The commercials for it constantly mentioned "X-Men's Shawn Ashmore and Smallville's Kristin Kreuk" so I think they probably felt that the books alone wouldn't be able to draw enough viewers. Moreover, they would be the wrong viewers since they would be expecting something that could never live up to their experience reading the book. I think it was clear that the Sci-Fi channel was aiming specifically for audiences that had not read the book but have an interest in Sci-Fi.
As she brought up, the current state of Sci-Fi leaves very few candidates of color with a tagline like Ashmore's. She can't really criticize the casting of Kreuk since she basically fit the description from the book and is, in fact, half Asian. Her criticisms of the casting of Vetch and the lack of minority bit parts and extras make a lot more sense since those characters could easily have been played by a minority actors with no significant difference in ratings.
As it is, I don't think she should be too upset with it. There is now likeley to be a whole new group of people who saw the mini-series and will now go out and buy the books. When they read them, they will discover that they are so much better than the mini-series and their images of the characters will be replaced by those from the book simply because they are so different from those portrayed in the mini-series.
A combination of human error (setting the machine to record a maximum of three thousand votes when eight thousand people voted) and a software malfunction (the machine kept accepting ballots after its memory was overloaded) resulted in the loss of 4,500 votes in an election decided by only 2,300 votes."
It was human error on the part of the those who set it up and human error on the part of election officials who decided to use a product that wasn't thoroughly tested. Someone beyond the techs that administer the machines needs to be on the hook for this. Just because the machines that failed are electronic doesn't mean that there was no negligence on the part of those that chose to use them.
<The victors, returning to the Shire from Gondor, encounter Saruman and Grima on the road home>
Gandalf: Saruman, look where your path of evil has led you. You've been defeated.
Frodo: But there's still one more mystery to reveal.
<Frodo pulls off Saruman's mask to reveal, to the amazement of everyone looking on, Boromir>
Merry: But how is that possible?
Frodo: When his plan to take the ring failed, he faked his own death. They were his orcs, remember. It was the only way to cover up his attempt to steal the ring.
Gandalf: But that makes no sense, Boromir isn't old enough to have posed as Saruman for the hundreds of years that I have known him. He would have been no match for me in the Wizard's duel featured prominantly in the first film.
Frodo: Do these endings ever make sense? No, you simply pull off the mask revealing the least likely suspect possible and then pull some explanation out of your ass as if you knew who it was going to be ahead of time.
Boromir: That's right, I did it. I needed the ring to defeat Sauron and decided on a needlessly complicated scheme rather than just stealing it from Frodo when he was sleeping one night. And I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!
I had much the same experience as you. On a trip to Europe a few years ago, I developed the habit of exploring cities by walking around them. In addition to being a great way to see the sights, it drastically changed my metabolism. The odd thing was that my appetite decreased while my energy level increased dramatically. After a few months of doing this regularly, I could walk 20-25 miles without feeling much fatigue and I felt healthier than I've ever felt in my life.
The drawback is that walking is a very time consuming activity unless you can mix it in with some other useful activity. When I got back from Europe, despite trying to maintain my same fitness level, having a desk job meant that I lost most of what I had gained from all the walking I had done. I tried replacing it with running, but never got the same results.
Incidently, for your upper body concern, I can say that indoor rockclimbing has worked quite well for me. It's much less repetitive than weight lifting, so it's been easier to stick with. As an added benefit, most of my RSI pains from work (my ergonomics are horrid) have gone away. So if you don't end up going the contractor route, you might give it a try.
You're going to get hell trying to collect on social security if you don't fix this issue. Also, make sure SS benefits are bing reported accurately, since your benefits depend on how much you contribute.
That makes absolutely no sense. SS contributions are tracked by your SSN, not your name. Your employer has your SSN so that your contributions can be tracked to your account. The IRS isn't dumb enough to track you based on your name either. They require an SSN or some other tax-payer ID number when you file as well. Everyone (credit cards, bank accounts, etc) uses your SSN as the identifier, not the name.
