Not at all. You see, if you have food, you can survive, and have to endure long waits without the Internet to keep you occupied/"productive". A purgatory, essentially.
If you have wifi, you can continue watching videos of other people's cats until you die peacefully of starvation.
Of course, the ideal situation is having both, where you can watch cat videos until you die from whatever food you bought at the airport cafeteria.
$100 000 per month estimated loss presumably is advertising revenue on page hits from links for those stories.
Forgive me, father, for I have RTFA:
According to Compete.com, IHT.com was getting over 1.5 million visitors/month before it shut down. If a third of those visitors were from search and direct old links, 500,000 visitors a month are hitting the dead end in the image above, instead of the page they were looking for. To buy that traffic from Google at $.20/click, you'd have to pay $100,000 a month.
So essentially, the "one analysis" says that if they wanted to buy the very-roughly-estimated traffic they hypothetically lost, it would cost them $100K to do so.
"They'd have to spend $100K to get the traffic they were before" is NOT the same as "they are losing $100K as a result of the lost traffic," which the "analysis" suggests.
Anyone at your office is against telecommuting? beat the shit out of them. They driving a hybrid instead of using real Green alternatives? Beat the shit out of them. a fully window office is wasted for the exeutive that is never there? Beat the shit out of him.
Interesting pattern. I wonder where it will go...
Officer arresting you for assault using single-use zip ties instead of reusable metal handcuffs?... Judge's gavel made out of wood from an old-growth forest?... Prison guard give you polyester jumper instead of one made from natural fibres?...
So I guess the JREF blog will be illegal, because it could cause "substantial emotional distress" to hard-working snake-oil salespeople like Matthias Rath?
There are real post offices, and the franchise postal outlets are by no means reserved to Shopper's Drug Marts.
Funny that you complain about the union driving up costs, but also complain about the postal service saving money by not building unnecessary standalone post offices.
Do you pay Time-Warner when you sing "Happy Birthday to you" in public, or do you steal/pirate it?
The multiphonic version most often heard at birthday parties, which starts out sung simultaneously in six dissonant keys and ends in five completely different ones, qualifies as a creative adaptation not subject to copyright.
Any lawyer with the balls to replay a recording of this version in court should get charged with contempt for assaulting the ears of the court.
I agree. Waddoups can certainly ask Thompson to stop sending him this stuff. He can even filter the messages. But for an elected official to threaten someone with legal action for e-mailing him? That sounds awfully antidemocratic to me. (And to counter the previous reply, it doesn't matter if the legislation has already passed, the legislature can reintroduce it at a later time).
It's also quite insane that this state senator changes his position because the primary lobbyist for the bill is an asshole. Either the bill is a good idea or not. Next election, I hope his opponent(s) give this point high prominence. Glad the jackasses that run my country are at least a bit more subtle about it.
Swap boxes are a type of interactive street art that started up here in Ottawa. They also depend on anonymous public maintenance (namely, in the form of "take somethin', leave somethin'") to keep them alive.
I have to agree. I bought my current Dell laptop online, and it wasn't until I got it that I realized that it had no hardware controls for audio (whereas my previous Toshiba laptop did), meaning that I can only turn off audio when Windows is loaded. Hell, it wasn't even clear if there was an SD card reader, since that's part of the chassis and not one of the zillion customizable components (whereas my Toshiba had a spot for one, but no slot).
That's what links are for. And you don't even have to read TFA (hell, I didn't). Hover over the first link, which points to something about "laptopmag.org", which suggests it's a magazine. Want more? Click the link and find out.
Not in Canada. Boxing Day/Week sales is the biggest shopping event of the year. People line up fuckall early in the morning at their favourite giant box to grab the best sales.
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Not at all. You see, if you have food, you can survive, and have to endure long waits without the Internet to keep you occupied/"productive". A purgatory, essentially.
If you have wifi, you can continue watching videos of other people's cats until you die peacefully of starvation.
Of course, the ideal situation is having both, where you can watch cat videos until you die from whatever food you bought at the airport cafeteria.
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This is why study halls should be prohibited from catching fire.
I'm surprised they aren't already.
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$100 000 per month estimated loss presumably is advertising revenue on page hits from links for those stories.
Forgive me, father, for I have RTFA:
So essentially, the "one analysis" says that if they wanted to buy the very-roughly-estimated traffic they hypothetically lost, it would cost them $100K to do so.
