I've had Prime items not ship for 3-4 days and then get here 2 days after shipping
I realize we are merely exchanging anecdotes, but I have never had that issue that I can recall. (Not with prime items anyway) It's 2 days (or less) every time, from order to delivery. Now that they are building a distribution center about 40 minutes away, I anticipate it will get better.
I don't mean to be an ass, but that doesn't make any sense. Do you REALLY want someone who knows nothing about the industry under consideration to be writing laws about that industry? No single person is able to know enough about a subject to be able to effectively legislate it, it has to be a group effort. And chances are, the people that are smart enough about a subject probably works in that industry. If you want to know about telephone poles, and the best way to hang cables from them, are you going to talk to a politician or a company that hangs cables on telephone poles for a living? It is 100% necessary to get input from the industry you are trying to regulate.
Not saying there aren't problems to solve, because there are many, but you can't exclude the industry from their own regulation. But I would tend to agree, a politician submitting a document that they (or their staff) didn't author or even bother to review should be barred from office.
Still have my Yahoo e-mail that I have had since 1999. My only complaint is they are trying to make it like g-mail with conversation grouping that drives me insane. It works, their spam filtering is decent (if not too aggressive at times), it's free, and doesn't have a mailbox size limit that I'm aware of (although, I just checked, my oldest message is from 2008, so not sure about the limit).
Couldn't he at least registered a domain like "TeslaHolding.com" or something
Yeah, you have a point there. That's dumb as hell. It's like the paypalsupport@aol.ca shit. Come on man, at least make an effort.
Curious what kind of music you listen to. I have a couple stations on Pandora that are "trained" pretty well, to the point where I'm only skipping a track here or there. But it seems like some genres are better than others, it seems to suck with anything that was created in the current decade. "Oh, you just added the new Disturbed song? I bet you'd like some Justin Beiber to go with that!" Or "you've thumbed down every live track I've played, maybe you'll like this live track instead"
The quantity of ads depends heavily on the radio station/type of music you are listening to. I have 3 main stations, stand up comedy, non-modern pop, and one closer to new pop music. In my experience, the closer you get to "mainstream" (new, popular) music the more ads you will hear. It also seems that the more you skip the more ads you hear. On my pop station i'll hear an ad almost every time I skip, on the comedy station it's closer to every 3rd time.
Don't forget about student drivers, and distracted drivers, and aggressive drivers, and people the drive too slow, and people that drive to fast, and people that don't use their turn signal, and road ragers, and... everyone, let's just go with everyone.
I guess it depends on what your metric for "worst" is.
What's the problem? Maybe I just don't like the word "fuck", and don't care to see it. Maybe I don't like the word "nigger" either. What's the problem if I want to block them from my news feed?
I really don't see what the big deal is, and why so many people are up in arms over this? The user is able to filter words from their "feed" (or whateverthefuck Instagram uses) that they find objectionable. Maybe I just don't like word "bae", and I immediately discount the intelligence of someone that uses it. It's a free world, and I'm free to choose whether or not I want such ignorance in my world. Me blocking that word doesn't really affect anybody else in any way, does it?
In my personal experience, employers are looking for work history over education. I spent two years at DeVry (as a EET), but for family reasons I transferred to a "traditional" university to finish up. I graduated with a decent enough (3.3-ish) GPA, certainly not top of my class, but high enough to prove I wasn't an idiot. I had nearly zero trouble getting into a job in my industry (once I got out of the tiny town I grew up in). I can't say whether or not the place where I got my degree made a difference in the hiring process, but I can tell you that it wasn't even mentioned in my interview. They were more interested in my work history than my education. I had worked various shit jobs since I was 15, including some that were mildly applicable to my degree.
As far as the quality of the education... I'd say it was a horse apiece. Both places had good instructors and shitty instructors. Both had classes I would use and ones that I would never use in my life. All said and done, it would have (probably) been smarter to just start out at the University, more from a financial standpoint than anything.
I snickered at "flight-proven rocket" comment as much as I had to laugh at used car dealers calling their cars "pre loved automobiles". A used rocket is a used rocket, a used car is a used car. At least the rocket probably doesn't smell like a cocktail of cleaning products, pine tree air fresheners, cigarette smoke, and old farts.
