Nothing? How about those lazy programmers? All they do is bang on a keyboard all day (when they're not reading/.). Why do they make more than the cashier at Hardy's? Come to think of it, the cashier has to deal with the public and bang on the cash register while standing up. They should get paid more!
The point is, the good programmer is worth more because he knows WHICH keys to bang. The good photographer is worth more because of the skill involved. Forget about showing up and shooting--that's less than half the job.
The real value in a good photographer is in the development. You got some people in the shodows, some in the light? You got pictures in the horrible lighting of most function halls? You got a great shot of the happy couple walking off into the sunset, but if you just print it out as is, either the colors of the sunset get washed out cause they're too bright or the couple fades out because they're too dark.
Yeah, $40-60k for the 'top' photographers is a bit much, but how many of those are there? Stop by some time and I'll show you difference between the plain, uncorrected, uncropped proofs I got from my wedding photographer ($3k, btw) and the final product with all the fall colors and sunsets, and I doubt you'll call the guy overpaid.
"For example, we have 65 playwrights alive today for every one in Elizabethan England. Yet do we have dozens of Shakespeares?"
65 bad playwrights don't equal one good one. Any number of thousands of 'Physics for Poets' or 'Rocks for Jocks' students don't equal one Einstein or Currie.
With NaNoWriMo coming up, I'm sure our ratio of novelists will skyrocket. I'm not holding my breath for a Pynchon or Goethe to be discovered as a result.
We even have cameras in our phones. Does that make it more likely I'll see another artist like Ansel Adams come along? Or does it make it less likely such a talent would be heard above the noise? Would 5 different bosses sending you memos about TPS reports make you more productive?
They already have--it's called the hunta virus. Better than insta-death mice poop, it's a slow death that starts with flu-like symptoms. By the time you realize you have more than a bad cold, there's just enough time left for the doctor to let you know what killed you.
Fortunately there's still considerable work to be done on a delivery mechanism, but I'm sure the mice are working on it.
Ian Bell: "We pride ourselves on reviewing boxed retail products, the very same you would purchase in your local store."
That's obviously not true. If DesignTechnica has a monitor with a 700:1 contrast ratio, and the boxed retail product, the monitor you would purchase in your local store has a 450:1 contract ratio, then they are not reviewing boxed retail products.
If they don't go to a retail store and buy the product in its retail package, they are not reviewing boxed retail products.
We know these review sites are beholden to manufacturers. We know most such sites would close shop if they had to review (and pay for) the retail product. To pretend to be surprised when products sent out for review don't match products sent out for retail is disingenuous (at best).
When the owner notices a food critic in his restaurant, does he run back to the kitchen and shout 'everybody do everything exactly as you always do'? Or perhaps he suggests a little extra attention go into preparations for that particular meal.
Consumer Reports reviews boxed retail products. They have buyers around the country go to actual retails stores and buy products in actual retail boxes. Anything less is not a boxed retail product. Any reviewer who does less, yet claims to review boxed retail products is a liar.
There should be no need for prior art. The very idea that you can have a site where the same wankers post about how much linux rulez and BSD is dead and l33t k1dd13s sux0rz and then mod themselves 'insightful' or 'funny' and then pat themselves on the back on how great that mod was with a meta-mod is just absurd beyond belief. A wonderful example of what nonsense the entire idea of 'world wide web' is.
From the good-for-the-goose-good-for-the-gander dept.
This article shows how much FUD there is on both sides.
Why so much on specific tasks and applications and so little on the actual OS? BECAUSE THE COMPUTER IS A TOOL, AND PEOPLE WANT THEIR TOOLS TO WORK THE WAY THEY EXPECT THEM TO WORK! This is something folks on the Windows side have been saying for years. A Windows user who likes his Windows apps is a drone, but a Linux user who likes his Linux apps is a spokesman for his community?
So much trouble with copy/paste? Or maybe he was looking for trouble. The Linux way, as described is NOT "fast, easy, and takes little hand motion on my laptop keyboard." Fast and easy is keeping my hands on the keyboard and not reaching for the pointing device.