The only instance where there would be a problem would be, like the original poster, if two of your official IDs (driver's license, passport, SS ID) had differing information and you needed to replace one of them. But even then, as long as you have your passport and SSN card with the same name, you should be able to use one to replace the other. Driver's licenses are even easier to replace.
There's only a couple of documents that need to have your legal name. Anything else, just put whatever you feel like.
"Fighting for out freedom" is just a platitude that would never be taken seriously were it not for the fact that it was spouted by every television personality in a display of political correctness that makes calling someone "vertically challenged" seem perfectly reasonable. Due to the misguided notion that we should trust what we see on TV, people don't stop to examine how asinine and utterly unsubstantial that argument actually is. They just follow suit and spout it off as their own argument. It's so easy...it's just a simple phrase and it cannot be argued with. It instantly defines a lexicon in which the counter-argument is inviable.
Our troops are dying. They're dying for the way of life that they love. To suggest that there is something wrong with this picture or that the leader that sent them into harm's way did so with anything other than pure intentions is to dishonor the deaths of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. No one wants to believe that thousands of men (of body, boys still in the mind in most cases) had their lives thrown away by leaders who put their own interests ahead of the well-being of young men and women who in many cases had few other options than to join the military. It's such an easy position to take, it doesn't require any independant thought and jutifies a feeling of loss which otherwise could not be justified.
The problem with independant thought is that once you've realized that "fighting for our freedom" means nothing and the friends and relatives comming home in flag-draped boxes died solely for the benefit of those profiting the war, you're left with an empty feeling inside. It's the same feeling you get when you come back to find your house ransacked and your possessions taken from you. A part of you is missing and you feel violated. It doesn't feel good. But this is worse because what was taken from you cannot be replaced and you cannot go out and buy newer and better alarm systems to prevent it from happening again.
"Fighting for our freedom" isn't an argument which is meant to be argued or even questioned. It's the pre-packaged denial of a reality that can't be changed anyways. It allows many people to live their lives without the angst or despair that could not be avoided otherwise. Life is easier without the stress of anger and guilt over what is happening in your name. I envy those for which "fighting for our freedom" is enough.
You missed the accusation that Bush and company are funnelling tax-payer dollars to his friends and supporters (among them, Saudis) through war-time contracts creating obscene profits. The footage where an executive is talking about how to take a million dollar line item and sub-contract it out at $50,000 is simply disgusting.
Regardless of how one feels about whether we should have bombed Afganistan or removed Saddam from power, the amount of profiteering that Moore suggests the Bush administration is facilitating to the benefit of their closest friends/advisors/contributors is sickening.
As he says at the beginning of the film...There's no secret sinister motive for world domination, this administration's goal has been, and will continue to be, making as much money as possible. And that goal supercedes all other priorities including the wellfare of our nation and the lives of the troops fighting in Iraq.
How is it different than Yahoo!'s offering? Why would I switch? Yahoo! works and without a compelling feature to make it worthwhile to switch, no one I know will.
What would make it worthwhile (as I've said to all my fantasy buddies who would listen) is for someone to sign a deal with TiVo to integrate their services together. If a fantasy service allowed me to watch football games and see fantasy updates on my TV without having to check my laptop, I would definitely switch.
The "government" did not develop the internet. Everyone knows that Al Gore invented it. Geesh, get your facts straight.
At the time he invented the internet, Al Gore was:
a) Two-time welterweight champion of the world b) Assistant to the arch-duke of Moldavia c) Wisconsin's official "czar of cheese" d) Number 4 on the FBI's most-wanted list e) A member of the US friggin' government!
I never negociate any compensation for my services. You never get as much if you do that. But I find that if you're doing work for friends who are, in general, nice people, guilt can work very well.
Basically, when they ask what they should give me, I say,
"well, normally when I do contract work I get paid $xyz/hr, but that's a bit unreasonable for what I (have done/am doing/will do) for you. I can't really justify taking less, so let's just say that if you want to compensate me, think of something that you feel is roughly equivalent to what I've been able to do for you."
Things I've gotten:
RT Airfare and 2 nights hotel in vegas.
Half an ounce of the best BC bud I've ever had.