Thank you. At first I was all "shit, did I really screw that up" but then I re-read the article, clearly states copyright infringement. BUT, EvilSS is correct as well, from the PDF:
Plaintiff GRUMPY CAT LIMITED
(“Plaintiff”) is deemed the prevailing party on its first, second, third, fourth, sixth, and
seventh causes of action against Defendant GRENADE BEVERAGE, LLC
(“Grenade”) for Copyright Infringement, Trademark Infringement (Federal and
Common Law), Trademark Dilution , Breach of Contract, and Accounting
I'm curious though, how are they guilty of "Accounting"?
Yeah, I know, but it was early and I was in the mood to poke at a troll for a little bit. Once in a while that will lead to an actual intellectual discussion.
Copyright is supposed to further the arts, not necessarily enrich 'owners'.
How are "artists" and the"arts" they create supposed to be furthered if they aren't compensated for their work? (I'm using quotes in this instance, because calling an Internet meme of a cat "art" is a bit of a stretch, but this is obviously about the larger issue of copyright in general) That is kind of the point of the copyright, it's a contract between an artist and the government (which is representing the public) saying "If you agree to produce art we will help prevent others from making money off your art without your permission, for a limited period of time." I have no problem with the first part of the contract, it needs to be in place, or there would be very limited opportunity to produce art for a living. It's the second part that has been bastardized and needs to be addressed. "a limited period of time" has been perverted into "essentially forever". I don't know what the appropriate time-frame is, but there has to be some sort of reasonable compromise between "forever" and "none". Maybe it's five years, maybe it's one year, maybe it's the artist's lifetime, but it's in that range somewhere.
The notion that a person can own an idea needs to stop,
That's all well and good, until you have an idea and would like to get paid for it. Generally art takes some sort of effort to create, whether it's an invention, a painting, or an accidentally famous picture on the internet, it took effort to create and cultivate it into something valuable to someone else. And if it's valuable to someone else the person created it should be entitled to compensation. (Not saying they should be entitle for perpetuity. See argument above)
Bitch all you want, but the issue still stands. The owner of the copyright followed the law, the company that is using the copyrighted material didn't. I had never heard of this dispute before I read this article, and it took me all of 30 seconds to realize who is in the wrong. Read the article, look at the coffee bag. It says "grumpy cat coffee" with a picture of the "fucking cat" on it. They had a licensing agreement for another product, but violated the agreement by releasing another (unlicensed) product. What's the counter argument?
iOS isn't really a relevant comparison. You can count the number of different device configurations you need to support (you might have to take your socks off, but it's a reasonable number). There are literally thousands of configurations Google (and Microsoft) would have to support. Getting it closer to prefect is a lot easier when you don't have to test an absurd number of potential configurations.
Ok, let me get this straight. You have two software companies (Microsoft and Google). Currently, Google is not forcing OEMs to keep their software up-to-date with new features and bug-fixes, and everyone is losing their minds. Currently, Microsoft is forcing everybody to update their software with the latest features and bug-fixes, and everyone is losing their minds. I don't get it. Is it because "mobile" or is it because its MS vs Google?
Once weapons are brandished and threats of death are made, deescalation is not an option. If the cops just leave (in order to meet her demands for de-escalation) and the child ends up dead at the hands of the person brandishing the weapon the cops would be crucified for not protecting the child. She took her life into her hands when she pointed a shotgun at the police and threatened to kill him.
I assume, by your comments, that you haven't taken the time to read into the story at all. The police were there to arrest another person on more significant assault charges. here is a link.
I use about a terabyte a month all of it on legal content. I'm either streaming video or downloading something from steam.
How may people do you have in your house? I have 4 that pretty much do nothing but sit on the internet when they aren't at work/school. I use about 350GB consistently month to month
Are you deleting your steam games and re-downloading every time you want to play them? I just can't fathom how a residential customer downloads 1TB/month consistently with just Netflix and Steam.
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I've had Prime items not ship for 3-4 days and then get here 2 days after shipping
I realize we are merely exchanging anecdotes, but I have never had that issue that I can recall. (Not with prime items anyway) It's 2 days (or less) every time, from order to delivery. Now that they are building a distribution center about 40 minutes away, I anticipate it will get better.
