if I'm seeing the text, I know that it's only accepted X digits without having to guess if there are more * appearing in the field.
If they think they need root on individual boxes, but not on all of them, the solution is usually to educate them and then to properly set up the system.
Most of the time when I hear people claiming they need root, they don't need root. It's just that they need to do one thing or another that defaults to requiring root. If you properly set up the system, you don't have to give them root for them to be able to do their jobs, usually you can just set it up to permit them to mount a CDROM or whatever it is.
Giving out root willy-nilly just makes it harder to maintain the system and doesn't normally make their jobs any easier.
I'm sorry, but that is not a common ability that you're likely to encounter in the workforce. And generally service numbers aren't random anyways. They may appear to be random, but they're not, usually they're designed around a scheme that's only meaningful to people who use those numbers on a regular basis.
There's little or no point in masking the password. Unless you're choosing stupid passwords or having a huge number of chances to guess the password it's not going to make much of a difference. With a properly 10-20 character password that's actually mostly random people are not going to guess that based upon seeing it one time. At least not without them having some sort of savant ability to memorize random strings of characters.
Checkbox or hotkey doesn't really make much difference, either way it should be optional.
How often do you install or reinstall your OS in front of a crowd?
What's more if you're setting individual admin passwords at install time you're doing it wrong. There's tools and techniques for dealing with this sort of thing that would be much more time efficient. Perhaps focusing on the real issue that you're not doing it right would be more efficient than demanding that everybody else suffer because you can't be bothered to set up deployment tools correctly.
During the install process you're probably alone. I can't recall ever having done an install at the local coffee shop or on the bus. And during the install process is a good time to actually see the password.
The rest of the time though, it should be a hotkey as there's no point in masking the password if there's nobody in the room with you, I suppose there might be cameras, but if you're in public you should be assuming that somebody is looking over your shoulder. Even TrueCrypt offers the ability to unmask the passphrase if you wish.
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Some may, but most don't. And the ones that do are usually out in the country away from the other drivers.
The main point of cars is to get from Point A to Point B. Some people do enjoy driving, but I have yet to find anybody for whom driving in traffic is something they find to be enjoyable.
I think a car analogy is in order. It's like if you had the choice between sitting in traffic cursing out the idiots around you, or could use that time to check up on email or read a book.
No, they're effectively polar opposites.
Ignorant people like you are why we can't have nice things. Bottom line is that socialism is about running government to better the people. Fascism is a combination of xenophobia, nationalism, FUD and corporatism, and it's not really healthy in any dose.
Not the same place, but close enough. There's a ton of places within a half mile of each other in urban areas. If one can't walk a quarter mile, then one needs to get some more exercise and deal with their pathetic body. I know that some folks with disabilities aren't so lucky, but ignoring them you can still make a huge difference.
This is stupid.
The point of congestion pricing is that it encourages either carpooling or delaying the trip until off peak times. Adding additional capacity to the roads, just ensures that more people will use the roads.
Ultimately, you need to take vehicles off the road, and this kind of bullshit doesn't help that.
It's not bullshit. You greatly underestimate the cost of having employees there regardless of whether there are any sales. The store shelf space itself is rather expensive and things sit there regardless of whether or not anything sells.
Sure, it cost a pretty penny, but you're greatly underestimating the cost of just having a shop where people show up to browse. If people buy things there it's not such a big deal, but why should retailers stay in business if they're just providing show room space for online retailers.
Umm, carpooling and congestion charges both work. Ultimately, unless you force people to not leave their home, people still need to go to work, and there aren't very many options available for dealing with that.
The problem there is that it costs a lot of money to have items on a retail shelf. One of the main reasons why online retailers can be so inexpensive, is that they don't have retail space, they put up the photos and have a warehouse.
It makes no sense for them to pay for staff to answer questions and store shelf space, just to serve as a show room for goods being sold for less by online retailers.
In general I don't have much sympathy for poorly run retailers, but in this case, it's a perfectly legitimate complaint to make.
It's not true. I remember when the tax cuts were going out 10 or so years ago, and what you're saying isn't true. The largest tax cuts went to the people with the most money, and the difference wasn't even close. If what you're saying is true, it's purely because we've allowed wealth to accumulate in a tiny number of households.
It's not the same thing. The states generally already have taxes that cover the operations of businesses, what they don't have is a good way of collecting taxes on purchases made by consumers buying from out of state businesses.
These businesses generally pay things like property tax and Business and Operations tax, and various other taxes that pay for the resources they use in the state. However, many states with an income tax also have a use tax which covers the costs that residents represent to the state.
I'm not a particular fan of sales tax, but allowing businesses to all locate themselves where the taxes are the lowest on their business just means that states with higher sales tax have to find that revenue elsewhere. And the place they located it might be even less appealing.
In the past this might have represented an undue burden on businesses, but this is the 21st century, we have computers and databases and even if a business can't do it themselves, I'm sure that contractors can handle that for an affordable sum of money. Being located online is already a substantial advantage over brick and mortar retail establishments, we don't need to give them an additional 9% discount over the in state stores.
Right, because fascists are such cute and cuddly people.If you're too stupid to understand that, then do us all a favor and don't vote and don't breed.