As others have noted, working the toolbar in XP--adding quick start icons, adding a calendar, add a link of all the items on my desktop--are easy, easy, easy, straight forward click-and-drag. "Perhaps it can only be done by smart Windows geeks, but not by simple-minded Linux people like me." Looks like FUD, quacks like FUD, must be FUD.
Next, Outlook Express. Well, yeah, OE is a peice of shit. First, Outlook and Outlook Express are 2 different apps. OE is not Outlook Light. Yes, blame MS marketing for making it easy to confuse the two. By the same token, are you telling me there are no half-assed, poorly documented open source apps for Linux? Should a Windows user judge Linux by the worst app available? No. So don't judge Windows by OE.
Speaking of apps, why all the bitching about what's included with Windows?? I thought you wanted choice. I thought you wanted freedom to innovate. The open source/free software community has been shitting itself for years over the inclusion of IE with Windows; imagine what would happen if they wanted to ship an office suite, too! (Yes, I know the issues with IE have to do with engineering and integration with the OS, not that it is just shipping with Windows.)
Then there is all the whining about having to pay for some apps. 1-there is plenty of free (as in beer) ware and share ware available for Windows. 2-Wait. Wasn't it all about Free not being the same as free, and open source not a threat to coders' livelyhood and IP and all that? More FUD I guess.
And all the bitching about IE. If you don't like IE, don't us it. There are plenty of other browsers out there. But you don't have to pay to block pop-ups. And no browser I've seen is truely standards compliant. IE, Moz, and Opera are close, but none are all the way there yet.
And what's the big deal with tabbed browsing? I have tabbed apps, and I really don't prefer them. I can alt-tab between windows quicker than I can reach for the mouse. I can't alt-tab between tabs inside an app. I can open up a whole row of links and move between them (I don't even have to click between them, but I could if I wanted to) and read one while the others load. If Roblimo spent 4 hours with IE and couldn't figure that out, why would I trust he'd be able to figure anything out? I don't think it's question of smarts, but a question of not trying or wanting Windows to work.
"I haven't had XP Pro crash on me all week in the old 'blue screen of death sense,'" but isn't what the anti-Windows folks are always going to? We still see posts on/. on poor folks forced to suffer through multiple BSODs each day in their draconian Windows workplaces. Gee, maybe that too is FUD? Windows (XP and 2000 at least) don't crash; bad operators crash Windows.
I'm not a huge MS supporter. I'm a right-tool-for-the-right-job kind of guy. I run Windows and Linux. Roblimo's article is only different from any Windows-to-Linux write-up I've read in that in this case, I couldn't help but feel the user wasn't trying to learn a new system but rather find as many things to complain about as possible.
I like the way you put words in my mouth and then call me a liar.
So your assertion that widespread filesharing would allow people to sample more music, and subsequently buy more music is the complete and utter opposite of what is actually happening!
I said nothing of the sort! I said there's no proof illegal file sharing is responsible for the decline in music sales. I also said there were other factors at work that likely have a larger and more verifiable affect on music sales than file sharing.
I am aware of studies purporting to demonstrate file sharing increases music sales. For example, Report: File Sharing Boosts Music Sales from July 21, 2000, which references a Jupiter Communications report with such quotes as "Napster usage is one of the strongest determinants of increased music buying," and "the SoundScan study shows that music sales dropped off before Napster launched and does not take into account the shift from brick-and-mortar music stores to online CD sales." What the??!!?? That kinda supports what I was saying. Good thing I can link to a supporting reference.
And then there is CD sales fall despite drop in downloads from October 07, 2003. Huh? The fight against file sharing was supposed to help music sales. But if less downloads doesn't equal more sales, maybe more downloads doesn't equal less sales. My mind has been blown!