So how do we regulate the horizontal boring? Or do we just let it be a free-for-all, and hope for the best?
Not all regulation is bad regulation. Without regulation you end up with this.
I don't mean to be an ass, but that doesn't make any sense. Do you REALLY want someone who knows nothing about the industry under consideration to be writing laws about that industry? No single person is able to know enough about a subject to be able to effectively legislate it, it has to be a group effort. And chances are, the people that are smart enough about a subject probably works in that industry. If you want to know about telephone poles, and the best way to hang cables from them, are you going to talk to a politician or a company that hangs cables on telephone poles for a living? It is 100% necessary to get input from the industry you are trying to regulate.
Not saying there aren't problems to solve, because there are many, but you can't exclude the industry from their own regulation. But I would tend to agree, a politician submitting a document that they (or their staff) didn't author or even bother to review should be barred from office.
Couldn't he at least registered a domain like "TeslaHolding.com" or something
Yeah, you have a point there. That's dumb as hell. It's like the paypalsupport@aol.ca shit. Come on man, at least make an effort.
Curious what kind of music you listen to. I have a couple stations on Pandora that are "trained" pretty well, to the point where I'm only skipping a track here or there. But it seems like some genres are better than others, it seems to suck with anything that was created in the current decade. "Oh, you just added the new Disturbed song? I bet you'd like some Justin Beiber to go with that!" Or "you've thumbed down every live track I've played, maybe you'll like this live track instead"
The quantity of ads depends heavily on the radio station/type of music you are listening to. I have 3 main stations, stand up comedy, non-modern pop, and one closer to new pop music. In my experience, the closer you get to "mainstream" (new, popular) music the more ads you will hear. It also seems that the more you skip the more ads you hear. On my pop station i'll hear an ad almost every time I skip, on the comedy station it's closer to every 3rd time.
Don't forget about student drivers, and distracted drivers, and aggressive drivers, and people the drive too slow, and people that drive to fast, and people that don't use their turn signal, and road ragers, and... everyone, let's just go with everyone.
I guess it depends on what your metric for "worst" is.
Wordfilters really do make a difference.
What's the problem? Maybe I just don't like the word "fuck", and don't care to see it. Maybe I don't like the word "nigger" either. What's the problem if I want to block them from my news feed?
User-selected hugboxes
I really don't see what the big deal is, and why so many people are up in arms over this? The user is able to filter words from their "feed" (or whateverthefuck Instagram uses) that they find objectionable. Maybe I just don't like word "bae", and I immediately discount the intelligence of someone that uses it. It's a free world, and I'm free to choose whether or not I want such ignorance in my world. Me blocking that word doesn't really affect anybody else in any way, does it?
In my personal experience, employers are looking for work history over education. I spent two years at DeVry (as a EET), but for family reasons I transferred to a "traditional" university to finish up. I graduated with a decent enough (3.3-ish) GPA, certainly not top of my class, but high enough to prove I wasn't an idiot. I had nearly zero trouble getting into a job in my industry (once I got out of the tiny town I grew up in). I can't say whether or not the place where I got my degree made a difference in the hiring process, but I can tell you that it wasn't even mentioned in my interview. They were more interested in my work history than my education. I had worked various shit jobs since I was 15, including some that were mildly applicable to my degree.
As far as the quality of the education... I'd say it was a horse apiece. Both places had good instructors and shitty instructors. Both had classes I would use and ones that I would never use in my life. All said and done, it would have (probably) been smarter to just start out at the University, more from a financial standpoint than anything.
Did anyone check to see if this guy was anywhere near the launch site?
I snickered at "flight-proven rocket" comment as much as I had to laugh at used car dealers calling their cars "pre loved automobiles". A used rocket is a used rocket, a used car is a used car. At least the rocket probably doesn't smell like a cocktail of cleaning products, pine tree air fresheners, cigarette smoke, and old farts.
