Yeah, I've heard that Congressional party leaders are traditionally selected by a meeting of the senior critters over lines of coke on a stripper's tits.
Honestly, they can either make an estimate or come back when they're serious. If I'm feeling generous I'll pick up a dozen loaner tape measures from the dollar store, but if somebody's being too difficult I won't likely suffer for losing their business.
I live in a huge college area, and by the second day of college move-ins there's basically a 10 mile area where ethernet cables are simply unavailable at any price... despite that this area includes 2 Wal-Marts, a Target, a best Buy, a Staples, at least 2 Radio Shacks and probably a dozen each of college oriented bookstores and independent computer shops, not to mention each school's respective IT departments and campus stores. If I could fab shower caddies, cheap flip flops, bed risers and industrial sized ramen packs, I'd be on that too.
More likely I would just make a huge number of 5', 10' and 20' cables and make more when I run out or if I get a special request.
Perhaps in a market that looked less like a capitalism riot I'd have to worry about things like that.
If they could buy them for half the price, I'm sure they would. I'm actually considering buying some bulk cat5 and RJ-45s for the college move-ins so that I can hang out near the local dorms and crimp cables on demand. By my math I could probably make $30-$100 an hour profit and still undersell the competing retailers.
Damn you for not logging in! I could not, for the life of me, figure out what IE was supposed to stand for, but I knew that neither of the uses I am accustomed to were correct. Thank you for that.
On a related note, can we have a Slashdot moratorium on pointless and confusing abbreviations? Last I knew, "Information Engineering" wasn't such an extensively used term that it warranted abbreviating, especially not given that "IE" is already in heavy use. That is, of course, unless you want me to start talking about expert ITs (insurgent terrorists) mounting attacks against US citizens and assets around the world.
As somebody who used to get telemarketing calls on their cellphone, I assure you that they are not exempt. During the time between the FDNC being created and the ability to add cell numbers to it being added, I probably received 3-5 telemarketing calls per week on my cell phone. Prior to that, I received maybe that many in a year, and now I receive none.
My guess is that cell phone numbers weren't easy enough to get until very recently (when people started using them as primary, or even exclusive, telephones) so they just didn't make sense to target. I'd also not be surprised if very early on some cell users who were paying a tremendous amount of money for each minute they used the phone recovered the money they spent on particularly onerous telemarketer calls, and somewhat forced an industry moratorium.
So offering to pay people to help the community is akin to the government expecting us to help out for free? Ignoring the fact that the government is not, to the contrary of what the Republican party seems to want, a for profit enterprise, and that as a governing body for the community it is presumed that we all have some motivation to help out and make our nation better... I still don't see how offering to pay people for things they actually should be doing for free is anything like not paying people for things they shouldn't be doing for free.
But don't let reality get in the way of pointless and hypocritical diatribes against "communists", that would be un-American.
Financial mathematics didn't become popular because it isn't effective, and large financial institutions don't get that way for being financially ineffective. They might have to change the job titles to appease minority shareholders, but there's no way they'll get rid of mathematicians who make money with magic.
The real problem wasn't that the math was done, it's that a lot of people were doing it poorly and with too little oversight because, as with any fad, people forget that they know better and trust every crackpot with a grain of insight. Everything in moderation (including moderation).
Of course, pot also has a very low concentration of THC. that's like saying that nobody has ever ODed on poppyseed muffins, so surely heroin is safe.
I'm not against medical (or, for that matter, recreational) marijuana, but that doesn't mean an apples to oranges comparison is in any way fair or reasonable.
Of course not... but I can think of plenty who wouldn't mind that limitation if it meant that those 3 actually ran better (not that this solution guarantees that by any means, but hypothetically speaking...) and cost less.
Again, if other people are ok with it and you aren't, the solution is simple: let them deal with the consequences and make a different choice, with different consequences, for yourself.
NYCL is not just a harder target to hit, he is also a much more valuable one. If the RIAA can take him out of the equation, then they can go back to pushing around children and crippled grandmothers, but like any bully they can't properly operate with anyone actually standing up to them.
What comes next is the lawyer equivalent of meeting at the playground after school. If the RIAA can put enough hurt on NYCL, RMS and anyone else who has been willing to take a stand, then they go back to stealing lunch money... otherwise it is quite likely that they'll be shown for puffed up cowards and never be taken seriously again.