News.news.com.com has Study: File sharing boosts music sales from May 3, 2002 which has numbers from different sources supporting both sides. Maybe the issue isn't as clear as more download==less sales. Seems there isn't much solid support for your assertions or your gratuitous use of ALL CAPS and Bold and BOLD ALL CAPS. (I'm kidding with you now. Can you tell?)
Here's the part where I do something you'll never see from the jokers at the RIAA...admit I was wrong. I did a little more research, and it seems my numbers on sales for the last few years where a little off.
Of course, that does not change the framework of the discussion or go to refute any of the heart of my comment. Correlation does not prove causation. File sharing on the internet started to get big about 3 years ago. Music sales started to drop about 3 years ago. The economy went into the tank about 3 years ago. The stock market hit a peak and started a downward spiral about 3 years ago. My neice was born about 3 years ago. A lot of thinks happened about 3 years ago. That does not show any cause-and-effect.
I stand by my claim, there is no proof, no evidence file sharing is responsible for the drop in music sales. I'm not saying that isn't the case; I'm saying the RIAA hasn't proved it is the case.
But wait! Perhaps I was wrong, but not in the way you suppose. RIAA piracy arguments, figures just don't add up from April 20, 2003 has a couple things to say on the issue. It seems the SoundScan numbers for music sales dropped for the first time in 2001. (SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.) But the RIAA numbers show sales dropped in 1997. What gives? Well, SoundScan does not poll all retails and sources of legal music trade. The RIAA does not represent all artists and music publishers. So I guess the question is moot. Before we can discuss causes for a drop in music sales, we'd have to establish such a drop has indeed happened. Not only are the various industry groups highly suspect as dependable sources of information, but they don't agree with each other.
The sales figures for 2002 from SoundScan and RIAA differ by 20%. The drop in music sales was less than 10%. It's noise. It's reporting error. The pro-file sharing lobby is playing nice by accepting the premise that music sales have gone down. I a
Everyone I know who occassionally[sic] downloads songs admits that they find themselves buying fewer CDs in recent years. Of course, they say it's because the "music is getting worse," but that doesn't change the fact that your statement is directly contradicted by my anecdotal evidence.
"The plural of anecdote is not data." It doesn't really matter when your friends say. Even you don't believe them, and your sample size and methodology is hopelessly flawed.
Fact is, album sales were down BEFORE file sharing become widely available. Album sales are UP since 2000, even though file sharing has continued to become even more widely available.
There are dozens of other factors that can be more readily tied to the decline in sales. The bad economy, a dearth in a hot new acts to spur sales, the time when the recording industry just tracked music stores and didn't count sales at big box retailers like WalMart and Best Buy, the time when the recording industry just tracked brick-and-mortar sales and didn't count sales at shops like Amazon and Buy.com.
Any one of those factors likely contributes more to the swing in recent album sales than file sharing.
I'm not justifying illegal file sharing. I'm just feeding you your own sausage. "Repeating something does not make it true." No matter how many times the RIAA asserts file sharing is causing reduced sales, there just are no facts to support those claims.
It make a nice, fluffy mantra to justify restricting fair use and consumer property rights, but there is no basis in reality, and absolutely no scientific data to support the absurd claim.
Talking out of turn...that's a suing. Looking out the window...that's a suing. Staring at my sandals...that's a suing. Suing the RIAA...ooh, you better believe that's a suing.
Actually, the theaters would probably love to have intermissions in long movies. They make good coin on the concessions, so any time we're in the lobby and not in the seats is to their advantage.
It's pressure from the studios preventing this from happening. The studios are getting a piece of ticket sales, so they want to maximize the number of screenings per day and minimize the time in between start times.
The 4,2,1 loop repeats over and over, so it's usually convenient to terminate the process once it is entered. All numbers tested so far eventually hit this loop, although it has not been proven that all numbers do.
This doesn't make sense. A web log is akin to a journal or diary. How many employers assert ownership of employees' diaries? How many IP clauses in employment agreements could reasonably be construed as applying to diaries? Do you really think the IP ownership clause in your contact would be applied to a note you write in a mother's day card?