"They'd have to spend $100K to get the traffic they were before" is NOT the same as "they are losing $100K as a result of the lost traffic," which the "analysis" suggests.
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Yes, but that has nothing to do with being in the southern hemisphere; it's because they crawl on the other side of the road.
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Just be glad you can't post images in comments!
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If the goats are pirates, that should offset any impact they have on Global Warming.
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So by printing all my e-mails, I'm really participating in Carbon Capture & Storage?
Excellent!
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Anyone at your office is against telecommuting? beat the shit out of them. They driving a hybrid instead of using real Green alternatives? Beat the shit out of them. a fully window office is wasted for the exeutive that is never there? Beat the shit out of him.
Interesting pattern. I wonder where it will go...
Officer arresting you for assault using single-use zip ties instead of reusable metal handcuffs? ... Judge's gavel made out of wood from an old-growth forest? ... Prison guard give you polyester jumper instead of one made from natural fibres? ...
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yvan eht nioj, dude!
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If you don't like the things I say in my blog, wouldn't the most rational reaction be to simply don't fucking read it???
Won't somebody *please* think of the obsessive-compulsive masochists?
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So I guess the JREF blog will be illegal, because it could cause "substantial emotional distress" to hard-working snake-oil salespeople like Matthias Rath?
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Muphry's law (sic) at its best.
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I find the general principle of changing parties mid-term a disgusting and cowardly betrayal of trust.
Blame whoever had the primaries start mid-term.
If he wants to run and be elected as a Democrat, he'll have to run in their primaries, which necessarily requires him to switch parties mid-term. QED
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There are real post offices, and the franchise postal outlets are by no means reserved to Shopper's Drug Marts.
Funny that you complain about the union driving up costs, but also complain about the postal service saving money by not building unnecessary standalone post offices.
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I used to have a Firefox extension that would reduce it to 0% (can't remember what it was called), but it doesn't seem to do the trick in FF3.
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Do you pay Time-Warner when you sing "Happy Birthday to you" in public,
or do you steal/pirate it?
The multiphonic version most often heard at birthday parties, which starts out sung simultaneously in six dissonant keys and ends in five completely different ones, qualifies as a creative adaptation not subject to copyright.
Any lawyer with the balls to replay a recording of this version in court should get charged with contempt for assaulting the ears of the court.
- RG>
I agree. Waddoups can certainly ask Thompson to stop sending him this stuff. He can even filter the messages. But for an elected official to threaten someone with legal action for e-mailing him? That sounds awfully antidemocratic to me. (And to counter the previous reply, it doesn't matter if the legislation has already passed, the legislature can reintroduce it at a later time).
It's also quite insane that this state senator changes his position because the primary lobbyist for the bill is an asshole. Either the bill is a good idea or not. Next election, I hope his opponent(s) give this point high prominence. Glad the jackasses that run my country are at least a bit more subtle about it.
- RG>
Swap boxes are a type of interactive street art that started up here in Ottawa. They also depend on anonymous public maintenance (namely, in the form of "take somethin', leave somethin'") to keep them alive.
- RG>
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I have to agree. I bought my current Dell laptop online, and it wasn't until I got it that I realized that it had no hardware controls for audio (whereas my previous Toshiba laptop did), meaning that I can only turn off audio when Windows is loaded. Hell, it wasn't even clear if there was an SD card reader, since that's part of the chassis and not one of the zillion customizable components (whereas my Toshiba had a spot for one, but no slot).
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That's what links are for. And you don't even have to read TFA (hell, I didn't). Hover over the first link, which points to something about "laptopmag.org", which suggests it's a magazine. Want more? Click the link and find out.
Was that so hard?
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Not in Canada. Boxing Day/Week sales is the biggest shopping event of the year. People line up fuckall early in the morning at their favourite giant box to grab the best sales.
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Or uncensored?
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Depends on the font size.
Let's assume each character is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, and 65TB is measured in the amount of time it would take to drive to Neptune and back.
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Bah, those LCD display's aren't high-resolution at all! I saw the demo video, and it didn't look any cleaner than on my current laptop.
In fact, it looked about as clear as a video streamed over the internet!
(srsly, why do they bother with demoing hi res screens on low-res video?!?)
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