Wait, what, you mean it's stupid to be outraged over the development and sale of products which don't meet your needs to people with different needs than you? How can this be?
Or maybe there are other people attempting to define his faith other than how he does, and you're selectively accepting their definition rather than his in order to attack his for it.
I also fail to see where anyone justified, endorsed or supported witch burnings or Stephen Hawkings being flayed for eternity. But maybe that's because I'm crazy and try to just read what people write, not read into it what I wish to see.
Seriously? It's just an anus, I can understand being shocked by it, but some people talk about goatse like it killed their puppy. You shouldn't have to "unsee' anything, just get over it.
So not having the ability to do something that I think is a complete waste of effort (setting up smart playlists to rotate my music for me), but instead being able to just treat the device how I want and not get boned (no ID3 and 4-char filenames... is that a bad joke?) is crippling myself? Interesting definition you've got there.
Now I'll go back to not buying an MP3 player based on your whims, and you can go back to not buying one based on mine.
If you make the time too short, then you can actually encourage people to just wait. Even 14 years will likely be short enough for the vultures (ie. large publishers, film studios, the chronically unhip and cheap) to opt out of bothering until the copyright runs out and they can do whatever they want.
There is no unbiased news source. At least that one admits it and even goes to the trouble of telling you what their bias is.
Meanwhile, Faux News is "Fair and Balanced" and MSNBC is just outright schizophrenic (I may not think much of the GOP's platform... but at least they can go longer than 30 seconds without changing it completely).
Not quite... I can use Linux and be a total noob. I really just can't stand OSX, and I maintain that it's never any easier to use, and if anything goes even a little bit wrong it is downright impossible.
I'd like to think that, in the event of an omnipotent and omniscient deity, such a being could distinguish from genuine and intentional ignorance and act appropriately... If I close my ears and eyes to the world and learn nothing I am a fool, but if I try and fail to learn everything I am mortal.
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Yeah, I've heard that Congressional party leaders are traditionally selected by a meeting of the senior critters over lines of coke on a stripper's tits.
Honestly, they can either make an estimate or come back when they're serious. If I'm feeling generous I'll pick up a dozen loaner tape measures from the dollar store, but if somebody's being too difficult I won't likely suffer for losing their business.
I live in a huge college area, and by the second day of college move-ins there's basically a 10 mile area where ethernet cables are simply unavailable at any price... despite that this area includes 2 Wal-Marts, a Target, a best Buy, a Staples, at least 2 Radio Shacks and probably a dozen each of college oriented bookstores and independent computer shops, not to mention each school's respective IT departments and campus stores. If I could fab shower caddies, cheap flip flops, bed risers and industrial sized ramen packs, I'd be on that too.
More likely I would just make a huge number of 5', 10' and 20' cables and make more when I run out or if I get a special request.
Perhaps in a market that looked less like a capitalism riot I'd have to worry about things like that.
If they could buy them for half the price, I'm sure they would. I'm actually considering buying some bulk cat5 and RJ-45s for the college move-ins so that I can hang out near the local dorms and crimp cables on demand. By my math I could probably make $30-$100 an hour profit and still undersell the competing retailers.
Damn you for not logging in! I could not, for the life of me, figure out what IE was supposed to stand for, but I knew that neither of the uses I am accustomed to were correct. Thank you for that.
On a related note, can we have a Slashdot moratorium on pointless and confusing abbreviations? Last I knew, "Information Engineering" wasn't such an extensively used term that it warranted abbreviating, especially not given that "IE" is already in heavy use. That is, of course, unless you want me to start talking about expert ITs (insurgent terrorists) mounting attacks against US citizens and assets around the world.
As somebody who used to get telemarketing calls on their cellphone, I assure you that they are not exempt. During the time between the FDNC being created and the ability to add cell numbers to it being added, I probably received 3-5 telemarketing calls per week on my cell phone. Prior to that, I received maybe that many in a year, and now I receive none.
My guess is that cell phone numbers weren't easy enough to get until very recently (when people started using them as primary, or even exclusive, telephones) so they just didn't make sense to target. I'd also not be surprised if very early on some cell users who were paying a tremendous amount of money for each minute they used the phone recovered the money they spent on particularly onerous telemarketer calls, and somewhat forced an industry moratorium.
Fiction? I assure you, there are people out there doing it for real.