Now if you are a journalist, reporter, or employed in a fashion along those lines as an employee and not a free-lance contributor, then I could see personal writings made public as in a web log getting some scrutiny.
Actually there's an entirely different issue which is more realistic, more likely, and more probably a practical concern. It occurred to me before I finished reading the article and is alluded to by another post regarding moving a web log from one host to another.
Does your web log host own your log? What's in your hosting agreement? Can the hosting company repackage/reprint/redistribute entries from your log in whole or editing without your permission or knowledge?
Actually, as much as we might want to think the protections of the First Amendment only extend to actual people, and not legal entities such as corporations, the legalities of the situation are not so clear, e.g. Nike's recent case.
Just because corporations don't have the right to force you to listen doesn't mean they don't have the right to free speech.
One way to ban large vehicles, would be to only fund / build parking for mini-vehicles. Sure you could drive around in your SUV, but there's nowhere to park the thing.
That's 100% backwards. Smaller vehicles mean smaller number of people in each vehicle mean more vehicles over all.
Cities should encourage the use of large vehicles as long as folks are taking advantage of the high capacity. The extreme case is a city where everyone takes the bus versus a city where everyone drives a single-occupancy car.
Sure, an SUV is larger and less efficient than a mini cooper. But an SUV with 4 or 5 occupants is better than 4 or 5 mini coopers.
A city overflowing with vehicular traffic wants to encourage the use of larger vehicles in conjunction with enforced car-pooling and use of mass transit.
The wave theory Prechter is talking about is the Elliott Wave Theory addressing the cyclic nature of all aspects of human society including economic markets and cultural trends.
The waves describing traffic patterns come from fluid dynamics.
Prechter's theories may predict the number of cars on the road by looking at things such as good economy==move cars purchased, less use of mass transit vs bad economy==more two-income households, more commuters vs really bad economy==less two-income households because they can't find two jobs.
But that won't describe the behavior of those cars once they're on the road or explain why one interchange design is better than another. That's fluid dynamics.
"I am perturbed by the way puppets are portrayed in your program. And in your position of prominence, you need to penetrate and personify proper puppet power! Perhaps you need to ask yourself what is edutaining? Is it fleshy propaganda? And then you need to answer yourself, yes! Keep the boat afloat!"
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Nothing? How about those lazy programmers? All they do is bang on a keyboard all day (when they're not reading /.). Why do they make more than the cashier at Hardy's? Come to think of it, the cashier has to deal with the public and bang on the cash register while standing up. They should get paid more!
The point is, the good programmer is worth more because he knows WHICH keys to bang. The good photographer is worth more because of the skill involved. Forget about showing up and shooting--that's less than half the job.
The real value in a good photographer is in the development. You got some people in the shodows, some in the light? You got pictures in the horrible lighting of most function halls? You got a great shot of the happy couple walking off into the sunset, but if you just print it out as is, either the colors of the sunset get washed out cause they're too bright or the couple fades out because they're too dark.
Yeah, $40-60k for the 'top' photographers is a bit much, but how many of those are there? Stop by some time and I'll show you difference between the plain, uncorrected, uncropped proofs I got from my wedding photographer ($3k, btw) and the final product with all the fall colors and sunsets, and I doubt you'll call the guy overpaid.
Aparently there are people who will pay for 5 year old 'news'.
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When will /. add an icon for dups? I suggest a pic of the olsen twins.
A lot of people on /., that's who! Esp. when an over-the-hill hack who used to be a great story teller goes back and ruins a classic
With Jefferson Starship...get it? Jefferson Starship
Yes...but who dunnit?
"For example, we have 65 playwrights alive today for every one in Elizabethan England. Yet do we have dozens of Shakespeares?"
65 bad playwrights don't equal one good one. Any number of thousands of 'Physics for Poets' or 'Rocks for Jocks' students don't equal one Einstein or Currie.
With NaNoWriMo coming up, I'm sure our ratio of novelists will skyrocket. I'm not holding my breath for a Pynchon or Goethe to be discovered as a result.