An iPod.
Countless sweets/alcohols and other consumables.
Also, before I was a "computer professional", the computer skills were very handy in college too. It didn't take long before everyone in my dorm knew that I was the one to go to get your campus dial-up connection working. Within my first week in school, I knew a) almost all the girls by first name (and they knew me) and b) which of them had boyfriends. I never got sex for computer help in a quid pro quo fashion, but it certainly laid a lot of the ground work that helped me stay happy for most of freshman year.
That's why I've never understood XP...when I'm pulling a nollie varial 360, I have problems even holding a laptop, let alone trying to write code. Granted, it's substantially easier whilst street luging, but the laptop introduces a a lot of wind resistance...and if you're not event going to hit 60, there really isn't much point to street luge.
From my perspective as a student, I don't think I could've done well in Calculus without my TI-81. I always had problems studying for tests. Sifting over text books trying to absorb the material never seemed to work for me. I got decent grades, but only really learned what I picked up during class time.
Then I started learning how to program my TI. Suddenly I could cheat on tests by writing programs to solve all the problems on the practice tests and homework. My test scores went up and I started getting better grades. There was just one thing about my plan that I realized after a couple of tests. I wasn't using the programs I'd created during tests. Everytime I'd get to a problem that would have been solvable with the programs I'd written, I found that I could do it on my own.
So, while I concede that calculators might have some of the negative effects you mentioned, I know that these calculators provided the only study mechansism that worked for me. Oh, and FWIW, I write code for a living now which I doubt would be the case if I'd never been exposed to the TI scripting language.
P.S. You said that there was a statistically significant drop in scores the year that calculators were introduced...was the test that was given modified to be appropriate for calculators?
We just need to create a number of white-collar positions with a vested interest in keeping jobs in this country and the ability to speak for extremely large numbers of tech workers.
Then we just let corruption take its course, and voila! No more jobs shipped off to India.
Does this mean we're going to see viruses sending lots of Microsoft and SCO messages to the.ch TLD?
If either Microsoft or SCO has an open affiliate policy that is being made use of, then I would hope to see them targeted and subject to the new swiss law. But I doubt that either of them do.
SPAM is a problem because companies don't monitor their affiliate programs to ensure that none of their affiliates are SPAMers. Companies that don't make an effort to police their affiliate programs should be subject to laws like this.
You just need to make sure you time it so that the laptop arrives sometime within the 30 days prior to your ability to pick it up...should be pretty easy.
Why is this interesting? Why is metered access such a bad thing? So long as it is reasonably priced (and ensuring that there is an adequate choice of providers should accomplish this), metered access isn't a bad thing. Sure, it sucks for all those 1337573R5 downloading gigs of ISOs every night, but for everyone else who subsidizes their connections with high monthly fees, the current system sucks. I would love to be able to go out of town for a month and have my bandwidth bill be nothing (or close to that.)
If there's anything we should be pushing for is cheaper synchronous connection speeds. Why should a cable provider offer 3+MB download speeds but enforce an artificial cap of 128k to create a rather arbitrary distinction between residential and business services? Charge me for my upload usage, charge me for my download usage, but price it reasonably and allow me to pick a reasonable bandwidth that fits my needs.
Oh, and ISPs eat nothing right now. They get paid by the content providers to send content to consumers and by consumers to get content from the providers. Shifting the bandwidth to the consumer only shifts the burden to the unmetered end. This is good for both consumers and content providers in as much as content can be distributed for less money...the ISPs actually make less money on content distributed with BT. If we start seeing metered internet access, BT will basically go away since most of us don't want to pay for someone else's downloads.
Except that it's hypocritical for them to lobby for retro-active copyright extensions so that they content doesn't become public domain when so much of their content wouldn't have been possible under they laws they lobby for.
If, for example, they were offering to send a fat check to Rudyard Kipling's descendants as an acknowledgement that the copyright laws at the time weren't sufficient and they feel that, as the copyright owner for "The Jungle Book", he should have been compensated in some fashion for his work, things would be different. But given their past history of making extensive use of the public domain, their stubborness when it comes to contributing to the public domain becomes all the more odious.