Because god forbid that the government do something nice for us.
Well, I believe that you're not a very good troll.
And where's the money to develop new versions coming from? They have to find ways of forcing people to upgrade to pay for the development cost. This way they don't have to think as much about older versions as they can just render them obsolete knowing that everybody will be updating.
For professional users a subscription makes a lot of sense, I'm just baffled as to why they aren't leaving the amateurs alone here. That being said, I wouldn't necessarily mind paying for a software subscription if I got to keep the most recent version that was released during the term of the contract. For expensive software that could be a win for everybody.
I'm pretty sure they've got it right. Those things would likely make you less unfriendly and a bit more socially acceptable.
A large part of the problem with those services is that they suck. Netflix's streaming library is still tiny compared with it's disc library, but the cost is the same. It blew my mind that people weren't going to be outraged by the change to online only for the same price as the disc service.
Similarly for Hulu, you have to watch ads either way, subscription gets you the ability to watch some of it on your TV, and programs may well still be delayed, unless you're a subscriber to one of the partner TV providers. And in some cases the delay can be up to a month.
If there are ads, then what's the point of it? I can already hook youtube up to a TV, I'm not sure what the point of a subscription rate is if I'm going to have to see ads anways.
OTOH, at $2 a month, at least it isn't as expensive as Hulu that makes you watch ads on most stuff and holds back programming until it's not as useful to watch anymore.
Most likely the easy availability of acetaminophen is what contributes to it's use for suicide attempts. That and the poor understanding of what it actually does in large concentrations. Because of the damage it does to the liver, it can destroy the liver even in cases where people manage to survive the OD and ultimately kill later on if there isn't a liver available for transplant.
I still don't understand why acetaminophen is legal for sale, given the danger and the fact that it doesn't seem to do crap for pain. I'm guessing the reason for this result is the same as the alleged result for pain, that it's just a big fat placebo.
To an extent statistics are valuable, however it's difficult to establish what to track with any certainty. Prior to 9/11 it wouldn't have occurred to anybody to track flight schools for possible terrorists as the worst cases previously were flights to Cuba and generally the pilot was trained to just voluntarily make the trip to keep people safe.
OTOH, we do know that things like building height, clear line of site and lighting do correlate with local crime rates and making the conditions that commonly accompany crime less does often times have positive results on making crime harder to commit.
The problem is that you have to store and process all of that data. And much of that data isn't in a form that the computer system can process. Which means that they're storing tons of data that they'll never be able to use, or will at most be able to use it after they've determined whom to arrest. But, in terms of prevention, which is what safety is about, it doesn't do you any real good.
Remember that statistics can talk about populations accurately, but if you try and take that description and apply it to individuals, there's no guarantee at all that the description is accurate.
Sort of, the right seems to care more about their right to bear arms than to rights that are actually meaningful in day to day life. If we ever get to the point where private ownership of firearms is going to make a difference, we've got more serious problems on our hands.
Focusing on things like real trials rather than show trials and actually having an independent judiciary would make a much larger difference in the long run.
Perhaps it's time that changed. I've regularly had problems setting passwords online because I can't see what the system thinks I've typed into the box. So, I type something and after it hits the end of the box and starts scrolling I have no way of knowing if it's truncating my input.
At least if I'm seeing the text, I know that it's only accepted X digits without having to guess if there are more * appearing in the field.
If they think they need root on individual boxes, but not on all of them, the solution is usually to educate them and then to properly set up the system.
Most of the time when I hear people claiming they need root, they don't need root. It's just that they need to do one thing or another that defaults to requiring root. If you properly set up the system, you don't have to give them root for them to be able to do their jobs, usually you can just set it up to permit them to mount a CDROM or whatever it is.
Giving out root willy-nilly just makes it harder to maintain the system and doesn't normally make their jobs any easier.
I'm sorry, but that is not a common ability that you're likely to encounter in the workforce. And generally service numbers aren't random anyways. They may appear to be random, but they're not, usually they're designed around a scheme that's only meaningful to people who use those numbers on a regular basis.
There's little or no point in masking the password. Unless you're choosing stupid passwords or having a huge number of chances to guess the password it's not going to make much of a difference. With a properly 10-20 character password that's actually mostly random people are not going to guess that based upon seeing it one time. At least not without them having some sort of savant ability to memorize random strings of characters.
Checkbox or hotkey doesn't really make much difference, either way it should be optional.
How often do you install or reinstall your OS in front of a crowd?
What's more if you're setting individual admin passwords at install time you're doing it wrong. There's tools and techniques for dealing with this sort of thing that would be much more time efficient. Perhaps focusing on the real issue that you're not doing it right would be more efficient than demanding that everybody else suffer because you can't be bothered to set up deployment tools correctly.
During the install process you're probably alone. I can't recall ever having done an install at the local coffee shop or on the bus. And during the install process is a good time to actually see the password.
The rest of the time though, it should be a hotkey as there's no point in masking the password if there's nobody in the room with you, I suppose there might be cameras, but if you're in public you should be assuming that somebody is looking over your shoulder. Even TrueCrypt offers the ability to unmask the passphrase if you wish.