We even have cameras in our phones. Does that make it more likely I'll see another artist like Ansel Adams come along? Or does it make it less likely such a talent would be heard above the noise? Would 5 different bosses sending you memos about TPS reports make you more productive?
They already have--it's called the hunta virus. Better than insta-death mice poop, it's a slow death that starts with flu-like symptoms. By the time you realize you have more than a bad cold, there's just enough time left for the doctor to let you know what killed you.
Fortunately there's still considerable work to be done on a delivery mechanism, but I'm sure the mice are working on it.
Ian Bell: "We pride ourselves on reviewing boxed retail products, the very same you would purchase in your local store."
That's obviously not true. If DesignTechnica has a monitor with a 700:1 contrast ratio, and the boxed retail product, the monitor you would purchase in your local store has a 450:1 contract ratio, then they are not reviewing boxed retail products.
If they don't go to a retail store and buy the product in its retail package, they are not reviewing boxed retail products.
We know these review sites are beholden to manufacturers. We know most such sites would close shop if they had to review (and pay for) the retail product. To pretend to be surprised when products sent out for review don't match products sent out for retail is disingenuous (at best).
When the owner notices a food critic in his restaurant, does he run back to the kitchen and shout 'everybody do everything exactly as you always do'? Or perhaps he suggests a little extra attention go into preparations for that particular meal.
Consumer Reports reviews boxed retail products. They have buyers around the country go to actual retails stores and buy products in actual retail boxes. Anything less is not a boxed retail product. Any reviewer who does less, yet claims to review boxed retail products is a liar.
One bad idea doesn't mean all ideas are bad.
This article shows how much FUD there is on both sides.
Why so much on specific tasks and applications and so little on the actual OS? BECAUSE THE COMPUTER IS A TOOL, AND PEOPLE WANT THEIR TOOLS TO WORK THE WAY THEY EXPECT THEM TO WORK! This is something folks on the Windows side have been saying for years. A Windows user who likes his Windows apps is a drone, but a Linux user who likes his Linux apps is a spokesman for his community?
So much trouble with copy/paste? Or maybe he was looking for trouble. The Linux way, as described is NOT "fast, easy, and takes little hand motion on my laptop keyboard." Fast and easy is keeping my hands on the keyboard and not reaching for the pointing device.
As others have noted, working the toolbar in XP--adding quick start icons, adding a calendar, add a link of all the items on my desktop--are easy, easy, easy, straight forward click-and-drag. "Perhaps it can only be done by smart Windows geeks, but not by simple-minded Linux people like me." Looks like FUD, quacks like FUD, must be FUD.
Next, Outlook Express. Well, yeah, OE is a peice of shit. First, Outlook and Outlook Express are 2 different apps. OE is not Outlook Light. Yes, blame MS marketing for making it easy to confuse the two. By the same token, are you telling me there are no half-assed, poorly documented open source apps for Linux? Should a Windows user judge Linux by the worst app available? No. So don't judge Windows by OE.
Speaking of apps, why all the bitching about what's included with Windows?? I thought you wanted choice. I thought you wanted freedom to innovate. The open source/free software community has been shitting itself for years over the inclusion of IE with Windows; imagine what would happen if they wanted to ship an office suite, too! (Yes, I know the issues with IE have to do with engineering and integration with the OS, not that it is just shipping with Windows.)
Then there is all the whining about having to pay for some apps. 1-there is plenty of free (as in beer) ware and share ware available for Windows. 2-Wait. Wasn't it all about Free not being the same as free, and open source not a threat to coders' livelyhood and IP and all that? More FUD I guess.
And all the bitching about IE. If you don't like IE, don't us it. There are plenty of other browsers out there. But you don't have to pay to block pop-ups. And no browser I've seen is truely standards compliant. IE, Moz, and Opera are close, but none are all the way there yet.