I'm not a Dish subscriber either, but I think I'm exactly who they were hoping to reach.
I'm in the market for a dish system, and am currently watching OTA broadcasts. I was basically all set to go with DishNetwork since it allowed me to get Fox Sports World in a package with local channels for under $40/mo. But without the local CBS and UPN stations, I simply can't justify choosing DishNetwork.
My choices now are between DirectTV for over twice as much as Dish or to wait to see how the whole thing shakes out. I'm sad to say that I'll probably be waiting, which is exactly what Viacom wants...to punish DishNetwork for having the audacity to try to offer the consumer something even close to affordable.
It completely sucks, but Viacom's dirty trick is going to cost Dish at least $40/mo, at least until this whole thing is resolved.
There's a book which basically attempts to answer the very question you're asking. What Should I Do with My Life? is an unfortunately titled, but otherwise valuable look at many people who made the brave choice to persue happiness in another field. For some it worked, others it didn't.
If you can get past the occasional self-important passages where the author tries to sound like he's got everything figured out, there's really a lot of inspirational material in this book. To someone like the poster who is actually asking themselves, "What should I do with my life?", this book can be a big help.
Since Red Hat is part of the Eclipse project, they could distribute the JDK along with Eclipse or SWT...Both would probably be welcome additions to a distribution.
The rules at the time were that any Cuban who made it to USA soil was eligible for asylum.
That has nothing to do with it...he is a minor. As such, it was a custody dispute. Why shouldn't the sole surviving parent be given custody of his own son? Just because American's see the US as being a better place for him to live, doesn't change the fact that his father wanted custody of him and US laws say that unless a biological parent is "unfit", they should be given custody.
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The commercials for it constantly mentioned "X-Men's Shawn Ashmore and Smallville's Kristin Kreuk" so I think they probably felt that the books alone wouldn't be able to draw enough viewers. Moreover, they would be the wrong viewers since they would be expecting something that could never live up to their experience reading the book. I think it was clear that the Sci-Fi channel was aiming specifically for audiences that had not read the book but have an interest in Sci-Fi.
As she brought up, the current state of Sci-Fi leaves very few candidates of color with a tagline like Ashmore's. She can't really criticize the casting of Kreuk since she basically fit the description from the book and is, in fact, half Asian. Her criticisms of the casting of Vetch and the lack of minority bit parts and extras make a lot more sense since those characters could easily have been played by a minority actors with no significant difference in ratings.
As it is, I don't think she should be too upset with it. There is now likeley to be a whole new group of people who saw the mini-series and will now go out and buy the books. When they read them, they will discover that they are so much better than the mini-series and their images of the characters will be replaced by those from the book simply because they are so different from those portrayed in the mini-series.
A combination of human error (setting the machine to record a maximum of three thousand votes when eight thousand people voted) and a software malfunction (the machine kept accepting ballots after its memory was overloaded) resulted in the loss of 4,500 votes in an election decided by only 2,300 votes."
It was human error on the part of the those who set it up and human error on the part of election officials who decided to use a product that wasn't thoroughly tested. Someone beyond the techs that administer the machines needs to be on the hook for this. Just because the machines that failed are electronic doesn't mean that there was no negligence on the part of those that chose to use them.
The price will probably be pretty reasonable for a 25Mbps down, 128kbps up...
I'm hoping they include the Scooby-Doo ending:
<The victors, returning to the Shire from Gondor, encounter Saruman and Grima on the road home>
Gandalf: Saruman, look where your path of evil has led you. You've been defeated.
Frodo: But there's still one more mystery to reveal.
<Frodo pulls off Saruman's mask to reveal, to the amazement of everyone looking on, Boromir>
Merry: But how is that possible?
Frodo: When his plan to take the ring failed, he faked his own death. They were his orcs, remember. It was the only way to cover up his attempt to steal the ring.
Gandalf: But that makes no sense, Boromir isn't old enough to have posed as Saruman for the hundreds of years that I have known him. He would have been no match for me in the Wizard's duel featured prominantly in the first film.