Plaintiff GRUMPY CAT LIMITED (“Plaintiff”) is deemed the prevailing party on its first, second, third, fourth, sixth, and seventh causes of action against Defendant GRENADE BEVERAGE, LLC (“Grenade”) for Copyright Infringement, Trademark Infringement (Federal and Common Law), Trademark Dilution , Breach of Contract, and Accounting
I'm curious though, how are they guilty of "Accounting"?
Yeah, I know, but it was early and I was in the mood to poke at a troll for a little bit. Once in a while that will lead to an actual intellectual discussion.
Copyright is supposed to further the arts, not necessarily enrich 'owners'.
How are "artists" and the"arts" they create supposed to be furthered if they aren't compensated for their work? (I'm using quotes in this instance, because calling an Internet meme of a cat "art" is a bit of a stretch, but this is obviously about the larger issue of copyright in general) That is kind of the point of the copyright, it's a contract between an artist and the government (which is representing the public) saying "If you agree to produce art we will help prevent others from making money off your art without your permission, for a limited period of time." I have no problem with the first part of the contract, it needs to be in place, or there would be very limited opportunity to produce art for a living. It's the second part that has been bastardized and needs to be addressed. "a limited period of time" has been perverted into "essentially forever". I don't know what the appropriate time-frame is, but there has to be some sort of reasonable compromise between "forever" and "none". Maybe it's five years, maybe it's one year, maybe it's the artist's lifetime, but it's in that range somewhere.
The notion that a person can own an idea needs to stop,
That's all well and good, until you have an idea and would like to get paid for it. Generally art takes some sort of effort to create, whether it's an invention, a painting, or an accidentally famous picture on the internet, it took effort to create and cultivate it into something valuable to someone else. And if it's valuable to someone else the person created it should be entitled to compensation. (Not saying they should be entitle for perpetuity. See argument above)
No, it's a fucking copyright.
Bitch all you want, but the issue still stands. The owner of the copyright followed the law, the company that is using the copyrighted material didn't. I had never heard of this dispute before I read this article, and it took me all of 30 seconds to realize who is in the wrong. Read the article, look at the coffee bag. It says "grumpy cat coffee" with a picture of the "fucking cat" on it. They had a licensing agreement for another product, but violated the agreement by releasing another (unlicensed) product. What's the counter argument?
And you never will. Those savings are purely there to maintain their 22% net profit. Source
You know you didn't HAVE to read every article, right? Or do you just like to hear yourself bitch?
iOS isn't really a relevant comparison. You can count the number of different device configurations you need to support (you might have to take your socks off, but it's a reasonable number). There are literally thousands of configurations Google (and Microsoft) would have to support. Getting it closer to prefect is a lot easier when you don't have to test an absurd number of potential configurations.
Ok, let me get this straight. You have two software companies (Microsoft and Google). Currently, Google is not forcing OEMs to keep their software up-to-date with new features and bug-fixes, and everyone is losing their minds. Currently, Microsoft is forcing everybody to update their software with the latest features and bug-fixes, and everyone is losing their minds. I don't get it. Is it because "mobile" or is it because its MS vs Google?
I think they are changing it up. infect, extend, extinguish.
Why can't these 14,000 people be trained to write SDN software instead of designing mainboards for hardware?
Dilbert has the answer.
It amuses the hell out of me that this came up in the same search I did for "dilbert unclean" link that is oddly applicable as well.
Like on police cars?
Like these ones?
I suppose undercover officers/agents should have to wear badges too.
Once weapons are brandished and threats of death are made, deescalation is not an option. If the cops just leave (in order to meet her demands for de-escalation) and the child ends up dead at the hands of the person brandishing the weapon the cops would be crucified for not protecting the child. She took her life into her hands when she pointed a shotgun at the police and threatened to kill him.
I assume, by your comments, that you haven't taken the time to read into the story at all. The police were there to arrest another person on more significant assault charges. here is a link.
I use about a terabyte a month all of it on legal content. I'm either streaming video or downloading something from steam.
How may people do you have in your house? I have 4 that pretty much do nothing but sit on the internet when they aren't at work/school. I use about 350GB consistently month to month
Are you deleting your steam games and re-downloading every time you want to play them? I just can't fathom how a residential customer downloads 1TB/month consistently with just Netflix and Steam.