And what's the big deal with tabbed browsing? I have tabbed apps, and I really don't prefer them. I can alt-tab between windows quicker than I can reach for the mouse. I can't alt-tab between tabs inside an app. I can open up a whole row of links and move between them (I don't even have to click between them, but I could if I wanted to) and read one while the others load. If Roblimo spent 4 hours with IE and couldn't figure that out, why would I trust he'd be able to figure anything out? I don't think it's question of smarts, but a question of not trying or wanting Windows to work.
"I haven't had XP Pro crash on me all week in the old 'blue screen of death sense,'" but isn't what the anti-Windows folks are always going to? We still see posts on /. on poor folks forced to suffer through multiple BSODs each day in their draconian Windows workplaces. Gee, maybe that too is FUD? Windows (XP and 2000 at least) don't crash; bad operators crash Windows.
I'm not a huge MS supporter. I'm a right-tool-for-the-right-job kind of guy. I run Windows and Linux. Roblimo's article is only different from any Windows-to-Linux write-up I've read in that in this case, I couldn't help but feel the user wasn't trying to learn a new system but rather find as many things to complain about as possible.
Save your heart and sympathy; I don't need it.
I said nothing of the sort! I said there's no proof illegal file sharing is responsible for the decline in music sales. I also said there were other factors at work that likely have a larger and more verifiable affect on music sales than file sharing.
I am aware of studies purporting to demonstrate file sharing increases music sales. For example, Report: File Sharing Boosts Music Sales from July 21, 2000, which references a Jupiter Communications report with such quotes as "Napster usage is one of the strongest determinants of increased music buying," and "the SoundScan study shows that music sales dropped off before Napster launched and does not take into account the shift from brick-and-mortar music stores to online CD sales." What the??!!?? That kinda supports what I was saying. Good thing I can link to a supporting reference.
And then there is CD sales fall despite drop in downloads from October 07, 2003. Huh? The fight against file sharing was supposed to help music sales. But if less downloads doesn't equal more sales, maybe more downloads doesn't equal less sales. My mind has been blown!
News.news.com.com has Study: File sharing boosts music sales from May 3, 2002 which has numbers from different sources supporting both sides. Maybe the issue isn't as clear as more download==less sales. Seems there isn't much solid support for your assertions or your gratuitous use of ALL CAPS and Bold and BOLD ALL CAPS. (I'm kidding with you now. Can you tell?)
Here's the part where I do something you'll never see from the jokers at the RIAA...admit I was wrong. I did a little more research, and it seems my numbers on sales for the last few years where a little off.
Of course, that does not change the framework of the discussion or go to refute any of the heart of my comment. Correlation does not prove causation. File sharing on the internet started to get big about 3 years ago. Music sales started to drop about 3 years ago. The economy went into the tank about 3 years ago. The stock market hit a peak and started a downward spiral about 3 years ago. My neice was born about 3 years ago. A lot of thinks happened about 3 years ago. That does not show any cause-and-effect.
I stand by my claim, there is no proof, no evidence file sharing is responsible for the drop in music sales. I'm not saying that isn't the case; I'm saying the RIAA hasn't proved it is the case.
But wait! Perhaps I was wrong, but not in the way you suppose. RIAA piracy arguments, figures just don't add up from April 20, 2003 has a couple things to say on the issue. It seems the SoundScan numbers for music sales dropped for the first time in 2001. (SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.) But the RIAA numbers show sales dropped in 1997. What gives? Well, SoundScan does not poll all retails and sources of legal music trade. The RIAA does not represent all artists and music publishers. So I guess the question is moot. Before we can discuss causes for a drop in music sales, we'd have to establish such a drop has indeed happened. Not only are the various industry groups highly suspect as dependable sources of information, but they don't agree with each other.
The sales figures for 2002 from SoundScan and RIAA differ by 20%. The drop in music sales was less than 10%. It's noise. It's reporting error. The pro-file sharing lobby is playing nice by accepting the premise that music sales have gone down. I a
"The plural of anecdote is not data." It doesn't really matter when your friends say. Even you don't believe them, and your sample size and methodology is hopelessly flawed.