Frodo: Do these endings ever make sense? No, you simply pull off the mask revealing the least likely suspect possible and then pull some explanation out of your ass as if you knew who it was going to be ahead of time.
Boromir: That's right, I did it. I needed the ring to defeat Sauron and decided on a needlessly complicated scheme rather than just stealing it from Frodo when he was sleeping one night. And I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!
Pippin: Hey! We're Hobbits!
<Everyone Laughs>
I had much the same experience as you. On a trip to Europe a few years ago, I developed the habit of exploring cities by walking around them. In addition to being a great way to see the sights, it drastically changed my metabolism. The odd thing was that my appetite decreased while my energy level increased dramatically. After a few months of doing this regularly, I could walk 20-25 miles without feeling much fatigue and I felt healthier than I've ever felt in my life.
The drawback is that walking is a very time consuming activity unless you can mix it in with some other useful activity. When I got back from Europe, despite trying to maintain my same fitness level, having a desk job meant that I lost most of what I had gained from all the walking I had done. I tried replacing it with running, but never got the same results.
Incidently, for your upper body concern, I can say that indoor rockclimbing has worked quite well for me. It's much less repetitive than weight lifting, so it's been easier to stick with. As an added benefit, most of my RSI pains from work (my ergonomics are horrid) have gone away. So if you don't end up going the contractor route, you might give it a try.
You're going to get hell trying to collect on social security if you don't fix this issue. Also, make sure SS benefits are bing reported accurately, since your benefits depend on how much you contribute.
That makes absolutely no sense. SS contributions are tracked by your SSN, not your name. Your employer has your SSN so that your contributions can be tracked to your account. The IRS isn't dumb enough to track you based on your name either. They require an SSN or some other tax-payer ID number when you file as well. Everyone (credit cards, bank accounts, etc) uses your SSN as the identifier, not the name.
The only instance where there would be a problem would be, like the original poster, if two of your official IDs (driver's license, passport, SS ID) had differing information and you needed to replace one of them. But even then, as long as you have your passport and SSN card with the same name, you should be able to use one to replace the other. Driver's licenses are even easier to replace.
There's only a couple of documents that need to have your legal name. Anything else, just put whatever you feel like.
You could probably fit a couple of Sheryl Crow albums on there...that might be just the motivation he needs.
"Fighting for out freedom" is just a platitude that would never be taken seriously were it not for the fact that it was spouted by every television personality in a display of political correctness that makes calling someone "vertically challenged" seem perfectly reasonable. Due to the misguided notion that we should trust what we see on TV, people don't stop to examine how asinine and utterly unsubstantial that argument actually is. They just follow suit and spout it off as their own argument. It's so easy...it's just a simple phrase and it cannot be argued with. It instantly defines a lexicon in which the counter-argument is inviable.
Our troops are dying. They're dying for the way of life that they love. To suggest that there is something wrong with this picture or that the leader that sent them into harm's way did so with anything other than pure intentions is to dishonor the deaths of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. No one wants to believe that thousands of men (of body, boys still in the mind in most cases) had their lives thrown away by leaders who put their own interests ahead of the well-being of young men and women who in many cases had few other options than to join the military. It's such an easy position to take, it doesn't require any independant thought and jutifies a feeling of loss which otherwise could not be justified.
The problem with independant thought is that once you've realized that "fighting for our freedom" means nothing and the friends and relatives comming home in flag-draped boxes died solely for the benefit of those profiting the war, you're left with an empty feeling inside. It's the same feeling you get when you come back to find your house ransacked and your possessions taken from you. A part of you is missing and you feel violated. It doesn't feel good. But this is worse because what was taken from you cannot be replaced and you cannot go out and buy newer and better alarm systems to prevent it from happening again.
"Fighting for our freedom" isn't an argument which is meant to be argued or even questioned. It's the pre-packaged denial of a reality that can't be changed anyways. It allows many people to live their lives without the angst or despair that could not be avoided otherwise. Life is easier without the stress of anger and guilt over what is happening in your name. I envy those for which "fighting for our freedom" is enough.