So offering to pay people to help the community is akin to the government expecting us to help out for free? Ignoring the fact that the government is not, to the contrary of what the Republican party seems to want, a for profit enterprise, and that as a governing body for the community it is presumed that we all have some motivation to help out and make our nation better... I still don't see how offering to pay people for things they actually should be doing for free is anything like not paying people for things they shouldn't be doing for free.
But don't let reality get in the way of pointless and hypocritical diatribes against "communists", that would be un-American.
Financial mathematics didn't become popular because it isn't effective, and large financial institutions don't get that way for being financially ineffective. They might have to change the job titles to appease minority shareholders, but there's no way they'll get rid of mathematicians who make money with magic.
The real problem wasn't that the math was done, it's that a lot of people were doing it poorly and with too little oversight because, as with any fad, people forget that they know better and trust every crackpot with a grain of insight. Everything in moderation (including moderation).
And some sado=masochists use dismemberment for sexual release... does that make it OK to dismember others against their will?
No? Then STFU.
Of course, pot also has a very low concentration of THC. that's like saying that nobody has ever ODed on poppyseed muffins, so surely heroin is safe.
I'm not against medical (or, for that matter, recreational) marijuana, but that doesn't mean an apples to oranges comparison is in any way fair or reasonable.
Wow... Just wow.
That was actually pretty awesome.
So easy that apparently nobody feels like doing it. I'm a shitty programmer, so why don't you start and I'll try it out once you're done.
Well shoot, why din't ya tell me earlier, Cletus?
Of course not... but I can think of plenty who wouldn't mind that limitation if it meant that those 3 actually ran better (not that this solution guarantees that by any means, but hypothetically speaking...) and cost less.
Again, if other people are ok with it and you aren't, the solution is simple: let them deal with the consequences and make a different choice, with different consequences, for yourself.
This is the beauty of choice.
NYCL is not just a harder target to hit, he is also a much more valuable one. If the RIAA can take him out of the equation, then they can go back to pushing around children and crippled grandmothers, but like any bully they can't properly operate with anyone actually standing up to them.
What comes next is the lawyer equivalent of meeting at the playground after school. If the RIAA can put enough hurt on NYCL, RMS and anyone else who has been willing to take a stand, then they go back to stealing lunch money... otherwise it is quite likely that they'll be shown for puffed up cowards and never be taken seriously again.
Wait, what, you mean it's stupid to be outraged over the development and sale of products which don't meet your needs to people with different needs than you? How can this be?
Or maybe there are other people attempting to define his faith other than how he does, and you're selectively accepting their definition rather than his in order to attack his for it.
I also fail to see where anyone justified, endorsed or supported witch burnings or Stephen Hawkings being flayed for eternity. But maybe that's because I'm crazy and try to just read what people write, not read into it what I wish to see.
Thanks for playing.
Seriously? It's just an anus, I can understand being shocked by it, but some people talk about goatse like it killed their puppy. You shouldn't have to "unsee' anything, just get over it.
"And that exclusion zone is busily turning into a forest with flourishing widllife"
Happy, healthy, multi-headed wildlife.
"Using a Zen or Sansa is crippling yourself."
So not having the ability to do something that I think is a complete waste of effort (setting up smart playlists to rotate my music for me), but instead being able to just treat the device how I want and not get boned (no ID3 and 4-char filenames... is that a bad joke?) is crippling myself? Interesting definition you've got there.
Now I'll go back to not buying an MP3 player based on your whims, and you can go back to not buying one based on mine.
And boy were you disappointed.
If you make the time too short, then you can actually encourage people to just wait. Even 14 years will likely be short enough for the vultures (ie. large publishers, film studios, the chronically unhip and cheap) to opt out of bothering until the copyright runs out and they can do whatever they want.
Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
There is no unbiased news source. At least that one admits it and even goes to the trouble of telling you what their bias is.
Meanwhile, Faux News is "Fair and Balanced" and MSNBC is just outright schizophrenic (I may not think much of the GOP's platform... but at least they can go longer than 30 seconds without changing it completely).
Not quite... I can use Linux and be a total noob. I really just can't stand OSX, and I maintain that it's never any easier to use, and if anything goes even a little bit wrong it is downright impossible.
I'd like to think that, in the event of an omnipotent and omniscient deity, such a being could distinguish from genuine and intentional ignorance and act appropriately... If I close my ears and eyes to the world and learn nothing I am a fool, but if I try and fail to learn everything I am mortal.