Fact is, album sales were down BEFORE file sharing become widely available. Album sales are UP since 2000, even though file sharing has continued to become even more widely available.
There are dozens of other factors that can be more readily tied to the decline in sales. The bad economy, a dearth in a hot new acts to spur sales, the time when the recording industry just tracked music stores and didn't count sales at big box retailers like WalMart and Best Buy, the time when the recording industry just tracked brick-and-mortar sales and didn't count sales at shops like Amazon and Buy.com.
Any one of those factors likely contributes more to the swing in recent album sales than file sharing.
I'm not justifying illegal file sharing. I'm just feeding you your own sausage. "Repeating something does not make it true." No matter how many times the RIAA asserts file sharing is causing reduced sales, there just are no facts to support those claims.
It make a nice, fluffy mantra to justify restricting fair use and consumer property rights, but there is no basis in reality, and absolutely no scientific data to support the absurd claim.
Talking out of turn...that's a suing. Looking out the window...that's a suing. Staring at my sandals...that's a suing. Suing the RIAA...ooh, you better believe that's a suing.
Actually, the theaters would probably love to have intermissions in long movies. They make good coin on the concessions, so any time we're in the lobby and not in the seats is to their advantage.
It's pressure from the studios preventing this from happening. The studios are getting a piece of ticket sales, so they want to maximize the number of screenings per day and minimize the time in between start times.
-1, -2, -1, -2, ...
This doesn't make sense. A web log is akin to a journal or diary. How many employers assert ownership of employees' diaries? How many IP clauses in employment agreements could reasonably be construed as applying to diaries? Do you really think the IP ownership clause in your contact would be applied to a note you write in a mother's day card?
Now if you are a journalist, reporter, or employed in a fashion along those lines as an employee and not a free-lance contributor, then I could see personal writings made public as in a web log getting some scrutiny.
Actually there's an entirely different issue which is more realistic, more likely, and more probably a practical concern. It occurred to me before I finished reading the article and is alluded to by another post regarding moving a web log from one host to another.
Does your web log host own your log? What's in your hosting agreement? Can the hosting company repackage/reprint/redistribute entries from your log in whole or editing without your permission or knowledge?
That's the real story.
Just because corporations don't have the right to force you to listen doesn't mean they don't have the right to free speech.
That's 100% backwards. Smaller vehicles mean smaller number of people in each vehicle mean more vehicles over all.
Cities should encourage the use of large vehicles as long as folks are taking advantage of the high capacity. The extreme case is a city where everyone takes the bus versus a city where everyone drives a single-occupancy car.
Sure, an SUV is larger and less efficient than a mini cooper. But an SUV with 4 or 5 occupants is better than 4 or 5 mini coopers.
A city overflowing with vehicular traffic wants to encourage the use of larger vehicles in conjunction with enforced car-pooling and use of mass transit.
I'm surprised no one had noted that video on paper has been around for years
The wave theory Prechter is talking about is the Elliott Wave Theory addressing the cyclic nature of all aspects of human society including economic markets and cultural trends.
The waves describing traffic patterns come from fluid dynamics.
Prechter's theories may predict the number of cars on the road by looking at things such as good economy==move cars purchased, less use of mass transit vs bad economy==more two-income households, more commuters vs really bad economy==less two-income households because they can't find two jobs.
But that won't describe the behavior of those cars once they're on the road or explain why one interchange design is better than another. That's fluid dynamics.
"I am perturbed by the way puppets are portrayed in your program. And in your position of prominence, you need to penetrate and personify proper puppet power! Perhaps you need to ask yourself what is edutaining? Is it fleshy propaganda? And then you need to answer yourself, yes! Keep the boat afloat!"
LOL! You just have to imagine that with the Jose Jalapeno accent. Classic.
How has the parent post not been modded up yet?
Whomever modded this up needs a serious bitch slap.
Those are lowriders...you're thinking of rice boys.