You missed the accusation that Bush and company are funnelling tax-payer dollars to his friends and supporters (among them, Saudis) through war-time contracts creating obscene profits. The footage where an executive is talking about how to take a million dollar line item and sub-contract it out at $50,000 is simply disgusting.
Regardless of how one feels about whether we should have bombed Afganistan or removed Saddam from power, the amount of profiteering that Moore suggests the Bush administration is facilitating to the benefit of their closest friends/advisors/contributors is sickening.
As he says at the beginning of the film...There's no secret sinister motive for world domination, this administration's goal has been, and will continue to be, making as much money as possible. And that goal supercedes all other priorities including the wellfare of our nation and the lives of the troops fighting in Iraq.
How is it different than Yahoo!'s offering? Why would I switch? Yahoo! works and without a compelling feature to make it worthwhile to switch, no one I know will.
What would make it worthwhile (as I've said to all my fantasy buddies who would listen) is for someone to sign a deal with TiVo to integrate their services together. If a fantasy service allowed me to watch football games and see fantasy updates on my TV without having to check my laptop, I would definitely switch.
The "government" did not develop the internet. Everyone knows that Al Gore invented it. Geesh, get your facts straight.
At the time he invented the internet, Al Gore was:
a) Two-time welterweight champion of the world
b) Assistant to the arch-duke of Moldavia
c) Wisconsin's official "czar of cheese"
d) Number 4 on the FBI's most-wanted list
e) A member of the US friggin' government!
Basically, when they ask what they should give me, I say,
"well, normally when I do contract work I get paid $xyz/hr, but that's a bit unreasonable for what I (have done/am doing/will do) for you. I can't really justify taking less, so let's just say that if you want to compensate me, think of something that you feel is roughly equivalent to what I've been able to do for you."
Things I've gotten:
RT Airfare and 2 nights hotel in vegas.
Half an ounce of the best BC bud I've ever had.
An iPod.
Countless sweets/alcohols and other consumables.
Also, before I was a "computer professional", the computer skills were very handy in college too. It didn't take long before everyone in my dorm knew that I was the one to go to get your campus dial-up connection working. Within my first week in school, I knew a) almost all the girls by first name (and they knew me) and b) which of them had boyfriends. I never got sex for computer help in a quid pro quo fashion, but it certainly laid a lot of the ground work that helped me stay happy for most of freshman year.
That's why I've never understood XP...when I'm pulling a nollie varial 360, I have problems even holding a laptop, let alone trying to write code. Granted, it's substantially easier whilst street luging, but the laptop introduces a a lot of wind resistance...and if you're not event going to hit 60, there really isn't much point to street luge.
There's also XSWT (though IBM hasn't really shown an interest in supporting it).
XSWT would end up being as cross-platform as SWT (win32, wince, linux, solaris, qnx, aix, hp-ux and osx)
From my perspective as a student, I don't think I could've done well in Calculus without my TI-81. I always had problems studying for tests. Sifting over text books trying to absorb the material never seemed to work for me. I got decent grades, but only really learned what I picked up during class time.
Then I started learning how to program my TI. Suddenly I could cheat on tests by writing programs to solve all the problems on the practice tests and homework. My test scores went up and I started getting better grades. There was just one thing about my plan that I realized after a couple of tests. I wasn't using the programs I'd created during tests. Everytime I'd get to a problem that would have been solvable with the programs I'd written, I found that I could do it on my own.
So, while I concede that calculators might have some of the negative effects you mentioned, I know that these calculators provided the only study mechansism that worked for me. Oh, and FWIW, I write code for a living now which I doubt would be the case if I'd never been exposed to the TI scripting language.
P.S. You said that there was a statistically significant drop in scores the year that calculators were introduced...was the test that was given modified to be appropriate for calculators?
We just need to create a number of white-collar positions with a vested interest in keeping jobs in this country and the ability to speak for extremely large numbers of tech workers.
Then we just let corruption take its course, and voila! No more jobs shipped off to India.
Does this mean we're going to see viruses sending lots of Microsoft and SCO messages to the .ch TLD?
If either Microsoft or SCO has an open affiliate policy that is being made use of, then I would hope to see them targeted and subject to the new swiss law. But I doubt that either of them do.
SPAM is a problem because companies don't monitor their affiliate programs to ensure that none of their affiliates are SPAMers. Companies that don't make an effort to police their affiliate programs should be subject to laws like this.
Why get a PO box? Just have it sent to a post office in the area you're travelling to.
.
It's called General Delivery
You just need to make sure you time it so that the laptop arrives sometime within the 30 days prior to your ability to pick it up...should be pretty easy.
Wouldn't it be great if there was some sort of standard way for site owners to label their content that was supported by browsers?
[/sarcasm]
We don't need a new TLD for this...the solution is already in place, it's just that people don't use it.
Why is this interesting? Why is metered access such a bad thing? So long as it is reasonably priced (and ensuring that there is an adequate choice of providers should accomplish this), metered access isn't a bad thing. Sure, it sucks for all those 1337573R5 downloading gigs of ISOs every night, but for everyone else who subsidizes their connections with high monthly fees, the current system sucks. I would love to be able to go out of town for a month and have my bandwidth bill be nothing (or close to that.)
If there's anything we should be pushing for is cheaper synchronous connection speeds. Why should a cable provider offer 3+MB download speeds but enforce an artificial cap of 128k to create a rather arbitrary distinction between residential and business services? Charge me for my upload usage, charge me for my download usage, but price it reasonably and allow me to pick a reasonable bandwidth that fits my needs.
Oh, and ISPs eat nothing right now. They get paid by the content providers to send content to consumers and by consumers to get content from the providers. Shifting the bandwidth to the consumer only shifts the burden to the unmetered end. This is good for both consumers and content providers in as much as content can be distributed for less money...the ISPs actually make less money on content distributed with BT. If we start seeing metered internet access, BT will basically go away since most of us don't want to pay for someone else's downloads.
What's wrong with that?
Except that it's hypocritical for them to lobby for retro-active copyright extensions so that they content doesn't become public domain when so much of their content wouldn't have been possible under they laws they lobby for.
If, for example, they were offering to send a fat check to Rudyard Kipling's descendants as an acknowledgement that the copyright laws at the time weren't sufficient and they feel that, as the copyright owner for "The Jungle Book", he should have been compensated in some fashion for his work, things would be different. But given their past history of making extensive use of the public domain, their stubborness when it comes to contributing to the public domain becomes all the more odious.
I'm not a Dish subscriber either, but I think I'm exactly who they were hoping to reach.
I'm in the market for a dish system, and am currently watching OTA broadcasts. I was basically all set to go with DishNetwork since it allowed me to get Fox Sports World in a package with local channels for under $40/mo. But without the local CBS and UPN stations, I simply can't justify choosing DishNetwork.
My choices now are between DirectTV for over twice as much as Dish or to wait to see how the whole thing shakes out. I'm sad to say that I'll probably be waiting, which is exactly what Viacom wants...to punish DishNetwork for having the audacity to try to offer the consumer something even close to affordable.
It completely sucks, but Viacom's dirty trick is going to cost Dish at least $40/mo, at least until this whole thing is resolved.
There's a book which basically attempts to answer the very question you're asking. What Should I Do with My Life? is an unfortunately titled, but otherwise valuable look at many people who made the brave choice to persue happiness in another field. For some it worked, others it didn't.
If you can get past the occasional self-important passages where the author tries to sound like he's got everything figured out, there's really a lot of inspirational material in this book. To someone like the poster who is actually asking themselves, "What should I do with my life?", this book can be a big help.
Since Red Hat is part of the Eclipse project, they could distribute the JDK along with Eclipse or SWT...Both would probably be welcome additions to a distribution.
The rules at the time were that any Cuban who made it to USA soil was eligible for asylum.
That has nothing to do with it...he is a minor. As such, it was a custody dispute. Why shouldn't the sole surviving parent be given custody of his own son? Just because American's see the US as being a better place for him to live, doesn't change the fact that his father wanted custody of him and US laws say that unless a biological parent is "unfit", they should be given custody.